{SF Group,Ghana,Full-Time,GH,N/A,N/A,30 May-2015};

A reputable micro finance company is recruiting Relationship Officers from the Lapaz-Achimota environs

This role is responsible for meeting the monthly and the annual targets set for generating new business for the savings products outside the bank branches; i.e. opening new savings accounts of new prospects (non-members). This role will support deposit collection from the clients. This role will also be responsible for managing client relationships, resolving client issues and ensuring client retention.

Identify and convert prospects into clients (new account opening)

•   Identify potential clients
•   Open new savings accounts in designated territory
•   Educate prospective clients on the benefits of products
•   Follow up and convert leads/referrals received from field officers, customer servicing team (promotions) and other employees.
•   Actively seek referrals from existing clients

Conduct Account Opening Formalities

•   Conduct the account opening formalities at the client’s location.
•   Verify identity documents (against the originals) received from the client.
•   Ensure completeness of the form as well as collecting the initial account opening deposit.
•   Submit the account opening forms at the branch.
•   Return the pass book to the client within 24 working hours.

Facilitate Deposits

•   Collect deposits from clients (information received by SMS through central hub or the client interfaces with the Savings Officer directly)
•   Complete deposit formalities and issue receipt.
•   Submit deposit to the branch
•   Responsible for the safe keeping of the cash collected at the client site until it is properly handed over to the Cashier at the branch office

Manage Clients

•   Actively manage clients to ensure continuous savings (number of dormant accounts).
•   Maintain targeted quarterly average balance.
•   Conduct quarterly reviews of all clients to understand savings appetite.
•   Responsible for retaining clients: ensure account closures are at a minimum.
•   Conduct exit interviews with clients who want to close their accounts and try to revive the relationship.
•   Facilitate passbook updates.
•   Resolve all client related issues promptly and adequately.
•   Manage client relationships through individual gestures like birthday or anniversary wish/card.

Qualification Required & Experience

•   Minimum qualification of SHS Certificate.
•   0 to 2 years of experience in any discipline. MFI sector or development / social sector background or financial services background desirable, not mandatory. Passion for the mission and dedication to the goals of poverty alleviation and empowerment.

Functional Skills and Knowledge

•   Basic numerical ability
•   Fluent in local languages

Behavioral Skills required

•   Communication – Seeks and shares information, ideas and thoughts with clarity and in a logical manner. Listens and responds to others’ effectively. Builds trust with clients.
•   Customer Focus – Understands and responds to customer needs, builds and maintains rapport with clients; communicates actively with the customer. Strong customer advocate.
•   Problem Solving – Grasps new concepts and information, understands and interprets facts and figures related to daily work, provides solutions to simple day to day problems
•   Self Management Skills (Result Orientation) – Manages and organizes work to meet commitments and deadlines (often under pressure), aligned with the expected standards of quality and productivity

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Email address:-

w.adjapong@sfgroupgh.com

Tel: 0508-539725

Closing Date: 04 June, 2015

{JCS Investment Limited,Ghana,Full-Time,GH,N/A,N/A,30 May-2015};

JCS Investment Limited requires Investment Analyst for immediate employment.

Typical Tasks include:

•   Researching companies
•   Analyzing company accounts, profit and loss sheets and cash flow information
•   Interpreting complicated financial information
•   Writing financial research summaries
•   Regularly meeting with company managers and stock market traders, fund managers and stockbrokers
•   Making informed recommendations
•   Keeping detailed knowledge about the Ghanaian economy and financial markets up-to-date
•   Preparing investment memos and investment analytical reports.

Qualification Required & Experience

•   Master’s Degree or its equivalent
•   4 – 6 years experience

Salary: Competitive

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Kindly send your CVs and cover letters to:-

jobs@jcs.com.gh

Closing Date: 15 May, 2015

{The Seed Funds Savings & Loans Company Ltd,Ghana,Full-Time,GH,N/A,N/A,30 May-2015};

The Seed Funds Savings & Loans Company Ltd. is a licensed deposited taking Non-Bank Financial Institution with its head office located at Cantonments.

Reference Code: TROD1

Job Purpose:
This role requires creating and maintaining a congenial atmosphere that allows internal and external customers to carry out business in comfort.

