Edidiong Henry, Head, Customer Front Desk (Customer Service)

Edidiong Henry

Head, Customer Front Desk (Customer Service)

First Bank Of Nigeria LTD

Location
Nigeria
Education
Master's degree, BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Experience
15 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :15 years, 7 Months

Head, Customer Front Desk (Customer Service) at First Bank Of Nigeria LTD
  • Nigeria
  • My current job since September 2013

• Supervise the activities of Customer Service Unit.
• Ensure effective and timely service delivery to 10, 915 customers.
• Establish good customer relations by maintaining a customer friendly disposition at all times
• Ensure the proper handling of 120, 500 customer enquiries and resolution
• Modify transactions above subordinates’ limit.
• Oversee the setup of 450 monthly standing order instructions.
• Verify transactions initiated by subordinates.
• Handle probate account enquiries in accordance with customer mandate and relevant law / ensure that deceased customer’s account is debit freeze once the probate enquiry is issued.
• Interview customers, oversee the prompt opening/closing of Accounts (all variants), ensure KYC compliance / full documentation / approved deferrals are in place and sign off account opening forms.

Funds Transfer officer/ Clearing Officer at Union Bank Of Nigeria PLC
  • Nigeria
  • May 2009 to September 2013

• Payment of salaries through Generic External File Upload (GEFU)
• Funds transfer through Nigerian Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) platform.
• Interfacing with other banks in ensuring prompt payment of salaries and transfers through electronic payment outlets.
• Reconciliation of relevant General Ledger (GL) accounts.
• Posting of cheque deposit lodged by customer for clearing session.
• Posting of cash withdrawals.
• Calling over of tellers’ activities report.

Head, Credit & Marketing (Relationship Manager) at Union Bank Of Nigeria PLC
  • Nigeria
  • February 2010 to September 2013

• Managed credit Appraisal and Monitoring of over N200million various facilities
• Relationship Management with over 180 businesses drives per month
• Developed businesses; Over N50million term loans, N60million SMEs and Agricultural Loans, N40million Commercial and personal loans under the period above.
• Strategic Business Exposition for prospects.
• Work within the existing audit, compliance, and regulatory framework in order to ensure a high quality, compliant portfolio of client relationships.
• Understand clients risk profile and correlation between risks and reward by optimizing product mix for clients.
• Complying with KYC rules, regulations, and legislation governing the financial services industry.
• Developing and implementing action plans for new business and to broaden existing client relationships.
• Planned and researched on bank’s investment opportunities.
• Assessing the viability of all risk assets of the bank.
• Assessment of risk element of the bank’s investments.
• Supervising the activities of the marketing unit of the Bank.

Relief Head Of Operations at Union Bank Of Nigeria PLC
  • Nigeria
  • January 2011 to January 2011

• Provide leadership to the operations team and continually enhance team performance and operational efficiency
• Define performance goals and targets for sub teams and monitor / evaluate achievement of such goals
• Develop and implement efficient and effective customer service strategies.
• Ensure first and second levels daily call over (Transactions Audit) of vouchers are performed and relevant certificates rendered.
• Monitor branch cash levels and ensure that cash limits are not exceeded
• Coordinate all money transfers product transactions.
• Ensure branch Service Process improvements.
• Ensure safety of branch’s assets.
• Closely supervise the operations area to prevent frauds.
• Authorise transaction above limits of sub unit heads.
• Ensure closure of branch batch at close of business.

Officer, Advances (Risks and Credits) at Union Bank Of Nigeria PLC
  • Nigeria
  • May 2009 to February 2010

• Booking and monitoring of loans and advances.
• Resolving problems with challenging client relationships.
• Assessment of credit requests and business proposal from the customers.
• Responsible for generating business (trading) activities for the bank.
• Requesting ATM cards, issuing and resolving issues pertaining to ATM cards.

Marketing Executive (Special Products & Mortgage) at Mutual Alliance Savings & Loans Limited (Mortgage Bankers)
  • Nigeria
  • September 2008 to March 2009

• Selling bank’s products to prospective customers.
• Helping out with other general marketing activities as required.
• Advertising to promote and raise bank profile.
• Delivering of tactical support for marketing communications.
• Rendering of financial advice to customers.

Education

Master's degree, BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
  • at Metropolitan School of Business & Management, UK
  • September 2013
Master's degree, POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA MANAGEMENT
  • at University of Calabar, Nigeria
  • September 2012
Bachelor's degree, physics
  • at University of Uyo, Nigeria
  • September 2005
Diploma, SECONDARY SCHOOL CERTIFICATE
  • at Uyo High School, Uyo
  • September 1998
High school or equivalent, FIRST SCHOOL LEAVING CERTIFICATE
  • at Christ the King International Nursery/Primary School, Uyo
  • January 1992

best student award

Specialties & Skills

Bank Relationship Management
Credit Control
Proactivity
MS Office tools
Customer Driven
RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
CUSTOMER SERVICE

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

RELATIONSHIP SELLING (Training) (Training)
Training Institute:
UNION BANK OF NIGERIA TRAINING SCHOOL, NIGERIA
Date Attended:
February 2012
Duration:
72 hours
CREDIT ANALYSIS (Training) (Training)
Training Institute:
UNION BANK OF NIGERIA TRAINING SCHOOL, NIGERIA
Date Attended:
May 2013
Duration:
98 hours
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (Training) (Training)
Training Institute:
FIRST ACADEMY, FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA LTD
Date Attended:
July 2014
Duration:
48 hours