Clerk tellers at Twiga Bancorp Limited (TBCL)

Position Description:
Twiga Bancorp Limited (TBCL) is a fast growing Non-Bank Financial Institution established under the Banking and Financial Institution Act (1991) to carry out all banking business with the exception of taking deposit on Current Accounts. The Institution has five Branches, two in Dar es Salaam and one each Arusha, Dodoma and Mwanza, and sub -Branch at the Julius Nyerere International Air port and Nyerere Memorial Academy Kigamboni, Dar es Salaam. The Institution is expected to better meet the requirements of its customers and the public in general.
Twiga Bancorp Limited wishes to recruit qualified applicants to fill the following posts:
Appointing Authority:Chief Executive Officer
Responsible To:Assigned Officer
Salary Scale:TBSS. 5
Entry Qualifications:    
*Holders of Degree in Banking, Finance Management, Economics, Accountancy or its equivalent from a recognized Institution.
Duties and Responsibilities:
*Sorting, collecting and posting of vouchers. Recording incoming and out-going mails. Working out simple calculations and checking.
*Stamping and machine listing of vouchers and other documents. Attending customers over the counter very politely and quickly. Carrying out telling duties under close supervision of assigned officer. Preparing simple returns, summaries and maintaining registers. Doing simple reconciliation work.
*Collecting, scrutinizing and arranging vouchers. Posting ledgers
*Posting of statements
*Verification of signatures and scrutinizing vouchers for posting to different ledgers. Posting of Profit and Loss Accounts, Bills payable accounts, Cables and Telegrams. To maintain and improve Banker / Customer relations.
*Performs telling duties such as:-
*Receiving deposits which may consist of cash, cheques, postal and money orders,
*Counting cash deposited and ensures that it is correctly entered on the deposit slips.
*Scrutinizing cheques and postal and money orders deposited in order to ensure that the customer has a title to the instrument.
*Receiving and registering Foreign Bills, Payment Procedures and notification to customer's drawer banks .. Carrying out the duties of establishing Letter of Credits guarantees and indemnities and security bonds.
*Be conversant with recent exchange control regulations in connection with Import / Export Business.
*Handling purchase of Foreign Currencies, cheques, drafts and Travelers' cheques from customers at the applicable buying rate.
*Accepting Tanzania shillings for the sale of Foreign in the form of Mail Transfers, Telegraphic Transfer and Drafts.
*Buying sufficient stock of Foreign Currency notes and coins to meet normal requirements. Keeping sufficient stock of Foreign Currency notes and coins to meet normal requirements. Undertaking internal transfer of cash form.
*Preparing of final statement of the total receipts and payments of cash by the branch.
*Carrying out calculations intended to arrive at the overall cash position of the branch and arranging to keep just sufficient cash in the branch to meet normal requirements.
*Performs any other duties as may be assigned by supervisor
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Application Instructions:
Remuneration
Attractive remuneration package will be offered to the successful candidate.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted for interview
Applications should be addressed to:
The Chief Executive Officer,
Twiga Bancorp Limited,
P.O.Box 10119
Dar es Salaam
To reach him not later than two weeks after first publication of the advert.
Deadline:24th October 2013
Source:Daily News 10th October,2013
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