Career Opportunities at Wema Bank

Job Summary

• Responsible for managing the Bank’s training programmes and initiatives ensuring that staff are equipped with the right competencies and skills required to maximize returns on Bank’s investment and for optimal productivity.

Job Description
Learning & Development

• Manage the process of identifying training needs and competency gaps to help organize necessary trainings to fill the gaps
• Plan, develop, design, and conduct training programs for staff in line with budget limits and bank’s strategy
• Monitor the implementation of training programs and initiatives to ensure effectiveness
• Evaluate the impact of training on staff performance to measure training effectiveness
• Supervise  and lead reporting line officers
• Participate in committee meetings and project assignments
• Provide coaching for staffs of the unit for career development and better job proficiency
• Managing and monitoring the team of Recruiters and also providing assistance to them
• Researching and recommending latest sourcing tools and recruiting software (e.g. ATS)
• Participating in the strategic planning of the Bank regarding employee engagement and development
• Overseeing and improving the overall learning experience

HR Strategy:

• Lead for implementing and overseeing an efficient, quality driven learning strategy with consistent, transparent, and cost-effective processes.
• Manage the bank’s overall learning & development strategy and contribute to long term financial and work force objectives.
• Develops innovative learning & development strategies and procedures and ensures that there is a consistent and positive learning experience, which increases the prospects of development and retention of talent for the business.
• Delivers analytical reports on the results, impacts, and cost-effectiveness of the current learning & development strategies and uses this information to identify trends and adjust the learning strategies in order to optimize the impact of the learning & development team.

People management:

• Monitor, coach and guide the Learning & Development team.
• Ensures the effective selection of staff by matching the skills and competencies to the requirements of the job.
• Builds organizational capabilities through evaluating likely future requirements and ensuring that individuals are provided with the best possible development opportunities in line with these.
• Effectively delegates authority and responsibility, in line with business objectives, to ensure the empowerment, motivation and effectiveness of all direct and indirect reports.
• Promotes a culture where the values of the Bank are seen to be ‘alive'

Requirements
Qualification:

• B.Sc / M.Sc in Human Resources or relevant field

List of specialized knowledge, skills and abilities required for effective performance on the job.

• Ability to lead continuous organisational change and development.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present clear, well-structured reports and briefs.
• The ability to build good relationships and partnerships with key influencers across the organisation.
• The ability to make logical, well-balanced and reasoned decisions.
• Able to proactively develop team dynamics and performance, ensuring quality standards are consistently achieved.
• A commitment to people development and the organisational values and behaviours that underpins the culture and value of the Bank.
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to deliver projects to plan, and cost and quality.
• Emotional resilience.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Energy, enthusiasm and confidence

Work Experience:

• A minimum of 10 years in core HR experience or in a similar role

Professional Qualification:

• CIPM or SPHR is a plus

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Job Summary

• Responsible for implementing visual elements that users see and interact with in mobile applications across platforms in the organization.
• Responsible for translating software requirements into workable programming code. In addition, they maintain and develop programs for use in business.
• Responsible for translating prototypes into working applications, indicate program unit structure, and coordinate application plans with the development team

Job Description

• Translate UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application
• Create new user-facing features
• Design and code functional programs and applications
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Consume internally and externally built APIs from backend services.
• Collaborate with Product Designers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers to deliver compelling user-facing products
• Builds reusable code and libraries for future use
• Demonstrate hands on of algorithm complexities
• Contributes to and improves the software development process.
• Maintain historical records by documenting program development and revisions.
• Prioritize and manage multiple projects within design specifications, timelines, and budget restrictions.
• Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle
• Focus on coding and debugging
• Develop functional and sustainable Mobile applications with clean codes
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Participates in component and data architecture design, software product evaluation and buy vs. build recommendations for moderate to high complexity solutions.
• Assists in the development of user guides and training documentation for systems.

Job Experience

• Education: Minimum of B.Sc. / HND in Computer science, Computer Engineering, or any other physical sciences. Additional related qualification will be an added Advantage

Specialized Knowledge:

• Experience in Swift/ Objective C is essential.
• Experience with C#, Xamarin android/IOS and UI tests.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling
• Understanding cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Understand access control and security compliance
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Mathematical aptitude
• Problem-solving skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Teamwork skills.

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Job Summary

• Ensure that an equitable, robust, and competitive reward systems that can attract the best talents into the Bank is put in place hence supporting performance and improvement through the workforce
• Manage the unit that is responsible to provide employee engagement, communication and involvement and provide Employee Reps Relations management to ensure industrial harmony and a positive culture

Job Description
Total Rewards Management

• Design, review and implement of total rewards policies/strategy for the bank
• Ensure that the so designed policy/strategy is motivating enough to propel staff to higher performance
• Conduct of total rewards survey of bench marked banks periodically to ensure that ours does not fall below the industry average
• Process of all staff welfare loan schemes and ensure that the department never exceeds the approved limit
• Supervise the Pension and Exit Processing sub-unit and processing of severance benefits
• Prompt processing of Pensioners’ payroll every month

Employee Experience Management

• Ensure a Bank wide industrial harmony i.e., Zero industrial strikes by maintaining good relations between employees and management
• Provide management to all employee relations representatives and change agents bank wide to ensure congruence with goals and objectives of the Bank
• Manage the unit that is responsible to provide employee engagement, communication and involvement and provide Employee Reps Relations management to ensure industrial harmony and a positive culture.

HR Strategy:

• Lead for implementing and overseeing an efficient, quality driven total rewards and employee experience strategies with a consistent, transparent, and cost-effective processes.
• Manage the bank’s overall total rewards & employee experience strategy and contribute to long term financial and work force objectives.
• Develops innovative total rewards & employee experience strategies and procedures and ensures that there is a consistent and positive employee experience, which increases the prospects of acquisition and retention of talent for the business.
• Delivers analytical reports on the results, impacts, and cost-effectiveness of the current total rewards & employee experience strategies and uses this information to identify trends and adjust the reward and employee experience strategies to optimize the impact of the team.

People management:

• Monitor, coach and guide the Total Rewards & Employee Experience team.
• Effectively delegates authority and responsibility, in line with business objectives, to ensure the empowerment, motivation and effectiveness of all direct and indirect reports.
• Promotes a culture where the values of the Bank are seen to be ‘alive’

Requirements

• Qualification: BSc / MSc in Human Resources or relevant field
• Professional Qualification: CIPM or SPHR is a plus
• Work Experience: 8-12 years in core HR experience or in a similar role
• Ability to lead continuous organisational change and development.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present clear, well-structured reports and briefs.
• The ability to build good relationships and partnerships with key influencers across the organisation.
• The ability to make logical, well-balanced and reasoned decisions.
• Able to proactively develop team dynamics and performance, ensuring quality standards are consistently achieved.
• A commitment to people development and the organisational values and behaviours that underpins the culture and value of the Bank.
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to deliver projects to plan, and cost and quality.
• Emotional resilience.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.