Job Vacancies at First Bank of Nigeria (FBN)

First Bank of Nigeria is a Nigerian multinational bank and financial services company headquartered in Lagos. It is the biggest bank in Nigeria by total deposits and gross earnings.

FBN operates a network of over 750 business locations across Africa, the United Kingdom, and representative offices in Abu Dhabi, Beijing, and Johannesburg set up to capture trade-related business between geographies.

Applications are invited from interested and qualified candidates to apply for the job vacancies at First Bank of Nigeria (FBN).

Table of Contents

• Project Officer, Construction & Maintenance
• Team Lead, Control Standards & Monitoring
• Method of Application
• Deadline: Not Specified

Project Officer, Construction & Maintenance

Job Specifications:

• Full Time
• Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND 

Job Description:

• Shortlist pre-qualified contractors to handle projects
• Invite, analyze/vet, and write proposals and recommendations of works through tendering process
• Communicate, liaise and negotiate internally and externally with stakeholders
• Carry out routine maintenance checks on all facilities to allow for routine preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance works.

• Supervise all maintenance/face-lifting contracts in terms of quality and cost from inception to conclusion
• Rectify all maintenance complaints and detected faults
• Prepare valuation certificate, claims, final account, and practical completion certificate of projects/maintenance works (contract administration)
• Recommending payment of maintenance work satisfactorily completed.
• Ensure adherence to health safety policy and other requirements on site
• Proper record keeping of contract documents
• Make sure the projects run according to contract duration and cost.
• Participate in planning, design, and execution of ATM gallery (offsite & Implant)
• Participate in the coordination/management of ATM deployment and galleries/kiosks construction bank-wide and liaises with relevant departments/SBUs
• Carry out the relocation of offices and branches.
• Comply with the principles and policies in the information security handbook.

Qualifications and Requirements:

Education:

• Minimum Education:  First Degree in Civil Engineering, Building Technologies, or in the built environment
• Membership of relevant Professional /Regulatory body  Project Management Certification (PRINCE2 Foundation, PMP, etc), Higher Degree (an added advantage)

Experience:

• Minimum experience – 3 years of relevant experience needed

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Team Lead, Control Standards & Monitoring

Job Specifications:

• Full Time
• Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND 

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Job Description:

• Coordinates and supervises activities of control standards and monitoring officers
• Support the development and maintenance of internal control framework, policies, and procedures
• Assist in the implementation of the Internal Control Framework and Fraud Risk Management Framework in the bank
• Preparation and review of annual internal control strategy and plan.
• Support the bank-wide COSO adoption exercise led by Head, Control Techniques & Standards and follow up with all stakeholder departments to ensure their compliance
• Coordinates the reviews and updates of test plans in the control review template to ensure changes made to head Office/branch processes and controls are reflected in the current procedure.
• Review the Risk Rating of branches, Head Office, and Subsidiaries to determine the frequency of reviews and areas of focus for Control Officers
• Facilitates stakeholder engagements for process control changes and enhancements for implementation
• Maintains uniform standards on control documentation across branches and Head Office departments.
• Support the Head Control Techniques & Standards in change management efforts for control enhancements
• Develop communication materials in respect of process changes and control enhancement for internal and external stakeholders
• Periodic SOP review and update activities to ensure documentation of all controls in the bank’s systems, processes, and products
• Reviews exceptions noted per branch/cluster/region/departments to determine the effectiveness of controls and the need for control enhancements.
• Periodically engage Control Managers to determine specific issues faced during control reviews for insight and process improvement.
• Identify root causes of control breaches to recommend permanent solutions that will forestall re-occurrence.
• Arrange and facilitate stakeholder engagement to determine the effective resolution for issues identified.
• Monitor remediation phases of control gaps to ensure resolution within agreed timelines.
• Supervise walkthrough of remediated processes (post-remediation).
• Review of implemented controls and ensure prompt update of the standard operating procedure.
• • Develop and review control review templates for departments assigned by Head Control Techniques & Standards
  • Coordinate the conduct of control awareness programs for Control Officers to ensure standardization of control and monitoring activities and reduce the knowledge gap among control officers in different teams
  • Coordinate the conduct of control awareness programs for all bank and subsidiaries’ staff and processors to improve control consciousness
  • Review e-flyers contents for control training and awareness on topical issues and engage the M&CC department for design and deployment bank-wide
  • Supervise quality assurance review of control officers’ uploads from review visitations and validate quality and timeliness scores
  • Support Head, Control Techniques & Standards in reviewing product papers and recommending for approval after ensuring adequate control are instituted in the bank and subsidiaries’ various products and processes
  • Assist Head, Control Techniques & Standards in periodic risk rating of branches, Head Office departments, strategic resource functions, and the bank’s processes to ensure the adequacy of control reviews, visitation, and resource allocation.
  • Draft communication to stakeholders affected by internal control changes and obtain approval to disseminate
  • Supervise quality assurance review, collation, and reporting of Control Compliance Rating Scores, Operational Risk Rating, and other scorecard inputs and obtain Head, Control Techniques & Standards’ approval before submission to BPM.
  • Determine timeliness and quality of control officers’ reports in line with the methodology approved by the Head, Control Techniques & Standards
  • Provide the relevant data and support for Head Control Techniques & Standards in the risk-based assignment of control officers to oversight areas
  • As part of the Bank’s Information Security requirements, maintain the security of all Information entrusted to the staff and comply with the principles and policies in the Information Security Handbook
  • Support in driving ICEG project implementation and coordinate and track projects of other units.

  Challenges:

  • Coping with rapidly expanding branch network and product mix in an ever-changing banking landscape. 
  • The dynamic and unpredictable risk environment
  • Dealing with rapidly changing technological challenges and constraints.

  Qualifications and Requirements:

• Education:

  • Minimum Education: B.Sc / HND in any relevant discipline (Accounting, Economics, and any other related field)
  • ICAN / ACCA / CISA qualification will be an added advantage

  Experience:

  • Minimum experience – Ten years of relevant working experience.

  
  

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