Job Openings at SeedStars Academy

• We are currently seeking passionate individuals with a flair for sales and marketing to join our team in Lagos, as a Telesales Representative (Intern). The key mission of this job is to contribute to the company's top-line success by expanding our existing lending products through Lagos and other areas in Nigeria.

Key responsibilities:

• Contact potential or existing customers to inform them about a product or service using scripts
• Answer questions about products or the company
• Ask questions to understand customer requirements and close sales
• Making Outbound follow-up calls to sales leads and persuade potential customers to complete and submit their application
• Handle grievances to preserve the company’s reputation
• Go the “extra mile” to meet sales quota and facilitate future sales
• Keep records of calls and sales and note useful information
• Working to stringent targets, the job holder will be required to adopt a professional and knowledgeable approach to each new business call.

Your profile

• A Corp Member completing NYSC not earlier than December 2023
• Young, smart, and hungry for achieving extraordinary results
• You love technology: familiar with the internet, mobile apps, Android phones, e-mail, social media
• You can handle multi-tasking and high pressure by prioritizing your work
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written with strong negotiation skills
• Good grammar, spelling, and punctuation
• Strong interest in building a career in the FinTech industry
• Ability to prioritize deliverables and meet demanding deadlines

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• We are currently seeking passionate individuals with a flair for Sales and Marketing to join our team in Lagos, as a Field Sales Representative.
• The key mission of this job is to contribute to the company's top-line success by expanding our existing lending products through Lagos and other areas in Nigeria.

Responsibilities for this role include

• Acquire, onboard, and retain new individual and corporate clients through direct sales and assist prospects with loan applications.
• Initiate the Credit Assessment process and ensure disbursement is done within agreed timelines
• Portfolio management, with full responsibility for the portfolio's growth and quality
• Collaborating with internal team members (Digital Marketing, Customer Engagement, and Collections) to continuously improve the process
• Drive revenue and profit to achieve the Company’s ambitious growth
• Plan and coordinate the implementation of business plans and the penetration of new markets

Your profile

• A Graduate degree in a relevant field of study
• Proven track record of personal, academic, and professional achievements
• A high degree of comfort with analytics, numbers, and the capability to draw decisions based on both data and intuition.
• Ability to work in an independent, structured and goal-oriented manner
• Ability to adapt to new challenges in a dynamic and fast-paced environment while managing multiple projects
• Ability to prioritize deliverables and meet demanding deadlines
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint is a must
• Previous experience with SME lending or other financial products is a plus
• Excellent command of English and communication skills

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• We are currently seeking passionate individuals with a flair for Sales and Marketing to join our team in Lagos, as a Field Sales Representative.
• The key mission of this job is to contribute to the company's top-line success by expanding our existing lending products through Lagos and other areas in Nigeria.

Responsibilities for this role include

• Acquire, onboard,  new individual and corporate clients through direct sales and assist prospects with loan applications.
• Initiate the Credit Assessment process and ensure disbursement is done within agreed timelines
• Assist in the implementation of business plans and the penetration of new markets

Your profile

• Minimum academic qualification of a Secondary school leaving certificate
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Energetic and Entrepreneurial 
• The candidate should possess a smartphone.

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About the job

• QuickCheck is seeking to hire a 'hands-on' Product Manager to join its team in Lagos, Nigeria. 
• The Product Manager will be responsible for the delivery of the product team by orchestrating internal and external stakeholders, listening to customers and defining requirements, monitoring product performance while scaling up.
• This is a key role that connects the dots end-to-end throughout the whole customer journey, leveraging internal and external Marketing, UX/UI, Engineering, Data Science and Support teams.
• You will provide thought leadership and direction that drives partner and customer experience, in alignment with QuickCheck mission.

Responsibilities for this role include

• The ultimate success of the product: sustainable product-market fit and profitability
• Based on company objectives and product vision, you define (with the product team), monitor, and achieve the quarterly product roadmap, KPIs and OKRs
• Problem discovery: you constantly talk to customers to understand their needs, the next problem to be solved, and validate it is worth finding a solution for it
• Research: you constantly map direct and indirect competition, complementary or comparable solutions in our/other markets, transforming others’ ideas into your own opportunity
• Experimentation: Conduct experiments (A/B tests) in order to optimize the product in pursuit of an improved customer experience and business metrics.
• Problem prioritization: by facilitating the decision about what features to build, bugs to test, experiments to run, focusing on solving customer problems while maximizing business results
• Solution: You define the business requirements for new features and experiments, launch in MVP mode, measure, learn, reiterate, validate and ensure deployment at scale
• Delivery: with the Product Dev Lead, you make sure the goals of the product development cycle are met and the team timely gets the product out the door. You test releases and assure the quality is met before launch
• Communication: you are the one who puts all pieces together by getting feedback from all product stakeholders
• Methodology: you help us craft and continuously fine-tune our product management process

Your profile

• Proactive, with an innate drive to exploring different options for reaching results, autonomously
• High attention to detail
• 2-3 years in managing tech-based products, either with a technical, design, or business background
• Strong project management skills: high-quality delivery taking into account scope, costs, and time
• Great communicator: ability to listen and collect feedback from different stakeholders, you make sure everyone is constantly aligned to the agreed objective
• You lead by example, humble but with high ambitions and a desire to learn more
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• You possess strong analytical and IT skills, proficiency in Excel. SQL knowledge will be highly helpful in this role
• You read daily internet/mobile market trends and in love with technology

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About the job

• As a Credit Risk Analyst, you will play a critical role in the company and the Credit Risk team.
• You will work with relevant stakeholders to mitigate risks and losses. You will have the opportunity to advance your analytics and risk management skills as more complex problems surface. 

