Coverage Banker – Correspondent Banks

Experience & Qualifications

▪ Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Banking, Economics, Business Administration, or related field.

▪ Professional banking or finance qualification is an advantage.

▪ Minimum of 7–10 years’ experience in correspondent banking, financial institutions coverage, trade finance, or payments.

▪ Strong knowledge of correspondent banking products, payments clearing, trade flows, and nostro management.

▪ Solid understanding of AML/CFT, sanctions compliance, and FI risk frameworks.

▪ Experience covering African and international banking counterparties is highly desirable.

Business and Financial performance

• Originate and grow correspondent banking relationships across Anglophone markets in line with Group strategy.

• Drive revenue growth through increased transaction volumes, balances, trade flows, FX, and fee-based income.

• Develop and execute relationship plans to deepen wallet share with existing correspondent banks.

• Support optimization of nostro balances and liquidity utilization in collaboration with Treasury.

Customer Excellence

• Serve as the primary relationship manager and trusted point of contact for assigned correspondent banks.

• Deliver responsive, solution-oriented service to correspondent partners across payments, trade, and cash management needs.

• Coordinate internal product teams to provide seamless end-to-end solutions for correspondents.

Leadership and people management

• Act as a role model for professional conduct, collaboration, and risk discipline within the coverage team.

• Provide informal coaching and knowledge sharing to junior bankers and product partners on correspondent banking best practices.

• Support cross-functional teamwork across Client Coverage, Trade, Cash Management, Treasury, Compliance, and Operations.

• Contribute to building a high-performance culture anchored on accountability, execution, and customer focus.

Process, control and operational performance

• Ensure full compliance with AML/CFT, sanctions, KYC, and correspondent banking regulatory requirements.

• Support onboarding, periodic reviews, and risk assessments of correspondent banks in line with Group policies.

• Work closely with Compliance, Risk, and Operations to address audit findings, control gaps, and regulatory queries.

• Ensure accurate and timely maintenance of relationship documentation, CRM records, and call reports.

Strategic initiatives

• Support Group initiatives to strengthen correspondent banking positioning across Africa and international markets.

• Contribute to the development of new correspondent products, corridors, and value propositions.

• Support strategic dialogues with global banks on Africa trade, clearing, settlement, and liquidity solutions.