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MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• To provide a business management support function through the coordination of various strategic initiatives and operations management interventions thereby supporting the Chief Banking Officer and the team to achieve effective and efficient application of resources.
• To support the Chief Banking Officer and the business unit team with various activities with particular emphasis on Business Planning, Cost Management; Financial Performance Management, and Reporting, Modelling and Data Analysis ,Project Coordination, Risk Management, Change Management, Operational and Administrative functions while facilitating proper governance and compliance to legislation and best practice within the framework of the Land Bank's policies and guidelines.

Key Performance Areas    

Business Planning at Divisional Level

• In liaison with the Chief Banking Officer coordinate various business planning and strategic initiatives and projects on behalf of the various Departments within the Division.

These include amongst others the following:

• Coordinate and contribute to the development and implementation of the Corporate plan and Divisional plan to execute agreed strategic objectives.
• Work with team members and secures cooperation from colleagues and divisional team members to implement key strategies, projects and initiatives as identified for the division.
• Coordinate, monitor, track and report on these strategies and initiatives including recommending enhancements/changes as and when required. 
• Provide business intelligence to the Chief Banking Officer by conducting studies, research and keeping abreast on issues affecting areas of responsibility which inform the direction of the Division.

Strategic Coordination and Preparation for  Meetings, and Engagements

• Prepare the divisional annual calendar
• Engage with Chief Banking Officer's direct reports and prepare the agenda for the Management Committee (Manco)
• Track all resolutions and action items arising from the Manco meetings
• Coordinate and/or prepare any required concept documents, reports, memos, letters and presentations on behalf of the Chief Banking Officer/General Managers as and when required.
• Research, collate any relevant information and scrutinise complex submissions/reports and provide input or feedback to the Chief Banking Officer.

Operational and Divisional Efficiencies

• Proactively support the Chief Banking Officer with specific reference to the following:
• Establish and implement effective business support functions, set up and maintain systems processes and procedures that will contribute towards improving efficiencies and improve the customer experience
• Manage the effective flow of information and documents across the division down to implementation level
• Monitor and evaluate efficiencies and identify opportunity for enhancement including improvement of products and services through established mechanisms
• Champions new ways of delivering services that contribute to the improvement of processes in order to achieve organisational and divisional goals.
• Act as the Budget Controller for the Chief Banking Officer, monitor and report on variances concerning the budget.

Risk, Governance and Ethics Management

• Represent Division as a Risk champion.
• Monitor aspects related to business continuity and Enterprise Risk Management.
• Identify potential risks within areas of responsibility and make recommendations to mitigate identified risks.
• Updating risk register and tracking progress.
• Incident management report.
• Implements innovative service delivery options in own section.

Project Management

• Plan, manage, monitors and evaluates activities around designated strategic projects in order to support the delivery of desired outputs and outcomes.
• Monitor and track project goals and objectives and progress within prescribed time frames and funding parameters.
• Coordinate high level meetings and events in collaboration with the relevant support divisions related to the project.

Divisional Performance Reporting

• Compiles divisional Performance Reporting
• Track, monitor and report on the Performance Scorecard of the Division and all the departmental/business units in the Division.
• Lead optimization projects to improve client service and operational efficiencies.
• Analyse system and data gaps to implement reporting requirements.
• Participate in the process change committee, to ensure changes across the business are integrated and aligned.
• Facilitate policy revisions pertaining to the division.

People Management

Performance Management

• Analyse the business plan to determine the applicable deliverables and targets.
• Compile the Performance Management documentation in collaboration with the staff member.

Capacity Planning

• Determine the human resource requirements, in accordance with the expected deliverables and current capacity.
• Secure the human capital requirements to ensure that deliverables will be met in accordance with the expected targets.

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience    

• Postgraduate tertiary qualification in relevant area of focus / Financial Management / Cost Management / Business Administration.
• 5 - 8 years relevant work experience as a Business Manager / Cost Management Practitioner / Financial Modelling / Management Consultant / Project Manager / Chief Banking Officer Coordinator.
• 5 years Leadership experience in a comparable environment.

