1. BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
Objective: Ensure portfolio quality, accurate impairment provisioning, and effective credit risk portfolio monitoring to support the Bank's financial performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Continuously review the adequacy of loan loss provisions in line with BOU Prudential Guidelines and the IFRS9 impairment model and recommend appropriate provision levels.
- Maintain a comprehensive provision schedule and undertake quarterly discounting of securities for NPLs.
- Review account classification and IFRS9 staging and recommend the correct classification.
- Work with Group Risk Analytics to recalibrate the IFRS9 impairment model annually.
- Track recoveries and regularly report write-off statistics.
- Monitor portfolio concentrations against approved limits (obligor, sector, product, cross-border, currency, etc.).
- Monitor sector concentration limits.
- Monitor PP limits and PP performance matrices.
- Monitor compliance with credit-related regulatory ratios.
- Review NPL portfolios and initiate write-offs, write-backs, and interest write-offs in line with the In Duplum Rule.
- Ensure provisions and suspended interest are correctly booked at all times.
2. CUSTOMER CENTRICITY
Objective: Deliver timely and reliable credit portfolio information to internal stakeholders while fostering effective collaboration and support.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate and collaborate with Finance, Operations, Treasury, and Business Units in the preparation of credit-related reports.
- Follow up with Business Units on IFRS9 staging override memos and facilitate timely approvals.
- Prepare and provide timely management information and portfolio performance reports to stakeholders.
- Serve as the key point of contact for portfolio and impairment-related matters during internal and external reviews.
- Ensure accurate and timely reporting to support business decision-making and regulatory compliance.
3. CONTROLS AND PROCESSES
Objective: Maintain strong governance, data integrity, reporting accuracy, and regulatory compliance across portfolio management activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure timely and accurate preparation of all regulatory returns, Group returns, and management reports.
- Review and sign off all credit-related reports prepared by the unit.
- Prepare Quarterly Board Papers within the prescribed timelines.
- Prepare Quarterly Portfolio Performance Reports for Credit Risk Management.
- Prepare the monthly EXCO Credit Risk Dashboard.
- Review and ensure accurate MIS maintenance in the core banking system, including classification, risk ratings, sector allocation, and IFRS9 staging.
- Ensure all loan-related GL accounts reconcile at all times.
- Oversee CRB reporting and ensure regular data clean-up and updating of settled facilities.
- Provide portfolio reports and information required by external auditors, BOU auditors, and Group auditors.
- Act as the primary liaison during audits relating to portfolio quality, classification, provisioning, and impairments.
4. MUST-WIN BATTLES
Objective: Drive strategic initiatives, digital transformation, and regulatory projects that strengthen credit risk management capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and oversee the BOU Granular Data Integration Project and ensure seamless operations post-implementation.
- Act as Project Manager for all automation initiatives within the Credit Risk Management Department.
- Drive continuous improvement in portfolio reporting, data quality, and regulatory reporting processes.
- Support enhancements to IFRS9 governance and portfolio analytics capabilities.
- Champion automation and efficiency initiatives aimed at improving credit risk monitoring and reporting.
5. PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
Objective: Build a high-performing team and ensure effective execution of departmental objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage, coach, and develop Portfolio Analysts within the unit.
- Set performance objectives and conduct periodic performance reviews.
- Provide technical guidance and quality assurance for reports prepared by team members.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and regulatory compliance.
- Support knowledge sharing and capability building within the Credit Risk Management function.
Experience & Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Finance.
Minimum 5years banking experience, two of which must have been in a credit-related role.
Extensive experience in working with MS Excel and Powerpoint.
Minimum 2 years in portfolio analytics
Competence Requirements
Sound knowledge of Bank of Uganda Prudential Guidelines, IFRS9, Financial Institutions Act;
Understanding of credit risk and general trends in the banking sector;
Technical skills to effectively perform the credit administration activities/tasks in a manner that consistently produce high quality of service.
Knowledge and effective application of all relevant banking policies, processes, procedures and guidance to consistently achieve required compliance standards or benchmarks.
Self-empowerment to enable development of open communication, teamwork and trust that are needed to support performance and customer-service oriented culture.
Initiative and decision-making techniques aimed at resolving and proposing solutions to the various challenges in Credit administration.
People managements skills and ability to work across functions.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or Finance
- Minimum five years of banking experience
- At least two years of experience in a credit-related role
- Extensive experience using Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint
- Minimum two years of experience in portfolio analytics
- Sound knowledge of Bank of Uganda Prudential Guidelines, IFRS9, and the Financial Institutions Act
- Understanding of credit risk and banking-sector trends
- Technical competence in credit administration activities
- Knowledge and application of relevant banking policies, processes, procedures, and compliance guidance
- Initiative and decision-making skills for resolving credit administration challenges
- People management skills and ability to work across functions
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Compensation design includes a performance‑based culture with annual bonuses and short‑ and long‑term incentive programs. Investment in training via Ecobank Academy complements these rewards.
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Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (‘ETI’) is the parent company of the Ecobank Group, the leading independent pan-African banking group. The Ecobank Group employs over 14,000 people and serves about 20 million customers in the consumer, commercial and corporate banking sectors across 35 African countries. The Group has a banking license in France and representative offices in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Johannesburg, South Africa; Beijing, China; London, the UK and Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The Group offers a full suite of banking products, services and solutions including bank and deposit accounts, loans, cash management, advisory, trade, securities, wealth and asset management. ETI is listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchanges in Lagos, the Ghana Stock Exchange in Accra, and the Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières in Abidjan.








