Treasury Operations Officer

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Job Summary

As a member in the Commercial Operation under the COO function, the role holder will need to maintain and deliver on the CIB, RBB, Treasury and Markets strategic plans to be the leading Bank in the Seychelles with priorities centered on weaving customer centricity and sustainability in the business daily activities. Extending support to grow market share through targeted focus on acquisition, cross-selling and digitalization.

Job Description

Delivering Operational and Service Excellence 75%

• Process transactions through the Treasury system (Front Arena) in a timely manner.
• Process all deals executed by Treasury Execution and Markets by either raising manual entries or generating straight through the Treasury system (Front Area) and Intellimatch as follows:

• Verification of deals booked at No Entries
• Verification an diarise deals booked at Entries
• Release deals above limit that require second level approval.

• Receive Front Arena Account opening forms from RMs and KYC documents, perform authentication and confirm on the Ebox system that the account is KYC compliant.
• Open accounts and upload counterparties on Front Arena system.
• Retrieve the A012 report on Laser archive review and submit to ATOM/Head of Commercial Operations for sign off on daily basis.
• Reconcile treasury related transaction on nostros daily.
• Receive EOD file and upload on the Teller system.
• Complete the Treasury Ops checklist daily.

• Prepare returns (where applicable) to Finance and Regulator for review and by senior Treasury Management.
•  Provide senior management with KPI’s for inclusion in the monthly submissions  
• Achieve individual operational performance targets and support the achievement of team targets.
• Assist with the execution of customer enquiries and complaints received in accordance with procedures.
• Establish priorities, monitor workload and workflow, set standards for completion of work.
• Develop a service culture throughout the department and ensure a customer centric approach.
• File off source documents on a daily basis on Treasury Share drive.
• Ensure Clean Desk Policy is respected in line with the IRM policy, all bank documents are locked away at the end of the day before leaving the premises.
• Follow all processing and servicing activities in accordance with set procedures, standards, and policies.
• Build and maintain excellent working relationships with other functions to facilitate and achieve business objectives.
• Work closely with the team leaders and other team members as one team to deliver excellent performance.
• Constantly seek to improve ways of working by challenging the status quo and supporting an empowering climate within the team, sharing knowledge, experience, best practice and providing constructive feedback as required.
• Provide cover for other team members as required.
• Support and adopt the implementation of change initiatives.
• Actively seek ways to personally contribute solutions to significant societal challenges in the community in support of the Pan-African citizenship.

Accountability:  Operational Rigor 15%

• Ensure compliance within Treasury & Market Operations standards and Audit requirements
• Achieve operational rigor excellence in all aspects of procedures and processes undertaken to ensure satisfactory audit.Undertake appropriate reviews and implement remedial action where necessary.

• Ensure compliance with operational risk and rigor requirements e.g., Health and Safety requirements, security of premises, KYC and money laundering
• Implement actions to close audit, conformance review and snap check findings.
• Ensure risk events raised within agreed timeline as guided by the Operational risk standard.
• Raise any identified irregularities with the approved procedure and recommend process changes through the appropriate channels.
• Own the req