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Role Overview:  

• As the Senior Director of Sales, you will be pivotal in driving sales across Africa for your assigned sector. Your primary responsibility is to fully own the sector, crafting and executing a strategic sales plan in collaboration with the relevant SVP/BU Heads to expand our market presence and drive revenue growth. This role requires a deep understanding of the sector, along with strong commercial acumen to navigate the complexities of technology sales in the African market.

What you'll do:

Sector Ownership: 

• Assume complete responsibility for one of the specified sectors, overseeing and driving sales and commercial growth across the African continent.

Strategic Sales Growth: 

• Develop and execute effective sales strategies tailored to the specific sector, ensuring alignment with the company's overall objectives.

Gross Profit Management: 

• Own the Gross Profit metrics for the sector, including revenue, costs, collections, and general financial oversight.

Pricing Strategy Expertise: 

• Have a robust grasp of pricing mechanics and strategies and guide and advise the pricing strategy for maximum value for the respective sector.

Market trends: 

• Analyze market, competitor landscape & customer trends, understand where the specific sector is headed, understand key customer focus areas and plan the sales strategy and sales execution for the sector. 

Regulatory Expertise: 

• Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of regulatory environments in various African markets, ensuring compliance and effective risk management.

Collaboration with Product and Tech Teams: 

• Work closely with product and technology teams to address and adapt to customer needs and technology landscapes specific to the sector.

Team Management: 

• Lead and support a team of sales professionals and customer success specialists to achieve sector-specific goals.

Customer Success Advocacy: 

• Ensure successful implementation of solutions and provide ongoing support to maintain high levels of customer satisfaction.

RFP Participation and Proficiency: 

• Expertise in handling the Request for Proposal (RFP) process, demonstrating the ability to manage and execute complex technology sales. 

Large Account Management: 

• Proven track record in managing large accounts, with a focus on building and maintaining strong client relationships.

Reporting: 

• Co-create in collaboration with the BU Head and own KPIs and dashboards to track daily, weekly and monthly progress for each of the existing accounts as well as accounts in the pipeline

What we're looking for: 

• Minimum of 9+ years of relevant experience, including people management responsibility and a proven track record in large account management.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Marketing, Economics, or a related field is required.
• A postgraduate qualification (MBA or equivalent) is an added advantage.
• Deep understanding of the assigned sector, with a strong commercial and market-driven orientation.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior-level decision-makers and economic buyers within global organizations.
• Proven history of effective large account management; existing relationships within the sector are a strong advantage.
• Strong understanding of key business metrics, including Revenue, Gross Profit, Return on Investment (ROI), and Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC).

Key Skills & Competencies:

• Fiercely commercial and results-driven.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and adaptability.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Strong strategic planning and organisational skills.
• Pre-existing relationships in the sector are highly advantageous.
• Adaptability to rapidly changing environments and challenges.

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Role Overview: 

• We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Information Security Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) to join our team as a senior individual contributor. This role is responsible for driving the organization's information security, privacy, cyber risk management, and business continuity standards in alignment with global best practices and regulatory requirements.
• The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience within BFSI (Banking, Financial Services & Insurance) environments and have strong technical understanding of information security frameworks, cybersecurity regulatory compliance, business continuity management, and data privacy obligations.

What You’ll Do: 

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Develop, maintain, and enhance the Information Security Management System (ISMS) based on ISO 27001/27002 or equivalent standards.
• Conduct enterprise-wide information security risk assessments, risk treatment planning, and continuous control monitoring.
• Maintain policy frameworks, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Ensure timely closure of information security findings across the business
• Manage compliance with industry regulations and BFSI-specific frameworks (e.g., PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27017/18, ISO 27032, local data protection acts).
• Track and report security posture, cyber risk exposure, key metrics, and compliance maturity to leadership.

Business Continuity & Resilience

• Own and evolve the Cellulant’s Business Continuity Management System (BCMS).
• Lead the development, review, and testing of BCPs, DR plans, and crisis management procedures.
• Conduct Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) and risk assessments across critical business functions.
• Coordinate and lead resilience exercises, tabletop simulations, and post-incident reviews.
• Ensure alignment with ISO 22301 and BFSI resilience expectations.

Privacy & Data Protection

• Support implementation of privacy-by-design and privacy-by-default controls.
• Monitor compliance with relevant data protection and privacy laws (e.g., GDPR, regional data protection regulations).
• Work closely with Legal & Compliance, Product, Engineering and HR teams to ensure personal data handling aligns with regulatory expectations and internal privacy policies.
• Conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) and privacy risk assessments.

