Business Analyst at Gulf African Bank

2 months ago

Nairobi, Kenya jobwebkenya Full time

The genesis of Gulf African Bank (GAB) can be traced back to 2005, when a group of motivated Kenyans envisioned establishing an Islamic bank as an alternative to conventional banking in the country. By conducting business on the principles of Shari'ah, the bank would provide an ethical and fair mode of banking for all

Job Purpose:
The role of Business Analyst is to support the business team members- Assistant Relationship Managers and Relationship managers (RM) in their respective teams / region, to manage a high-quality portfolio of Commercial banking clients in a manner that complies with the Bank’s policies. (In line with Shariah and other banks, regulators policies).
Key Responsibilities
A key part of the- Business Analyst role is to support the business team during the credit cycle. Specific responsibilities during the various stages of the credit cycle include:

Review of credit proposals

Receive all the information and documentation required for a proposal from the Senior RMs and RMs to analyze for lending purposes.
Assist Senior Relationship Managers and Relationship Managers review/confirm the submitted information and documentation through site visits and subsequent follow-up meetings/conversations—for adequacy, completeness, and compliance with all Bank requirements
Prepare all the credit proposals and give recommendation and submit the same for review by RMs and team leader.
Finalize the credit proposal by incorporating additional comments where necessary and recommendation and signing off prior to submission to credit.

Credit decision

Respond to questions from the Credit department or Management Credit Committee for the submitted credit applications. RMs can assist the analyst by providing further information.
Work closely with the business team members to ensure fulfillment of all conditions precedent to facility disbursement, and ensure that all the relevant documentation is in place
To ensure zero returns of files from Credit due to documentation

Portfolio Management

Prepare quarterly reviews on borrowing customers and update on covenant tracking whether met or not.
Support the Relationship Manager and the business team to raise restructure requests where the client is facing challenges
In the event of non-payment of a facility installment, ensure that the business team members – ARM and RM have contacted the client immediately, and, if not resolved, assist them in subsequent actions to recover credit in arrears according to Bank procedures.
Monitor accounts in arrears and overdrawn accounts, work with the Assistant Relationship
Managers, Relationship managers and relevant Bank staff to reduce the portfolio at risk and work with the Collections Unit to develop and implement recovery processes. This in turn will help to reduce the portfolio at risk
Work closely with the business team in monitoring the asset portfolio to prevent defaults on client’s payment, alterations in the client’s business, and to be aware of forthcoming client’s financial needs.
Prepare early warning signs report for clients that have shown signs of distress for onward submission to Team leader and subsequent to Monitoring department. Ensure all Accounts with warning signs are promptly presented to early watch forum and need to ensure no client is transferred to DRU without at least 2 months on early watch forum and regular updates provided.
Follow-up with business team on corrective action to follow on recovery of facilities as guided by the DRU Policy (e.g. the issuance of demand letters and transfer of files in due time to the DRU (Debt Recovery Unit).
Proactively data mine and advise the business team early on clients which they can enhance facilities.
Highlight all covenants for the borrowing client and update its status if met or not.
Review of the quarterly facility reviews and ensure timely submission of the required documents same is done for all borrowing clients in the assigned portfolio.
Support the team leader in interrogating and providing Input on the Asset Pipeline from the
Relationship Manager to ensure that bankable transactions are being on-boarded and in line with the Commercial Banking Strategy

Client Management

The Business Analyst will support the business team in the management of the client portfolios assigned to them. These will include the following tasks:
Ensuring that all customer information and queries are treated in line with confidentiality agreements as per employment contract with the Bank and HR policies.
Highlight to business on the early warning signs from the borrowing customers and recommendations on solutions.
Conduct quarterly visits for top 10 borrowing clients in the assigned portfolio to preparing a comprehensive call report to be attached to the quarterly review of the client.

Operations/Compliance

The Business Analyst would:
Ensure that all facility reviewed have complete client documentation —this is especially important to ensure timely disbursement of facilities
Ensuring that Shariah-related, Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and other policies are adhered to for all facility reviewed by the analyst
Capturing and updating facility applications in the relevant systems including Credit Quest,
Pipeline Management Tool, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, among others.
All documents should be well uploaded in CQ and categorized in a correct manner

Requirements
Skills, Experience and Competencies

Business graduate from an accredited university preferably with a major in Finance, Marketing and/or Economics. Professional qualification such as CPA, CFA will be an added advantage./span>
Proven experience of at least two (2) years in a similar position, with hands on experience in
managing a portfolio of clients and analyzing business proposals.
5 years banking experience in a lending function with at least 3 years in credit analysis.

Personal attributes:

Ability to prepare financing proposals
Ability to analyze balance sheet and profit & Loss statements
Ability to do cash flow analysis,
Knowledge of business segments and economic/industry sectors and risks relating to the segments
Knowledge of relevant Shariah policies/ processes
Detailed knowledge of relevant Bank policies, e.g. Credit, KYC, AML

Business development skills:

A good understanding of the target market and growth opportunities
Thorough knowledge of the Bank’s products and services
Ability to monitor targets, use relevant information from dashboard to identify areas to focus on

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