Latest Job Vacancies at Growth in Value Alliance Partners

Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners is a business advisory and market intelligence services firm. Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy blueprint, IT solution delivery expertise and business operation improvement capabilities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: IT Security Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Contract

Responsibilities
An exciting opportunity exists for a dynamic and IT security engineer to join a dynamic project team for a 6 months project. The resource shall be responsible for the following:

• Participate in the delivery cybersecurity through vulnerability and threat identification, incident detection and response, forensic investigations, Patch and Vulnerability Management. Engage with infrastructure and applications teams in mitigation and remediation efforts.
• Engage with other IT units to establish and enforce security best practices, protection objectives and process improvements.
• Review and make recommendations regarding on-premise, data centre and cloud infrastructure, networking and security settings and posture.
• Create and maintain key metrics that are indicative of security posture of the infrastructure.
• Keep abreast of threat intelligence feeds to stay abreast of industry reports and emerging threat that may affect

Functions

• Lead cybersecurity initiatives in conjunction with Group Cybersecurity team.
• Design and implement security controls to safeguard and monitor events for information systems, enterprise applications and data.
• Lead the implementation of Information Security projects
• Drive internal and external vulnerability assessment, penetration tests engagements and manage results to remediation.
• Respond to escalated security events and drive security incident response processes to ensure timely resolution with minimal disruption.
• Design, document, and deploy secure infrastructure solutions to enhance and evolve the security posture of the business to ensure integrity, availability and confidentiality of all critical enterprise data.
• Provide expertise on security tools, including but not limited to firewalls, Web Application firewalls, IDS/IDP, anti-malware software
• Liaise with stakeholders in respect of operational implementation of security policies and best practices
• Prevent data loss and service interruptions by researching new technologies that will effectively protect the enterprise network.

Supervisory / Managerial Responsibilities

• Ensure conformance to Cyber security Blueprint/Roadmap
• Provide inputs to company strategic plan on all initiatives to ensure that Security gaps/vulnerabilities are identified & closed
• Establish and ensure credibility through strong relationships, value-add to operations and professionalism

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years experience in an area of Security specialisation; with experience working with others
• Experience working in a Large organization and preferably in the Telecommunications industry
• Strong background as an Engineer/Architect in application security infrastructure and various network technologies to include devices such as firewalls, VPN, intrusion/extrusion detection, vulnerability & risk assessment tools, encryption technologies, virus/worm/malware prevention, E-business and web application technologies, Data Loss Prevention, whole disk & device encryption solutions, two-factor authentication, common Windows (desktop & server) platforms,
• Experience with Microsoft, Solaris, Unix, Oracle and MSSQL
• Experience working in telecommunications industry
• Managingnetworkand/ornetworksecurity
• Knowledge should be current with information security best practices and global trends
• Knowledge of security best practices such as; defense in-depth, least privileges, need-to-know, separation of duties, access controls, encryption
• Useraccountidentity,authorizationandauthenticationmanagement.
• Securityincidentandeventmanagement
• Experience in researching new or emerging technologies and processes that may be incorporated as solutions to reoccurring security concern

Training:

• Penetration Testing
• Vulnerability life cycle management
• Advanced Security IncidenceReponse
• Systems Auditing,, Database Security, Firewall Design, Intrusion detection system administration Implementation
• Security enforcement on systems level, security audit and vulnerability management
• Telecommunications,Network,wireless&InternetSecurity

Qualified and Interested candidates should send their resumes in PDF to [email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected] using the Job Title as subject of the email.

Application Deadline 31st May, 2021.

Job Title: Senior Associate (Legal)

Location: Lagos

Requirements
The right candidate will have:

Technical Skills:

• Detail oriented, good analytical skill with an interest in investment banking and investment management.
• This person will have experience working as an associate on corporate law, corporate finance and similar legal matters.
• Preferably the candidate will have professional experience handling matters for corporate and investment banking clients.
• The right candidate will have an interest in expanding their skill set and assuming increasing responsibility in investment banking and investment management and will be teachable, a quick learner.
• Communication to senior executives will be a key part of this role, which would report to a Partner.

Independence:

• We are a flat organization, and we want someone who is able to report to very senior people and work thoroughly with minimal supervision.
• We are prepared to compensate generously, and we will expect to examine candidates to verify their skills.

Qualifications

• 1st Class or 2nd Class Degree.
• 2 - 5 years of professional experience in corporate law, corporate finance, and/or regulatory compliance matters.
• Experience dealing with regulatory filings and offer documents for debt or M&A offerings.
• Experience with matter relating to the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission would be appealing.

Interested and qualified candidate should send their CV to: [email protected] copying [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.

Job Title: Chief Technology Officer

Location: Lagos

Responsibilities
Overall Strategic Leadership:

• Set the firm’s technical vision, develop and implement strategies to achieve business objectives
• Ensure that the firm’s technology and systems evolve at a pace that continues to exceed client and business expectations
• Lead the strategy for application delivery, technology platforms, partnerships, and external relationships
• Foster an agile and continuous improvement culture within the firm
• Demonstrate fidelity to the organization’s culture in words and deeds

Strategic Management:

• Develop technical policies, processes, and procedures to achieve operational needs, and ensure adherence
• Oversee and scale the firm's technology in terms of people, systems, and processes
• Make decisions that impact the current and future operations of the company Manage the engineering budget and make investments to align the firm with its vision Provide strategic insights and visibility into the going state of the firm’s infrastructure to the Executive Council.

