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About the job

• invoizPAID currently enables SME's who sell online (e.g JUMIA) to access working capital to grow their online business via invoizPAID's merchant financing model.
• The key purpose for this job role is to maximize the revenue streams of the merchant financing model and carry out growth hacking/business advisory sessions for the SME's.

Key Responsibilities

• On-boarding & activation of online merchants
• Carry out business verification exercises
• Carry out growth hacking sessions/workshops
• Managing the relationship with partner eCommerce platforms
• Maximising revenues by ensuring weekly & monthly repayment targets are met
• Supporting the merchants on all issues relating to their online stores

Your profile

• Strong business skills evidenced by a business qualification or track record of managing similar businesses.
• Technical understanding of eCommerce platforms evidenced through qualifications or previous management experience.
• Strong analytical skillsSound, up-to-date working knowledge of relevant legislation and best practice affecting Nigerian e-Commerce platforms.

Benefits and perks

• Exposure to cultures and ecosystems from over 60 countries
• Build your network in emerging markets of tech entrepreneurs and investors
• Join a young, passionate, hungry and growing team of entrepreneurs & facilitators
• Bootstrap salary (open compensation model available based on experience, location, seniority, etc...).

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About Seedstars Nigeria

• Seedstars Nigeria has the objective to develop the entrepreneurial ecosystem and build a diversified portfolio of high growth tech companies solving real "pains" rather than "vitamins".
• We operate the structure much like a startup itself where the country holding core team is the "founder & entrepreneur". The Seedstars global infrastructure and know-how (network, funding, hr, technology team, etc) is fed down into the country holding to build and invest in tech companies.

Objectives
Your main objectives will be to:

• Make talents be contributing ASAP and continually improve their skills at a steady pace
• Minimize gaps of missing talents
• Minimize waste in talents (having low performers too long, good people at wrong position, making sure people are paid right amount not too much, not too little, …)

Responsibilities
The day to day responsibilities will include:

• Experiment and build a recipe of farming, hunting, closing great talents (as fact based at possible)
• Deploy the on boarding process (Foundation week, email, travel insurance, basic training, specific team training)
• Deploy an out boarding process (how to communicate to person and to other, remove access, etc)
• Deliver internal development and knowledge sharing programs (online courses, chapter meetings)
• Organize local training/development sessions
• Deploy and monitor personal development process
• Deploy and monitor career progression.

Your Profile

• You have a background in recruiting and people development related processes (education, training, learning and development, talent development, career progression etc.)
• You have 2 minimum years of experience.

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Responsibilities
The day to day responsibilities will include:

• Write software solutions in our companies which will change the way people perceive and use technology.
• You will work in new generation mobile first application using the most recent methodologies and technologies: React, React Native, Python, Go.

Requirements
What we look for in a person

• You love to travel and know new cultures and new people
• You take pride in the code you write - it's clean, organized, and elegant
• You want to work in an agile environment - we move quickly and ship code often
• You really hate when stuff breaks and it keeps you up at night
• You see the bigger picture (you realize that there are really exciting tasks and then there's bug fixing) but at the end of the day you're happy we're moving forward as a team, as a company, and as a product
• You're friendly, interesting and cool to hang out with

Your tech skills:

• You are a quick learner - you pick up new frameworks and technologies quickly
• Experienced web/mobile developer, strong understanding of Node.js , Python, ReactJS is a plus
• Up to date with latest HTML/CSS/AJAX/etc. - front-end stuff
• Comfortable with SQL databases
• Comfortable with Git
• Write unit test, but are not militant about things like testing frameworks and code coverage

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Why work at invoizPAID ?

• We have a successful business model that’s scaling rapidly
• Be part of a small and ambitious team - we’re always learning, and continuously improving
• You’ll take a key position in the business and lead it to success
• You’ll thrive in our results-driven culture and be positioned to create tremendous impact
• You’ll work with talented teammates who know how to have fun while delivering for our customers

Why you'll fit in ?

• You like digging into the details to solve tough problems
• You are resourceful, creative and most importantly self-motivated
• You are a structured thinker, able to break down tough problems into meaningful components
• You are a people's person and good with all kind of different mentalities and backgrounds

Job Details

• Credit Risk Officer needs to understand all risks – from the economic to the political – that could affect our business model, and offering guidance to all parts of the business. Provide effective value adding risk management in achieving the asset growth targets, while maintaining a quality lending book within the ambit of our policies and guidelines.

Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• Lead the credit risk assessment and manage day-to-day operations
• Think outside the box and create innovative credit evaluation processes and systems
• Identify and approve the small businesses that can best benefit from our services
• Evaluate clients for credit worthiness based our internal risk models & their application information
• Weed out fraudulent applications, and unreliable applicants
• Check Facility Letters and Loan Agreements and scrutinize the signed documents to ensure the correctness of the contracts
• Build relationships and communicate with similar businesses to ensure information and knowledge sharing
• Continuously ensure alignment/compliance to the credit risk management framework
• Continuously analyse and recommend improvement on credit risk management framework, processes and systems

Your profile

• Minimum of Bachelor's degree
• Preferably Institute of Bankers Diploma or a B.Com degree
• Minimum 3+ years working experience in Financial Sector (Banking, Accounting, Tax, Legal, etc.) whereof minimum 1+ year being in credit
• Previous experience with credit risk, invoice discounting or financial operations is a plus
• Dependable, positive and detail-oriented with excellent follow-through skills
• Leadership potential & interest
• Have a desire to help small businesses
• A team player, a quick thinker and a fast learner
• Superior verbal and written communication skills
• Excited about growing your career within a rapidly growing company
• Able to learn and adapt rapidly

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of regulatory requirements
• Credit management skills
• Scenario planning skills
• Process understanding
• Risk awareness
• Banking process skills

Skills Required:

• Risk management skills
• Credit risk management skills
• Credit assessment skills
• Selling skills
• Business modelling skills
• PC literacy (Excel is a must!)

Benefits and perks

• Exposure to cultures and ecosystems from over 60 countries within Seedstars ecosystem
• Build your network in emerging markets of tech entrepreneurs and investors
• Join a young, passionate, hungry and growing team of entrepreneurs & facilitators
• Bootstrap salary (open compensation model available based on experience, location, seniority, etc...)