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: Business Analyst
Job Identification: 1725
Location: Nigeria
Job Schedule: Full time
Duties & Responsibilties
- Support the Finance Business Partner in budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning for various business units.
- Conduct detailed financial analysis, variance analysis, and trend reporting to inform business performance and identify improvement opportunities.
- Assist in the preparation and review of monthly, quarterly, and annual management reports for senior management and regulatory bodies.
- Collaborate with business units to gather, validate, and document financial and operational data, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
- Identify, recommend, and track key performance indicators (KPIs) in line with business objectives and regulatory requirements.
- Develop business cases and financial models to support new initiatives, product launches, or strategic projects.
- Support in facilitating financial review meetings, preparing presentations and supporting documentation as needed.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls, financial policies, and regulatory standards applicable to the Nigerian banking sector.
- Act as a liaison between finance, IT, risk, and other support departments to resolve issues and drive process improvements.
- Participate in special assignments and ad hoc projects as directed by the Finance Business Partner and Head of Finance.
- Identify and collate appropriate data for scorecard generation
- Cascade the business unit’s budget to the the groups, teams, desks and relationship managers
- Prepare customer profitability analysis for RMs on request.
- Track performance effectively.
- Generate and communicate scorecards to End-Users
- Assist in the resolution of conflicts arising from Scorecards, MIS, Expense control, Budget of these groups
- Facilitate robust performance dialogues.
- Facilitate enlightenment/training sessions on scorecards and other Performance Initiatives.
- Maintain the Security of all Information entrusted to the staff.
- Any other responsibilities as may be assigned by Business Partner
Job Requirements
Education:
- First Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Science or Engineering.
- Master’s Degree/Professional certification in Accounting or Finance (ACA, CIBN or similar professional qualifications).
Experience:
- Experience in MIS (Management Information System).
- Proficiency in Microsoft office suite and leading analytics tools, SQL, etc.
- Experience in Finance or Accounting.
- Minimum of 6 years’ relevant experience, in MIS, Finance, Forecasting, budgeting or finance role
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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