Job Vacancies at Black Pen Recruitment

Overview

• Are you an experienced Product Manager in the FinTech industry?
• Are you looking for a remote job?
• Then we have the opportunity for you!
• This is an exciting position in a fast-paced ever-growing, profitable, venture-backed company.
• Our Client is looking for a highly driven, analytical team-player with a positive attitude and the experience to lead product development teams through all stages of the product life cycle.
• As a Product Manager (FinTech / Cryptocurrency), you’ll be responsible for leading a team to develop products that improve the everyday lives of customers.
• You’ll work with experts in data, design, engineering, marketing, operations and research to bring ideas to life that will help us provide better financial services for all.

Responsibilities

• Working with research, design and data to better understand our customers and their needs.
• Establishing a product vision and shared set of priorities across the team and the company, which meet the most important needs of     our customers.
• Collaborating with design, engineering and operations to ship meaningful, high-impact products and features.
• Working with communications, content and marketing teams to launch products that are easy to understand and use.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master's Degree.
• 3 + years experience building and shipping high-quality consumer products.
• Familiarity using research, experimentation and product analytics to guide decision making.
• Ability to focus on a problem at hand while thoughtfully considering the overarching company strategy.
• Passion for financial products and improving people’s financial lives.
• Motivation to be a self-starter.

Bonus Points:

• Computer Science degree.
• Experience working on a fintech or finance product.
• Knowledge of cryptocurrency.

Type of person:

• Critical thinking, strong in your domain and can engage and lead some of the largest most intimidating companies in the world.

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Job Description

• Are you an experienced Chief Information Security Officer with a strong understanding of cloud architecture environment?
• Are you passionate about cryptocurrency?
• Then we have the opportunity for you!
• A top candidate is someone who is a clear communicator, highly self-motivated, eager to collaborate, exchange knowledge and who apply new skills to proactively seek out weaknesses in the environment.

Responsibilities

• Keep up to date with the latest security and technology developments.
• Research / evaluate emerging security threats and ways to manage them.
• Plan for disaster recovery and create contingency plans in the event of any security breaches.
• Ensure monitoring for attacks, intrusions and unusual, unauthorised or illegal activity.
• Drive the testing and evaluation of security products.
• Design new security systems or upgrade existing ones.
• Use advanced analytic tools to determine emerging threat patterns and vulnerabilities.
• Engage in 'ethical hacking', for example, simulating security breaches.
• Identify potential weaknesses and implement measures, such as firewalls and encryption.
• Investigate security alerts and provide incident response.
• Monitor identity and access management, including monitoring for abuse of permissions by authorized system users.
• Liaise with stakeholders in relation to cyber security issues and provide future recommendations.
• Generate reports for both technical and non-technical staff and stakeholders.
• Maintain an information security risk register and assist with internal and external audits relating to information security.
• Monitor and respond to 'phishing' emails and 'pharming' activity.
• Assist with the creation, maintenance and delivery of cyber security awareness training for colleagues.
• Analysis and Monitoring of entry points, activity logs, internal environments, and databases.
• Data Security and Fraud Prevention.
• Ensuring security on all platform infrastructure and external integrations.
• Identity and Access Management.
• Security Investigations, Digital Forensics.
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity.
• Leading auditing and security compliance initiatives.
• Security education and training

Requirements

• Interested candidates should possess relevant qualifications and work experience.
• Demonstrated track record of building a successful security function in a recognized financial technology company.
• Experience working in a cloud architecture environment such as AWS or Azure is essential.
• Comfort with driving the implementation of security compliance projects.
• Demonstrated skills of hiring and growing a team.
• Supplier selection and management in procuring security software and contracting in penetration testing services.
• On the ground knowledge of computer vulnerability assessment, threat modelling, networks, operating systems and software security.
• A good working knowledge of various security technologies such as network and application firewalls, host intrusion prevention and anti-virus.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and assess risks, threats, patterns and trends.

Key Soft Skills:

• Verbal communication skills, including presentation skills, with an ability to communicate with a range of technical and non-technical team members and other relevant individuals.
• Time-management and organizational skills to manage a variety of tasks and meet deadlines.
• The ability to multitask and prioritize your workload.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• An ability to work under pressure, particularly when dealing with threats and at times of high demand.

Team:

• Exude your upbeat energy and enthusiasm each and every day to motivate your team to be the best they can in every aspect of what they do
• Celebrate the success of others by recognizing the contributions of committed team members and their achievements
• Communicate in a fashion that is respectful and well understood
• Collaborate with your peers to collectively think of innovative ideas that drive business through technology
• Build and utilize working relationships with internal business partners across the organization and external business contacts.

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Job Description

• Are you an experienced HR Manager with FinTech industry recruitment experience?
• Are you looking for a remote job? Then we have the opportunity for you!
• If you are a hands-on, strategic professional individual, that is capable of achieving business goals through using change management and organizational design - then this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Responsibilities
HR Responsibilities:

• Create and manage a formal performance review process
• Design, propose and implement human resources strategies, guidelines and procedures within broad principles and policies to meet requirements supporting short and long-term business needs
• Provide local insight to corporate guidelines and procedures and manage the administration and implementation within respect to employee training and development programs, salary structure, performance appraisals and recognition, compensation and benefit plans
• Ensure compliance of the company’s practices with applicable labor legislation and collective labor agreements in Nigeria and other African countries
• Secure professional legal support from external legal counsel as required
• Assist in articulation of the values and culture of the organization
• Work with CEO, COO and CTO to identify human resources problems/issues and provides leadership and support in finding solutions
• Organise and supervise HR/Personnel services that highly qualified personnel are recruited, developed and motivated to achieve business objectives
• Oversee and ensure the effective running of the local payroll via external provider

FinTech Recruitment Responsibilities:

• Manage relationships with external recruitment firms
• Write and post technical job descriptions
• Source potential candidates on niche platforms, like LinkedIn 
• Solid knowledge of sourcing techniques (e.g. social media recruiting and Boolean search)
• Parse specialized skills and qualifications to screen IT resumes
• Perform pre-screening calls to analyze applicants’ abilities
• Interview candidates combining various methods (e.g. structured interviews, technical assessments and behavioral questions)
• Coordinate with IT team leaders to forecast department goals and hiring needs
• Craft and send personalized recruiting emails with current job openings to passive candidates
• Compose job offer letters
• Onboard new hires
• Promote company’s reputation as a great place to work
• Conduct job and task analyses to document job duties and requirements
• Keep up-to-date with new technological trends and products

Requirements

• B.Sc Degree in Human Resources Management, IT or relevant degree
• 5 years of relevant experience in Human Resources and FinTech Recruitment
• Solid understanding of HR practices and labor legislation
• Native in English with excellent verbal and written skills
• Proven experience in managing – leadership abilities and know how to motivate and manage people
• Strong business mind and accountability
• Ability to create and manage processes and projects
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Able to work under pressure
• Able to work in a fast pace international and multicultural environment.