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Central Cash/Clearing officer
Operations
Job Description Apply now Requisition Number: 59947 Job Location: Kampala, UGA Global Grade: Band 9 Work Type: Office Working Employment Type: Permanent Posting Start Date: 06/08/2026 Posting End Date: 13/08/2026 Job Description:Job Summary
The role holder will support the delivery of efficient, controlled and client-focused Clearing, Central Cash, Posting and Validation services for Uganda, while helping to uphold service quality, operational risk standards, regulatory requirements and the Bank’s values.Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate and support Clearing, Central Cash, Posting and Validation operations for the Bank.
- Process, validate, reconcile and monitor clearing transactions, customer cheques, electronic funds transfers and internal entries in line with Bank procedures and regulatory requirements.
- Support timely settlement of inward and outward clearing transactions, daily account reconciliations and review of exceptions or irregular cases.
- Contribute to process improvement, automation initiatives, service delivery and cost efficiency across Clearing and Posting and Validation activities.
- Identify, escalate and help resolve operational risk, conduct and compliance matters affecting the unit.
- Support stakeholder engagement with internal teams, auditors, regulators and banks represented in the clearing house.
- For manager-level opportunities, provide day-to-day leadership, oversight, team development and performance monitoring within the unit.
Skills and Experience
- Experience in banking operations, preferably within clearing, cash operations, posting, validation, reconciliation or transaction processing.
- Strong understanding of banking products, customer mandates, operational procedures and service standards.
- Good working knowledge of operational risk, governance, controls, compliance and regulatory expectations.
- Ability to manage priorities, resolve exceptions, support process improvements and deliver within agreed service levels.
- Strong interpersonal, collaboration and customer service skills.
- For manager-level opportunities, leadership experience with the ability to guide, motivate, train and develop team members.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- Professional qualifications in Banking, Risk Management, Accounting, Finance or Operations Management (e.g ACIB, Chartered Banker, ACCA, CPA, CIA or equivalent) are an added advantage.
- Experience in clearing operations, payments, cash management, reconciliation and banking operations is desirable.
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.
Together we:
- Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
- Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
- Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
What we offer
In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
- Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
- Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
- Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
- Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
- A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
- Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.