Jobs at Primera Microfinance Bank Limited

General Roles & Business Goal

• Identify business opportunities, maintain existing relationships and position Primera MFBank’s Payroll Lending Private, to be the leading choice in the market.
• To contribute significantly to the bottom line of the bank through excellent service delivery.
• Maintain a robust sales pipeline channel for efficiently meeting sales target.
• Create quality risk assets

Job Description

• Proactively identify the needs of potential customers and offer appropriate financial services and products.
• Conduct research and analyse data to identify and define target audience.
• Research and Analyze market trends, competitor offerings, demographics and other information that affect marketing strategies.
• Create quality risk assets.
• Meet targets in asset creation.
• Drive CASA growth.
• Deliver quality customer service in response to customer enquiries.
• Build and maintain good relationship with clients.
• Prepare weekly and monthly report on marketing activities.
• Prepare monthly performance review report.
• Perform other duties as may be assigned by the Team Lead or Head, Personal Banking.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Customer acquisition, retention and cross-sell.
• Grow business volumes and revenue.
• Grow lead conversion rate.
• Maintain NPL at 3%

Qualifications

• A good 1st Degree in Banking & Finance, Marketing, Economics, Statistics, Sociology or any related field.
• A minimum of 2 years operational experience in banking, particularly in marketing
• Membership of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)and Institute of Direct & Digital Marketing or any other related qualifications are an added advantage.

Required Skills:

• Target driven and results oriented
• Analytical risk management skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent relationship and people management skills
• Excellent efficiency for handling client related issues and providing solutions where required
• Computer Proficiency
• Good knowledge of digital and online marketing methods
• Understand data analytics
• Multitasking in order to successfully handle multiple accounts
• Must be tech-savvy
• Demonstrates exceptional strategic thinking and planning abilities
• Self-starter with mature analytical skills and ability to work under pressure
• Innovative and forward thinking, with a track record of executing new ideas.

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Job Description

• Responsible for the day-to-day support of T24 core banking application, run the daily close of business, generate all departmental reports
• Responsible for T24 Local Development & Customization (write routines), designs T24 Versions and Enquiry, design reports and requested by the users
• Responsible for MySQL DB administration, backup and restoration.
• Implement and support Temenos Web Services Integration, Restful web services
• T24 Data Migration
• Provide T24 support to operators to resolve any COB problem (using Temenos approved models), escalate critical errors
• Access the Business Requirement Documents of all the interfaces, Develop corresponding Functional and Technical Specification Document
• Create products as requested from business and give necessary supports. Arrangement Architecture for T24 Transact

Qualifications

• B.Sc in Computer Science, Engineering or any related field
• 3 - 5 years relevant work experience across all functional areas of T24.
• Proven work experience as a T24 Core Banking and Integration Support Officerpreferably in the FINTEC space.
• Familiarity with Azure
• Preferred candidate must be able to proficiently carry-out all of the above job description.

Required Skills & Competencies:

• Critical thinking
• Personable
• Problem solving
• Organize information
• Strong knowledge of banking operations
• Process Improvement
• Change Management
• Pay attention to details
• Team player
• Honest, proactive and hardworking
• Ability to adapt to changes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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Job Description

• Proactively identify the needs of potential customers and offer appropriate financial services and products.
• Research, identify and convert target Business Banking relationships
• Research and Analyze market trends, competitor offerings, demographics and other information that affect marketing strategies.
• Create quality risk assets.
• Deliver quality customer service in response to customer enquiries
• Build and maintain good relationship with clients leading to growth in profitability and loan quality of managed accounts portfolio
• Prepare weekly and monthly report on marketing activities.
• Prepare monthly performance review report.
• Perform other duties as may be assigned by the Team Lead or Head, Business Banking.

Qualifications

• A good 1st Degree in Banking & Finance, Marketing, Economics, Statistics, Sociology or any related field.
• Minimum of 3 years operational experience in a commercial bank with particular focus on growing and managing a significant SME/Business Banking loan and deposit portfolio.

