Paga is a licensed financial services company and a leading payments company in Nigeria with a massive transformative purpose – to make it simple for one billion people to access and use money. It was founded on the simple belief that the ubiquity of mobile phones can be leveraged in building an ecosystem that enables people to digitally send and receive money and creating simple financial access for everyone.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Software Architect
Location: Yaba, Lagos
Sector: Financial Services / FinTech
Reports to: Lead Software Architect or Business Lead
Summary
- Our purpose at Paga is to make it simple for 1 billion people to access and use money. We do that by delivering innovative financial services to the mass market across large, underserved markets.
- At Paga we value above all else, Collaboration, Ownership, Results Orientation, Integrity and Innovation (CORII).
- Product development activities at Paga fall within the Product Development group, which has distinct, full-stack (from a resource perspective) teams dedicated to different functional organization units in the company. For example, one of the functional teams in the Product Development team is the Agent Network Team which is responsible for development and delivery of products used by the large network of financial service delivery point (agents), across the countries where Paga exists.
- As a full-stack team, this team includes project management, product management, software and database engineering, quality assurance, and UI/UX/Product-Design resources. All teams execute product development using agile (Scrum) methodologies.
- As a Software Architect at Paga, you will be responsible for the technical ownership of entire products, platforms or services within the scope of Paga’s business.
- You will be responsible for designing and delivering systems that meet all the “ities” expected of enterprise-grade, financial systems (scalability, extensibility, security, etc.).
- You will be responsible for the technical oversight of one or more teams of Software and Database Engineers, working with you to realize your product vision.
Primary Responsibilities
- Vision & Strategic Leadership – Help develop and grow the technical vision for the Paga business and engage meaningfully in the strategic development of the overall business. Engage directly in business strategic leadership when it relates to product and technical decision making.
- Broad-scoped Technical Ownership – Independently oversees all software concerns for some of the major platform areas or services. Own end-to-end responsibility for a large portion of the software system including design and implementation and including a strong knowledge of complementary engineering aspects such as data management, dev-ops and infrastructure. Own responsibility for key delivery criteria such as performance, reliability, cost, security and maintainability for large portions of the system
- Technical Leadership – Oversees key architectural concerns such as security, scalability/performance, reliability, maintainability, and modularity. Applies a platform-wide perspective to decision making around these concerns, including infrastructural, deployment, delivery and other technically relevant concerns.
- Process Leadership – Drive development and improvement of technical product development processes in collaborations with product development management.
- Code Quality Review – Provide broad-scoped yet in-depth code review for technically complex and high-impact code changes.
- Partner Engagement – Working effectively with industry/ecosystem partners to accomplish product goals
Knowledge and Skill Requirements
- A degree in a related discipline
- 10+ years of continuous experience working on enterprise software application development OR an advanced degree in a related discipline and at least 8 years of continuous experience working on enterprise software application development
To be an effective Software Architect at Paga you must:
- Be able to quickly grasp abstract concepts and translate them into appropriately abstract or detailed software design and implementation.
- Be comfortable taking ownership for broad and important areas of enterprise software implementation.
- Be a core business resource for both technical and non-technical decision making and triage and make themselves available to this effect.
- Posses mastery over all key aspects of the frameworks and tools within your scope and have strong business-knowledge in the business functional areas you support. Have multi-functional expertise across large areas of the platform/services.
- Be comfortable in making technical decisions based on the consideration of many potential futures in decision making without knowing exactly what the future is.
- Clearly understand and effectively weigh business trade-offs in decision-making.
- Be comfortable operating at both a high and deep-dive (low) levels of abstraction.
- Be able to multitask well and be comfortable juggling multiple product-development streams at once.
- Be comfortable with rapid change and be comfortable taking ownership to deliver results in a high-pressure product development environment.
- Have a passion for quality and an ability and willingness to grow the ability of others in your team to meet those standards. Drive quality delivery across teams with which you work.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Junior Reconciliation Officer
Location: Yaba, Lagos
Reports To: Finance Operations Manager
Sector: Consumer Finance
Career Level: Entry Level
About The Role
- The Junior Reconciliation Officer will provide support to department activities with specific responsibility for the processing, recording, updating and reconciling financial information.
