Job Openings at GVA Partners Limited

About the Company

Gva Partners is currently recruiting for our client an Interdealer broker licensed by the SEC. They are part of an investment banking group with offices in Lagos.

• Our growing team requires an experienced Bond Dealer who is ready to assume more responsibility and help grow a new operation.
• Your primary responsibility is to profitably make secondary markets to investors and buy and sell bonds with investors and other dealing institutions on a principled or agented basis in accordance with the firm's risk policy and trading guidelines.
• Your responsibilities will include generating and executing trades, maintaining the portfolio accounting database, and managing trading platforms.
• The right candidate will be an expert in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint, and will be teachable, a quick learner, and prepared to build a team of junior Traders.
• Communication to senior executives will be a key part of this role, which will report to a Partner.

The right candidate will have:

Experience

At least 2 years of experience trading bonds and bills, including primary and secondary market trading of treasury bills, sovereign bonds and corporate securities and instruments

Required 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.
• Demonstrable experience and interaction with other dealers and traders in the market and demonstrated ability to keep tabs on prices and levels of security prices.
• This person should be able to work closely with other treasury market dealers and investors and should be entrepreneurial, able to build relationships with others in the market, collating relevant information and experienced in executing trades.
• This person should possess excellent research skills to help determine market sentiment via valuation and data analysis. This candidate should be conversant with FMDQ trading platforms, software and initiatives as well as being familiar with Bloomberg trading platform.
• Monitoring the Nigerian and international market performance. Monitoring prices in specific products. Providing key parties with daily trading information. Female candidate is preferred.
• Independence

We are a flat organization, and we want someone who can report to very senior executives 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 Upper Degree

•      At least, 2--5 years of progressive  professional experience in trading

• Experienced dealing with banks and other financial institutions that trade bonds and other securities
• Must have completed the mandatory NYSC or have an exemption letter

Compensation

• Competitive cash compensation, performance driven corporate culture

go to method of application »

About the Company

Gva Partners is currently recruiting for our client a financial advisory, issuing house and investment firm with offices in Lagos.

Our growing team requires an experienced legal associate who is ready to make a transition into investment banking and investment management as he/she assume more responsibility and seeks harder challenges.

The right candidate will have:

• Technical Skills.

Detail oriented, good analytical skill with an interest in investment banking and investment management

This person will have experience working as an associate on corporate law, corporate finance and similar legal matters. Preferably the candidate will have professional experience handling matters for corporate and investment banking clients.

The right candidate will have an interest in expanding their skill set and assuming increasing responsibility in investment banking and investment management and will be teachable, a quick learner. Communication to senior executives will be a key part of this role, which would report to a Partner.

• 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
• 2--5 years of professional experience in corporate law, corporate finance, and/or regulatory compliance matters.
• Experience dealing with regulatory filings and offer documents for debt or M&A offerings. Experience with matter relating to the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission would be appealing.

Compensation

• Competitive cash compensation

go to method of application »

About the Company

Gva Partners is currently recruiting for our client a financial advisory, issuing house and investment firm with offices in Lagos.

Our growing team requires a financial analyst who is ready to assume more responsibility and seek harder challenges.

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

go to method of application »

Job Brief

The Relationship Manager will be responsible for maintaining and deepening existing business relationships. As an everyday field-based employee, he/she is equally expected to perform a daily field function known and referred to as prospecting, whereby he/she speaks to a specified minimum number of people (in the course of the daily duty of visiting customers) and obtain the names and contact details of those interested in our products for a further follow up by the Marketing Group. Many times, the interest in our other products may come from existing customers under our management. It is equally possible that existing customers may want more volume of what they already have with us. The relationship manager shall engage in new business acquisition and closing sales.

This individual is equally expected to manage all field related after-sales process life cycles through design, implementation, optimization, redesign and renewal to ensure high quality and accuracy of work and the promotion of a total stakeholder quality approach to work.

Additionally, he/she will be responsible for the coordination, reports and organization of Marketing meetings including taking all minutes of discussion and ensuring implementation of all resolutions at the Marketing meetings.

Lastly, the Relationship Manager shall be responsible for writing of all proposals and shall keep records and tracks of every proposal including regular contacts with the prospects until prospect becomes a client.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Plan and execute detailed field program
• Ensure every client is contacted at least once a month via phone, visit, email etc.
• Ensure every client is visited and seen at least once every quarter
• Ensure renewal notices are sent to clients in a timely manner
• Facilitate timely, consistent and proactive support for the provision and prompt delivery of policy documents, receipts and other customer related documents.
• Maintenance of good relationships with clients.

Functional Competencies Needed For the Position:

Ability to:

• Build and maintain strategic partnerships
• Organize and prioritize field work schedules to meet different needs and deadlines
• Coordinate cross-functional efforts thereby focusing on core process performance, strategic objectives and customer satisfaction
• Measure the cross-functional efforts
• Recognize opportunities for process innovation by researching best practices and promoting better and more effective ways of doing things
• Demonstrate good knowledge of Information Technology and apply such to daily work / Maintain information and databases
• Prepare timely inputs and reports
• Must possess analytical and logical thinking processes with the ability to apply pragmatic solutions within regulatory / organization laid down boundaries
• Must within a short period of time demonstrate full understanding:
• Of the main processes and methods of work regarding the position
• Of the organizational policies and procedures relating to the position and apply them consistently in work tasks
• Constantly strive to keep job knowledge up to date through self directed study and other means of learning.

Core Competencies & Skills Needed for the Job

Must demonstrate

• Proper ethics and integrity
• Excellent Dress Sense
• Excellent human relations.
• Corporate behavior, knowledge and sound judgment
• Initiative
• Desire for self-development
• Qualities of a team leader and promote / facilitate team work
• Ability to create synergies and sense of ownership at work
• Must Possess
• Conflict management skills
• Informed and transparent decision-making skills
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel etc.)
• Fluency in English (any other foreign language will be an advantage)

Promote learning and knowledge management Share knowledge
Education

• First Degree (Minimum 2:2)
• Masters (an advantage)

Experience

• 4years of relevant after Sales and support service experience in:
• Professional Services Sales and Marketing
• Customer Service and Relationship Management
• Must be a female
• Ability to speak Igbo language is an added advantage
• Candidates who live on the island is an added advantage