Area Assurance Officer at United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) – 14 Openings Full Time

Job Title: Area Assurance Officer

Locations: Abuja, Lagos (Mainland, Island & Epe), Benue (Makurdi), Kogi (Lokoja), Rivers (Port Harcourt), Adamawa (Yola), Oyo (Ibadan), Osun (Osogbo), Kwara (Ilorin), Ondo (Akure), Kaduna and Kano

Job Objective(s)

• To ensure the business office operations are in line with the Bank’s internal policies, and regulatory policies.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Assist business offices with compliance and regulatory issues, and provide counselling when required.
• Improve control and awareness culture in the business offices.
• Ensure that the ambience of the business office is maintained and kept customer-friendly at all times.
• Monitor and ensure that open items in the GL accounts are current and reflect the true nature of the products recorded in them.
• Ensure the integrity of transactions in Business offices, and report deviations/anomalies immediately.
• Identify control lapses/policy breaches through control activities for process improvement/policy amendments.
• Escalate cases of fraud, customer complaints, and staff disciplinary issues to the Area control manager, or responsible department.

Knowledge & Skills Required

• First Degree in any field.
• A minimum of 2 years experience in banking operations, or in a Control related role.
• Good knowledge of Accounting and Auditing.
• Basic financial knowledge.
• Knowledge of the banking sector, trends, and policies of financial regulators in Nigeria – CBN, NDIC.
• Knowledge of the UBA’s banking policies, processes, and procedures.
• Supervisory, and Investigation skills.
• Attention to detail.
• High level of integrity and confidentiality.
• Ability to maintain high level of awareness at all times.
• Ability to work with little or no supervision.
• Problem solver.
• Relationship management – should be able to maintain a customer friendly disposition at all times.

Application Closing Date
23rd December, 2022.