- The Officer will contribute to the efficient and effective workings of the finance department by executing daily tasks with a strong attention to detail. This role will utilize good teamwork, strong accounting knowledge, time management skills and effective problem solving to ensure success.
Primary Responsibilities
- Perform POS/bank reconciliations, analyse, investigate and resolve variances and reconciling items.
- Review and reconcile third party and Pagatech transactions to ensure accurate billing in a timely manner.
- Maintain accounting controls by following policies and procedures; complying with financial legal requirements.
- Effectively and efficiently manage resolution of disputed transactions in collaboration with customer support and the affected business partner.
- Assisting with month-end and year-end tasks.
Knowledge And Skill Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of a 2:1 (Preferably in Finance / Accounting)
- At least 1 – 2 years’ relevant experience in demonstrable experience.
- Problem solving skills
- Time management skills
- Strong MS Office skills, especially WORD and EXCEL
- Attention to details
- Speed and accuracy
- Task ownership
- Ability to learn fast.
- Communication skills
- Must be able to work in a high-velocity, high performance environment
- Must have completed the mandatory NYSC
Key Competencies:
- Initiative
- Self- driven and hardworking
- Organized
- Multitask and manage competing priorities
- Detail oriented
- Good team player
- Flexibility
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Senior Software Delivery Manager
Location: Yaba, Lagos
Department: Product Development
Sector: Financial Services / FinTech
Reports to: CTO
Summary
- Our purpose at Paga is to make it simple for 1 billion people to access and use money. We do that by delivering innovative financial services to the mass market across large, underserved markets.
- We were founded on the simple belief that the growing ubiquity of the internet and mobile phones enables us to build an ecosystem that empowers everyone to digitally send and receive money and to use simple but meaningful financial services.
- At Paga we value above all else, Collaboration, Ownership, Results Orientation, Integrity and Innovation (CORII).
- As a Senior Software Delivery Manager at Paga, you will own the day to day responsibility for the running of the software delivery process, providing leadership, focus, guidance, and coordination to drive multiple cross-functional Agile teams to deliver functionality across Paga’s many delivery platforms.
Primary Responsibilities
- Agile software delivery – Apply agile software principles as tailored to Paga’s operations to oversee the development lifecycle for teams applications and services, collaborating closely with software developers and managers to architect and curate the best technical design, and implementation and maintenance practices. Work with Team Leaders, Solution Architects, Product Owners, and Business Stakeholders in the roadmap definition process. Work with Support, Services, and Release management functions to roll out new features to Production and support the product in the field.
- Communication – Foster an environment of excellent communication to consistently maintain clarity and transparency about the software delivery process across a variety of company stakeholders.
- Project Management – Manage, execute, and communicate project plans and delivery commitments to maximize the performance of software teams while maintain a good and motivating working climate. Collaborate closely with UX, QA, Technical Writers, Solution Architects, and DevOps teams to deliver functionality within our regular release cycles.
- Process Improvement – Work with your team to continuously drive improvements in quality, productivity, and the software development processes, and champion best practices. Take a leadership role in the continuous evaluation and improvement of the software delivery practices in use at Paga.
- Recruitment & Human Capital Development – Help in the hiring, mentor, develop and maintain best-of-class software development teams. Assist in the coaching and mentoring current and future leaders within the team. Build and execute on training & Individual growth plans for the team.
- Team Leadership – Take a lead role in coordinating and fostering team development events (both social and professional) and with a view to maintaining a strong and positive team culture.
