GUS Consulting Limited – Our client, a foremost design and construction firm that deals in architectural design, construction, interior designs and project management, is recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Head of Operations
Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time
Summary
- As Head of Operations, you will be responsible for managing key strategic partnerships, managing people and processes, developing, and facilitating marketing campaigns, and customer relationship management to support the company’s growth.
Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:
HR:
- Work with the executive team, to set strategies to boost the company’s revenue and be in a competitive stand.
- Provide strategic direction and support the development of policies, goals and targets.
- Display a sense of leadership, coaching and mentoring to encourage the achievement of the overall objective of the Company
- Manage the entire staff and departmental targets.
- Conduct reviews and performance evaluations to achieve company goals
- Provide input into digital marketing strategies within the company.
Others:
- Generate new leads at all business revenue levels and champion it
- Oversee operations of all departments; architecture, engineering, sales, finance and admin department
- Set goals and objectives for all departments, and design a framework for these to be met
- Conduct reviews and evaluations for cost reduction opportunities
- Monitor the company’s financial position and ensure that it operates within its means and that there are clear lines of accountability for financial management
- Analyse costs, pricing, variable contributions, sales results, and the company’s actual performance compared to the business plans
- Facilitate and manage the preparation of the company’s budget
- Track and evaluate business development plans and efforts on an ongoing basis.
- Drive increased revenue and profit to achieve the company’s growth.
Requirements / Skills
- Minimum of an MSc Degree / MBA in Human Resources or a similar field.
- Minimum of 8 years of work experience
- A background in consulting or human resources would be an added advantage
- Experience in an architectural, construction or real estate firm is desirable
- Excellent written and verbal communication – you need to be able to express yourself and the value the company brings to clients well.
- Must be strong in Marketing and Operations, Persuasive and goal-oriented.
- Possesses an energetic, outgoing, and friendly demeanour.
- Understanding of digital marketing channels, online marketing tools and best practices.
- Ability to close out sales/deals.
- Good time-management skills.
- Great interpersonal skills.
- Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Must be able to develop plans for long-term financial goals.
- Must have a great client-based network.
Salary
- N333,000 – N500,000 monthly.
Application Closing Date
22nd June, 2022.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
Job Title: Head of Department
Location: Nigeria
Reports to: The CEO
Department: Risk Management & Internal Control
Purpose
- To provide leadership in consistently dimensioning and managing risk and ensuring the enforcement of operational and financial internal controls system that will help management to safeguard the organization’s resources, produce reliable financial reports, and comply with laws and regulations.
- The enforcement or risk management and internal control practices will ensure a reduction in the possibility of significant errors, irregularities, and fraud by assisting in their timely detection when they do occur.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Ensure implementation of treasury and Cash management policies in the back office and report identified weaknesses.
- Conduct Special Investigation as may be assigned from time to time.
- Conduct spot checks, stock-taking and other functions as may be assigned from time to time.
- Identify areas of financial and administrative strengths and weaknesses and develop best practices.
- Carry out detailed investigations when discrepancy, cash suppression or fraud is noticed.
- Conduct internal control checks and records to safeguard the company’s assets working withthe control officers.
- Develop and implement appropriate operating procedures to ensure compliance with the company and industry policies.
- Monitor and provide advice to management to minimize risk resulting from poor controls.
- Recommend market risk limits (dealer limits, exposure limits etc) in line with the approved market risk appetite of the Bank.
- Support and advise internal control officers with their analysis and day-today tasks.
- Support and advise risk officer with his / her analysis and day-today risk management tasks.
- Suggest, develop, and implement measures for a better risk management framework and the improvement of internal controls.
- Ensure detailed understanding of all Profit and Loss and risk drivers and ensure compliance levels against established risk appetite.
- Systematically identify, assess, monitor, and report market risk through active portfolio analysis and engagement with the business areas.
- Design the organization’s market risk strategy working with the risk officer.
- Any other duties as assigned by the CEO
Key Performance Indices
The following KPIs shall be used to monitor the performance of the HOD
- Low levels of losses and frauds due to policy and control violations
- Number of improvement opportunities identified per audit exercise/functional area/operating companies
- Level of company-wide adherence to internal controls
- Accuracy and timeliness of audit reports
- Efficiency of the company’s processes
- Number of frauds/fraudulent intentions detected
- Company employee adherence to internal controls and policies
- Frequency of customer complaint/commendation on service provided
Specifications
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, Risk Management, and related discipline from a recognized university
- Professional qualifications such as ACA, ACCA, ACIB, CFA, CISA is desirable
- A Minimum of 10 years’ experience, with at least 5 years in a risk management and /or internal control roles.
Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
The incumbent must have proficient knowledge, skills and abilities in the following areas:
- Excellent risk assessment and mitigation skills
- Good managerial / supervisory skills
- Excellent analytical and numerical skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Excellent writing and communications skills.
- Strong time management skills
- Interpersonal skill
- Ability to work effectively under pressure.
