First Bank latest Job Recruitment (November 2019) – Requirements & how to apply: 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 – Apply here!
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 following vacant positions below:
Job Title: Sub Dean, Leadership School
Job ID: 1900005R
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Schedule: Regular
Shift: Standard
Organization: Managing Director
Duties & Responsibilities
- Provide leadership in implementing the vision and strategic planning for the school and its programmes
- As a subject matter expert, participate in the learning and development processes and course reviews to ensure up-to-date curricula
- Promote faculty and staff development within the school, including the greater use of teaching evaluation and student feedback to improve learning and facilitation
- Support the Dean in the designated role of Presiding Officer to the faculty learning and teaching committees
- Review faculty performance in learning and teaching evaluations and provide advice to the Dean and faculty board on ways to improve learning and teaching processes in the faculty.
- Perform other duties as assigned within the scope of the position – Click Here To View Details
Job Title: Sub Dean, Foundation & People Management
Job ID: 1900005S
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Schedule: Regular
Shift: Standard
Organization: MD/CE Directorate
Duties & Responsibilities
- Provide leadership in implementing the vision and strategic planning for the school and its programmes
- As a subject matter expert, participate in the learning and development processes and course reviews to ensure up-to-date curricula
- Promote faculty and staff development within the school, including the greater use of teaching evaluation and student feedback to improve learning and facilitation
- Support the Dean in the designated role of Presiding Officer to the faculty learning and teaching committees
- Review faculty performance in learning and teaching evaluations and provide advice to the Dean and faculty board on ways to improve learning and teaching processes in the faculty.
- Perform other duties as assigned within the scope of the position – Click here to apply online
Job Title: Regional Admin/Finance Coordinator
Job ID: 1900005T
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Schedule: Regular
Shift: Standard
Organization: Managing Director
Duties & Responsibilities
- Monitor Budget and provide cost control to ensure cost remains within budget limit
- Provide classrooms allocations and food vendors for usage in programmes to ensure support services
- Facilitate cost settling issues: Process payments to Service Providers/Consultants/contractors and apportionment of cost to participating branches/department
- Attend to all budget variance queries providing timely and accurate response
- Ensure the adoption of upcountry learning centers cost into First Academy’s various accounts for effective cost planning and monitoring
- Manage and provide premises maintenance to provide a conducive environment for learning
- Attending to staff matters as it relates to First Academy
- Generate weekly activity reports and timely rendition of same
- As part of the Bank’s Information Security requirements, maintain the security of all Information entrusted to the staff and comply with the principles and policies in the Information Security Handbook – Click here to apply online
Job Title: Dean, Specialized Banking School
Job ID: 1900005U
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Schedule: Regular
Shift: Standard
Organization: Managing Director
Duties & Responsibilities
- Contribute towards the visioning, and anchor the strategic planning, development and rollout of the Specialised Banking and Management Schools.
- Spearhead proactive consultations/engagements with Business Units on issues around Management development with a view to translating requirements into learning needs and preparing periodic Training Schedules/Plans
- Oversee the day-to-day running (academic and administrative) of the Specialised Banking and Management schools bank-wide, which includes BIC (Congo) and other FirstBank offshore locations.
- Anchor competency assessments exercises necessary for identifying competency gaps relative to programmes within the Specialised Banking and Management Schools
- Preside over periodic course review and new course development processes, with a view to ensure the inclusion of quality learning and teaching methods in the various course/programme structures.
- Lead Vendor Assessment/Engagement processes and actively manage/maintain relationships with External Faculty/Partners for the Specialised Banking Schools and the Management School.
