Banking and Financial Services Administration Training Course

Duration 5 days 10 modules · 33 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Banking Operations Officers, Branch and Service Managers and others
Fee from USD 1,100 KSh 95,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 16 Nov 2026 Course code SD-BI-148

Before you join: Participants should have basic workplace experience in banking, insurance, finance, customer service, operations or administrative support.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

Suggest a date or city

Showing the next six months. Later dates, other cities and private deliveries for your team are available on request.

Course overview

Banking and financial services administrators keep customer records, payments, lending files, cash positions, controls and management information accurate while operating under strict prudential and conduct requirements. Weak administration can create unreconciled cash, missed credit conditions, delayed customer service, financial misstatement, fraud exposure and regulatory breaches. The work crosses product teams, operations, finance, risk, compliance and, in many institutions, insurance administration. Staff need to understand not only their own procedures but also the control purpose and downstream consequences of each handoff.

This course examines the operating foundations of retail, commercial and corporate banking, from customer onboarding and payment processing to credit administration, liquidity reporting, operational controls and regulatory compliance. Participants learn to manage account and loan documentation, apply KYC and anti-money-laundering controls, investigate reconciliation breaks, monitor service performance and prepare management information. The course also covers insurance administration, including premium accounting, claims controls, underwriting authorities and reinsurance records. IFRS 9, Basel III, FATF guidance and the Three Lines Model provide practical reference points.

Instruction uses realistic cases based on payment exceptions, overdue loan documentation, suspicious transactions, cash breaks, policy servicing failures and control incidents. Participants work with structured templates and reporting examples rather than theory alone. They leave with a banking administration control pack containing process maps, checklists, reporting formats and an individual application plan for improving an identified process. The course is suited to staff moving into banking operations, financial services administration, credit support, compliance support or insurance operations roles.

What you will be able to do

  • Map banking and insurance service processes from customer onboarding through closure
  • Administer account, payment and loan records using documented control procedures
  • Process credit documentation, collateral records and covenant-monitoring requirements
  • Apply KYC, sanctions-screening and transaction-monitoring control requirements
  • Perform reconciliations, investigate exceptions and maintain suspense-item records
  • Evaluate operational risks using risk-and-control self-assessment and key risk indicators
  • Produce management-information reports covering volumes, balances, arrears and service performance
  • Create a process improvement plan with controls, owners, milestones and evidence

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Handle banking administration tasks with clearer control ownership and escalation judgement
  • Recognise payment, credit and customer-record exceptions before they become material issues
  • Contribute more confidently to reconciliations, audit requests and regulatory reviews
  • Use standard banking risk and compliance terminology when working across departments
  • Build a practical process improvement plan for an assigned administration area

For your organisation

  • Fewer processing errors through stronger maker-checker, reconciliation and exception controls
  • More complete customer and credit files supporting audit and regulatory inspection readiness
  • Earlier identification of suspicious activity, sanctions concerns and documentation gaps
  • Better management reporting on volumes, arrears, service levels and operational losses
  • Improved consistency between banking, finance, risk, compliance and insurance operations teams

Course modules

10 modules over 5 days

Participants can explain how banking services generate income, create risk and require controlled administration.

  • Banking intermediation: deposit gathering, lending, payments and risk transformation
  • Commercial, retail, corporate and investment banking operating-model distinctions
  • Central-bank functions, prudential supervision and deposit-protection arrangements
  • Balance-sheet structure: assets, liabilities, equity, income and contingent exposures
  • Financial-service value chains from acquisition through servicing and closure
  • Banking product economics: interest margin, fees, losses and capital consumption

Participants can administer customer onboarding, account records and payment-service controls.

  • Customer journey mapping from enquiry, onboarding, servicing, complaints and exit
  • KYC customer due diligence: identity, ownership, purpose and risk rating
  • Account opening controls, mandate verification and authorised-signatory maintenance
  • Payment rails: ACH, RTGS, cards, SWIFT and correspondent banking
  • Payment lifecycle controls for initiation, authentication, clearing, settlement and returns
  • Service-level agreements, queue management, escalation rules and first-contact-resolution measurement

Participants can maintain controlled loan administration from application intake through collections.

  • Credit administration workflow from application intake through drawdown and renewal
  • Five Cs of Credit applied to borrower assessment
  • Facility letters, conditions precedent, covenants and security-documentation controls
  • Collateral registers, perfection requirements, valuations and insurance monitoring
  • Loan servicing: interest accruals, repayments, restructures, arrears and collections
  • IFRS 9 staging, expected-credit-loss inputs and impairment governance

Participants can support liquidity reporting, cash-position control and interest-rate risk administration.

  • Liquidity management distinguishes funding needs, cash positions and contingency actions
  • Basel III liquidity coverage ratio and net stable funding ratio
  • Daily cash-position reporting using nostro balances, inflows and outflows
  • Funds-transfer pricing allocates liquidity, interest-rate and funding costs
  • Interest-rate risk measures repricing gaps, duration and earnings sensitivity
  • Contingency funding plans define triggers, escalation and funding sources

Participants can process transactions, reconcile records and resolve operational exceptions systematically.

  • End-to-end transaction processing separates initiation, authorisation, execution and confirmation
  • Four-eyes controls and segregation-of-duties matrices prevent processing errors
  • Reconciliation procedures investigate cash breaks, suspense items and aged exceptions
  • General-ledger posting controls link product subledgers to financial statements
  • Exception-management logs record ownership, root cause, ageing and resolution
  • Operational-loss event capture supports risk reporting and corrective actions

Participants can identify operational risks and document controls for banking administration processes.