Critical Competencies    

• Analytics (relevant to the function)
• Legislation
• Strategic Report Writing
• Microsoft Office
• Project Management Principles
• Financial Principles and Modelling
• Strategic Planning and Processes
• Governance and Risk
• Sub-committee meetings and Board knowledge

Additional Requirements    

• Extended hours as and when required.
• Travel as and when required.

Closing Date    

• 2025/10/15

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MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• To manage the execution of business continuity management programme for the Land Bank and to ensure that best practice frameworks/ policies are used to safeguard against and/ or ensure recovery from all types of business disruptions and threats. 

Key Performance Areas    

Emergency Response

• Ensure delivery and maintenance of a fit for purpose emergency response capability focusing on effective response to physical disruptive incidents (i.e. safety, security and facilities related incidents)
• Provide guidance in the establishment and enablement of Emergency response team
• Promote and sustain emergency preparedness awareness and culture
• Monitor internal and external environments for potential disruptive incidents and proactively inform stakeholders
• Provide support to business units during invocation
• Coordinate and manage emergency response exercises
• Track and report emergency response capability
• Assess and provide recommendations for emergency management

Business Continuity Management

• Ensure delivery and maintenance of a fit for purpose business continuity capability with regard to business leadership teams responsible for managing financial and reputational impact of disruptive events for Land bank
• Develop and implement BCM framework, policies, plans and standard operating procedures and BCM strategies for the Bank
• Develop and Facilitate business impact assessments (BIAs)
• Developm and facilitate the development and maintenance of BU Business Continuity Plans (BCPs)
• Perform research and benchmarking with other similar organization to ensure best practice
• Identify appropriate service providers
• Coordinate regular testing to enhance recovery capability & resilience
• Measure BCM capability across the organization
• Analysis and reporting on the status of Business Continuity capability, recoverability and resilience
• Monitor and report on IT DR testing and testing of all critical processes in the organization
• Provide pro-active risk mitigation and controls for all gaps identified across the organization based on BIA, Business recovery testing
• Ensure implementation of all action plans as part of operational plans and BCM strategy

Crisis Management

• Ensure delivery and maintenance of a fit for purpose crisis management capability with regard to business leadership teams responsible for managing financial and reputational impact of disruptive events for Land bank
• Develop and maintain the Crisis Communication Plan (CCP)
• Provide guidance in the establishment and enablement of the Crisis Management Teams at business EXCO / strategic leadership
• Promote and sustain crisis management awareness culture
• Monitor execution of all plans and report on them
• Monitor internal and external environments for potential disruptive incidents and proactively inform stakeholders of such incidents
• Provide support to business during an invocation of the crisis management plan
• Coordinate and manage crisis management exercises

Stakeholder relationships

• Participate in the Operational Risk Committee
• Participate in the OHS& Security Committee
• Collaboration with IT
• IT Steerco reporting

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience    

• A relevant Degree/Diploma in Business Management, Risk management 
• 4 years BCM experience organizational wide (inclusive of emergency and crisis management )
• 4 years Knowledge and experience on IT DR
• 2 years Financial services experience

Critical Competencies    

• Microsoft Office
• Business / Financial acumen
• Knowledge of risk management Principles
• Project Management Principles
• Advanced knowledge of Business Continuity Management principles
• Knowledge of DR & IT Governance Principles 

Additional Requirements    

• Travel as and when required
• Extended hours as and when required
• Required to work off site on occasion
• Required to activate the alternate recovery site
• Requires to represent Land Bank at external stakeholder forums
• Requires the authority to propose emergency interventions across business 

Closing Date    

• 2025/10/06

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MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• Carry out quality credit assessment, present bankable solutions and manage the credit risk of a portfolio of clients in the Agri-business value chain in the designated regional Office.
• To manage and perform quality credit analysis; financial analysis, including data collection, trend analysis, peer comparisons and industry overview to ensure good quality credit submissions to Credit Managers and Credit Committees for the allocated portfolio i.e. Commercial and Transformation Credit applications and mitigate any potential risk on behalf of the Land Bank and recommend bankable solutions in accordance with approved Credit Policy, norms and the delegated level of power.
• Responsible for maintain the portfolio including conducting annual credit reviews on existing portfolio, and re-advancing of production loans and revolving loans within assigned DOP and as when required by management.