- Broker strategic alliances and partnerships with best-in-class Global and Professional Institutions for the purpose of acquiring necessary accreditations and certifications for various Faculty programmes/courses
- Champion the design/development of best-suited training evaluation methods necessary to drive the achievement of the desired learning outcomes (i.e. individual and business outcomes) for programmes within the Faculty II
- Prepare periodic reports to Management on the business impact of training programmes – i.e. reports showing the measure of training effectiveness/ROI
- Suggest necessary improvements/updates to Policies especially on learning/teaching for consideration by the Head, FirstAcademy
- Represent FirstAcademy Faculty II to various internal constituencies including FirstBank Management, Internal Faculty as well as the cross-section of FirstBank Staff
- As part of the Bank’s Information Security requirements, maintain the security of all Information entrusted to the staff and comply with the principles and policies in the Information Security Handbook – Click here to apply online
Job Title: Performance Management & Reporting Specialist
Job ID: 1900005W
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Schedule: Regular
Shift: Standard
Organization: Technology and Services
Duties & Responsibilities
- Design, develop and update a holistic measurement dashboard to track and measure service performance indicators
- Stakeholder engagement with the Heads of the various SBUs, Branches and internal departments
- Conducting detailed business analysis of the BO&S Group, outlining problems, opportunities and solutions for the business
- Ownership of the Branch Operations MPR and QPR Sessions
- Assist the GH to Interpret, evaluate and interrelate research data and develop integrated business analyses and projections for incorporation into strategic decision-making for the BO&S Group
- Create informative, actionable and repeatable reporting & analytics that highlight relevant business trends and opportunities for improvement via the Operations Management Dashboard (to give a high-level snap shot of performance across key operations metrics
- Suggest changes to senior management using analytics to support recommendations. Actively participate in the implementation of approved changes
- MIS reporting (liaise with IT to mine operations data from MIS and prepare technical reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends
- Perform daily, weekly and monthly reviews and analysis of current processes using operational metrics and reports
- Assist the GH in liaising with BPM for Cost & Budget Management activities for the BO&S Group
- Understand and communicate the financial and operational impact of changes in the BO&S Group
- Support the GH in providing financial insights that help the decision-making process, and align capital and resource allocation within the business’ budget
- Staff Productivity Analysis (branch manning & resource levels vis-à-vis branch output) to ensure operational efficiency at various branch levels
- Ensure branch compliance to regulations
- Closely track and report on Customer Service Metrics related to Branch operations
- Conduct market analyses, analyzing product lines, revenue and the overall profitability of the BO&S Group
- Assist the GH with forecasting activities as well as variance analysis
- Plan and coordinate the development of primary and secondary market research studies in support of strategic planning and specific operations & services initiatives, as required and presents findings to Management and other relevant stakeholders
- Conduct insightful, ad hoc analyses to investigate ongoing or one-time operational issues – Click here to apply online
Job Title: Learning Advisory Coordinator
Job ID: 1900005V
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Schedule: Regular
Shift: Standard
Organization: Managing Director
Duties & Responsibilities
- Work with the Chief Learning Officer to promote the academy’s strategic purpose
- Provide leadership and co-ordination in curriculum planning for staff training and development, towards ensuring the progression in lifelong learning for all staff
- Review and lead the development of curriculum for the various schools of the First Academy
- Plan, design and implement competency-based training curricula for each designated school at the academy
- Scope, develop and manage learning interventions that will ensure the acquisition of required business and functional competencies
- Consult and partner with line managers/business owners to translate operational/functional requirements into learning needs
- Support the business units to ensure training effectiveness, efficiency and alignment throughout the key stages of an employee’s lifecycle; from sourcing to succession planning
- Consult stakeholders on curriculum development, competency objectives and material selection, and alignment with business strategies
- Ensure that learning objectives are met through assessment processes and procedures
- Act as an advocate and intermediary for appropriate curricula review
- Develop and manage evaluation methodologies and reporting metrics to support business planning and the measurement of programme effectiveness
- Build and sustain relationships with training providers and accreditation bodies to deliver effective training activities to the business
- Promote quality assurance processes for the design and delivery of curriculum programmes falling within the remit of the academy
- Nurture and encourage innovation and a continuous improvement mindset within curriculum management teams, in response to global best practices – Click here to apply online
Job Title: Head, Financial and Regulatory Reporting
Job ID: 1900005Q
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Schedule: Regular
Shift: Standard
Organization: Chief Financial Officer Directorate
Duties & Responsibilities
- Responsible for the preparation of monthly management and financial reports
- Co-ordinate all external audits e.g. statutory audit, regulatory audits
- Reviewing daily CBN returns before submission
- Develop and maintain documentation of Accounting policies and procedures.
- Establish and execute controls for compliance to the Group’s accounting and financial reporting procedure.
