Current Job Openings in a Leading Bank

Smart Partners Consulting - Our client, a top player in the Banking Sector in Lagos, has given us the mandate to deliver and fill the position below:     Job Title: Business Analyst Location: Lagos Job Role

• Work with business leaders to identify and frame their IT needs and translate Business requirements into IT Projects, assist the Business in the Creation of Business Cases and Cost-Benefit Analysis and work with Project Managers to ensure that Projects are delivered on-time, on-Budget and Within Scope

• Managing project governance responsibilities (In-country & Center)
• Support the preparation and review of Business cases
• Assist the business with the gathering of Functional and Non-Functional Requirements for key IT projects and enhancements
• Manage project documentation and ensuring objectives set out are achieved preventing scope creep
• Prioritization and efficient time management
• Support the delivery of technology projects on time, cost and scope
• Support a strong, cohesive partnership with all stakeholders through frequent communication and dialogue to ensure a smooth relationship and keep a good pulse on their IT experience.
• Creating Status Reports for Delivery to Business and IT Executives
• Management of Project Governance shared folder
• Ensures adherence to defined IT Project Governance policies
• Ensure strict compliance to IT ‘s Standard Operating Processes
• Any other duties as may be assigned by Department Head & Team Leader

• Project stakeholders satisfaction levels
• Number of projects/WR delivered successfully without complaints
• Internal customer satisfaction level with IT support
• No of Projects delivered on time, scope, within budget
• Compliance to IT Project Governance, Process and Function
• Compliance level to project governance
• Feedback from In-country and Center to include IT Steering Committee
• Number and value of sanctions received as a result of non-compliance to IT policies
• Zero Audit exceptions
• Other KPIs identified by Head of Project Management Office

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong customer focus and ability to manage client expectations
• Proven ability to work under stress in emergencies; flexibility to handle pressure coming from all directions simultaneously
• Must be service orientated
• Good communication skills
• Strong team-orientated interpersonal skills; ability to effectively interface with a wide variety of people at all levels
• Self-motivated and able to work under little supervision
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to interact with users at all levels.
• Pay attention to details
• Result oriented
• People management skills

• Preferably certified in CBAP, Prince 2 Foundation, Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or other project management qualifications.

• Manage project schedule and resource management
• Review project and business requirements and advice business
• Support during project rollouts and work request changes.
• Project financial management
• Team player
• Stakeholder management
• Set and ensure adherence to procedures with regards to application configuration and deployment

• The primary responsibilities of the role are to design and create innovative digital solutions and ensure that these are aligned with both clients and organisation’s business objectives.
• Comfortable in designing and developing solutions using the latest and emerging technologies, with a number of years’ demonstrable experience of web, mobile and database development and a genuine interest in development technologies.

• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
• Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Develops software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.
• Designing innovative solutions to problems using the latest technologies and platforms, in support of both client and internal business requirements
• Build secure web and mobile solutions - writing code, testing and producing rapid prototypes. This includes writing and maintaining code for both new and legacy systems, across a mixture of client and internal technical projects in order to support the wider business with their everyday functions.
• Share knowledge of tools and techniques with colleagues, including non-technical personnel
• Support colleagues in business development activities, including proposal writing, estimating and client presentations
• Help maintain the quality system for the Team including Software Development Processes and Standard Operating Procedures

• Degree level education/relevant experience in the industry
• Commercial experience gained through a minimum of 5 years in a technology or banking and finance product development environment

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong customer focus and ability to manage client expectations
• Proven ability to work under stress in emergencies; flexibility to handle pressure coming from all directions simultaneously
• Self-motivated and able to work under little supervision.
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) to technical and non-technical team members plus the ability and willingness to effectively communicate with clients at all levels during project lifecycle
• Willing to learn new languages/technologies and adapt to project specific requirements where necessary.
• Experience of using modern web development languages. C#.Net is preferred, but PHP Developers or VB.Net will also be considered
• Strong experience in JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Strong experience of using JavaScript libraries such as JQuery and JQueryUI
• Understanding of using transport technologies such as JSON, REST, AJAX and XML
• SQL programming and DB administration experience
• Experience in cross browser and cross device development, including in implementing responsive UI design
• Experience of web and mobile standards and how to apply these to the development process
• Strong knowledge of delivering digital and mobile platforms via Cloud, SaaS and On Premise installations and associated server technology
• Knowledge of Quality Assurance and Software Testing methodologies and experience of producing technical documentation
• Ability to gather requirements in order to deliver solutions which meet the demands of our clients combined with a good understanding of the business value of technology
• Ability to work to deadlines and manage time and quality of own and others tasks on a large number of concurrent client projects
• Familiarity with XCode and iOS development
• Familiarity with mobile development frameworks on Android, Windows Mobile and iOS
• Previous experience of creating web services
• Experience of using Content Management Systems such as Joomla or SharePoint
• An understanding of data security would be an advantage
• Previous project management experience, in both a waterfall and agile environment
• Ability to administer Hyper-V, Windows, SQL Server, MySQL, IIS and both LAMP and WAMP stacks

• Analyzing Information, General Programming Skills, Software Design, Software Debugging, Software Documentation, Software Testing, Problem Solving, Teamwork, Software Development Fundamentals, Software Development Process, Software Requirements