Job Responsibility:
As the branch head of operations, the candidate should be able to:

•   Organise mini branch operational review meetings to discuss and analyse and update the team on trends and best practices.
•   Provide supervision for all the units under operations, scrutinising their transactions and ensuring that they are processed as error and fraud free
•   Generate weekly, monthly and annual reports that are needed for management use
•   Responsible for reconciling and proofing of the branch GLs.
•   Keep all records of registers as mandated by audit
•   Maintaining required service standards and operational efficiency.

Qualification Required & Experience

•   At least four (4) years relevant experience in a reputable financial institution (banks, savings & loans companies, insurance companies)
•   Managed a team of at least three (3) members successfully in the last two years.
•   A Bachelor’s degree from a reputable University
•   A Professional qualification/post graduate degrees will be an advantage
•   A Bachelor’s degree from a reputable University
•   A Professional qualification/post graduate degrees will be an advantage

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Interested persons with the requisite qualification (s) and work experience should submit CV’s to:

HumanCapital@TheSeedFunds.com with the relevant reference code indicated.

Closing Date: 10 June, 2015

Please note that only shortlisted candidates would be contacted.

{The Seed Funds Savings & Loans Company Ltd,Ghana,Full-Time,GH,N/A,N/A,30 May-2015};

The Seed Funds Savings & Loans Company Ltd. is a licensed deposited taking Non-Bank Financial Institution with its head office located at Cantonments.

Reference Code: TRMD1

Job Purpose:
This role requires the running of the branch as a profit center.

Job Responsibility:

As the Business Head of the Branch/Marketing team, the candidate should be able to:

•   Develop business in a defined market to meet periodic budget targets
•   Organise and work as the leader of the team to achieve the targets
•   Achieve the profitability of the branch
•   Efficiently manage the loan portfolio of the branch
•   Acquisition of new business as well as deepening existing customer relationships through effective and efficient customer liaisons.
•   Profit & Loss/ Balance Sheet Management

Qualification Required & Experience

•   A Bachelor’s degree from a reputable University
•   A Professional qualifications/post graduate degrees will be an advantage
•   At least seven (7) years relevant experience in a reputable financial institutions (banks, savings & loans companies, insurance companies) in Ghana with a good working knowledge of the Greater Accra market and about the last three years spent in a marketing/relationship management position
•   Managed a team of at least three (3) members successfully by achieving set periodic financial targets
•   Experience in a start- up location (banks, savings & loans companies, branches, new profit center teams/departments) will be a very big advantage
•   Experience in a start- up location (banks, savings & toans companies, branches, new profit center teams/departments) will be a very big advantage

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Interested persons with the requisite qualification (s) and work experience should submit CV’s to:

HumanCapital@TheSeedFunds.com with the relevant reference code indicated.

Closing Date: 10 June, 2015

Please note that only shortlisted candidates would be contacted.

{African Development Bank,Ghana,Full-Time,GH,N/A,N/A,30 May-2015};

Objectives

The Resource Mobilization and External Finance Department (FRMB) is responsible for the strategic resource mobilization and the leveraging of the financial resources and instruments of the African Development Bank Group. The department’s role is to increase the pool and types of funding available to the Bank’s Regional Member Countries, particularly for transformative projects in line with the Bank’s Ten-year strategy.

FRMB.1 is responsible for fund raising initiatives and partnerships with sovereign entities, including the replenishment of the African Development Fund (ADF), the Nigerian Trust Fund and technical cooperation with legacy bilateral donors. It also coordinates the Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA), the allocation process of ADF resources among beneficiary countries (PBA), and monitors their use in accordance with the relevant ADF policies and guidelines.

In this regard, this Chief Resource Mobilization Officer position will play crucial part working with the Division Manager of FRMB.1 as well as the Director of the FRMB in the development of strategic options for positioning the Bank Group in the global aid architecture, mobilizing and deploying its resources, by contributing to the planning, conceptualization, elaboration and presentation of the Bank Group key resource mobilization and negotiation documents.

