Managing Director at Alan & Grant

Alan & Grant - Our client is a full-service brokerage house offering stock broking and advisory services to local and foreign private and institutional bodies.

They are recruiting suitable candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Managing Director

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full time
Industry: Financial Services

Job Objective

• The Position Holder is responsible for providing strategic leadership for the company by collaborating with the Board of Directors, and the Executive Management Committee of the Holding Company to establish long-range goals, strategies, plans and policies.

Key Responsibilities

• Managing Corporate Performance: Responsible for managing corporate-level performance of ARM Securities, on key parameters such as corporate profitability, AUM size, e.t.c.
• Securities Trading Digital Platforms: Responsible for birthing digital platforms that present optimal securities trading offerings to the different target segments in the market. Enable customers to buy and sell stocks and other financial investments via a brokerage's proprietary trading platform. Drive digital transformation agenda of the company
• Business Development and Customer Excellence: Develop and execute a strategy to increase subscription, revenue, and market share of the company. Understand customer needs and respond with products and services in order to achieve business objectives. Drive retail and institutional sales via aggressive customer acquisition and execution of innovative marketing strategies and campaigns
• Business Strategy Execution: Collaborate with the Board of Directors to craft the organization’s long- term strategy in line with environmental imperatives, drive the communication and cascade of the defined strategy for the business strategy across both the group’s portfolio businesses, and shared services departments, and provide leadership on the strategy’s implementation.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Responsible for the proactive, and continuous engagement of relevant internal and external Stakeholders (Board, Regulatory Bodies, Management Team, Local Community e.t.c.) concerned, or affected by the organization’s activities, products or services, and associated performance, with the end purpose of eliciting their support and cooperation for the organization’s desired goals.
• General Management: Provides strategic oversight over the day-to-day operations of the entirety of the organization.
• Strategic Initiatives: Responsible for driving the implementation of strategic initiatives that sustain / improve the organization’s competitive advantage within its operating environment.
• Drive Long-term Shareholder Value: Drive the optimization of shareholder value over the long term, whilst balancing the competing needs of the organization’s various stakeholders, and multiple perspectives (i.e. financial, customer service, process, and innovation).
• People Management: Responsible for driving and sustaining strategic people management practices that support the organization’s ability to achieve its corporate objectives through optimal talent resourcing, employee engagement, talent management, and people development.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in any discipline. Master's Degree will be an advantage along with relevant certifications, including the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers certification.
• Minimum of 10 years work experience in digital investment environments, developing and providing investment options to retail and institutional investors.
• Analytical Thinking 
• Customer Service Orientation
• Entrepreneurship skills
• Flexibility
• Accountability
• Intercultural Competence
• Leadership skills
• Inter-relationship skills
• Technical Research 
• Securities and Derivatives Trading
• Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
• Key Account Management
• Macroeconomic Analysis
• Market and Regulatory Environment
• Business Acumen

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.