Job Openings at Pagatech Limited

Summary

• We're seeking a Deputy Creative Director who can lead our creative team and other departments to deliver outstanding, data-driven projects.
• Your role will be to conceptualize and strategize, and then monitor the progress of marketing projects. Additionally, you'll be responsible for developing creative plans focused on Paga customers.
• You'll collaborate closely with the Head of Brand Strategy and Marketing.
• As the Deputy Creative Director, your goal is to ensure that all projects exceed our customers' expectations and drive sustainable growth by achieving the best possible visual and essential outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop and implement concepts, and strategies in various projects/tasks and oversee them to completion.
• Championing the brand and creating user-cantered designs that cater to the wider design needs of the business.
• Collaborate with all teams/departments in Paga to obtain knowledge of the brief's requirements.
• Direct, coach and motivate the creative team to help them use their knacks effectively.
• Lead brainstorming/creative sessions to generate ideas.
• Implement the Marketing SLAs process for receiving briefs from departments/teams and provide feedback to the team.
• Train and guide the creative team and other departments into accomplished professionals.
• Monitor results of projects/team efforts and propose actions for the future.
• Work with external vendors to ensure all production work is in line with brand guidelines and on time.

Knowledge and Skills Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience
• Proven experience as a creative leader or in a similar creative role.
• Provide experience in the creative process, strategy, marketing, graphic design, and brand development.
• Excellent working knowledge of tools/software such as Asana, SurveysSparrow, Photoshop, Illustrator, AfterEffects, Figma, CorelDraw, etc.
• Outstanding leadership and organization skills
• Exemplary interpersonal and analytical abilities
• Oversee and provide effective direction at photo shoots.
• Effectively check project tools, briefs and approve work.

• Command respect of freelance designers, media agents, vendors and be able to effectively manage their assistance.
• Must be self-motivated to prioritize and manage workload and meet critical project milestones and deadlines.
• Must be able to collaborate well with team members.
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
• Basic copy writing skills.
• Must have completed the mandatory NYSC.
• Social media marketing a strong plus.
• Mastery of HTML/CSS a strong plus.
• 3D illustration an advantage.

Key Competencies:

• Collaboration
• Initiative
• A strong attention to detail
• A strong creative flair and originality 
• Confidence, to present and explain ideas
• Tech savvy - keeping up with design and technological advances and relating them to job
• Inquisitive
• Integrity
• Innovative

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About the Role

• We are looking for a passionate, self-driven and experienced Financial Business Analyst to join our team! As the Financial Business Analyst, you will be responsible for managing, developing, and overseeing the financial models and performance KPI in your assigned business unit(s). 
• You will be responsible for analyzing and advising business unit heads of their current and future expenditures for maximum ROI and project performance.
• The ideal candidate will be well-versed in financial models, excel formulas and functions, and capable of creating cost-effective budgets for future projects. He/She will also be responsible for developing, proposing, and implementing plans to reduce financial risks and lower costs as well as participate in project audits.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assist Finance Manager in monitoring and analyzing financial accounts/performance on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
• Create financial models to analyse trends, make financial projections, and assess financial risks.
• Review and monitor annual budget; prepare quarterly budget review reports.
• Develop standardised financial management and reporting tools; create internal control systems to ensure good financial management and enable early detection of fraud or errors.
• Grow financial performance of business units through analysis of financial results, forecasts, variances, and trends.
• Analyse business unit financial data and create financial models for decision support.
• Create recommendations on financial/operational performance of business unit to be presented to management and executives.
• Analyse past results, perform variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvements.
• Work closely with the financial and accounting operations team to ensure accurate financial reporting.
• Guide the cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures.
• Provide analysis of trends and forecasts and recommend actions for optimisation
• Recommend actions by analysing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses; study proposed changes in methods and materials.
• Identify and drive process improvements, including the creation of standard and ad-hoc reports, tools, and excel dashboards.
• Increase productivity by developing automated reporting/forecasting tools
• Conduct comparable analysis and market research to support internal financial analysis.
• Maintain a strong financial analysis foundation creating forecasts and models.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of a 2:1 in Finance, Accounting or any related field and have a professional qualification (ACCA, ICAN, CIMA) in view.
• Minimum of 4 years experience in financial analysis.
• Proficiency across data, financial and strategy analysis.
• Broad experience and knowledge of accounting and reporting standards.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in communicating and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Advanced computer software skills, including Excel macros and other accounting packages.
• Must have completed the mandatory NYSC.

