Finance Business Partner Lead at First Bank of Nigeria Limited

First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) is Nigeria's largest financial services institution by total assets and gross earnings. With more than 10 million customer accounts, FirstBank has over 750 branches providing a comprehensive range of retail and corporate financial services. The Bank has international presence through its subsidiaries, FBN Bank (UK) Limited in London and Paris, FBNBank DRC, FBNBank Ghana, FBNBank Gambia, FBNBank Guinea, FBNBank Sierra-Leone and FBNBank Senegal, as well as its Representative Offices in Johannesburg, Beijing and Abu Dhabi.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Finance Business Partner Lead

Job Identification: 139
Location: Lagos

Job Description
The Business Partner Lead‘s responsibilities are to:

• Maintain an accurate, creditable and reliable MIS (Management Information System) system for the SBU performance reporting and ensure the integrity of account segmentation & ownership
• Monitor and review the SBUs performance against budget, historical trend, and competition, provide appropriate insight to support required action and make recommendations for business improvement
• Deliver all performance reports and analytics required to monitor the BU performance, across channels, products, customers, locations etc.
• Facilitate periodic performance review sessions in the business areas overseen
• Drive and implement budgetary control and cost optimization initiatives
• Support the SBUs in crafting, defending and cascading their budgets and forecasts
• Support the establishment of clear, fair and measurable performance metrics, targets and accountabilities for all functions in the area of oversight
• Facilitate engagements on scorecards and other performance initiatives.
• Deliver periodic individual performance reports using Balanced Scorecard framework and resolve all issues arising from Scorecards, MIS and Budget within the BUs
• Identify and drive processes for efficiency improvement and provide decision support to the Group Executives in the SBUs as may be required from time to time
• Any other responsibilities as may be assigned by Head, BPM.

Qualifications

• A Finance professional with minimum 15 years’ experience, including at least 5 years in a similar managerial role. FCA, CFA or similar professional qualifications will be advantageous.

Application Closing Date
4:51 pm: 31st May, 2021.