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 below:
Job Title: Unit Head, Service Management & End User Support
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Objective(s)
Designing and implementing an IT strategy and road-map across IT ecosystem, with a core objective to improve the IT service capability enabling the business to achieves their corporate growth strategy
To define clear roles, directions, responsibilities, performance requirements and targets for the team.
To provide an operational monitoring of production applications, servers, and network using a combination of monitoring tools to ensure availability and first-rate customer experience
Manage the implementation of technology changes impacting operations. These changes may be associated with new services or modification of existing services.
To ensure the successful delivery of changes and releases to all relevant ICT Services, with responsibility for change and release management processes.
Provides leadership, direction and supervision, and day-to-day operational and technical support to members of the desktop and media support teams; mentors, coaches and leads; assign task, establishes priorities, monitors, reviews and supervises completion of assignments on time; conducts performance evaluations and initiates corrective actions.
Duties & Responsibilities
Coordinate customer service operations and find ways to ensure customer retention
Encourage growth through technical innovations, have creative control over the IT service delivery, to improve and enhance customer experience
Report on operational performance and suggest improvements
Identify, propose and participate in the implementation of new services based on trends, internal demand (e.g. business plans) and external demand (e.g. regulatory requirements)
Continuously monitor and report service levels to ensure responsiveness of IT to business
Provide leadership for the enterprise Service Management operations
Ensure prompt and effective delivery of all enterprise application to the bank customers Engaged users to obtain business requirements on a timely basis and facilitate prompt implementation.
Lead proactive monitoring, operation, and maintenance of all enterprise applications to support
operations and ensure compliance to relevant standards
Manage the desktop computing environment to ensure that laptops, PC’s and other accessed
devices are built and maintained to high standards of performance and security for the bank and the subsidiaries
Manages and facilitates prioritization of demand by collaborating with key stakeholders to identify users’ business requirements for process and service improvement
Provide technical support for users across applications and systems; understand user problems / questions, identify root causes, providing solutions where appropriate, refer unresolved items to appropriate second level support team.
Manage the escalation of issues for resolution at appropriate levels
Liaise with the user support teams, and second line support teams to ensure an efficient, seamless and cost-effective approach to support. Continuous follow up on 2nd level support team to treat and resolve all escalated issues by sending outstanding open calls on daily basis to all IT support staff
Identify, propose and participate in the implementation of new services based on trends, internal demand (e.g., business plans) and external demand (e.g., regulatory requirements)
Continuously monitor and report service levels to ensure responsiveness of IT to business
Attain stability across all IT platform by collaborating with Command center team to ensure that
services are monitored, and attention of Service Owners is drawn for prompt resolution
Analyze team and individual performance, identify weakness, coach and mentor in the area required. Ensure that each team member performs optimally
Lead and develop the team members to support their career growth and contribute to the achievement of organizational goals
To support staff on the roll-out of any agreed processes to be tracked and monitored equally incorporate any changes that will improve processes to the monitoring catalog
Responsible for ensuring staff are properly trained, efficient, and productive
Provide technical consultation and advice for enhanced business performance and improvement benchmarks to a range of decision makers
Job Requirements
Education:
A minimum of First Degree or its equivalent in a Business / IT related discipline
Master's Degree, MBA or a recognized professional certification will be an added advantage.
Experience:
10+ years of experience in an IT services/ operations function