Business Manager, Partnerships Financing at Zedvance Finance Limited

Zedvance Finance Limited is Nigeria’s leading non-bank digital finance company. We are committed to providing tech-enabled consumer and business financing solutions in the most efficient and convenient manner while ensuring best-in-class customer service.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Business Manager, Partnerships Financing

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Reports To: Head, Commercial Partnerships

Job Summary

• We are seeking a qualified, motivated individual to join our organization as a Business Manager for Liquidity Solutions.
• As a Business Manager, you will be responsible for generating leads, creating loans and managing partners who rely on our quick and low collateral liquidity offerings for use-cases covering - invoice financing, asset financing. E-commerce BNPL credit and procurement financing.
• This role involves prospecting, business development, business analysis, partner relationship management, marketing and loan monitoring and providing actionable insights to support risk management strategy.

Responsibilities

• Sourcing and profiling potential clients and prospective partners and ensure the maintenance of a clear closable pipeline.
• Work closely with head, commercial partnerships, other members of the team and internal stakeholders responding to immediate or anticipated funding opportunities that fit each partner’s strategic priorities.
• Develop and manage long-term strategic partnerships with financing partners.
• Carry out first level due diligence for potential partners and ensure basic risk and capacity analysis to determine credit type and size.
• Prepare liquidity approval and delivery management in collaboration with relevant internal functions
• Repayment follow-up and partnerships scale up
• Recommend risk mitigation strategies to ensure alignment with the organization's risk tolerance and financing partnership objectives.
• Marketing and awareness engagement
• Track key performance indicators (KPIs) and benchmarks to ensure performance of set targets.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting or any other numerate/analytical field of study.
• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in business/value-chain lending covering use-cases such as invoice financing, asset financing, manufacturing input procurement financing, BNPL Credit, and other applicable commercial lending scenarios, preferably in a financial services institution.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
• Proficiency in sales and marketing techniques.
• Excellent research and data analysis capabilities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Customer service orientation
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Good critical-thinking skills; ability to effectively gather data, analyze and make well informed decisions.
• Proactiveness; going beyond the obvious, gathering complex data to get to the heart of issues.

Must have skills:

• Strong analytical skills
• Proficiency in sales and marketing techniques
• Attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Critical thinking
• Proactiveness
• Relationship management 

Application Closing Date
21st November, 2025.