Key Performance Areas    

Credit Assessment and Risk Management

• Carry out full credit assessments within allocated portfolio through credit submissions, financial analysis, reviews, re-advancing loans, collateral analysis, approval conditions tracking and risk management.
• Check the credit submission for completeness, including accompanying documents in terms of the approved loan guidelines.
• Ensure that all relevant information and documentation has been received from the operations as per the agreed checklist
• Follow up with the Provincial officees to ensure that all supporting documentation is complete
• Ensure that loan applications conform to the set standards, highlight anomalies and suggest corrective measures
• Align products to the purpose of the loan and the Credit Policy to suite customer’s needs
• Co-ordination of PCC and RCC setting up of agenda(s) for application(s) to be heard
• Reporting stats of application(s) processed for allocated region(s)

Stakeholder Relationship Management and Team Support

• Build relationships with all the relevant stakeholders to ensure understanding of requirements and addressing any credit related issues
• Respond to queries received from the Provincial office operations and the relevant Credit Committee
• Promote a culture of credit risk management at Provincial office level.
• Provide guidance and training to operations on credit related matters
• Adhering to legislative requirements
• Pro-actively develop self with regards to other / new products in the Land Bank
• Manage own career and personal developments
• Demonstrate behaviour that is aligned to the Land Bank values
• May be required to represent Credit on projects as assigned by management
• Research, compliance training, maintain stakeholder relationship management and team support

General Administration and Audit Matters

• Ensure that documentation is archived in accordance to the Bank’s policy for record and audit purposes
• Attend to audit findings as and when required within area of responsibility
• Take remedial action on all audit findings and ensure that issues are resolved or addressed
• Ensure recording of all credit committee meetings are loaded on the v-drive
• Ensure feedback is given to all the relevant stakeholders on outcome of the application
• Manage capturing of weekly and monthly stats reports
• From time to time may be requested be secretariat for ECC, which involves co-ordinating ECC meeting and taking minutes in compliance with the prescripts of the charter.
• From time to time we maybe required to assist in the various provincial office and regional. Offices.

Loan Policies and Procedures

• Provide input to policies and procedures and updates and identify opportunities to improve as and when required
• Provide inputs on lending norms and credit criteria to be applied on new products
• Participate in the review of Credit Policies and procedures.
• Ensure that the Provincial officees are informed of changes to policies and/or of credit policies and procedures that have been approved
• Provide guidance to the operations at Provincial office level to ensure consistency and a standardised approach
• Applying credit policies and procedures and input in improving standard and operating processes and procedures.

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience    

• 3 year Tertiary Qualification (Commerce) Majors Accounting; Agri Economics, Credit Management

Do you have 3years Relevant credit assessment experience? 

Thorough knowledge of the

• NCA, CPA, FICA and related credit regulatory requirements
• The primary and secondary agriculture sector finance.  
• Appraisal of credit proposals and deal structure for: assets finance, working capital, back ward and forward integration finance
• Advanced business acumen

Critical Competencies    

• Microsoft Office
• Knowledge of risk management principles
• Knowledge / Experience of compliance systems / tools
• Compliance Management Principles
• Knowledge of Compliance related legislation
• Knowledge of Business
• Law Principles

Additional Requirements    

• Travel  is an integral part of the role
• Extended hours as and when required

Closing Date    

• 2025/10/06