Job Vacancies at the Concept Group

Job Summary

• The Lead, TAE role is the most prominent role of the recruiting team where He / She exercises leadership over the recruiting department, overseeing the execution of all activities by TAE executives.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Assessing candidates for roles in line with job competencies and TCG’s core values.
• Coordinate talent acquisition activities to raise awareness of TCG.
• Explore potential hiring needs and build long-term recruitment plans.
• Lead, develop and coach TCG’s talent acquisition.
• Partner and coach management and team lead in all aspects of talent acquisition
• Oversee any organizational training on talent acquisition.
• Partner and coach team leads in all aspects of talent acquisition.
• Oversee any organizational training on talent acquisition.
• Any other assigned activity within the talent acquisition unit.

Qualifications / Requirements

• Master's Degree in Organizational Psychology, Human Resources or any other related field.
• 8 years of progressive experience in the recruitment of Senior/Executive Management roles.
• 5 years of experience within the financial industry in senior leadership.
• Strong communication skills are required with the ability to build rapport and influence others
• Proven ability to lead, manage and develop others
• Experience in partnering across multiple employment models to influence results
• Proven success in driving a proactive approach in finding talent
• Proven conflict management and problem-solving skills
• Ability to create and develop effective presentations using data.

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Job Summary

• This role will strategize, formulate and communicate risk policies and processes for the group.
• The Credit Risk Strategist will provide hands-on development of risk models involving market and credit risks, assure controls are operating effectively, and provide research and analytical support for the smooth operation of the department.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work directly with top management, to evaluate their business models and financial statements and proffer necessary measures to mitigate risk.
• Performing risk assessments: Analyzing current risks and identifying potential risks that are affecting the company.
• Performing a risk evaluation: Evaluating the company’s previous handling of risks, and comparing potential risks with criteria set out by the company such as costs and legal requirements.
• Provide tailored credit risk recommendations that mitigate RFS’s exposure while facilitating partner company growth
• Help manage the portfolio by developing a deep understanding of risk across industries, geographies, and operating models.
• Preparing risk management and insurance budgets.
• Explaining the external risk posed by corporate governance to stakeholders.
• Creating business continuity plans to limit risks.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Accounting, Statistics, Finance, or a relative field.
• 8+ years of relevant experience with knowledge of commercial credit underwriting and risk strategies.
• Excellent written, verbal, and analytical skills.
• The ability to comfortably interact with the CFOs and CEOs of our top merchants.
• Experience with and in the use of IFRS9.
• Professional certifications and memberships.

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Job Summary

• The Talent Acquisition Strategist will be responsible for the creation and execution of a comprehensive, multi-faceted recruiting strategy to reach, hire and retain high talent individuals of different demographics, backgrounds, and experiences in support of the Company’s values and commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Support multiple business lines and manage the end-to-end recruitment cycle for select positions.
• Overseeing the Talent Acquisition unit’s procedures, suggesting measures and tactical approaches to improve the organization’s employment life-cycle
• Develop and implement a progressive sourcing strategy to increase diverse talent acquisition and retention.
• Create and drive innovative recruitment methods to build a continuous pipeline to reach passive job seekers and to source difficult-to-fill positions.
• Recommend ideas and solutions that will contribute to the Company’s diversity and inclusion strategy and overarching business goals and objectives.
• Analyze the recruitment process to identify efficiency and improvement opportunities. Develop performance metrics and provide management reporting.
• Ensure compliance with all banking laws, rules, regulations, prescribed policies, practices, and procedures necessary to reduce risk and uphold ethical standards related to and required by one’s duties.
• Develop and implement a progressive sourcing strategy to increase diverse talent acquisition and retention. etc.

Requirements

• A Degree in Human Resources or any other related field.
• Recognized professional qualification (e.g. CIPM, PHRi, SPHRi)
• At least 5 years post qualification experience with cognitive experience in Talent Acquisition and Engagement.
• Excellent strategy and analytical skills
• Good communication skills
• Hands-on mentality, results-driven, and team player
• High level of personal integrity
• Ability to work with minimum supervision and function in a multicultural and multidisciplinary environment
• Excellent computer skills, including in depth knowledge of Microsoft Office.