People and Operations Management:

• Recruit, manage, mentor, and provide sound technical leadership to a high performing, world-class and collaborative engineering team
• Lead the engineering team in the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of high-quality products/features, and business tools.
• Manage and scale the firm’s technology platform to serve millions of users
• Work with cross-functional teams to understand and translate the business needs to sought-after products by our clients
• Define the product road map in collaboration with the product management team
• Identify and prioritize development initiatives, set timetable for the evaluation, development, and deployment of all products and solutions
• Conduct application tests and supervise the quality assurance for the web app, mobile app, and software
• Create and maintain excellent documentation of all specifications, systems, and procedures
• Automate operational delivery and management processes from build/test/deploy to monitoring, alerting, and capacity management
• Develop and implement a framework for application security that prevents vulnerabilities against threats and safeguards the company’s resources and clients data
• Ensure all technological practices comply with regulatory standards
• Stay abreast of best practices, technology trends, and development
• Execute other job-related duties as they arise.

Requirements
Professional Expertise:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• At least 10 years working in a technological role
• At least 4 years of managerial experience leading diverse teams of engineers
• Experience building financial products is a plus
• Demonstrated experience in developing and deploying products that reached over 300,000 users
• Experience building business tools to enhance operations and efficiencies
• Strong mobile/web architecture experience
• Strong working knowledge of PHP, Python, Nodejs, React, JavaScript
• Demonstrated experience in using SQL, MySQL,
• Demonstrated experience in using API communication protocols such as REST, SOAP,
• Demonstrated experience with CI/CD deployment process
• Experience on server management, vulnerability assessment, security, etc
• Experience working in cloud environments such as Amazon AWS
• Excellent leadership and communication skills.

Personal Qualities:

• Demonstrated passion for technology and for developing sophisticated products for clients
• Evidence of being a doer – strong work ethic and self-accountability, and high emphasis on excellence
• Strong interpersonal communication skills, with a high degree of empathy
• Comfortable driving results in a fast-changing environment
• Ability to pay close attention to the details that make the difference between doing a good job and doing a great one
• Belief in the importance of lifelong learning and continuous development of self and team members
• Comfortable in an open and collaborative, team-focused, work culture
• A clear sense of a personal mission for one's career and life.

Job Title: Senior Financial  Analyst

Location: Lagos

Qualifications

• 1st Class or 2nd Class Degree
• 1-­3 years of professional experience in finance, accounting or banking.

Requirements
Technical Skills:

• Detail oriented, good with numbers and competitive, the right candidate will have some experience with financial modeling and valuation, and will be good with presentation generation and analysis
• This person will have advanced accounting skills and financial statement analysis abilities, and would have professional experience either with an investment bank or an accounting firm where they have formally learned how to evaluate financial information and how to present it.
• The right candidate will be an expert in Microsoft Excel, Word and Powerpoint, and will be teachable, and a quick learner. Communication to others will be a key part of this role, which requires collaboration and the ability to work in a team.

Independence:

• We are a flat organization, and we want someone who is able to report to very senior people and work thoroughly with minimal supervision.
• We are prepared to compensate generously, and we will expect to examine candidates to verify their skills.

Job Title: Dealer Trader

Location: Lagos

Job Requirements
The right candidate will have:
Experience:

• At least 2 years of experience trading bonds and bills, including primary and secondary market trading of treasury bills, sovereign bonds and corporate securities and instruments.

Required Skills:

• Detail oriented, good with numbers and competitive, the right candidate will have some experience with financial modeling and valuation, and will be good with presentation generation and analysis.
• Demonstrable experience and interaction with other dealers and traders in the market and demonstrated ability to keep tabs on prices and levels of security prices.
• This person should be able to work closely with other treasury market dealers and investors and should be entrepreneurial, able to build relationships with others in the market, collating relevant information and experienced in executing trades.
• This person should possess excellent research skills to help determine market sentiment via valuation and data analysis. This candidate should be conversant with FMDQ trading platforms, software and initiatives as well as being familiar with Bloomberg trading platform.
• Monitoring the Nigerian and international market performance. Monitoring prices in specific products. Providing key parties with daily trading information. Female candidate is preferred

Independence:

• We are a flat organization, and we want someone who can report to very senior executives and work thoroughly with minimal supervision.
• We are prepared to compensate generously, and we will expect to examine candidates to verify their skills.

Qualifications

• 1st Class or 2nd Class Upper Degree.
• At least, 2 - 5 years of progressive professional experience in trading.
• Experienced dealing with banks and other financial institutions that trade bonds and other securities.
• Must have completed the mandatory NYSC or have an exemption letter.

Interested and qualified candidate should send their CV to: [email protected] copying [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.