Head of Credit-Corporate & Investment Banking

Overview of role

• To maintain a high standard of lending assets, through proper control and administration of the exposures of the various business units within the bank.
• To lead and develop staff to achieve planned results.

Job description

• Maintaining and improving the quality of the lending book.
• Minimising credit losses.
• Providing a satisfactory support function to business units.
• Ensuring compliance with policy lending guidelines.
• Ensuring compliance with Money Laundering Controls.
• Providing functional and efficient operational support systems.
• Identifying and initiating personal development needs and learning experience, as well as business unit development/training needs.
• Participation in EXCO and Board Credit Committees as necessary.
• Managing human resources according to policy and country legislation; recruitment, performance management, equity, discipline.
• Developing staff skills/competencies in technology and knowledge.

Requirements, Education and Experience

Knowledge

• Degree in Commerce or related field or CPA or related field.
• Masters in Finance or a related field is an added advantage.
• A sound knowledge and understanding of advances, credit criteria, credit policies, risk and financial analysis, credit control and the application thereof.
• Good knowledge of legal procedures, Insolvency Act, Bank's Act, Companies Act and Income Tax, exchange control regulations, foreign financing, factoring and electronic banking/data processing.

Experience

• 10 years experience and application of extensive credit and lending management, preferably in a banking environment.

Competencies

• The potential or capacity to work with numbers and figures.
• Excellence orientation - the potential and capacity to set and achieve high standards of excellence and ongoing improvement in excellence as the outcome of uncompromising determination and self-discipline.
• Innovation - being open-minded, a willingness and ablilty to initiate change and to modify or improve existing ideas
• Analytical thinking - capacity to collect, process, analyse and integrate "the pieces of the jigsaw" into relevant, factual outcomes or conclusions.
• Applied Strategic planning - the ability to utilize 'big picture understanding' in a level -headed, practical and proactive manner to plan appropriate courses of action in realizing the strategic goals of the organization.

Location

Gaborone

Contact person

Bonolo

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