Managing Director at Gabsyn Peyzs

Job Description

• Setting the overall strategic direction of the company alongside the board.
• Plans and implements the long-term business strategy of the bank to achieve its overall objectives.
• Devising a 5-year plan and working with other board members to oversee its implementation.
• Working closely with the Sales team on sales strategy and approach to winning new business.
• Carrying out regular business analysis to engage industry and market changes.
• Setting company-wide KPI’s to gauge company performance in all areas.
• Prepare a corporate plan and annual business plan and monitor progress against these plans to ensure that the company attains its objectives as cost-effectively and efficiently as possible.
• Maintaining a dialogue between shareholders and the Board.
• Develop and maintain an effective marketing and public relations strategy to promote the products, services and image of the bank in the wider community.
• Setting of budgets and forecasts alongside the finance department.
• Reporting results to the Board on a quarterly and annual basis.

Qualifications

• A degree in Social Sciences or any other related field. Professional qualification will be an added advantage.
• Must have undergone the Microfinance Certification Programme and obtained a Certificate in Microfinance Banking issued by the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).

Competency and Skill Requirements:

• 12+ years of work experience in financial services.
• A proven record of success in senior management level, preferably in the microfinance banking industry
• A wide knowledge of the microfinance banking industry.
• An understanding of financial management and wider management principles and techniques.
• Analytical and presentational skills.
• Knowledge of statutory requirements.
• A very high level of commercial awareness.
• Leadership skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.