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• Daily review and reconciliation of all
  allocated internal accounts/ GLs and demonstrated control of these
  accounts.
• Submission of daily MI for all
  reconciled accounts to all stakeholders including the account owners, Head
  of Reconciliation (HOR) and HOO.
• Follow up for all outstanding items on
  GLs. The outstanding items should comply with business rules.
• Rectify all errors identified.
• Circulate daily log (error log) for all
  exceptions indentified.
• Follow up on reversals of all previous
  day outstanding entries and ensure they are actioned by end of day.
• Ensure all extracts are reviewed by HOR
  and Account owners on a daily.
• Prepare and hand in end of month
  extracts by the 2nd day of every month.
• Attend to all customer complaints and
  queries within 24 hours of receipt of complaint and log all complaints for
  tracking to resolution.
• Have good understanding of Bank
  procedures, policy and controls requirements and put them to practice.
• Have good understanding of the various
  payments processes.
• Deliver high
  reconciliations  accuracy levels that conform to business policy
  and controls  framework
• Work in partnership with colleagues and
  proactively respond to and seek to exceed the expectations of customers.
• Attend departmental meetings and
  hurdles.
• Carry out allocated snap checks and RCAs
  within set timelines and ensure no repeat findings amongst issues raised
  for your area.
• All soft copy registers / logs are
  password protected and backed up on the shared folder on a weekly basis.
• Proactively identify issues and notify
  the risk team for eventual raising of risk events.
• All work is accurately processed as per
  the set SLA including queries from BSS team
• Escalate items in exception as per the
  escalation matrix.
• Proactively take on any other duties
  assigned.
• Deligently observe the business rules
  governing the different GLs.

• Build and maintain a close working
  relationship with the entire team.
• Maintain acceptable control on the SLAs
  and maintain effective communication all the time.
• Support Management in delivering
  effective coaching of colleagues on best practice.
• Follow up on exception items using the
  escalation matrix and liaise with business units to resolve outstanding
  items.

• No items in exception
• Timely reporting  to account
  owners through MI and daily activity report
• No losses as a result of unreconciled
  balances

• The ideal candidates for the Barclays
  Bank UK Reconciliation Officer job placement should hold a University
  degree
• Computer literate
• Leadership skills
• Bank accounting & reconciliations
• Knowledge of the various payment
  processes
• Knowledge of internal accounts
  reconciliation process
• Knowledge of manual and automatic
  reconciliation process
• Keyboard skills
• People Development
• Customer Service Excellence
• Drive for results
• Performance Development
• Knowledge & Experience
• Knowledge of  Flex cube system
  and  processes
• Reconciliation
• Payments processing (RTGS, EFTs, SWIFT,
  etc)
• Bank products
• Internal & Office accounts
• Flex cube reports
• Call over process
• Good understanding of bank procedures
  and policy
• Excel

• Already acquired essentials plus:
• Business communications
• Reconciliations
• In depth knowledge of payments
  processing and Reconciliation process.
• Performance Development knowledge.
• Operations Excellence.
• End of month reporting

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