- Good decision-making skills.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
Job Title: Engineering Lead, Customer Data Platform
Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Profile
- The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise and strong experience building customer data platforms and marketing technology solutions. This includes designs, implementation and integration with 3rd party systems and larger ecosystems.
Responsibilities
As an Engineering Lead, a typical day might include the following:
- Drive technical design, specifications, and implementation for various components of the customer data platform
- Bring and maintain a strong network of qualified engineering talent to hire from as the need arises
- Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
- Work with product owners, technical leads and engineers directly to break down the roadmap and product requirements
- Collaborate with other teams ensuring compatibility between systems.
- Help identify challenges and areas for improvement, assisting in driving our product roadmap.
Requirements
You’d be a good fit if you have:
- Master’s Degree
- Strong Software Engineering background, with an ability to work in multiple programming languages as needed.
- Experience with distributed systems and processing high-volume messages or events.
- Strong sense of project ownership and responsibility.
- Experience designing and developing APIs, middleware, and/or backends to support data-heavy analysis -systems
- Strong knowledge of AWS services with multiple production deployment experience, also familiar with microsoft Azure and Google cloud
- Experience building or integrating with programmatic marketing platforms like Facebook audience network or Whatsapp business API, Ad exchanges like Google Adx and CPaaS solutions like Twillio
- Strong communication skills with a remote and distributed team across time zones
- Hands on experience building and managing microservices in production.
Technology Stack:
- Nodejs, Python, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Angular, React, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kubernates and a lot of native AWS services.
Remuneration
N22,000,000 Annually.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
Job Title: Head of Corporate Services
Location: Nigeria
Reports to: The Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Job Purpose
- To provide strategic, operational and supervisory oversight to the Corporate Services Department that comprises of HR, Admin and Corporate communications units as well as IT and Legal consultants.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Manage and supervise the human resources, admin and corporate communications units and the activities of the respective officers
- Manage and provide oversight to external consultants handling the IT and legal services functions
- Develop and implement the annual budgets of the various teams / units under management
- Establish a brand strategy and then determine how to incorporate this strategy in the company’s communications.
- Create communication and marketing strategies for new products, launches, events, and promotions.
- Provide leadership and guidance to team members to manage HR operations deliverables and flow of day-to-day operations.
- Determine the staffing needs across the organization each financial year.
- Source, screen and select candidates.
- Supervise staff verification and confirmation.
- Supervise staff appraisals and promotion.
- Demonstrate high proficiency in processes and standard operating procedures with ability to resolve complex queries.
- Accountable for change management activities within the organization for the seamless execution of new initiatives while keeping all stakeholders in HR informed of changes prior to implementation.
- Handle escalations from employees, HRs, and other stakeholders.
- Articulate a HR strategy that is aligned to the corporate strategy and aimed at supporting the organization in achieving its strategic objectives.
- Ensure the continuous alignment of the Bank’s Organizational Structure to its overall strategy/ objectives.
- Evaluate jobs within the organization to ensure equitable job grading, while ascribing appropriate responsibility, worth and reward to all jobs within the company.
- Identify and collate staff training needs, coordinate training sessions, and plan the company’s training activities for the year.
- Develop clearly defined career and succession plans for the company.
- Review and update of the company Compensation Framework (in line with industry/operating realities).
- Any other assignment as directed by the COO or CEO
Key Performance Indices
The following KPIs shall be used to monitor the performance of the HOD:
- Percentage of HR, admin and corporate communications’ initiatives implemented.
- Percentage variance of budget to actual the various units and entire department.
- Staff Turnover rate
- Number of unidentified training needs
- Participants’ feedback on training programs
- Productivity/performance index of the 3 units with department
- Level of under/over manning per Unit
- Percentage of HR implemented initiatives.
- Employee satisfaction index
Specification
- Minimum educational standard: HND / BSc in Human Resources Management, Accounting or a relevant field from a reputable higher institution. A Masters’ Degree in HR will be an added advantage
- Additional professional qualification will be an added advantage.
- Minimum Working Experience: 10 Years’ related experience
Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
The incumbent must have proficient knowledge, skills and abilities in the following areas:
- Supervisory and team management skills
- Demonstrated commitment to working with a diverse staff.
- Demonstrated success in identifying and resolving issues prior to escalation with strong issues management skills.
- Good knowledge an understanding of labour law and relevant HR legislation, policies and procedures
- Result oriented with the ability to manage competing priorities and multiple stakeholders.
- Excellent analytical and decision-making abilities.
- Ability to delegate, mentor and coach
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Excellent knowledge of various HR functions and skills:
- Performance management and training
- Recruitment and staff welfare
- Team building skills and problem-solving skills
- Basic counselling skills
- Negotiation skills
- Interviewing skills
- Time management skills
- Excellent and efficient use of MS Office Suite (Word, Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Ability to maintain standards of conduct
- Possesses cultural and political awareness and sensitivity
- Good sound work ethics.
Application Closing Date
24th June, 2022.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.