Duties and responsibilities

•   Take a leadership role in the organization and coordination of the ADF replenishment and mid-term review processes, including the management of relationships with ADF Deputies, as well as contributing to discussions, papers, presentations on the ADF’s financial and related issues (e.g., the long-term financial sustainability and capacity of the ADF, alternative sources of funding, innovative instruments, etc.);
•   Take a leadership role and/or contribute to the monitoring and reporting on the utilization of the different ADF resource envelopes, in collaboration with the other relevant departments;
•   Take a leadership role in working with other units in the Bank to maintain and regularly updating of the Bank’s HIPC and MDRI dossiers and related debt issues as well as arrears; leading the drafting support of periodic reports on RMCs’ sovereign debts, debt sustainability, and debt management, including those in response to requests from management, MDBs or donors.
•   Lead and/or contribute to the development of strategic options for positioning the Bank Group in the global aid architecture, mobilizing and deploying its resources, by contributing to the planning, conceptualization, elaboration and presentation of the Bank Group key resource mobilization and negotiation documents;
•   Play a key role in coordinating resource mobilization through co-financing, trust funds, special initiatives and any other innovative partnership mechanisms; while also promoting the utilization of mobilized resources by user Departments, monitoring their disbursement, and preparing progress reports/financial reports to the respective Donors;
•   Contribute and/or participate in the organization of regular internal and external outreach events for the benefit of staff, clients and other stakeholders, to explain the activities of the different funds and key drivers of the allocation system;
•   Organize business development and strategic initiatives consultations and meetings with key sovereign partners; and effectively monitor the implementation progress of any existing or new partnership agreements formalized with those partners;
•   Organize high-level partnerships events and forums, including the annual AfDB Partnership Forum, involving the Board Members, Senior Management and traditional and emerging partners globally;
•   Provide internal stakeholders with regular information and analysis of development partner funding priorities to strengthen opportunities for target fundraising and facilitate the coordination and collaboration between Bank Group business units ;
•   Help organize and lead key Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) meetings and working groups of important donors and international meetings, as required;
•   Contribute to the effective collaboration with other departments and complexes; and
•   Help mentor junior team members.

Qualification Required & Experience

Including desirable skills, knowledge and experience

•   Minimum of a Master’s degree in finance, economics, international affairs and/or other relevant fields;
•   A minimum of seven (7) years of relevant experience including in resource mobilization, project development and implementation preferably across public, private and/or non-profit sectors along with established operational track record in achieving results; (fundraising with international, public and private sector a major plus);
•   Proven quantitative and qualitative analytical and problem solving skills including familiarity with financial modeling techniques; understanding underlying statistical concepts of the work; (experience in treasury, corporate finance, risk management, or accounting would be pluses);
•   Proven ability to take initiative, innovate, adapt and make smart decisions; to create, apply, and share knowledge; to share expertise and learning; to develop self and others; to expand networks; to collaborate within teams and across boundaries; to be inclusive and exhibit good corporate citizenship.
•   Superior written and verbal communication skills in English and/or French (with a working-knowledge of the other language) including the ability to think strategically and synthesize complex issues into effective written and oral briefs;
•   Ability to apply a practical approach to problem solving, produce high quality work outputs, effectively prioritize, and adaptation skills  at times of competing and unexpected demands;
•   Proven interpersonal, relationship building and diplomatic skills as well as a high degree of discretion and tact necessary to effectively maintain good relationships with partner countries and the Bank shareholders;
•   Proven ability to identify and provide sound advice on policy and financial issues, setting priorities and weighing tradeoffs;
•   Competence in the use of Bank standard software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Location: Ghana

How To Apply For The Job

Interested and qualified candidates should

Click Here To Apply Online

Closing Date: 12 May, 2015

Only applicants who fully meet the Bank’s requirements and are being considered for interview will be contacted. Applicants will only be considered if they submit an online application, and attach a comprehensive Curriculum Vitae (CV). The African Development Bank is an equal opportunities employer and female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply

{Confidential,Ghana,Full-Time,GH,N/A,N/A,30 May-2015};

A newly established Microfinance company requires a results oriented person as the General Manager.

Responsibilities:

•   Responsible for the administration and efficient daily operation of a full service office, including operations, lending, product sales, customer service, and security and safety in accordance with the company’s objectives
•   Develops new deposit and loan business, provides a superior level of customer relations and promotes the sales and service culture through coaching, guidance and staff motivation
•   Achieve the targeted revenue, profitability risk control, loan objectives and sales goals through new business sales, referrals and retention of account relationships
•   Demonstrated ability in long-term strategic planning and business plan development

Qualification Required & Experience

•   University degree in Banking, Finance, Economics or other related field.
•   Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in the Microfinance sector
•   Knowledge of the regulatory framework of the Microfinance sector
•   Experience in managing and administering operations of Microfinance institutions at an executive level
•   Experience in credit operation, risk management policies and procedures practical knowledge in developing and implementing marketing plans, tools and HR strategies
•   strong report writing skills