Required Skills & Competencies:

• Target driven and result oriented.
• Analytical risk management skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent relationship and people management skills
• Excellent efficiency for handling client related issues and providing solutions where required.
• Well experienced in the Business Banking space with a particular focus on handling dynamic transactions.
• Ability to generate qualitative business leads and generate new business opportunities
• Demonstrate exceptional strategic thinking and planning abilities.
• Self-starter with mature analytical skills and ability to work under pressure.
• Innovative and forward thinking, with a track record of executing new ideas.
• Ability to lead team.

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Job Description

• Actively support and drive the digital transformation of the Business Banking enterprise.
• Expand and deepen the product and value-added services suite to profitably penetrate the Bank’s target industry segments and businesses.
• Drives the assigned Business Banking relationship management teams to achieve and surpass set targets.
• Ensure that all loans disbursed are repaid as and when due and the Portfolio-at-Risk (PAR) of the business portfolio is within regulatory limits.
• Build and grow a healthy collections business driven by a strong portfolio of accounts that generate collections flows for the Bank.
• Identify key areas for business process re-engineering and support efforts to deliver continuous improvements of same.
• Position Primera MFB as the No.1 bank in customer satisfaction and client-centricity in the SME and Micro-Credit spaces.

Accountability

• Consistently grow revenues and profitability of the Business Banking enterprise.
• Ensuring that all the team meets set targets in line with the Bank’s business and strategic goals.
• Ensuring the portfolio quality (PAR) remains within regulatory limits.
• Deepen the product and value-added services portfolio of the Bank.
• Support the digital transformation the Business Banking enterprise.
• Deliver and maintain best-in-class customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• A good 1st Degree in Humanities, Social Sciences, Administration, or any related field.
• Added professional/academic qualifications or certifications will be an advantage.
• 4-6 years commercial banking experience with a particular focuson growing and managing a significant SME/Business Banking loan and deposit portfolio.

Required Skills & Competencies:

• Professional sales training would be a strong advantage.
• Proven track record of achieving targets and driving sales growth in a business.
• Strong leadership skills and an ability to inspire sales teams.
• Strong and successful experience in Business Banking, Credit Analysis and structuring for businesses.
• Strong knowledge of the various dynamic Business Banking products and ability to drive same.
• Excellent relationship-building competencies.
• Must possess excellent team management and leadership skills.
• Possess excellent communication, written and presentation skills.
• Must possess excellent problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrates exceptional strategic thinking and planning abilities.
• Must be able to work under pressure.
• Must possess excellent organizational and time management skills.

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General Roles

• To manage delivery of strategic transformation projects that will increase efficiency via the transformation of resources (organizational/people change, development, training) processes and/or information technology.
• Ensure adherence to set standards in the execution of all ongoing projects within the Bank within set budget, time and allocated resources.
• Monitor the entire project management life cycle by developing plans and schedules, estimating resource requirements, defining milestones and deliverables, monitoring activities, evaluating and reporting accomplishments

Job Description
Strategic:

• Recommend new techniques and technologies to achieve business goals
• Determine business roadmap and provide support in future business planning
• Develop action plans to overcome business challenges
• Recommend business improvements based on market and competitive trends
• Perform project management and reporting for assigned projects
• Build positive and trustful working relationships with internal/external customers
• Maintain clear and complete knowledge on programme management, business operations and procedures
• Drive execution of strategic projects that align with the corporate goals of the bank

Programme Management:

• Lead the end to end planning, delivery and control of projects or programs of the Bank.
• Manages all aspects of the project e.g. delivery, resource forecasts, project administration which includes financial and progress reporting.
• Ensure alignment with defined reporting standards and procedures for project and portfolio management.
• Develop strong relationships with all project stakeholders and prospective internal clients.
• Organize assigned progress meetings and steering committees with senior management to influence decision making.
• Conduct risk analysis by proactively identifying and raising control deficiencies and driving diligent risk remediation for all projects within the Bank.
• Monitor the progress of all projects against agreed and documented time and budget targets while ensuring appropriate quality standards are maintained.
• Optimizing and improving processes and the overall approach.
• Acts as gatekeeper of the program’s documents to ensure that key documents are available and accessible.
• Results delivery for critical projects and initiatives in line with set project management standards.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2nd class upperin First Degree (MBA, MSC, MA, ML and/or Professional Qualifications is an added advantage)
• 3 - 5 years working experience in project management
• General banking experience especially in Operations and Technology service units is preferable

Required Certifications:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) or PRINCE II Certification
• ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
• Agile Project and Delivery Management
• Scrum Master

Required Skills & Competencies:

• Critical thinking
• Problem solving
• Communication
• Negotiating
• Organize information
• Change Management
• Project Management
• Pay attention to details
• Team player
• Honest, proactive and hardworking
• Ability to adapt to changes
• Conversant with Microsoft office tools and project scheduling computer applications.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure, and to meet short- and long-term deadlines.

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General Role

• Payroll Lending State - Public Sector business development.

Job Description

• Proactively identify the needs of potential customers and offer appropriate financial services and products
• Public Sector business development
• Create quality risk assets
• Meet targets in asset creation
• Drive CASA growth
• Deliver quality customer service in response to customer enquiries
• Build and maintain good relationship with clients
• Prepare weekly and monthly report on marketing activities
• Prepare monthly performance review report
• Perform other duties as may be assigned by the Team Lead or Head, Personal Banking.

KPIs:

• Achieve 100% of loan & deposit mobilization targets
• Achieve 100% of Customer acquisition and retention targets
• Maintain a PAR of 5% or less.

Qualifications

• A good 1st Degree in Banking & Finance, Marketing, Economics, Statistics, Sociology or any related field.
• A minimum of 2 years in public sector lending in a reputable microfinance bank and with excellent performance track record.
• Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) andMicrofinance Certificate Program or any other related qualifications are an added advantage.

Required Skills:

• Target driven and results oriented
• Analytical risk management skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent relationship and people management skills
• Excellent efficiency for handling client related issues and providing solutions where required
• Computer Proficiency
• Good knowledge of digital and online marketing methods
• Understand data analytics
• Multitasking in order to successfully handle multiple accounts
• Must be tech-savvy
• Demonstrates exceptional strategic thinking and planning abilities
• Self-starter with mature analytical skills and ability to work under pressure
• Innovative and forward thinking, with a track record of executing new ideas.

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General role

• Payroll Lending Federal- Public Sector business development

Job Description

• Proactively identify the needs of potential customers and offer appropriate financial services and products
• Public Sector business development
• Create quality risk assets
• Meet targets in asset creation
• Drive CASA growth
• Deliver quality customer service in response to customer enquiries
• Build and maintain good relationship with clients
• Prepare weekly and monthly report on marketing activities
• Prepare monthly performance review report
• Perform other duties as may be assigned by the Team Lead or Head, Personal Banking

KPIs:

• Achieve 100% of loan & deposit mobilization targets
• Achieve 100% of Customer acquisition and retention targets
• Maintain a PAR of 5% or less

Qualifications

• A good 1st Degree in Banking & Finance, Marketing, Economics, Statistics, Sociology or any related field.
• A minimum of 2 years in public sector lending in a reputable microfinance bank and with excellent performance track record.
• Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) andMicrofinance Certificate Program or any other related qualifications are an added advantage.

Required Skills:

• Target driven and results oriented
• Analytical risk management skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent relationship and people management skills
• Excellent efficiency for handling client related issues and providing solutions where required
• Computer Proficiency
• Good knowledge of digital and online marketing methods
• Understand data analytics
• Multitasking in order to successfully handle multiple accounts
• Must be tech-savvy
• Demonstrates exceptional strategic thinking and planning abilities
• Self-starter with mature analytical skills and ability to work under pressure
• Innovative and forward thinking, with a track record of executing new ideas.