Balance Sheet Manager

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Business Administration, Statistics, Economics or a related field from an accredited University
  

• 3 – 5 years working experience in a similar role preferably in a financial institution.
  

Capital Management (30%)

• Ensuring adherence to Capital Management policies and in-country regulatory and Board approved capital targets
  

• Engaging with Finance teams to understand balance sheet reconciliation and trends
  

• Compiling a capital plan, which forecasts regulatory and economic capital demand & supply across business units over a 3-year planning horizon while assessing if the forecast capital position meets regulatory and Board approved targets
  

Liquidity & Funding (30%)

• Ensuring adherence to Funding and Liquidity policies, including Contingent Funding and Recovery Plans, whilst holding the responsibility of ensuring that the entity remains liquid.
  

• Ensuring appropriate funding profiles are achieved (diversification of funding base and lengthening of the funding profile)§ Compiling an annual funding plan which is tracked monthly, with a challenge-and-review process against business STP and RAF forecasts to be presented at monthly ALCO.
  

• Monitoring and reporting on adherence to all regulatory and internal funding requirements and limits as maintained by TES.
  

Asset & Liability Management (ALM) (20%)

• Responsibility for the in-country ALM process within the guidelines set by Absa Bank Uganda Treasury.
  

• Achieving an appropriate risk profile within Group standards and risk tolerances by centralizing, netting and hedging all manageable risk via the Treasury Execution Services (TES) desk
  

• Measuring, analyzing and interpreting interest rate risk in the banking book
  

Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) (10%)

• Ensuring the implementation of and adherence to the Absa Bank Uganda FTP standard.
  

• Ensuring FTP guides Business (Retail, Corporate and Markets) behavior and immunizes businesses from market risk as far as possible.
  

• Ensuring Absa Bank Uganda liquidity premiums are incorporated in all FCY pricing by business