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Responsibilities

• Plan and define the scope, resource, activity, and sequences of all software projects.
• Turn the desires of the company into technical requirements that the software development team understands.
• Develop schedules, budgets and estimate time and costs.
• Set out the project boundaries and scope for projects, delegate different activities, and ensure their timely completion.
• Create and execute the plan of action and ensure that it is properly monitored and enforced along the way.
• Analyze, manage and mitigate risks and issues, monitor and report Progress.
• Performs a project review with the software development team to document any lessons learned from the software development processes.
• Oversees software testing, delivery, and formal acceptance by the applicable end user.
• Understand needs by fully comprehending the project’s objectives, end result, satisfactory time frame, budget, and required resources.
• Properly time all the activities for the completion of projects and prepare for any delays in any of the activities.
• Serve as a Liaison and as a source of consistency throughout a project between the Software team and other departments, fielding questions and providing information for everyone involved.
• Effectively communicate insights and plans to cross-functional teams and management members.
• Understand and communicate the financial and operational impact of any changes.
• Improve systems by studying current practices, designing modifications, and providing solutions to business-related problems with the use of technology.
• Research, analyze and Create informative, actionable, and repeatable reports that highlight relevant business trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Ensure resource allocation, results and follows up with all processes with the aim to do things better, faster, and cheaper whenever possible and without sacrificing quality.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's Degree cognitive experience in Software Project Management
• Advanced education, professional certification/membership will be an added advantage
• 6 - 8 years experience
• A background in key programming languages, testing procedures, and the likes
• Good understanding of the role and the requirements
• Exceptional planning, organizational, analytical, and conceptual thinking skills

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Job Description

• The Head, Audit & Compliance is grossly responsible for ascertaining and assessing the soundness of accounting and financial controls and procedures.
• He/she assesses the accuracy, timeliness, and relevance of management information, appraising the efficiency of established policies and procedures, reviewing them in the light of changing circumstances, and ensuring that Internal Control checks are carried out on all pre-disbursement transactions.

Other Duties include:

• Give comprehensive reports on Audits and proffer immediate solutions.
• Conduct an Audit to identify business risk areas and give recommendations on weaknesses identified.
• Carry out pre/post transaction Audit through the Audit checklist on daily basis.
• Ensure timely processing of new transactions in accordance with policies
• Ensure timely completion of Audit plans
• Ensure conformance and compliance with Policies, Procedures, and Professional Standards, as well as a high delivery of operations in accordance with the approved budget, etc.

Requirements & Skills

• Master's in Accounting, Finance, or any other related field, with relevant certificates and professional membership
• Minimum of 8 years cognizant experience with other relevant professional certifications
• Demonstrated skills, knowledge, and experience in auditing; internal audit standards, ethics, and fraud awareness
• Strong analytical and documentation skills
• Experienced in recommending Results / Corrective Actions.

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Responsibilities
Overall Strategic Leadership:

• Set the firm’s technical vision, develop and implement strategies to achieve business objectives
• Ensure that the firm’s technology and systems evolve at a pace that continues to exceed client and business expectations
• Lead the strategy for application delivery, technology platforms, partnerships, and external relationships
• Foster an agile and continuous improvement culture within the firm
• Demonstrate fidelity to the organization’s culture in words and deeds.

Strategic Management:

• Develop technical policies, processes, and procedures to achieve operational needs, and ensure adherence
• Oversee and scale the firm's technology in terms of people, systems, and processes
• Make decisions that impact the current and future operations of the company.

People and Operations Management:

• Manage, mentor, and provide sound technical leadership to a high performing, world-class and collaborative engineering team
• Lead the engineering team in the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of high-quality products/features and business tools.
• Work with cross-functional teams to understand and translate the business needs to sought after products by our clients
• Define the product road map in collaboration with the product management team
• Create and maintain excellent documentation of all specifications, systems, and procedures Automate operational delivery and management processes from build/test/deploy to monitoring, alerting and capacity management
• Ensure all technological practices comply with regulatory standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related fields
• At least 10 years working in a technological role
• At least 4 years of managerial experience leading diverse teams of engineers
• Experience building financial products is a plus
• Strong working knowledge of PHP, Python, Nodejs, React, JavaScript
• Demonstrated experience in using SQL, MySQL,
• Demonstrated experience with CI/CD deployment process
• Experience in server management, vulnerability assessment, security, etc.

