JOB TITLE: Business Strategy Associate
JOB LOCATION: Lekki Pennisula, Lagos
JOB DETAILS:
- 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.
Required Qualifications
- First Degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
- Postgraduate/professional qualification in a numerate field will be an added advantage.
- Minimum of three (3) to four (4) years’ work experience.
- Past work experience as a management consultant is desired.
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.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
Deadline: August 31, 2021
Job Features
Job Category | Consulting / Business Strategy/ Planning |