Latest Vacancies in a Financial Services Company – KPMG Nigeria

KPMG Nigeria – Our client is a Financial Services company based in Nigeria who prides itself in providing excellent services to its clients.

In line with its desire to ensure that strategic roles are filled by best-in-class talent with the requisite experience and desired attributes, our client seeks to recruit an experienced and motivated individual to fill the role of:

Job Title: Head, IT Quality Assurance

Ref #: abx1
Location: Lagos

Detailed Job Description

• This role will ensure effectiveness of people, process and technology in the company’s technological domain. Plan, Organize and manage personnel issues to ensure stable operations with the IT department.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive for standardization and best practice in the department
• Proactively manage statutory and fiduciary requirements of regulatory bodies as it applies to the use of Information systems
• Provide an added value internal quality function to monitor compliance with, advice staff on, and promote adherence to the IT policies/procedures
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and help drive through the appropriate changes (improved quality, reduced costs)
• Manage IT human resources especially recruitment
• Provide practical advice and support to the department in preparation for external audits to ensure successful certification and minimal audit actions
• Ensure information systems logical and physical security
• Instill ITIL Process Management in the department
• IT processes documentation, organization and relationships
• Manage the IT investment especially budgetary allocation
• Communicate management aims and direction to IT staff
• Manage SLAs
• Manage IT operational risks
• Monitor and evaluate IT performance
• IT Steering Committee Management.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• The ideal candidate should possess a University degree in Computer Science or any Engineering course with certifications in CISA/CISM/PMP/ITIL.
• Should possess a minimum of 2 years in IT process management and auditing.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Head, Information Technology Officer

Ref #: abx2
Location: Lagos

Detailed Job Description

• This role will provide vision and leadership for developing and implementing information technology initiatives.
• Will direct the planning and implementing of enterprise IT systems in support of the business operations in order to improve cost effectiveness, service quality and business development.

Key Responsibilities
Strategy & Planning:

• Participate in strategic and operational governance processes of the company as a member of the senior management team
• Lead IT strategic and operational planning to achieve business goals by fostering innovation, prioritizing IT initiatives, and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future IT systems
• Develop and maintain an appropriate IT organizational structure that supports the needs of the business
• Establish IT departmental goals, objectives and operating procedures
• Identify opportunities for appropriate and cost-effective investment in IT systems and resources, including staffing, sourcing, purchasing, and in-house development
• Develop, track, and control the information technology annual operating and capital budgets
• Develop business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for IT spending and initiatives
• Direct development and execution of an enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plan
• Assess and make recommendations on the improvement or re-engineering of the IT organization.

Acquisition & Deployment:

• Coordinate and facilitate consultation with stakeholders to define business and systems requirements for new technology implementations
• Approve, prioritize, and control projects and the projects portfolio as they relate to the selection, acquisition, development, and installation of major information systems
• Oversee hardware & software acquisition and contracts management
• Define and communicate corporate plans, policies, and standards of the organization for acquiring, implementing, and operating IT systems.

Operational Management:

• Ensure continuous delivery of IT services through oversight of service level agreements with end users and monitoring of IT systems performance
• Ensure IT systems operation adheres to applicable laws and regulations
• Establish lines of control for current and proposed information systems
• Keep abreast with trends and issues in the IT industry, including contemporary technologies and implications for our business
• Promote and oversee strategic relationships between internal IT resources and external entities, including government, vendors, and partner organizations
• Supervise recruitment, development, retention, and organization of all IT staff in accordance with corporate objectives and personnel policies.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• The ideal candidate should possess a university degree in Computer Science or any engineering course with certifications in CISA/CISM/PMP/ITIL.
• Should possess a minimum of 3 years in IT process management and auditing.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online