Team Lead, Inhouse Settlement at First Bank of Nigeria Limited

First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) is Nigeria's largest financial services institution by total assets and gross earnings. With more than 10 million customer accounts, FirstBank has over 750 branches providing a comprehensive range of retail and corporate financial services. The Bank has international presence through its subsidiaries, FBN Bank (UK) Limited in London and Paris, FBNBank DRC, FBNBank Ghana, FBNBank Gambia, FBNBank Guinea, FBNBank Sierra-Leone and FBNBank Senegal, as well as its Representative Offices in Johannesburg, Beijing and Abu Dhabi.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Team Lead, Inhouse Settlement

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Manage the seamless delivery of new in-house applications that do not settle via the switches.
• Daily supervision, review of settlement files and upload of:
  • Customs duties manual collections
  • Nigerian Export Supervisory Scheme (NESS) collections
  • Customs duties Paydirect collections
• Resolution of failed Custom & NESS transactions on PayDirect & Firstcollect Platforms
• Supervise the daily, weekly and monthly statutory returns and reports in respect of manual Customs Duties collections remittance, NESS and NDCC remittances before submission to CBN and the various Customs ports
• Ensures timely processing in the deactivation of Direct Debit Mandates customers (ARM Insurance, etc.)
• Resolution of failed transactions initiated by various customers on inhouse application platform.
• Supervision of dispatched mailer to Lagos branches and upcountry branches via the courier service
• Supervision and monitoring of record keeping of documents for customs, NESS and pin mailer.
• Ensures prompt weekly settlement and pre-reconciliation of PAYU in-branch transactions
• Carries out daily reconciliation of biller transaction report with the settlement report for Firstbillspay settlement
• Reviews with the billers on variances with settlement and ensures prompt reversal is done to prevent loss of funds
• Prepares monthly invoice payment for the vendor via WEBADI and follows up to ensure prompt payment processing by the procurement and Centralized admin unit.
• Monitoring and recoup of funds to Ebusiness receivable account
• Conduct a second level authentication check on prepared E-tranzact settlement data upload file
• Authorizes e-tranzact for settlement debits after obtaining approval from Heads of Settlement, Account monitoring and concurrence from the Head of department.

Minimum Requirements

• First Degree in a numerate discipline.
• Minimum experience: 8 years, 5 of which must have been spent in e-Banking / Products.

Application Closing Date
14th May, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online