Managing Director at a Leading Unit Licensed Microfinance Bank - Sales Force Consulting

Sales Force Consulting - Our client, a leading Unit Licensed Microfinance Bank located in Onitsha with over 20 years of operations, is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Managing Director

Location: Onitsha, Anambra
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Setting the overall strategic direction of the bank.
• Plans and implements the long-term business strategy of the bank to achieve its overall objectives.
• Overseeing the recruitment and hiring of competent personnel to achieve corporate goals and objectives speedily
• Devising a 5-year corporate and business plan to ensure that the company attains its objectives as cost-effectively and efficiently as possible.
• Working closely with the entire team to winning new business and increasing market share.
• Setting company-wide KPIs to evaluate the bank’s performance in all areas.
• Develop and maintain an effective marketing and public relations strategy to promote the products, services and image of the bank in the wider community.
• Setting of budgets and forecasts.
• Reporting results to the Board on a quarterly and annual basis.
• Devising clear cut strategies to leverage tech for operations and market penetration

Qualifications

• First Degree/HND in Accounting, Banking and Finance, Statistics, Economics and the Social Sciences. Professional qualification will be an added advantage.
• Candidate must have undergone the Microfinance Certification Program and obtained a Certificate in Microfinance Banking issued by the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).

Competency and Skill Requirements:

• A minimum of 12 years of work experience in financial services.
• A proven record of success in the senior management level, preferably in the microfinance banking industry.
• A wide knowledge of the microfinance banking industry.
• Candidate must be computer literate with the ability to use diverse MFB operations software
• Must be passionate about the use of digital platforms for banking operations.
• Experience in managing liquidity, as well as entire banking operations, is compulsory
• An understanding of financial management and wider management principles and techniques.
• Analytical and presentational skills.
• Knowledge of statutory requirements.
• A very high level of commercial awareness.
• Leadership skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Skills in audit and instituting effective internal controls.
• Use of computer and tech-savvy.

Application Closing Date
22nd February, 2023.