Job Vacancies at Techadvance

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos + Partly Virtual
Reporting Line: Chief Operations Officer

Job Purpose

• The Settlement and Reconciliation Officer is responsible for resolving all issues arising from electronic transactions and perform automated back-office processing such as dispute processing, settlement, reconciliation and reporting.
• In addition and more specifically, the S&R manager must be able to create chart of accounts, provide insights and product documentation to developers and product managers so as to ensure our infrastructure has automated and accurate settlement and  reconciliation processes.

Responsibilities

• Processing and settlement of transactions initiated from account/wallet transfers, debit or credit cards and USSD and other modes across various platforms
• Ability to develop processes for chart of accounts to take into consideration transaction ID’s, statutory transaction cost, revenue share etc and other parameters that ensure accurate settlement and reconciliation of transactions
• Attending to customer and merchant disputes and ensuring prompt resolution
• Liaising with switching companies and card schemes on Settlement issues
• Rendition of daily CBN regulatory requirement report
• Settlement of transactions routed through various payments platforms
• Development and implementation of strategies to reduce operational risk and ensure safe and reliable settlement processing.
• Daily reconciliation of accounts for exceptions and subsequent escalation of exceptions to the switch and other vendors or third parties for resolution.
• Ensures timely reconciliation of all transactions done on the bank’s terminals
• Performs settlement of interbank card transactions such as VISA, MasterCard, Verve
• Executes chargebacks and dispute resolutions of local and international cards transactions
• Performs electronic transaction analytics and reporting using SQL and Excel.
• Develop Business Requirement Documents and SOPs for the automation of settlement processes
• Perform User Acceptance Tests (UATs) to certify that newly deployed and existing modified applications on the platforms fulfill the specified requirements.

Specifications & Requirements
The ideal candidate must be:

• Creative thinker and problem solver who can resolve issues arising from online transactions timely and efficiently
• A self-starter and self-motivated person who is able to influence and direct the settlements and reconciliation process
• Passionate about solving problems and is focused on customer experience and outcomes

The Ideal Candidate must have:

• A Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent
• Digital Financial Services or banking industry experience
• Experience with electronic payment systems
• In-depth knowledge of payment processing- gateways, core banking etc
• Leadership and team work skills,
• Organisation and Time management skills
• Proficiency in the use of Ms office suites.
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills.
• Attention to details and accuracy
• Basic knowledge of IFRS
• Basic financial modelling and financial statement analysis skill
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Salary
Salary band starts at N400,000 naira with perks and bonuses. Company is willing to increase any of the wage parameters for an exceptional candidate.

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Location: Victoria Island, Lagos (Currently partly remote and partly physical)
Reporting Line: Group Head, Human Resources

Job Purpose

• The responsibilities of this role include sourcing, screening and providing a shortlist of qualified candidates for various technical roles. Incumbent will also network online and offline with potential candidates to promote our employer brand, reduce our time-to-hire and ensure we attract the best tech talents. Ultimately, he/she will build a strong tech talent pipeline and help hire and retain skilled employees for our Technical positions.

Responsibilities

• Develop recruitment strategies for the acquisition and retention of tech talents
• Attract the attention of high-quality candidates
• Adopt social recruiting strategies to relate with and attract top talents and build a pool of qualified candidates that can be accessed at all times as vacancies arise
• Manage the technical recruitment process end to end
• Adopt objective and equitable recruitment processes to ensure vacancies are filled quickly
• Recruit potential applicants based on experience, skills and education
• Develop a thorough and robust onboarding process that is unique to the technology industry and aligns with the company vision
• Work closely with the technology department, increasingly in a consultancy role and assist line managers to understand talent needs
• Develop technology job profiles and update job requirements on a regular basis
• Conduct survey on pay and other remuneration packages adopted in the technology industry and advise the management accordingly
• Display high sense of ownership of the recruitment process from sourcing to interviews through hiring and ensure the highest level of candidate experience.
• Acts as a support HR generalist and support strategic HR initiatives

Specifications & Requirements
The ideal candidate must be:

• A creative thinker and problem solver
• A self-starter and self-motivated person who is able to influence and direct the technical recruitment process
• A people oriented professional
• Adept at using smart technology and collaboration tools for seamless delivery

The Ideal candidate must have:

• Minimum of 5 years' experience as a Techincal Recruiter in the Technology/Fintech industry
• Experience in a recruitment consulting role is a plus
• Ability to understand and interpret technical job requirements for Tech roles
• Familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems and resume management databases
• Solid knowledge of contemporary hiring techniques like social recruiting etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Understanding of best people practices and labor legislation

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Location: Victoria Island, Lagos + Partly Virtual
Reporting Line: Chief Innovation Officer

Job Purpose

• The Executive Assistant is responsible for strategic, administrative duties and completes a broad variety of tasks that include managing an active calendar of appointments; business developments, research, composing and preparing correspondence, itineraries and agendas and among other duties.