Third-Party Risk & Vendor Security Assessments

• Lead the end-to-end Third-Party Security Assessment process for new and existing vendors.
• Assess third-party controls using industry frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST CSF, SOC 2, PCI DSS).
• Review vendor security questionnaires, external audit reports, penetration test summaries, and data protection agreements.
• Evaluate cloud, SaaS, managed services, and critical suppliers for compliance with BFSI security and privacy requirements.
• Work with procurement/supply chain, legal, and business owners to ensure appropriate contractual security, data privacy/protection, business continuity clauses and risk mitigation measures are in place.
• Maintain and track third-party risks, findings, and remediation activities.
• Support periodic reassessments and ongoing monitoring for high-risk suppliers.

Security Awareness & Advisory

• Provide expert GRC advisory support to cross-functional teams including IT, engineering, operations, legal, compliance and product.
• Design and promote security and privacy awareness programs.
• Support third-party risk assessments and vendor due diligence activities.
• Act as an internal advocate for strong security, privacy, and resilience practices.

What We’re Looking For

• 5–8+ years of experience in Information Security, GRC, audit, privacy, or risk management roles.
• Proven experience working in or supporting the BFSI sector, with strong understanding of industry regulatory, privacy, and security obligations.
• Business Continuity Management hands-on experience, including running BIAs, maintaining BC/DR plans, and coordinating DR/BC exercises.
• Deep familiarity with frameworks and standards such as: ISO 27001/27002, NIST CSF, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 and ISO 22301.
• GDPR (EU), NDPA (Nigeria) and other global/regional data privacy laws
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles (AWS).
• Demonstrated experience producing documentation, process improvements, risk reports, and audit deliverables.
• Experience working cross-functionally with technical and non-technical teams.

Preferred Certifications

One or more of the following (or equivalent):

• Information Security: CISSP, CISM, SSCP, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer/Auditor
• Business Continuity: CBCP, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer/Auditor
• Privacy: CIPP/E, CIPM, CDPSE, ISO 27701 Lead Implementer/Auditor, certified DPO
• Risk & Compliance: CRISC, CGEIT.

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical and risk-based decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication skills, including ability to influence at all levels.
• High ownership, independence, and ability to operate as a senior individual contributor.
• Strong documentation, organization, and stakeholder management capability.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives and work effectively under pressure.

Added Advantage

• Strong technical background and understanding of secure software development practices
• Strong understanding of microservice architecture
• Technical skills e.g. software development, scripting, automation, AI in SecOps etc.

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Role Overview: 

• As a Senior Software Engineer, you work in a team that owns the design, development, and operations for mission-critical applications of the payments business. You are responsible for developing backend applications using best practices. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Delivering complete features and maintaining existing ones. 
• Design and implement scalable distributed systems using Kubernetes, Docker, and other tools in the Cloud Native landscape.
• Build configuration and deployment assets required to deploy and run the distributed applications. 
• Work with the frontend and API engineers to define RESTFul API Specifications. 
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable microservices and components.
• Participating in Sprint planning and tracking work items
• Work well with technical and non-technical people to deliver high-value results
• Ensure that all written code and architecture is high quality, scalable, and performant
• Take initiative in refactoring and keep things simple
• Take full ownership of a feature set, from the first discussion to going live.
• Using test-driven development to write well-tested code.
• Fixing bugs fast and taking your time to solve hard problems well.
• Prototyping new ideas to help with initial feature definition.
• Participating in architecture and code reviews.
• Ability to communicate with team members and stakeholders - especially in writing.

Educational Requirements, Skills, and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of industry experience building and operating large-scale, highly available distributed systems.
• 7y+ Experience with Java on large-scale projects.
• Strong knowledge of building cloud-native applications using Java and Springboot. 
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Highly skilled in unit and automated testing in Springboot.
• Experience building multi-tenant distributed SAAS applications
• Experience with CI/CD.
• Experience with performance analysis and optimization in Java is a strong plus.
• Proven system design experience.
• Ability to understand and break down large features into complete solutions.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work well with all levels of engineers and other disciplines.
• High agency, proficient, autonomous, and rigorous behavior.
• You’ve mentored teammates on new ways to deepen their technical craft.