- Risk Management – Serve as a risk-management liaison for the product development team, working closely with the Paga Risk and Compliance teams to coordinate several risk management and audit activities for the product development team
- Business Impact Awareness, Pragmatism – Understands the tradeoffs between technical, analytical and product goals, and strive to create solutions that satisfy all of these goals
- Vision & Strategic Perspective – Engages consistently in the strategic decision-making process. Help develop and grow the technical vision for the Paga business and engage meaningfully in the strategic development of the overall business. Consistently communicates strategic context and understanding to the broader team
- Ownership & Results Orientation – Demonstrates self-motivation and initiative taking in personal and professional level. Takes decisive and accurate action to deliver value. Accepts responsibility for outcomes even when elements are not within his/her control, providing a balanced and objective explanation. Supports and encourages others to adopt a constructive attitude to the successful completion of work responsibilities. Share own successes and praise others for motivation. Motivates colleagues through their own enthusiasm and willingness to learn.
- Integrity – Is honest without fail. Treats everyone with respect. Expresses an interest in the way people behave, recognizing the importance of attitudes and motives. Acknowledges the good work of others. Pays close attention to the needs of others.
- Policy Adherence – Keeps up to date with rules and regulations. Applies policies, processes and procedures to daily working. Identifies and proposes solutions for improvements to ways of working.
- Communication – Expresses ideas or facts clearly. Good written and verbal communication skills. Promotes two-way communication with others through correct interpretation of messages and appropriate responses.
- Communicates in a non-threatening way. Shows empathy.
Knowledge and Skill Requirements
- At least 6 years of professional experience in a software development environment, at least 3 of which were in an Agile environment.
- At least 3 years as manager of team, team or technical leaders.
- Well recognized as a collaborator and team player, able to bridge communication gaps that commonly occur between teams.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with local and remote technical contributors with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
- Exceptionally well-organized, pragmatic, and transparent.
- Creative problem solver.
- Ability to multitask very well
- Experience with the OKR framework is a plus
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Note: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity inclusion. We do not discriminate on grounds of colour, race, nationality, religion, age, ethnic origin, disability, gender, marital status, or sexual orientation in our employment practices.
Job Title: Database Architect
Location: Yaba, Lagos
Sector: Financial Services / FinTech
Reports to: Lead Software Architect
Summary
- Our purpose at Paga is to make it simple for 1 billion people to access and use money. We do that by delivering innovative financial services to the mass market across large, underserved markets.
- At Paga we value above all else, Collaboration, Ownership, Results Orientation, Integrity and Innovation (CORII).
- Database engineering team activities at Paga fall within the Product Development group along the software engineering, platform, and software support teams.
- As a Senior Database Architect, you will own primary responsibility for the architecture, performance, security and reliability of the core relational databases and no-relational data stores on the Paga platform. You will work closely with the software engineering teams (including database engineers) and the platform team (infrastructure and devops) to achieve this. This means:
- Engaging in strategic data and software design decision making
- Leading data architectural innovation design, availability and reliability implementations and operations
- Working with teams to embed best-of-kind development practices to maintain data storage solution cohesion, reliability and performance
- Developing and maintain data storage solution performance monitoring solutions in collaboration with the platform team
- Delivering of best practice instruction/training to database engineering and software development team to help maintain data reliability, performance and integrity
- Overall curation of platform data stores from a performance and reliability and security perspective
- The senior database architect is a key, senior member of the Product Development Team, which is responsible for all aspects of development and management of the Paga product platform. Database architecture activities usually span several technical areas so database architects will work closely with all of these teams while reporting directly to the lead software architect (application side) in the Paga development team structure.
- This role owns primary responsibility for the effective operation and growth of the Paga core data storage solutions which at present exists in both Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL deployments.
Knowledge And Skill Requirements
- 10+ working with relevant DBMSs and 4+ years of database administration experience with relevant DMBSs
- Experience administering MS SQL Server required
- Experience administering PostgreSQL highly desirable
- Experience with cloud-based database service platforms a plus
- Experience with no-sql data storage solutions a plus
Technical Responsibilities:
- Database design and software strategy input – Collaborating with other software architecture functions to advice on database-related design concerns.