  • Three Lines Model assigns management, oversight and assurance responsibilities
  • Risk-and-control self-assessment identifies inherent risk, controls and residual exposure
  • Key risk indicators set thresholds, escalation points and management actions
  • Risk-control matrices connect processes, risks, controls, owners and evidence
  • Operational resilience planning covers critical services, tolerances and recovery
  • Incident reporting distinguishes errors, fraud, system failures and conduct events

Participants can apply core financial crime controls and maintain defensible compliance records.

  • FATF risk-based approach structures customer, product, channel and geography assessments
  • Customer due diligence distinguishes standard, simplified and enhanced review requirements
  • Beneficial-ownership verification addresses legal entities, trusts and complex ownership chains
  • Transaction-monitoring alerts follow investigation, documentation, escalation and disposition procedures
  • Sanctions screening handles names, payments, false positives and escalation
  • Suspicious-activity reporting preserves confidentiality, timeliness and decision records

Participants can administer core insurance records, premiums, claims and underwriting controls.

  • Insurance administration follows quotation, underwriting, policy issuance, servicing and renewal
  • Premium accounting tracks receivables, collections, cancellations, refunds and commissions
  • Claims administration controls notification, coverage verification, reserving, settlement and recovery
  • Underwriting authorities, delegated limits and referral procedures govern acceptance decisions
  • Reinsurance administration records cessions, bordereaux, recoveries and treaty obligations
  • Policyholder complaint handling applies fairness, documentation, escalation and closure standards

Participants can prepare reliable operational and financial information for management review.

  • IFRS financial statements connect banking transactions to profit, capital and cash
  • Interest income recognition uses effective-interest-rate method and amortised cost
  • Fee-income classification distinguishes integral lending fees from service fees
  • Management-information packs combine volumes, balances, margins, arrears and exceptions
  • Variance analysis separates volume, rate, mix, timing and error drivers
  • Data-quality controls test completeness, accuracy, timeliness, validity and lineage

Participants can measure administrative performance and plan controlled process improvements.

  • Service-operating models define channels, ownership, handoffs, controls and performance measures
  • Balanced Scorecard links customer, process, financial and people measures
  • Root-cause analysis uses five whys, fishbone diagrams and corrective actions
  • Continuous-improvement registers prioritise defects, owners, due dates and benefits
  • Conduct-risk indicators track complaints, errors, vulnerable customers and remediation
  • Personal application plans specify process changes, stakeholders, milestones and evidence

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. Banking service process map template
  2. Customer onboarding and KYC checklist
  3. Credit administration control checklist
  4. Reconciliation and exception-management log
  5. Risk-and-control matrix template
  6. Financial services process improvement plan

Who should attend

  • Banking Operations Officers — need consistent control over daily account, payment and transaction processing
  • Branch and Service Managers — oversee customer administration, service standards and escalated exceptions
  • Credit Administrators — manage facility documentation, collateral records and covenant-monitoring activities
  • Finance and Reconciliation Analysts — investigate cash breaks, suspense items and financial reporting differences
  • Compliance and Risk Officers — assess operational controls, KYC files and financial crime escalation records
  • Insurance Operations Staff — administer policies, premiums, claims and delegated underwriting records

Skills and tools covered

Banking operations controlCredit administrationPayment reconciliationFinancial crime complianceInsurance administrationManagement information reporting

Tools and standards

Basel III, IFRS 9, FATF Recommendations, Three Lines Model

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course combines short instructor briefings with banking and insurance case work, guided group analysis, document-review tasks and operational simulations. Participants examine customer files, payment exceptions, credit conditions, reconciliation breaks, risk indicators and claims records using realistic templates. Small-group work focuses on identifying control failures, assigning ownership and selecting escalation actions. Facilitated discussions compare procedures used by different institutions and jurisdictions. The final sessions use application planning to convert course methods into actions for participants' own processes.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have basic workplace experience in banking, insurance, finance, customer service, operations or administrative support. They should be comfortable reading business documents, using spreadsheets for simple calculations and following documented procedures. Familiarity with common banking products, payment terms or customer records is useful but not essential. The course assumes no prior specialist knowledge of Basel III, IFRS 9, FATF requirements, treasury operations or insurance accounting. It is appropriate for staff with some professional experience who need a structured view of financial services administration.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

Participants should have basic professional experience in finance, banking, insurance, operations or customer administration. No specialist knowledge of banking regulation, treasury, IFRS 9 or financial crime compliance is required.

Bring a laptop if available, together with examples of non-confidential procedures, reports or process issues from your workplace. Course materials, templates and case documents are provided.

The course is designed for banking operations staff, credit administrators, finance analysts, service managers, risk and compliance support staff, and insurance operations personnel. It also suits professionals moving into financial services administration from adjacent administrative roles.

This course focuses on the administration and control of financial services processes rather than making lending decisions or designing enterprise risk frameworks. It covers the records, workflows, reconciliations, checks and reports that support safe day-to-day banking and insurance operations.

Participants can use the supplied checklists, risk-and-control matrix and exception log to review an assigned process. The application plan helps them define practical improvements, responsible owners and evidence of completion.

The course provides approximately 32.5 contact hours from 08:30 to 16:30 each day. Ten modules are taught in sequence through briefings, case analysis, group work, simulations and process-improvement planning.

Questions about this course?

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