Job Title:  Matching & Exceptions Officer (Fresher Jobs) 

Organisation: KCB Bank Uganda Limited

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About the Company:

KCB Bank Uganda Limited which is part of KCB Group, East Africa’s largest commercial bank that was established in 1896. Over the years, the Bank has grown and spread its wings into Tanzania, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi completing the East African circuit in the year 2012. Today, the Group has the largest branch network in the region with over 238 branches, 950 ATMs and 8,000 agents offering banking services on a 24/7 basis in East Africa. KCB Bank Uganda was established in the year 2007 and has grown to become one of Uganda’s top ten commercial banks.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Download and save the report files for all assigned accounts.
• Load both settlement and GL files into the reconciliation tool as per laid down procedures.
• Perform validation checks to confirm that transaction files and balances from partner portals are available and complete.
• Investigate and escalate any reconciliation anomalies immediately to line manager & other responsible parties.
• Run auto-match as per set criteria and communicate to stakeholders when exception reports are available.
• Manual match entries as advised by the Reconciliations Officers.
• Participate in automation initiatives or any other projects geared towards improving the overall reconciliation process.
• Participate in the identification, reporting and control of key risks within the Operations department.
• Timely response to customer queries

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or any other degree with a quantitative/Mathematical bias is required. Any professional qualifications in Accounting will be an added advantage.
• Experience: 1 Year in banking

Skills

• Basic knowledge in data management
• Reconciliation knowledge
• Communication Skills
• Risk awareness
• Problem solving
• Interpersonal skills
• Analytical skills