- Database performance management – Managing live and other database environments to optimize performance
- Database reliability management – Leading database reliability practices including configuration, replication, archiving, backup etc. and collaborating with platform team to maintain excellent database performance monitoring solutions
- Database security administration – Overseeing database security management
- Database data integrity management – Overseeing database integrity management implementations
- Database development best practices sharing – Engaging in knowledge sharing to provide best practice instruction/training to database engineering and software development team to help maintain data reliability, performance and integrity
Non-Technical Values & Traits:
- Leadership – Supports and grows a team of capable and motivated database engineers with a focus on developing individual capacity and institutional capability.
- Initiative – Independently identifies technical priorities related to their area of ownership and aligns team efforts with business strategic goals. Consistently seeks out ways to improve the system and product development practice and executes them in collaboration with other team leadership. Seeks out opportunities to improve the work-products of their peers and their team. Own the technical testing and performance planning side of their projects
- Follow Through/Scrappiness/Grit/Availability – Drives high-quality completion of their team independently. Influences stakeholders across the organization to effectively bring solutions to life. Is highly available in urgent moments to solve technical problems.
- Mastery/Depth of Understanding – Is the go-to expert for issues related to the Paga platform data solutions. Has strong business-knowledge across much of the business functional areas. Thoroughly understand company processes and methodology well.
- Business Impact Awareness, Pragmatism – Fully understands the trade-offs between technical, analytical and product goals, and applies them to technical strategy
- Vision & Strategic Perspective – Engages in the strategic decision-making process and provides useful input to strategy. Consistently provides strategic context and understanding to junior team members
- Collaboration – Courteous, tactful and diplomatic. Responds positively to request for help from internal and external partners. Fosters a strong collaborative practice within their team
- Ownership & Results Orientation – Independently takes broad ownership for the data solutions on the Paga platform and develops a similar attitude within their team. Is a performance “maven”, focused on key metrics around high availability and customer experience. Takes decisive and accurate action to deliver value. Accepts responsibility for outcomes even when elements are not within his/her control, providing a balanced and objective explanation. Supports and encourages others to adopt a constructive attitude to the successful completion of work responsibilities. Share own successes and praise others for motivation. Motivates colleagues through their own enthusiasm and willingness to learn.
- Integrity – Is honest without fail. Treats everyone with respect. Expresses an interest in the way people behave, recognizing the importance of attitudes and motives. Acknowledges the good work of others. Pays close attention to the needs of others.
- Policy Adherence – Keeps up to date with rules and regulations. Applies policies, processes and procedures to daily working. Identifies and proposes solutions for improvements to ways of working.
- Communication – Expresses ideas and designs clearly. Fosters an environment of excellent communication within their team to consistently maintain clarity and transparency about the software delivery process across the broader team and company stakeholders. Communicates in a non-threatening way. Shows empathy.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Software Engineer
Location: Yaba, Lagos
Reports to: Software Team Lead
Job Summary
- As a Software Engineer at Paga, you will take on responsibility for implementing high-quality functionality for well-defined functional or technical areas of the platform
- You will work within an agile functionally-aligned team across a broad range of technical platforms and frameworks
- You will participate in the full range of product development and product-maintenance activities including design, support, code review and training and be expected to engage consistently with other stakeholders across the organization within the functional areas that your work affects.
Knowledge and Skill Requirements
- A Degree in a related discipline
- 1 to 6 years of continuous experience working on software application development OR an advanced degree in a related discipline and at least 1+ years of continuous experience working on software application development
- Experience working with team development tools and organization structures.
Experience:
- 1 to 6 years of continuous experience working on software application development OR an advanced degree in a related discipline and at least 1+ years of continuous experience working on software application development.
Technical Expectations:
- Code Sophistication – Understands software, from core functional and object-oriented programming logic concepts up to fairly complex code constructs and applies them in their work. Can apply well-known and standard code routines and algorithms. Understands fairly complex code constructs, design patterns and frameworks and applies. May have depth of usage knowledge in one or two specific frameworks. May be able to understand and apply complex logical algorithms in their work
- Code Performance and Optimization – Is aware of significant code performance “smells” and avoids them independently. May be adept at considering performance in their implementation and leverage well known patterns and tools to maintain performant code. Is capable of considering other optimizations such as memory and usability in their implementations.