Key Competencies:

• An analytical approach to work.
• Commercial and business awareness.
• Strong attention to detail and an investigative nature.
• Good time management skills and the ability to prioritise.
• The capacity to make quick but rational decisions.
• Problem-solving skills and initiative.
• Ability to streamline functions and passion to learn and grow.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including written and oral communication skills.
• Comfort dealing with ambiguity and the ability to work independently.
• Experience working with, and presenting to, senior executives.
• Strong financial modelling experience.
• Integrity and high personal ethical standards.

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Responsibilities and Tasks
Technical, Logistical and Administrative Support for Business Development Team:

• Providing support to the Business Development Manager and Account Managers, and representing the department as needed in-line with Company policies.
• Performing research, developing ideas and working with team members to pursue new business opportunities for the Company in Africa and beyond.
• Connect with diverse business units within the Company to outline solutions to business needs and document business details.
• Designing and building reports (in Word and Excel) to communicate business development status updates to upper management on a regular basis.

Business Development Process/Pipeline:

• Developing and maintaining client lists and project target lists for the department.
• Tracking progress to ensure that the department adheres to schedules for achieving targets.
• Organizing materials and information for tender submissions, including liaison with other units within the Company on submission of bid documents.
• Providing inputs to management based on market information to enable the Company to develop capabilities in areas that will give it strategic leverage for future projects.
• Gather and analyze market intelligence for new projects and opportunities.

Client Management:

• Ensuring that clients and partners have 24/7 access to a Company Account Manager.
• Ensuring that client and potential client enquiries are screened and channeled to the correct unit and responded to.
• Ensuring communication of customer needs and expectations between the Company and the client and between units in the Company.
• Ensuring liaison with other departments as appropriate in relation to proposals, projects, legal, customer support, finance, marketing, or other issues.
• Fostering and developing positive customer relationships which result in increased and repeat business.
• Understanding customer needs and assisting in the development of project solutions that satisfy those requirements and provide new opportunities for the Company.
• Communicating with cohorts in Client and potential client organizations, professionally and socially (where appropriate), to maintain relationships with Clients and potential clients.

Skills & Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field; Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Management Information Systems or similar fields.
• Minimum of 2 years work experience.

Job-specific Skills and Requirements:

• Resourcefulness and self-motivation, with the ability to perform with minimal supervision.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Well-organized, with ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong proficiency in use of business email and Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Adaptability, ability to work in a team environment.
• Confidentiality and the highest ethical standards must be maintained in all activities

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About the Role

• The Field Sales Consultant (FSC) oversees assigned areas to deliver all commercial targets in their territory.
• The FSC is responsible for assigned team’s sales productivity and directs effort to have overall impact on company results.
• The FSC manages all aspects of running an efficient sales team, including supervising, coaching, disciplining, and motivating direct reports to deliver on sales targets. 

Primary Responsibilities
Achievement of commercial targets set for the territory:

• A Field Sales Consultant has ownership for achieving the overall commercial targets set for all areas within their territory.
• These targets include targets for active agent count, transaction mix, transaction value, transaction volume, among others.

Coaching/Mentoring Agents, PSPs & Aggregators in the assigned territory:

• Train and retrain PSPs & Aggregators under their supervision to ensure that they train agents to expected standard.
• Mentor, coach and provide immediate correction to agents, PSPs, aggregators, and escalate issues to State Managers where applicable.
• Communicate important company updates to the PSPs & Aggregators in their zone and ensuring that the information is understood.
• Assess the activities and performance of PSPs & Aggregators under their supervision and report to the State Managers where applicable.

Representing Paga in the assigned territory:

• Verify agent outlet before account is created.
• Conduct agent knowledge assessment, within 4 weeks, after agent is trained.
• Develop and maintain a positive and professional relationship with all agency principals and outlet assistants across their territory.
• Report issues and communicate insights internally to ensure that relevant resources are deployed to strengthen the Paga business in their territory.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university or college.
• 2 - 3 years’ experience in FMCG sales
• Must be proficient with Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications
• Must be able to understand and report issues appropriately.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Provide outstanding customer service.

Key Competencies:

• Strong leadership skills
• Strong interpersonal/communication skills
• Takes initiative and ownership
• Must be self-driven and excited about winning
• Detail oriented
• Flexible: willingness to test ideas quickly and take learnings
• Good interpersonal skills

