MANAGER: LEGAL - FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOTSWANA

It’s time to be with FNB

First National Bank of Botswana invites suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below in our Bank.

Manager: Legal

Reporting to the Head-Credit Recoveries, the successful incumbent will be required to define, optimize and operationally implement a legal collections process through management of the legal collection portfolio specialists in order to reduce the bad debt portfolio.

Requirements

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Effectively manage the collections book to increase recoveries and reduce bad debt
• Investigate, analyse & develop organisational best practices; ensuring & encouraging adherence to an operational framework of policies & procedures.
• Integrate business information, compare, analyse & produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies & inconsistencies for decision making purposes
• Plan for value-added, continuous practice and system improvement optimisation to deliver on objectives and to enhance tactical excellence
• Identify interconnected problems; determine impact, patterns and trends to develop best-fit alternatives and solutions.
• Optimize goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation & optimization of practices, processes & systems across an internal value chain.
• Define processes that effectively manage objective and professional relationships and SLAs with relevant external parties.
• Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies in own practice area to identify and manage risk exposure liability.
• Manage & monitor risk to ensure that all processes fall within the risk & audit guidelines. Investigate & implement measures to correct audit findings.

Qualification and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor of Commerce: Economics and Law
• 5 - 8 years experience in a similar environment, of which 2 - 3 years ideally at management level

Competencies and Skills Required:

• Analysis and attention to detail
• Business Insight and Risk Awareness
• Commercial and Financial Acumen
• Results Oriented
• Problem Solving
• Computer Literacy (excel, Power Point, Word at intermediate level)

Closing date and application instructions

Interested applicants are advised to send their Curriculum Vitae with an Application letter to the below postal address by 20th October 2015.

Director Human Resources
First National Bank Botswana
P O Box 1552, Gaborone, Botswana