Responsibilities

• Enhance effectiveness of the CEO by providing outstanding and confidential support
• Work proactively as a lead resource for the CEO and provide support for the business
• Perform high level executive and operational support, exercises independent judgement based on analysis, experience and researches
• prioritizes, and follows up on incoming issues
• Successfully completes critical aspects of deliverables with a multi-tasking approach that facilitate the growth of the business
• Manages and maintains extremely active calendars; schedules meetings, conferences, and appointments; manages conflicts and adjusts to changes in a fast-paced environment
• Provides “gatekeeper” and “get-a-way” role to maximize the Leaders’ time
• Coordinates and leads enterprise projects with several variables: organizes meetings
• Acts as a resource to others to solve problems and/or mentor in all capabilities of the Executive Assistant role
• provides guidance regarding projects and key deliverables to assure an organized, professional outcome
• Maintains and updates and organizational charts on special projects assigned
• Communicate priorities and status with executives and business partner leadership

Specifications & Requirements
The ideal candidate must be;

• A creative thinker and problem solver who can assist the CEO with implementation of overall business strategy
• Highly organized and self-motivated individual with ability to set priorities with intention to achieve positive and effective outcomes
• Passionate product manager who is result oriented and focused on customer experience

The Ideal Candidate must have;

• Board Level Communications Skills
• Excellent Planning and Organization Skills
• Effective Communication skills
• Business Acumen
• Negotiation Skills
• Business Development and Research skills

Salary
Salary band starts at N200,000 naira with perks and bonuses. Company is willing to increase any of the wage parameters for an exceptional candidate.

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Location: Victoria Island, Lagos + Partly Virtual
Reporting Line: Chief Technology Officer

Job Purpose

• The incumbent will design, build and maintain scalable software systems, develop back-end components and APIs that connect applications with other web services.
• He/She will also support the tech team to to bring product visions to life.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and maintaining scalable software systems that power our products and infrastructures.
• Writing well-tested backend infrastructure code.
• Building and maintaining public APIs.
• Working with engineers, product managers, designers to turn bring our product vision to life.
• Work closely with the CTO to design and develop distributed, resilient and high-performing backend services using Node.js
• Code according to industry and team standards, adhering to good practices
• Write maintainable, readable code with extensive test coverage, ideally applying TDD
• Actively engage with team members to discuss backlog items, design issues and best coding practices
• Create technical documentation for internal and external use

Requirements
The Ideal Candidate must have:

• At least 3 years of experience building production applications with Javascript (and Typescript), Express, Node.js, MongoDB.
• Understanding of fundamental database concepts – relational (SQL) database, non-relational (NoSQL) database and ORMs/ODMs.
• Good knowledge of HTTP and RESTful API design and architecture
• Experience with unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries.
• Experience with, or understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Message Queue technology such as RabbitMQ or Redis, AWS infrastructure services, Docker.
• A strong understanding of backend performance, scalability and security.
• Collaborative – drive cooperation and teamwork in achieving solutions.

Salary

• Salary band starts at N350,000 naira with perks and bonuses. Company is willing to increase any of the wage parameters for an exceptional candidate.

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Location: Victoria Island, Lagos + Partly Remote
Reporting Line: Chief Innovation Officer

Job Purpose

• To develop and deploy end-to-end Partnership strategy by connecting Techadvance with partner brands to launch new Fintech products and improve existing ones for the African Fintech market.

Candidate Profile
Techadvance is looking for a director of business development and product partnerships. This person should:

Think Like this:

• Be able to come across a company and dream up products that leverage our API’s to create valuable and mutually beneficial fintech services for the company and TechAdvance.
• For Example:  How can a food franchise (completely different industry) and a TA work together? What kind of product can I develop? And who will benefit/how will such a product add value to their business/revenues?

Do this:

• Put these ideas into actionable proposal documentations- Powerpoint preferably- with schematics, benefits to both parties, roles and responsibilities and project execution/Go live timelines
• Should also be able to do a first line business model proposition that corporate finance personnel can use to create a broader financial model complete with revenue share and cost center analysis.
• Create sales funnels of collaborations and partnerships you want to see come to existence and go after them.

Be this:

• A self-starter, mission oriented with excellent interpersonal skills. Should be turned on by closing deals and seeing their hardwork and conceptualizations come to life. Leverage networks (that will be available to you) and yours to get what you want.

Responsiblities

• Develop and execute partnerships strategy to enhance and grow key Techadvance products, including established and embryonic products
• Drive conversations between Techadvance and her B2B clients for the purpose of leveraging our Fintech As a Service (FAAS) and Banking As a Service (BAAS) solutions to drive growth
• Develop and optimize product portfolios. Connect Techadvance to FAAS and BAAS product clients
• Manage commercial and strategic partnerships with key partners. Network and build strategic relationships with existing and potential partners
• Support businesses to expand and improve their product offerings through whitelabelling our Fintech infrastructure to achieve their business growth objectives
• Drive partner engagement and strategically productize partner and client needs
• Work closely with our product and platform teams to develop strategy, scope potential partnerships and negotiate partnership contracts
• Lead the product partner relationships team at our company

Requirements
The ideal candidate must have:

• Minimum of 5 years experience in product development, product partnerships, FinTech sales and marketing etc
• Proven ability to build strategic relationships and negotiate business deals with external partners
• Demonstrated understanding of launching new products/features
• Previous founders of startups are welcome to apply

The ideal candidate must be:

• A creative thinker and problem solver who can translate Techadvance’s overall business priorities into a cohesive partner strategy
• A cross­ functional stakeholder motivator who is able to influence and direct strategic objectives to deliver on the defined partner strategy
• Passionate product-minded leader who is focused on customer experience and outcomes

Salary

• Salary band starts at N600,000 naira with bonuses and discretionary stock options for the right candidate.
• Company is willing to increase any of the wage parameters for an exceptional candidate.