- Abstraction Knowledge – Understand basic code abstraction concepts (eg. separation of concerns, direction of dependence, working through interfaces, modularity, etc.) for the frameworks that they are familiar with and apply them through work with varying levels of guidance. Is able to translate real-world concepts for their specific area/domain of work into efficient software models/structures.
- Technical Independence – Can execute well-defined technical tasks with little-to-no oversight and broadly defined technical tasks with oversight. Has a well-developed sense of when to seek assistance in design and implementation. Can debug and fix existing code proficiently. Follows prescribed security standards effectively
- Code Testing (Manual, Auto, Unit) – Consistently produces high quality tests for own work products that support the continuous deployment cycle. Is able to perform manual testing for broad features following specifications and knowledge of intended functionality. Is able to write effective unit and automated tests for own work products
- Bug Free Code – Produces bug-free code at a reasonable pace. Doesn’t require much time or back-and-forth with testing to produce error-free code.
- Debugging Efficiency – Is able to effectively debug own code and that of others at a fast pace and leverages thoughtful debugging tools and constructs to increase efficiency.
- Code Review Quality – Effectively reviews code within their specific areas of knowledge and contributes to the code-review cycle meaningfully.
- IDE / Tool Usage & Routine Automation – Can use IDE proficiently. Considers effective use of tools to maximize development efficiency. Considers and occasionally contributes mechanisms to improve the development practice, including automation and process improvements.
- Process Adherence & Development – Follows defined development processes with little or no oversight. Works well in an iterative, agile development environment and adheres to processes effectively.
- Aesthetic Design – Can follow broadly defined visual designs well without compromising aesthetic detail
Non-Technical Values & Traits:
- Scope – Is able to take on specific, well defined, lower-complexity tasks and execute them effectively and to a high level of quality with supervision. May own small to medium features of the system from technical design through to completion with guidance.
- Initiative – Takes the initiative to reach out to superiors and senior peers whenever necessary for support and assistance. Takes initiative to effectively breakdown, prioritize and implement tasks tactically. Takes initiative to improve on design and strategic impact on the areas of responsibility in collaboration with feature stakeholders.
- Follow Through / Scrappiness / Grit / Availability – Sees tasks through to completion, focusing on quality and completeness rather than speed of execution. “Does what it takes” to marshal resources and support to drive tasks to completion efficiently.
- Mastery / Depth of Understanding – Is able to develop a sufficient understanding of the task at hand to execute it effectively. Develops strong, self-sufficient knowledge of a specific area of the system. Understands core system framework enough to be able to use them with minimal supervision. Capable of providing on-call support for areas of the system that they are familiar with. Understands company process and methodology well.
- Business Impact Awareness, Pragmatism – Takes direction effectively to implement tasks per instruction from managers. May make independent sensible design decisions that optimize business value of work. Avoids focusing on unimportant details and excessive bikeshedding.
- Vision & Strategic Perspective – Is able to understand the vision and strategic goals of the organization. Understands current business strategic goals and incorporates them in design and development decisions in an effective way. Demands an understanding of strategic motivations for their work
- Collaboration – Works well in a team environment composed of multiple product development skills. Is courteous, tactful and diplomatic. Responds positively to request for help from internal and external partners. Does his/her share of tasks. Takes on additional work, when asked, to help a colleague out. Keeps people informed of progress on key tasks.
- Ownership & Results Orientation – Demonstrates self-motivation and initiative taking in personal and professional level. Is comfortable with rapid change and is willing to take ownership to deliver results in a high-pressure product development environment. Takes decisive and accurate action to deliver value. Accepts responsibility for outcomes even when elements are not within his/her control, providing a balanced and objective explanation. Supports and encourages others to adopt a constructive attitude to the successful completion of work responsibilities. Share own successes and praise others for motivation. Motivates colleagues through their own enthusiasm and willingness to learn.
- Integrity – Is honest without fail. Treats everyone with respect. Expresses an interest in the way people behave, recognizing the importance of attitudes and motives. Acknowledges the good work of others. Pays close attention to the needs of others.