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Send CV and application by email to:-

pedro.desantos@gmail.com

Closing Date: 21 May, 2015

{Confidential,Ghana,Full-Time,GH,N/A,N/A,30 Apr-2015};

A reputable Microfinance company is looking for a Trust worthy, hardworking and determined:- Field Relationship Officers (Mobile Bankers)

Qualification Required & Experience

Applicant must:

•   Be at least 18 years of age at the time of application
•   Have either a JSS certificate or SSCE certificate (WASCE applicants must be between 2008-2012 year groups
•   Be a licensed motor rider
•   Be a resident of the following locations: Ashaiman, Nungua, Dome, Ashale Botwe, Adjiringanor, East Legon, Amercian House and Madina

There is good remuneration and other conditions of service.

Location: Ashaiman, Nungua, Dome, Ashale Botwe, Adjiringanor, East Legon, Amercian House and Madina

How To Apply For The Job

Qualified applicants should please send their CV and application letters to:-

jobnow201504@gmail.com

or call:-

0269-074200 for personal delivery

Closing Date: 30 April, 2015

{Confidential,Ghana,Full-Time,GH,N/A,N/A,30 Apr-2015};

A reputable Financial Institution is looking for:- Systems Administrator

Qualification Required & Experience

•   (5) fives years of experience in a rural banking setting, a must
•   Minimum qualification of HND

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Interested applicants should e-mail their applications and CVs to:-

asomsam@gmail.com

or mail:-

P.O.Box MP 3804
Accra

Closing Date: 14 April, 2015

{Confidential,Ghana,Full-Time,GH,N/A,N/A,30 Apr-2015};

Loan Recovery / Credit Control Officer wanted for immediate employment.

Qualification Required & Experience

•   A minimum of 1st Degree
•   At least two years experience as a Loan Recovery / Credit Control Officer of a reputable company
•   Persons who have worked in the microfinance sector will be preferred

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Interested candidate should call us on:-

0302-731818

Closing Date: 25 April, 2015

{Union Savings and Loans Ltd,Ghana,Full-Time,GH,N/A,N/A,30 Apr-2015};

UNION Savings and Loans, the Global Banking and Finance Review’s best SME Financing company in Ghana, 2014, is looking for a Business Development Coordinator, Home Finance.

Job Description

To acquire, manage and grow asset and liability portfolios of Home Finance clients.  This responsibility must be discharged in a professional manner to achieve a high degree of client satisfaction.

Business Development

•   Implement a framework for acquiring clients.
•   Monitor developments in the housing industry and submit suitable proposals to increase market share of mortgage and home improvement assets.
•   Propose innovative products that cover the real estate cycle (land acquisition, construction, furnishing, renovations, and property conversions) to rapidly grow the market share of this product.
•   Develop and implement a detailed account/call plan to support acquisition activities.

Credit Analysis

•   Gather relevant client information for conducting good credit analysis and prepare good proposals for decision making within institutional timeframe.
•   Review processes and submit proposals to improve turnaround time and improved service delivery.
 
Portfolio Quality Management

•   Conduct regular monitoring (financial, collateral) of clients to maintain a healthy loan portfolio.
•   Ensure full settlement of all disbursed credit exposures according to the repayment plans.
•   Implement all Arrears/Risk Committee (and other Management) decisions to improve portfolio quality.
•   Ensure that all post-disbursement conditions are met within the stipulated timeframe.
•   Proactively prepare and submit proposals for solving problem cases

Reporting and Presentations

•   Timely preparation and presentation of product performance reports.

Qualification Required & Experience

•   Results oriented and performance driven
•   Banking experience in a high performing bank or non-bank financial institution
•   At least 2 years working experience in mortgage financing
•   Strong communication, interpersonal and presentation abilities.
•   Strong analytical skills
•   Good knowledge and skills in Microsoft applications.
•   Professional, ethical and discretion when dealing with confidential information.
•   Committed, responsible and able to work under pressure and limited time frames.
•   Good planning and organizing skills.

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Please submit a detailed CV together by Friday, April 10, 2015.

All applications should be sent to jobs@unionbanking.com.gh  (The “subject” to the mail MUST read “Business Development Coordinator, Home Finance, Job”).

Closing Date: 10 April, 2015