Editorial Staff October 17, 2022 0 Comments

🇬🇭 Job Vacancies @ First National Bank – 2 Positions

Accra, Ghana Posted 2 years ago Posted on Analyst/ Quality Control, Customer Service, Sales / Business Development

First National Bank is recruiting to fill the following positions:

1.) Credit Analyst
2.) Sales and Customer Dealer

See job details and how to apply below.

1.) Credit Analyst

purpose

• The analyst will be responsible for a portfolio of corporate clients typically concentrated in one or two major industries and with the majority based in Ghana.

responsibilities

• Identifying transaction specific risks including credit, taxation, accounting and legal.
• Introducing risk mitigating measures as input to structure transactions in line with the risk philosophy of the Bank.
• General understanding of the Ghana Companies Act, Tax, Commercial Law and legal issues relating to Security.
• Accountability for originating and writing the Credit Application and co-presenting with the relevant RM to the Credit Committee.
• Excellent report writing skills (reports are presented to the Credit Committee and to the Board of Directors).
• Keeping up to date with news and events that might affect various individual counterparties and portfolios.
• A good understanding of the Bank’s credit grading and credit pricing models.
• Comprehensive understanding of business risks and the economic environment with the ability to relate such issues to the risk profile of individual credits.

Qualification Required & Experience

experience and qualifications

• The successful candidate must have a CA, MBA or CFA. Experience should ideally include modeling, assessing and advising on industry and company specific risks;
• Ability to analyse company financial statements and to identify and quantify financial and business risks;
• An interest in and understanding of financial instruments and markets;
• General knowledge of practical economics relating to business, industry and the Ghana macro-economic environment;
• Computer literacy: proficiency in spreadsheet, database and word processing software;
• General understanding of a variety of financial derivative products.

about us

• Helpful
• Effective
• Ethical
• Innovative
• Accountable and you have one simple goal: to improve the lives of customers through simple, effective solutions that meet their needs, contact us today and join a winning team.

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

To submit your application, click on the link below and complete all relevant fields on the online application form.

Click Here To Apply Online

Closing Date: 20 October, 2022

2.) Sales and Customer Dealer

purpose

• To provide an ongoing efficient and effective service to a portfolio of corporate clients with the aim of maximizing the foreign exchange turnover and profitability for the bank.

responsibilities

• Assemble, disseminate and distribute economic news.
• Business Development and networking internally and externally.
• Experience in high-level relationship building and maintenance.
• Follow the prescribed procedures when dealing and adhere to the ACI code of conduct.
• Keep up to data records of client activity and won and lost deals.
• Maintain a “work in progress” pipeline and a client priority call list.
• Maintain a good working relationship with TSM and Trader/s and ensure the client’s needs are met.
• Need to keep up to date with current global developments, including economical and political
• On an ongoing basis counsel customers on various methods of hedging their forex exposures by way of forward exchange and/or derivatives.
• Report on forex turnover and take ownership of data integrity/accuracy of reporting.
• Strong networks within the corporate market.
• Understand client exposures to foreign exchange, their budgets, benchmark hedging policies and forex flows.
• Up to date knowledge of Treasury and Forex Products.
• Achieve turnover and profit targets aligned to the overall Treasury objective.
• Strive for sustainable growth in revenue for Global Markets Ghana.
• Build internal and external relationships.
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the strategic business drivers, opportunities, challenges, needs, competition and threats inherent in the environments/business sectors within which clients operate.
• Ensures that supportive, open relationships exist between RMs, relevant stakeholders and service providers within the bank.
• Ensures that the processes, structures, systems and resources required to effectively service existing clients and develop new clients are in place and continuously reviewed.
• Formulate and review a strategy to pursue both new and existing clients.
• Gains leads and access to stakeholders in large corporate, commercial and government organisations in order to introduce them to the benefits of dealing through RMB Bank Ghana and the FirstRand Group.
• Has insight into local and international trends, developments and benchmarks within the financial sector and specifically products.
• Implement and execute sales strategy around growing and servicing clients while ensuring that it is in line with and supports the GM broader strategy.
• Manage a portfolio of clients.
• Supports the Relationship Managers (RMs) in developing relationships with strategically significant and/or difficult clients to ensure that the strategy and business objectives of the client and the Bank are achieved.