- Policy Adherence – Keeps up to date with rules and regulations. Applies policies, processes and procedures to daily working. Identifies and proposes solutions for improvements to ways of working.
- Communication – Shares technical and product-specific knowledge with team and company through 1×1 conversations, presentations, and support. Expresses ideas or facts clearly. Good written and verbal communication skills. Promotes two-way communication with others through correct interpretation of messages and appropriate responses. Communicates in a non-threatening way. Shows empathy.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Software Support Manager
Location: Yaba, Lagos
Sector: Financial Services / FinTech
Reports to: Lead Software Support Manager
Summary
- Our purpose at Paga is to make it simple for 1 billion people to access and use money. We do that by delivering innovative financial services to the mass market across large, underserved markets.
- We were founded on the simple belief that the growing ubiquity of the internet and mobile phones enables us to build an ecosystem that empowers everyone to digitally send and receive money and to use simple but meaningful financial services.
- At Paga we value above all else, Collaboration, Ownership, Results Orientation, Integrity and Innovation (CORII).
- As a Software Support Manager at Paga, you will share responsibility for coordinating the activities of the level 3 support (engineering support) team on the Paga platform to respond to deliver great customer experience by resolving support requests within committed SLAs and improving support operations.
Knowledge And Skill Requirements
- A degree in a related discipline
- 1+ years executing support, management or operations in an agile software development team
- Experience: 2+ years executing support, management or operations in an agile software development team
- Experience working with team development tools and organization structures
- Experience working with software case management and issue tracking system
- Proven team management and task management qualities
Technical Qualifications:
- Service Maven – Passionately driven by quality of service and meeting high standards/metrics for service quality delivery. Consistently performs follow up activities well and make sure SLA is met and customers are satisfied.
- Process Champion – A role model to the support team in strictly following rules and regulations of the support process. Capable of identifying gaps in the process and bringing new ideas or solutions to enhance it.
- Data Analysis – Is able to analyze and also supervise sophisticated/complex data analysis and generate meaningful reports which can be used for higher level decision making.
- Compassionate Manager – Able to effectively manage and motivate a team against hard deliverables and timelines while maintaining a positive work climate and team morale.
- Root Cause Analysis – Capable of driving end-to-end investigation and resolution of issues through a support team to determine root cause of a given issue and provide meaningful summary/conclusion.
- Mastering Product Knowledge – Can clearly and confidently explain in-depth about the product and can proactively tell when new change/update is introduced.
Non-Technical Values & Traits:
- Scope – Is able to take on independent responsibility for the execution of clearly defined processes and contributes to the improvement of existing processes with supervision.
- Initiative – Takes initiative to improve on design of the areas of responsibility in collaboration with peers.
- Follow Through/Scrappiness/Grit/Availability – Sees tasks through to completion, focusing on quality and completeness rather than speed of execution. “Does what it takes” to marshal resources and support to drive tasks to completion efficiently.
- Business Impact Awareness – Has a keen understanding of the impact of product decisions and incidents on the business. May make independent sensible design decisions that optimize business value of work.
- Vision & Strategic Perspective – Is able to understand the vision and strategic goals of the organization. Understands current business strategic goals and incorporates them in design and development decisions in an effective way. Demands an understanding of strategic motivations for their work
- Collaboration – Courteous, tactful and diplomatic. Responds positively to request for help from internal and external partners. Does his/her share of tasks. Takes on additional work, when asked, to help a colleague out. Keeps people informed of progress on key tasks.
- Ownership & Results Orientation – Demonstrates self-motivation and initiative taking in personal and professional level. Accepts responsibility for outcomes even when elements are not within his/her control, providing a balanced and objective explanation. Supports and encourages others to adopt a constructive attitude to the successful completion of work responsibilities. Share own successes and praise others for motivation. Motivates colleagues through their own enthusiasm and willingness to learn.