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Duties & Responsibilities

• Supervise research on new technology-based products and solutions to meet the company’s strategy for new products and solutions
• Product lifecycle management: Lead the utilization of VOC (Voice of Customer) in the development and deployment of remote monitoring solutions
• Oversee bench and field tests during the product development cycle, pre-deployment simulation tests, and on-site deployment of remote monitoring hardware and software
• Vendor management: Facilitate, maintain and negotiate profitable vendor relationships following due diligence and risk assessment analysis
• Technical project management and process improvement for the on-site deployment of new and existing solutions
• Guide pricing simulations and analysis with market knowledge on hardware and software input costs
• Develop proposed design documents for products and services to guide installation and/or implementation
• Validate and approve all completion reports, test reports, field inspection reports, reports/documentation of problems solved, etc. for management review
• Oversee adequate analysis on vendor selection based on quality and cost optimization.

Qualifications / Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical / Electronic Engineering with at least 5 years of experience in related competence.
• Relevant knowledge of embedded systems and electronic circuits
• IoT and Control systems enthusiast
• Quality Business Intelligence and data analysis experience with relevant tools (data-driven decision making)
• Process improvement qualifications such as Six Sigma
• Experience with a microcontroller or PLC systems
• Solid troubleshooting skills and the ability to diagnose and solve difficult problems
• Direct experience with Python, C, or C++
• Desire to develop a deep understanding of the business and end-user needs
• Ability to resolve complex issues in creative, efficient, and effective ways.

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Job Details

• The Head, credit and Risk management develops and implements policies and procedures that reduce credit risk in the organization.
• He/she manages the building of financial models that predict credit risk exposure to the organization, leads/manage initiatives and the development of strategies, methodologies and associated models/processes for measurement of Credit Portfolio Management and periodically preparing and presenting performance reports to the management/board members and all other necessary stakeholders.

The Head, credit and Risk Management will:

• Plan, design and implement an overall risk management process for the organization.
• Ensure that sound credit risk measurement and monitoring frameworks are developed and implemented throughout the group in a standardized manner.
• Manage the Company's Enterprise Risk Management Framework as well as Credit Policy Guidelines
• Conduct audits of policy and compliance to standards, including liaison with internal and external auditors.
• Oversee the credit review process for customer credit risk evaluation and credit underwriting/ recommendation.
• Strategize, build and maintain process improvement across all roles in the Credit department
• Improve and optimized credit approval, recovery and collection processes as well as operational efficiencies.
• Enhance and review the company's Credit Policies and Standards to reflect the best practice and regulate the risk assets of the group as directed by the Board
• Spearhead the development, improvement and refinement of credit policies, procedures and strategies to enhance the company's risk management platform
• Monitor all necessary operations, policies and procedures that will help the company meet its risk Management goals whilst managing and quantifying the organization's risk appetite'.
• Manage the subordinate staff of the department in the day to day performances of their jobs, while ensuring that departmental projects and activity milestones/goals are met and that all operations adhere to approved policies, budgets and regulations.
• Coach, supervise and mentor analysts, collections, recovery and underwriting officers for effective, efficient and optimal performances.
• Develop, manage and optimize the Credit Reporting and Monitoring framework that meets all necessary requirements of both external and internal stakeholders and ensure timely and accurate delivery of all reports.
• Review strategic credit positions, Credit Limits, levels of provisions and concentrations ensuring that they are within stipulated limits
• Conduct stress and scenario testing on the Risk Asset portfolio
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting of information from these, interpret all report information and suggest actions for consideration to and by the relevant stakeholders.
• Provide requirements and design inputs, particularly with regard to credit risk recognition, measurement and its reporting as part of the core team for implementation of key credit risk related projects (e.g. Credit Management System, IFRS 9 impairment)
• Manage repayment risk and controlled payment delinquency significantly reducing it
• Assist in preparation and presentation of the information pack for Board Risk Committee
• Contribute to system implementation projects in the credit risk space by providing requirements and design inputs, particularly with regard to credit risk recognition and measurement.

Required Qualifications

• Candidates should possess BA / BSc / HND, MBA / MSc / MA or PHD
• Experience: 10-15 Years.