Overview
AB Microfinance Bank is a national microfinance bank licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), with its head office in Lagos and branches spread across Lagos, Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, and Anambra State. AB Microfinance Bank Nigeria is committed to its passion of helping to improve the business opportunities of entrepreneurs by availing them of easy access to affordable loans, as well as improve the general financial status of everyone with its deposit accounts. It is a limited liability company duly incorporated in Nigeria under the 2002 Companies and Allied Matters Act, and is regulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria as a fully fledged microfinance bank.
Job Position: IT Product Manager
Job Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Job Description
- Strategic leadership to drive and support business growth and revenues, development and deployment of technology for all stakeholders, acceleration of product/service delivery, innovation and implementation of technology solutions at optimized costs.
Job Responsibilities
- Actively contribute to developing the company’s strategy for using technological resources, aligned to business goals
- Prepare businesses to react, adapt and evolve with resilience and success.
- Ensure the organization is on an ‘always future-ready’ technology mode.
- Strong domain knowledge and business acumen to ensure company’s technologies are used appropriately.
- Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors.
- Prioritize opportunity area that can be solved given the organizational capacity and feasibility.
- Create product concepts to achieve the goal of business solutions for our customers.
- Refine, validate and identify top product concepts using available data.
- Rapidly test and iterate identified product concept among users.
- Create prototypes of the successfully tested product concepts.
- Translate insights into a product strategy from driving consensus internally, design, engineering, operations, forging required partnerships, and developing success metrics.
- Work with operations subject matter experts and use a broad range of sources to develop innovative functionality.
- Design processes, workflows, and functional components to improve efficiency.
- Work with designers, developers (both locally and remotely) and subject matter experts to get project requirements well scoped, designed and built.
- Map out talent requirement for the product.
- Closely cooperate with internal teams such as business operations and sales, e-channels to launch the product.
- Establish product delivery timelines in close collaboration with internal teams and keep stakeholders updated on.
- Evaluate and implement new technologies, systems and infrastructure for competitive advantage in the current, dynamic digital finance ecosystem in Nigeria.
- Manage all technology assets with the right teams to ensure optimum return of investment using the ITIL framework including availability, quality, performance, capacity management, financial management, change management, risk management, incident and problem management and license management.
- Build payments landscape, upgrade plan /roadmap to support business growth and innovation.
Job Requirements
- Minimum educational qualification: B.Sc. / HND in any related discipline with cognate experience
- 7+ years of proven experience as a product manager, Developer, IT infrastructure systems engineer or similar leadership role, preferably in Fintech, Banking, or software development industry.
- Knowledge of technological trends to build strategy.
- Understanding of budgets and business-planning would be an additional asset.
Application Deadline
5th May, 2023.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV as an attachment to: jobs@ab-mfbnigeria.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
Note
- Failure to comply with the application instruction would disqualify your application.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