- Develop, support and maintain all financial accounting systems and ensure that they are compliant with IFRS, the Group’s accounting policy and other regulatory requirements.
- Review valuation of financial assets/ liabilities on a regular basis and proposes journals to state them in line with IFRS.
- Ensure that the consolidated financial statements and reports are prepared in accordance with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), the Group accounting policies and other regulatory reporting requirements.
- Provision of all IFRS disclosures in the financial statements for the annual audit, including the accounting entries and disclosure requirements for specific transactions, such as RBO.
- Provide support to the Accounts unit and ensure that all product manuals are in compliance with IFRS & the Group’s accounting policy before they are approved.
- Provide support to the GL control unit and ensure that all GLs report numbers that are in compliance with IFRS & the Group’s accounting policy and also assess the risk of the GLs that are not compliant.
- Provide support to the subsidiaries’ finance team and ensure that all reports prepared by them are in compliance with IFRS & the Group’s accounting policy and oversee their IFRS implementation.
- Act as an educator of the Bank and Group at large by providing necessary education/ enlightenment on IFRS and implementation of accounting policies.
- Perform in-depth financial analysis of the financial reports
- Provide support to the Bank and Group on Business intelligence, technical accounting issues and guidance on the financial implications of entering complex financial transactions.
- Perform impact assessment of new IFRS & regulatory policies, proposed and final, and assist in their implementation.
- Preparation of group impact memoranda for all IFRS developments.
- Perform relevant ratio computations and advice management on their implications to the financial health of the Bank & Group. Benchmark these ratios against industry players and best standards.
- Perform pre and post-acquisition valuation of subsidiaries and account for business combinations.
- Perform valuation of the Bank’s Intangible Assets
Job Title: Head, Financial and Regulatory Reporting
Job ID: 1900005Q
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Schedule: Regular
Shift: Standard
Organization: Chief Financial Officer Directorate
Duties & Responsibilities
- Responsible for the preparation of monthly management and financial reports
- Co-ordinate all external audits e.g. statutory audit, regulatory audits
- Reviewing daily CBN returns before submission
- Develop and maintain documentation of Accounting policies and procedures.
- Establish and execute controls for compliance to the Group’s accounting and financial reporting procedure.
- Develop, support and maintain all financial accounting systems and ensure that they are compliant with IFRS, the Group’s accounting policy and other regulatory requirements.
- Review valuation of financial assets/ liabilities on a regular basis and proposes journals to state them in line with IFRS.
- Ensure that the consolidated financial statements and reports are prepared in accordance with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), the Group accounting policies and other regulatory reporting requirements.
- Provision of all IFRS disclosures in the financial statements for the annual audit, including the accounting entries and disclosure requirements for specific transactions, such as RBO.
- Provide support to the Accounts unit and ensure that all product manuals are in compliance with IFRS & the Group’s accounting policy before they are approved.
- Provide support to the GL control unit and ensure that all GLs report numbers that are in compliance with IFRS & the Group’s accounting policy and also assess the risk of the GLs that are not compliant.
- Provide support to the subsidiaries’ finance team and ensure that all reports prepared by them are in compliance with IFRS & the Group’s accounting policy and oversee their IFRS implementation.
- Act as an educator of the Bank and Group at large by providing necessary education/ enlightenment on IFRS and implementation of accounting policies.
- Perform in-depth financial analysis of the financial reports
- Provide support to the Bank and Group on Business intelligence, technical accounting issues and guidance on the financial implications of entering complex financial transactions.
- Perform impact assessment of new IFRS & regulatory policies, proposed and final, and assist in their implementation.
- Preparation of group impact memoranda for all IFRS developments.
- Perform relevant ratio computations and advice management on their implications to the financial health of the Bank & Group. Benchmark these ratios against industry players and best standards.
- Perform pre and post-acquisition valuation of subsidiaries and account for business combinations.
- Perform valuation of the Bank’s Intangible Assets
Job Requirements
Education:
- Minimum Education: First degree in Applied or Social Sciences, Higher Degree/ Professional accounting qualification such as ACCA, ACA, or its equivalent
Experience:
- At least twelve years post Qualification experience, of which four should have been in a managerial role.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should Click here to apply online