United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) is one of Africa’s leading financial institutions, with operations in 19 African countries and 3 global financial centres: London, Paris and New York. From a single country organisation founded in 1949 in Nigeria UBA has grown to become a pan-African provider of financial services with over 11 million customers, through close to 1000 business offices and touch points globally.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Team Lead, Investor Relations

Location: Nigeria

Job Description

• Participate in the formulation of UBA’s investor relations policies, objectives & initiatives.
• Participate in the bank’s drive to attract more investments from identified target groups.
• Contribute to the development of an active relationship with existing and potential investors and external investment analysis (both buy and sell side).
• Manage reporting calendar, including road shows, meetings, results announcements and conference calls.
• Organize meetings with independent shareholder associations in preparation for annual general meetings (AGM).
• Monitor Nigerian and international press for accuracy of reporting IR issues & internal dissemination as appropriate.
• Responsible for ensuring the timely production of quality annual reports and other internal reports (including monthly departmental reports, quarterly board report, company fact sheet etc.).
• Liaise with UBA Registrars to ensure needs of retail shareholders are being effectively dealt with.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of investor relations materials to existing and potential investors.
• Act as resource within UBA to help guide effective public disclosure consistent with regulatory and best practice guidelines.
• Assist Head, Strategy & Performance Management in shareholder targeting and analysis.
• Work on influencing sell-side coverage towards ensuring more followers and more publishing from followers.
• Maintain an accurate and updated database of analysts, institutional investors and other contact that are critical to IR’s core function.
• Prepare ad hoc press releases as appropriate.
• Perform other tasks as assigned by Head, Strategy & Performance Management.

Educational Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree in any financial related discipline, preferably also have completed CFA, similar financial markets qualification
• 8 – 10 years experience.

Knowledge Required:

• Financial markets.
• Accounting & Corporate Finance.
• Financial Institutions Regulations.
• Relationship Management.
• Public Relations.

Skills Required:

• Leadership /Supervisory.
• Organization & Coordination.
• Negotiation.
• Accounting.
• Interpersonal Skills.
• Communication (oral & written) especially with external audiences.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.