Job Opportunities at the Concept Group (Lagos, Abuja, Rivers)

The Concept Group is a holding company for companies established in 1992. Subsidiaries under the Group include: Rosabon Financial Services – Nigeria’s Leading Equipment Leasing and Financial Intermediary Company, Concept Nova – Bespoke Enterprise Software Development Company, Percy Aitkins – Bureau De Change.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Software Project Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Understand needs by fully comprehending the project’s objectives, end result, satisfactory time frame, budget and required resources.
• Properly time all the activities for the completion of projects and prepare for any delays in any of the activities.
• Serve as a Liaison and as a source of consistency throughout a project between the Software team and other departments, fielding questions and providing information for everyone involved.
• Effectively communicate insights and plans to cross-functional teams and management members.
• Understand and communicate the financial and operational impact of any changes
• Improve systems by studying current practices, designing modifications and providing solutions to business-related problems with the use of technology
• Research, analyze and Create informative, actionable and repeatable reports that highlights relevant business trends and opportunities for improvement
• Ensure resource allocation, results and follows up with all processes with the aim to do things better, faster, and cheaper whenever possible and without sacrificing quality.
• Assist in training users or writing instruction manuals for applications deployed.
• Leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies.
• Prepare and provide timely status/technical reports to all interested parties by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends.
• Any other tasks as approved and assigned by management and/or line manager.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Plan and define the scope, resource, activity and sequences of all software projects
• Turn the desires of the company into technical requirements that the software development team understands
• Develop schedules, budgets and estimate time and costs.
• Set out the project boundaries and scope for projects, delegate different activities and ensure their timely completion.
• Create and execute the plan of action and ensure that it is properly monitored and enforced along the way.
• Analyze, manage and mitigate risks and issues, monitor and report Progress
• Performs a project review with the software development team to document any lessons learned from the software development processes.
• Oversees software testing, delivery and formal acceptance by the applicable end user.

Qualifications / Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Software Development Management, Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years’ cognitive experience in Software Project Management
• Advanced education, professional certification/membership will be an added advantage
• A background in key programming languages, testing procedures, and the likes
• Good understanding of the role and the requirements
• Exceptional planning, organizational, analytical and conceptual thinking skills.

Job Title: Talent Acquisition & Engagement Strategist

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• The Talent acquisition and engagement Strategist will be responsible for the creation and execution of a comprehensive, multi-faceted recruiting strategy to reach and recruit high talent individuals of different demographics, backgrounds and experiences in support of the Company’s values and commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Support multiple business lines and manage the end-to-end recruitment cycle for select positions.
• Overseeing the Talent Acquisition unit’s procedures, suggesting measures and tactical approaches to improve the organization’s employment life-cycle
• Develop and implement a progressive sourcing strategy to increase diverse talent acquisition and retention.
• Create and drive innovative recruitment methods to build a continuous pipeline to reach passive job seekers and to source difficult to fill positions.
• Recommend ideas and solutions that will contribute to the Company’s diversity and inclusion strategy and overarching business goals and objectives.
• Analyze the recruitment process to identify efficiency and improvement opportunities. Develop performance metrics and provide management reporting.
• Ensure compliance with all banking laws, rules, regulations, prescribed policies, practices and procedures necessary to reduce risk and uphold ethical standards related to and required by one’s duties.
• Develop and implement a progressive sourcing strategy to increase diverse talent acquisition and retention. etc.

Requirements

• A Degree in Human Resources or any other related field.
• Recognized professional qualification (e.g. CIPM, PHRi, SPHRi)
• At least 6 years post qualification experience with cognitive experience in Talent Acquisition and Engagement.
• Excellent strategy and analytical skills
• Good communication skills
• Hands-on mentality, results-driven and team player
• High level of personal integrity
• Ability to work with minimum supervision and function in a multicultural and multidisciplinary environment
• Excellent computer skills, including in-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office.

Job Title: Human Resources Business Partner

Location: Lagos

Job Overview

• The Senior Human Resources Strategist is responsible for human capital strategies and consulting services within the group.
• His or her tasks includes identifying, designing, and implementing long term solutions for desired strategic outcomes in areas such as talent management, human capital effectiveness, culture and engagement, performance management, leadership development, change management, organizational design, and talent retention.

Accountabilities

• Overseeing the HR strategy unit’s procedures, suggesting measures and tactical approaches to improve the organization’s employment life-cycle (e.g. recruitment, on-boarding, career growth, capacity planning, succession planning, competency modeling, talent balancing/mapping, occupational gap assessment and workforce realignment)
• Diagnosing and forecasting potential organizational problem areas.
• Applying appropriate human capital analytics and using data to drive Human Capital decision-making processes.
• Defining strategic goals and objectives and providing guidance to ensure alignment of the human capital plans with the organization’s mission.
• Determining best practices derived from human capital benchmark studies.
• Designing change management and human capital development programs and implementing strategic planning initiatives to achieve business growth and expansion requirements.
• Analyzing or developing competency models and determining career ladders.
• Forecasting hiring costs by the department and helping to create budgets.

Skills, Competencies, Qualifications, Education & Experience

• Displays a high level of technical knowledge of HR principles, practices, and functions to deliver highly effective results.
• Displays a leadership focus that connects Concept Group’s core values with personal integrity, and business accountability.
• Directs and contributes to system initiatives, and processes.
• Displays strong communication skills, and abilities which allow for the exchange of information with key leaders, HR colleagues, employee groups, as well as internal and external business stakeholders.
• Displays ability to quickly establish relationships and demonstrate strong collaboration within a matrix environment.
• Minimum of 6 years progressive Human Resources experience.

Job Title: Senior Deposit Mobilization Officer

Locations: Abuja, Rivers

Key Objectives / Duties

• Source appropriately priced and structured deposit liabilities for the company from retail and institutional sources.
• Cultivate new clientele on an on-going basis.
• Meet assigned sales targets and quota
• Cultivate and maintain courteous and efficient relationship with clients.
• Timely response to feedback and other customer related issues or requests.
• Participate in creating new and better marketing based on field experience.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Management, Finance or any related field
• Knowledge of capital markets, accounting, finance and tax
• At least, 6 years of experience in a bank or a financial / treasury sector as a liability generation officer
• Presentation and Negotiation skills
• Strong Verbal and written communication skills.

Job Title: Head of Treasury (Deposit Mobilization)

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• The Head of treasury oversees and ensures proper and adequate inflow of liabilities in the company.

He / she among other things will:

• Source appropriately priced and structured deposit liabilities for the company from retail and institutional sources.
• Cultivate new clientele on a regular basis.
• Cultivate and maintain courteous and efficient relationship with clients.
• Timely response to feedback and other customer related issues or requests.
• Participate in creating new and better marketing based on field experience.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business Management, Finance or any related field
• MBA or professional certification in business, management, or finance would be an added advantage
• Knowledge of capital markets, Sales, marketing and finance
• Knowledge of MS Office suite, especially Excel
• 7-10 years of experience in a bank or a financial sector as a deposit mobilization lead.
• Leadership, managerial and Supervisory skills
• Presentation and Negotiation skills
• Strategic planning and Analytical skills
• Verbal and written communication skills.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: careers@conceptgroup-ng.com using the position as subject of the email.