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About the Role

• We are looking for a passionate storyteller to help tell our stories to all stakeholders (team, customers, industry partners and international observers); stories that will help them understand the impact and buy into the vision by signing up, joining us and partnering with us. Do you love telling stories, writing and interacting with people? Then join our team as a Communications Manager!
• As part of the Marketing team, the Communications Manager will be responsible for developing and executing an end-to-end internal and external communications plans for the Paga brand, business units and products/services.
• You will have responsibility for the overall communications strategy, counsel and deliverables related to executive visibility through speaker engagements, team member communications, sales communications and external messaging and platforms, including social media.
• Communication vehicles and platforms will include keynotes, blogs, videos, media opportunities, internal channels and social/digital platforms.
• The executive internal communications plan will focus on maintaining team members and key external stakeholders engaged and informed of Paga’s priorities, achievements, business strategy (where not sensitive), recent product launches and other relevant topics.
• You will play an essential role in marketing, communications and digital projects.
• You will be responsible for content creation and management across all creative work, including print collateral, websites, email campaigns, television and radio advertising, and many related tasks.
• Equal parts strategy and executional excellence, this role calls for someone who can manage team/s and multiple projects simultaneously while also ensuring that every single element ladders up to larger corporate narrative and objectives.
• We need a storyteller willing to grow strong financial and data literacy.
• We need someone who can turn a number into a narrative, and someone who can thread small data points into a broad story.
• We need a creative thinker, strong writer, experienced collaborator and flawless executor who will bring their capabilities and energy to our growing team.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop and execute internal and external communications plan aligned to strategy and objectives
• Develop executive speaking platforms including speech writing, presentation development and some event management (all hands meetings)
• Ensure communications plan and timeline are integrated with other company, business strategy and business unit initiatives
• Identifies opportunities to innovate through the use of new platforms or technologies to support the communications plan
• Provide communications support for the Business Unit Heads, particularly the Office of the CEO in Press, company and industry events
• Proactively investigate compelling story ideas across the business
• Oversee the development of communication strategies and packaging of brand campaigns across branded content, sponsorships, ad products, social media, events, and experiential
• Help define the editorial and branded vision for initiatives, focused on elevating the content and distribution potential
• Build and execute engaging and customer content plans and marketing strategy through competitive research, platform determination, benchmarking, messaging and audience identification which drive customer action
• Continuously improve by capturing and analyzing the appropriate social data/metrics, insights and best practices, and then acting on the information
• Build awareness for Paga through story-telling and creative PR programs for different customer segments.
• Write and edit press releases, award nominations, media pitches and other related communication materials
• Write dynamic copy for multiple formats of tone and voice, e.g. conversational, instructional, informative, analytical, etc. and crafting copy for a wide variety of marketing programs and deliverables, to include collateral, digital, promotions and brand marketing initiatives
• Helping to build effective strategies that translate consumer insights into meaningful, on-brand creative content solutions
• Ensuring the Paga brand voice is represented consistently across all projects, channels and platforms
• Continually evolving Paga’s overall best practices and writing processes to achieve a high level of efficiency and proficiency

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, English, Journalism, Communications, Creative Writing or Advertising
• 6+ years of experience with copywriting and content creation in advertising, digital marketing, journalism or publishing
• A keen understanding of the local media landscape and social media, and an innovator in PR programs and campaigns
• Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others.
• An interest in technology a must.
• Excellent digital, social, and integrated marketing experience
• A knack for presenting compellingly, confidently, and convincingly
• Desire to work well with multidisciplinary teams
• Real passion for innovation and driven to win!
• Must have completed the mandatory NYSC.

Key Competencies:

• Excellent short-form and long-form writing skills in a variety of voices and tones
• Solid grammar, editing and proof-reading capabilities
• Developing presentation and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in E-mail marketing (preferably MailChimp)
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Proficient in Word, with a working knowledge of PowerPoint and Excel.
• A proactive and detail-oriented client service mentality
• Comfort with brand, media, and performance analytics
• Ability to be a visual storyteller; build decks that flow and tell a clear concise story, and look beautiful
• Strong strategic writing skills – you can distill complexities to any audience.

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About the Role

• This is a role for a creative data-driven individual with excellent aesthetic judgment and willingness to collaborate within a team environment. You will be an integral part of every stage in the creative process, from conceptualization to execution.
• As a Digital Designer at Paga, your responsibilities will include designing digital graphic assets, bringing them to life and delivering high quality and innovative motion graphic content that seamlessly integrates with multi-channel marketing, including social media advertising, email marketing, mobile in-app banners, and web banners. Responsibilities also include staying up to date on social and digital content trends and the latest digital design software.
• You will be a Designer passionate about continuously iterating and improving on the effectiveness and efficiency of your output based on data and feedback.

