Paelyt is an innovative financial services company (payments, loans, and savings), and technology solutions provider. We possess several money lending products, including Traders/agents, Device financing, Supplier financing, Salaries etc.
Our payment platform, Paytrx, facilitates seamless and secure payments across several online and offline channels. Through partnerships with clients our solutions are functional at key banks and financial institutions. Our primary focus is on business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-business-to-customer (B2B2C) financial services.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Business Strategy Manager
Location: Lekki Pennisula, Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Summary
The Business Strategy Manager will be responsible for providing business strategic planning direction for the company as manager of the Strategy and Organisational Effectiveness Division.
He or She will drive strategic planning, research, and documentation activities in relation to policy formulation, business rules and reporting.
Job Responsibilities
Strategic Responsibilities:
Develop organisational strategies and policies by analysing the impact of internal and external influencing factors and seeking consultation from relevant stakeholders
Align functional plans with organisational goals and targets to contribute to organisational strategies
Evaluate the environmental and external factors that may affect the organisational strategies
Coordinate research efforts into both local and global best practices as well as the monitoring of industry trends and developments in order to benchmark current best practices
Supervise the planning, organising and execution of implementation including training/orientation programmes for new/redesigned processes
Establish a framework to continuously monitor and assess existing organisational processes to support the Company’s strategic goals and objectives
Operational Responsibilities:
Collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders
Liaise with relevant departmental/divisional heads to define organisation wide process standards
Strategy definition, reviews, spearheading the strategic vision across all fronts of the business.
Implement and develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and enforce compliance with SOPs
Manage the development of corporate plans and budgets
Establish and review key strategic priorities and translate them into actionable and quantitative plans.
Supports the strategic planning process to ensure that this process is timely, focused, and value adding.
Strategic performance management and development of business KPI infrastructure in order to facilitate analysis and reporting of performance against plans and budgets as well as strategic objectives.
Manage the development of weekly/quarterly/annual performance reports for the business’s leaders
Facilitate cross-functional business and product performance reviews.
Coaching, and development of strategy management personnel and identifying and advising on areas for enhancement and focus.
Develop and implement strategic risk management threat identification and evaluation processes
Responsible for the development of weekly/quarterly/annual strategic risk reports for the senior strategy management as well as the business’s top leadership.
Review, manage, and analyse existing business strategies in order to provide counsel to the business’s leadership and ensure alignment with the business’s overall strategy.
Assist departmental leaders and managers in driving and optimizing improvement of key value levers that will give the business a sustainable competitive advantage.
Manage business intelligence analyses that will provide valuable benchmarking for management as well as timely insights to various departments.
Analyze long-term market trends for the purpose of providing recommendations to leadership and management across the business in regard to business development opportunities, inclusive of acquisition and disposal strategies.
Work with senior executives in setting the vision and agenda of the business and work with the day-to-day planning teams in developing a clear roadmap that will realize the business’s vision.
And Any other task assigned by your supervisor from time to time based on business priorities of the business.
Job Qualifications
Bachelor's / Master's Degree
Experience: 8 - 12 years.
Skills:
Good knowledge of the finance industry business operations
In-depth understanding FinTech business and products.
Demonstrate excellent leadership skills.
Strong strategic and analytical orientation
Highly developed collaborative nature.
Attention to details.
Good Management abilities
Knowledge of finance, accounting, budgeting, and cost control principles
Ability to analyze financial data and prepare financial reports, plans, and projections
Excellent communication & presentation skills
Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and other relevant accounting tools.
Abilities:
Relationship Management Skill
Team work
Communication Skills - Written and Oral
Digital Literacy
Problem Solving
Service Orientation
Financial Management
Quality Assurance
In-depth knowledge of company products and services.
Application Closing Date
16th March, 2021.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.