Banking Officer
First Bank Ltd
Total years of experience :12 years, 1 Months
First Bank Ltd- Lagos, Nigeria May 2016-Present
Banking Officer -Money Transfer
1.Verification of all accounting entries for money transfer products and head office accounts
2.Implement efficient working processes and co-ordinate, assign and review the team work engaged in the following duties: administering accounts payable (outflow) and receivable (inflows); processing, verifying and recording financial documents (Sales to Treasury and Funds Management) and mail instructions.
3. Regularly providing proof of all money transfer accounts and also daily call-over transaction.
4. Examine and verify accuracy of work and supervise routine payments, and other transactions on money transfer
5.Establish work schedules and procedures and co-ordinate activities within the team and unit.
6. Resolve work-related problems and prepare and submit progress and other reports (Monthly Proof of Accounts Report).
7. Regular improvement of skills through trainings, seminars and Project engagements.
8. Ensure smooth operation of computer systems and equipment and arrange for maintenance and repair work when necessary.
9.Daily reconciliation of the various money transfer product accounts and head office accounts.
10. Daily reimbursement on inbound and outbound transactions for money transfer products to various branches.
11.Initiate daily sales of Foreign currency to Treasury and Funds Management Department
12. Attending to daily enquiries from branches as regards account management of the various.
13. Analyze business information to identify process improvements for increasing business efficiency.
First Bank Ltd- Lagos, Nigeria (Dec 2015- April 2016)
Banking Officer - SWIFT ADMIN/ACCOUNT AND SUPPORT
1. Establish work schedules and procedures and co-ordinate activities among team members.
2. Co-ordinate, assign and review the work of team members engaged in the processing, verifying, sorting of payment instructions (MT103) and bank to bank transfers (MT202).
3. Preparation and monitoring of Department budget.
4. Examine and verify accuracy of work and supervise daily routine.
5. Regular improvement of skills through trainings, seminars.
6. Ensure Requisition supplies and materials.
7. Establish work schedules and procedures and co-ordinate activities within the team and unit.
8. Initiating Relationship Management Acceptance (RMA) relationship with correspondent banks when necessary.
9. Daily generation of customers transaction reports
10. Implement efficient working processes and co-ordinate, assign and review the work of team members
11. Resolve challenges in the team; ensuring submission of progress and weekly reports.
12. Supervising reconciliation of statements for office accounts.
First Bank Ltd- Lagos, Nigeria (April 2011- Dec 2015)
Banking Officer- Trade
1.Generate workable solutions and resolve complaints from customers that bother on shipping documents.
2. Regulatory reporting Negotiated Letters of Credit
3. Organize and multitask to meet quarterly report deadlines
4. Assess situations, seek multiple perspectives and identify key issues that need urgent attention in the team.
5. Attends to enquiries on Letters of Credit documents from internal and external customers.
6. Identifying, scrutinizing, improving and streamlining complex work processes through highly analytical thinking.
7. Plan, organize and implement project and task within an allotted timeframe.
8. Regularly improve the turnaround time in document processing.
9.. Builds insights into situations and applies creative ideas to achieve desired results in the team
10.Perform data analysis for generating reports on periodic basis.
11. Provide strong reporting and analytical information support to management team.
12. Generate both periodic and ad-hoc reports - Asset and Liability Committee report and Group Executive report
15. Analyze business information to identify process improvements for increasing business efficiency.