Primary Responsibilities

• Work from brief to optimize and adapt campaign material and asset production for multi-channel marketing, including social advertising, email, editorial articles, mobile app placements, and display banners.
• Create highly engaging data-driven animation, interactive online content for social media, email marketing, mobile in-app banners, and web banners.
• Work closely with designers, copywriters, content creators, and teams to understand the project scope, objectives and be a stakeholder for performance in overall campaign development.
• Create and execute concepts for digital advertising.
• Assist in the creation of animation storyboards.
• Prepare conceptual layouts for the motion graphic project.
• Participate in brainstorming sessions to share new design perspectives and ideas.
• Ability to manage defined and agreed timelines to ensure complete project planning and execution tasks on time.
• Assist in selecting appropriate audio, graphic and animation styles for the project.
• Encode, convert, edit videos, and add effects/elements to enhance motion graphics.
• Support the design team with photo editing, bespoke illustration, and icon design.
• Train and develop others in the use of animation software.
• Keep abreast of advancements in animation as well as new technologies and techniques, contemporary trends in production design and popular music to deliver cutting edge work.
• Track and report conversion rate optimisation on every digital campaign.

Knowledge and Skills Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Mass Communication / Journalism / English or related field
• At least 3 years’ experience digital/motion design experience including digital campaigns, video production, design and animation or related field.
• Excellent use of tools - Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Sketch, Cinema 4D, Premiere and Final Cut Pro.
• Ability to work well in a team environment and independently when necessary.
• Strong portfolio showcasing high-end digital design skills.
• Must have completed the mandatory NYSC.

Key Competencies:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to comprehend and uphold brand style guidelines, producing work of a suitable style.
• Ability to solve an array of challenges through visual design.
• Must be able to mediate creative problems to arrive at the best solution.
• Manage time effectively, ability to multi-task, manage competing priorities and meet deadlines!
• Detail-oriented individual who reviews his/her work carefully - quality control is key.
• A self-starter with the ability to work independently and collaborate with teams.
• A strong interest in how design affects user experience.
• A can-do attitude. Self-motivated problem solver, detail-oriented, dedication, positive attitude, and flexibility - You get things done.
• Exceptional English skills in written and oral communication.
• Ability to work quickly without compromising quality or organisation.
• Familiar with Sketch & The Adobe Creative Suite to build out creative assets.
• Strong knowledge of current digital design best practices and techniques.

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About the Role

• We are looking for a passionate, self-driven and experienced Senior Accountant to join our team! As the Senior Accountant, you will keep financial records, prepare reports, and update financial information. You must be familiar with accounting procedures and should have experience with accounting software programs (like SAP and Oracle).
• The ideal candidate will be able to process business transactions, handle accounts payable and receivable, expense reports, receipts, prepare management accounts and other financial matters. Proven accounting experience is required.

Primary

• Analyze financial information and summarize financial status
• Spot errors and suggest ways to improve efficiency and spending
• Supervise month end financial activities. Assign and enforce deadlines for all stages of the closing process. Assist and contribute to the yearend closure process
• Fixed assets management and accounting
• Inventory control and accounting; to include daily analysis to predict potential challenges with the aim of reducing obsolete stock
• Supervise the delivery of internal and external audit
• Take ownership of the application and accounting of prepayment and accrual transactions
• Responsible for managing payroll journals at month end
• Assist the Finance Manager in managing and accounting for the company’s investment portfolios
• Ensuring tax compliance and prompt remittance
• Loans and grants management from point of acquisition to final repayment
• Timely and accurate preparation of monthly management report for review by supervisor
• Ensure compliance with all financial regulations
• Comply with International Financial Reporting Standard for financial statements
• Provide input into department’s goal setting process
• Produce error-free ad-hoc accounting reports and present their results to supervisor and management

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years experience in accounting, audit, or finance related function
• Proficiency across Data and Financial Analysis
• In Finance, Accounting or any related field and must be a chartered accountant (ACCA or ICAN) with at least 3-years post qualification experience
• Experience in Nigerian tax regulation and management is an added advantage
• Advanced computer software skills, including Excel, PowerPoint, and other accounting packages
• Must have completed the mandatory NYSC

Key Competencies:

• Highly motivated and result oriented with a keen eye for details
• Good time management skills and the ability to prioritize
• Strong attention to detail and an investigative mind
• Problem-solving skills and initiative
• Ability to keep confidential information and always remain discreet
• Ability to work and deliver within deadline without supervision
• Good understanding of IFRS standards
• Ability and willingness to meet deadlines consistently
• Integrity and high personal ethical standard
• Proven ability to calculate, post and manage financial records
• High analytical skills
• Ability to prioritize and multitask
• Training and mentoring junior staff
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work as part of a broader team of different levels
• Intermediate computer software skills, including Excel and Accounting packages
• Experience in communicating and influencing senior stakeholders
• Decisiveness, good judgement, strong organizational skills
• Self-Driven and smart working