Job Vacancies at GVA Partners

JOB DISCRIPTION

• Maintain an accurate and detailed calendar for CEO, manage and log incoming scheduling requests, re-schedule meetings upon request, proactively communicate changes, and anticipate and respond to scheduling conflicts
• Track CEO’s tasks and projects to ensure appropriate prioritization of projects with respect to deadlines and organizational developments
• Organize internal and external meeting for CEO, including logistical and substantive preparation
• Manage all travel scheduling and arrangements
• Track and reconcile monthly credit card statements and complete and submit expense reports in a timely manner
• Provide special project leadership and support as needed.
• Conduct preliminary research on a variety of topics; draft materials as needed
• Perform any other relevant duties as assigned

REQUIREMENTS

• Three or more years of experience post NYSC  in providing high-level administrative support to executives.
• Detail oriented, organized with proven ability to successfully multi-task
• Positive, tenacious attitude
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and preference for collaboration with proven success working with others; ability to work with high profile individuals externally, as well as collaborate internally
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and sometime unpredictable environment; works well under pressure and tight deadlines
• Ability to consistently apply good judgment and make good decisions.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and discretion at all times
• Proven analytical and problem solving abilities
• Organized with a proven ability to juggle multiple projects at once
• Experience managing complex event logistics
• Experience with domestic and international business travel arrangements, coordinating meetings and tracking credit card and other expenses
• Proficient in MS Office, Excel and PowerPoint

Qualified and interested candidates who are ready to start immediately should forward their resumes to contact@gvapartners.com and busayoo@gvapartners.com for review. Kindly use job role as subject of the email.

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Job Description
The right candidate will have:

Technical Skills:

• Detail oriented, good with numbers and competitive, the right candidate will have some experience with financial modeling and valuation, and will be good with presentation generation and analysis.
• This person will have advanced accounting skills and financial statement analysis abilities, and would have professional experience either with an investment bank or an accounting firm where they have formally learned how to evaluate financial information and how to present it.
• The right candidate will be an expert in Microsoft Excel, Word and Powerpoint, and will be teachable, and a quick learner.
• Communication to others will be a key part of this role, which requires collaboration and the ability to work in a team.

Independence:

• We are a flat organization, and we want someone who is able to report to very senior people and work thoroughly with minimal supervision.
• We are prepared to compensate generously, and we will expect to examine candidates to verify their skills.

Qualifications

• 1st Class or 2nd Class Degree
• 1 -­ 3 years of professional experience in finance, accounting or banking.

Compensation

• Competitive cash compensation

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV in MS Word format to: contact@gvapartners.com , titlayoe@gvapartners.com , patiencee@gvapartners.com and busayoo@gvapartners.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

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Job Roles

• Create intuitive front-end user experience for various web applications
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, the development team and Scrum Master to develop, design, build and launch the product

Functions & Responsibilities

• Assign Responsibilities and tasks to staff.
• Oversee the technologies, tools and techniques used within the team.
• Ensure that development standards, policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Drive change to implement efficient and effective strategies as advised by management.
• Requirement analysis – carries our analysis of competitive products, user needs etc.
• Interface, prototype and interaction design
• User testing – beauty of the interface and the feasibility of the product by the user
• Leads the user experience and interface efforts for the team, ensuring the delivery of a high-quality product for end users
• Creates mock-ups and wireframes for both mobile and web pages that the front-end or full stack developer can translate into code
• Produces high quality graphics, visual styles and visual elements in accordance to design guidelines
• Creates prototypes that showcase the user flow and interactions
• Conducts user experience research and testing through media such as A/B testing, interviews, etc.
• Designs and delivers elegant and delightful product experiences as part of a cross-functional agile product teams
• Actively collaborates with business / Brand stakeholders throughout the design and development process
• Researches, identifies and articulates customer needs
• Clearly articulates design needs and key decisions to business stakeholders across markets and brands collaborating closely with Product Leads and Product Owners
• Builds prototypes and designs tests to validate customer needs, requirements and behaviors
• Helps Product Leads and Product Owners define both long and short-term vision and roadmap for digital products at client digital unit
• Collaborates with other designers within and cross-team to problem solve design challenges and maintain a level of design consistency and coherence across products.
• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness).
• Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback.

Key Performance Indicators

• Task success rate
• Active time - amount of time spent to complete the project
• Lead time - amount of time from inception to delivery
• System usability scale
• Product Interface Design and user experience
• Overall satisfaction of the project owner

Skills / Competence Requirements
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree with 3 - 5 years work experience.
• Knowledge of Scrum/Agile or Kanban software development processes
• Ability to design clear and creative wireframes to guide team
• Graphical and visual design skills, including use of a diverse set of software
• Experience with planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing and rapid prototyping
• Solid knowledge and experience with agile software development
• Experience as a developer is a plus
• Strong communication skills with ability to articulate and optimize design based on the value to the user and the business
• Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications
• Comfortable working with quick turnaround times and deadlines
• Strong sense of ownership of solution and not afraid to speak up to ensure the user angle is heard by the product owner
• Open to learning new ideas outside scope or knowledge skillset to span across UI design, strategy and testing
• Passionate about resolving user pain points through great design
• Experience with designing quality consumer products, as well as enabling business capability and objectives through technology
• Entrepreneurial self-starter who is self-motivated, but also a team player with a professional presence
• Well-rounded, user-centered design portfolio that spans some combination of web, mobile, tablet, TV, and wearables.
• Graphical and Visual design skills, including use of a diverse set of software such as Adobe suite, OmniGraffle, Balsamiq, Azure, or other tools for graphic design, visual design
• Experience with conducting user research, usability testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping
• Sees value in iterative approach to design.

Interested and qualified candidates should forward their Resume in MS Word format to: contact@gvaparttners.com , titilayoe@gvapartners.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.