Responsibilities

• Work with the credit risk team to achieve departmental goals and objectives.
• Use data driven insights to develop strategic plans with a significant impact on business result
• Portfolio monitoring: performance of existing loan portfolios, identifying trends and potential areas of concern.
• Develop and implement credit risk assessment strategies that align with the company's risk appetite and regulatory guidelines.
• Regularly communicate credit risk assessments and recommendations to senior management and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance underwriting processes, using data-driven insights to improve accuracy and efficiency.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, regulations, and best practices in credit risk management.
• Financial modeling and simulations
• Gain risk insights by analyzing large volumes of data

Your profile

• Degree in a quantitative field
• 2-4 years of relevant work experience in credit risk management
• Knowledge of expected credit loss parameters modeling is a plus
• Knowledge of lending in a start-up/Fintech/Neo bank is a must
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Hands-on Exposure to statistical concepts and analytical approaches.
• Good knowledge in SQL and Excel
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal). Excellent organizational, analytical, and time-management skills.
• You are curious and love solving problems that make a positive impact.
• You have good work ethics and you are a high performer

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• Lendigo is seeking to hire a Data-Driven Accountant to join its team in Lagos, reporting directly to the country's senior accountant.
• You will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations involving all accounting transactions, bookkeeping, bank reconciliations, expenses, bank payments, local taxes, capital importation, allocation of idle funds, and financial reporting.
• The ideal candidate must be familiar with accounting procedures and should have experience with accounting software programs (like Xero). 

Who we are looking for

• We’re focused on culture first. We want someone with a soul. Someone who does the right thing. Someone without ego. We’re looking for someone we want to hang out with, laugh with, and work with. Social skills are a must.
• We bet on raw talent over tenure. The baseline: candidates need to have a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience. That said, what we want most is someone that’s hungry. That’s more important to us than years of experience.
• Experience in growing and managing employees at an early-stage company would be helpful, but not required. 

Key responsibilities

• Prepare end-of-month reports
• Prepare audits, forecasts, and other fiscal planning.
• Oversee the day-to-day operations of the company including daily account reconciliation, cash/treasury management, and internal/external financial & compliance reporting
• Prepare financial reports in accordance with local and regulatory accounting principles and ensure compliance with the accounting Policies (IFRS)
• Support periodic reporting to stakeholders
• Fact-checking invoices for payment and processing
• Processing billing adjustments and refunds
• Handling bookkeeping, including daily bank reconciliation 
• Maintaining loan ledgers and other general ledgers on Xero
• Interfacing with the company’s banking and business partners 

Responsibilities for this role include

• Manage all accounting transactions that come through the business
• Process the bank statements and perform bank reconciliations
• Monthly filing of statutory (PAYE, VAT, WHT, etc.)
• Processing of invoices and liaising with other departments regarding payables.
• Interfacing with the company’s banking and business partners 
• Verify that transactions are recorded in the correct account allocations
• Maintaining Loan ledgers and other general ledgers on Xero
• Prepare a monthly Profit and Loss Statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement in accordance with local and regulatory accounting principles and ensure compliance with the accounting Policies (IFRS)
• Audit financial transactions and documents
• Handling any other financial function delegated by Superior or management staff.

Your profile

• First Degree in accounting or finance-related discipline.
• Minimum of 2 years experience post-NYSC
• Professional student of Accounting (ICAN, ACCA, etc.) would be added advantage
• Knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting best practices, laws, standards, and state/national regulations and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
• Exposure to finance or bank-related functions would be an added advantage.
• Versatile in using ERP such as Xero, NAV Dynamic, Sage, etc
• You exhibit strong analytical and IT skills, as well as Excel and spreadsheet expertise. Basic SQL knowledge is required for this position.
• A high degree of accuracy and attention to detail. “kiskil” is the password for the vision document above
• Excellent time management skills; able to prioritize
• Proactive, with an innate drive to explore different options for reaching results, autonomously

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• We are currently seeking passionate individuals with a flair for sales and marketing to join our team in Lagos, as a Loan Prequalification Officer .
• The prequalification officer examines loan applications submitted by businesses.
• He/She is required to screen applications, assist customers in obtaining a loan that meets their requirements and financial capabilities, and explain the conditions of each loan to applicants.
• The key mission of this job is to contribute to the company's top-line success by expanding our existing lending products through Lagos and other areas in Nigeria.

Responsibilities for this role include

• Process loan applications and documents within stipulated constraints to assess creditworthiness.
• Communicate with clients to get or deliver information.
• Justify and report on decisions (approvals/rejections).
• Keep and update call log records.
• Throughout the prequalification process, go the “additional mile” to develop trust connections, client loyalty, and satisfaction.
• Submit loan applications as soon as possible.
• Respond to queries from applicants and handle any loan application-related difficulties.
• Verifies application information to gain further information if missing data or errors are present..  
• Answers inquiries and responds to requests from consumers during the loan application process.
• Maintains client trust by keeping loan information private.
• Maintain a positive working connection with both internal and external departments,

Your profile

• A Graduate degree in a relevant field of study
• Proven track record of personal, academic, and professional achievements
• A high degree of comfort with analytics, numbers, and the capability to draw decisions based on both data and intuition.