- Integrity – Is honest without fail. Treats everyone with respect. Expresses an interest in the way people behave, recognizing the importance of attitudes and motives. Acknowledges the good work of others. Pays close attention to the needs of others.
- Process & Policy Adherence – Keeps up to date with rules and regulations. Applies policies, processes and procedures to daily working. Identifies and proposes solutions for improvements to ways of working.
- Communication – Expresses ideas or facts clearly. Good written and verbal communication skills. Promotes two-way communication with others through correct interpretation of messages and appropriate responses. Communicates in a non-threatening way. Shows empathy
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
job Title: Enterprise Risk Manager
Location: Yaba, Lagos
Sector: Financial Services
Grade 11
Reports To: Head, Risk & Compliance
About The Role
- The Enterprise Risk Manager will be responsible for supporting the head in the development, re-design, implementation and maintenance of the risk management framework within Paga in line with the company’s strategic plans and its 3rd party activities.
- This includes developing and maintaining detailed risk management policies and processes and working with key business stakeholders to facilitate the embedding of these across the organization.
- The Risk Manager will also be responsible for the ongoing review and challenge of risk framework effectiveness and the implementation of risk management best practice.
Primary Responsibilities
Managing Relationships:
- Provide support to key business stakeholders in implementing the risk framework
- Work closely with the Head of risk in defining the company’s risk appetite
- Manage the relationship with the 3rd party outsourced provider risk representatives
- Engage with company-wide risk champions
- Primary contact for significant incidents or risk events
Managing Process and Administration:
- Provide support to the Head of risk, in the design, documentation, communication and implementation of the risk management framework
- Prepare, maintain and communicate detailed risk management policies and processes including the risk control self-assessment process.
- Lead the risk assessment process for the company’s key products and projects.
- Assist in the annual review of the risk management policy in preparation for Board sign off, communicating amendments to business areas as required.
- Assist with the roll out of the risk control self-assessment and annual policy compliance processes, working with business stakeholders and 3rd party providers where appropriate
- Scope and deliver the ongoing self-assessment of risk management processes and procedures, scoping, agreeing and implementing improvements as required
- Review, assess and report significant risks and issues identified or reported by the business in line with the incident management process and assist the business in defining and agreeing remedial action
- Assist business lines in identification of key risks and mitigating controls as well as action plans to address any gaps in the mitigating measures identified.
- Monitoring the implementation of action plans to address key risks on the risk and control self-assessments/risk registers.
- Prepare and collate monthly risk reporting to the Head of Risk, Compliance and internal Audit and management.
- Challenge and periodically assess business area control assessments, including 3rd parties, reporting, recommending and agreeing remedial action where required
- Assist key business stakeholders in identifying and responding effectively to risks arising from internal changes or external events.
Knowledge and Skill Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of a 2:1 in an analytical field such as Engineering, Finance, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, etc
- At least 7 years relevant work experience
- Knowledgeable in technology
- Knowledge of risk management and auditing.
- Must have completed the mandatory NYSC
- Previous experience in a risk management role within financial services ideally within a Platform environment
- Excellent knowledge of industry best risk management practice.
- Experience in developing and implementing risk management policies and processes
- Experience of reviewing 3rd party risks
- Ability to understand and articulate the commercial benefits of effective risk management
- Excellent communication, relationship management and influencing skills
- Ability to build and maintain effective internal and external relationships
- Ability to analyse, present and report risk management data to senior stakeholders
- Team management skills including day to day training, supervision and performance management
- Ability to adapt and respond to change
Key Competencies:
- Managing people
- Initiative
- Take ownership for workload and is proactive in approach
- Organized
- Multitask and manage competing priorities
- Creative and resourceful
- Good team player
- Flexibility
- Manage time effectively, personally and on behalf of others
- Strong communication skills, using appropriate language and style of communication that is relevant to the situation and circumstances to influence
- Demonstrate sufficient self-awareness to identify personal strengths and areas for development
- Ability to analyse and problem solve
- Professional manner
- Attention to detail
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Yaba, Lagos
Department: Product Development
Employment Type: Full-Time
Sector: FinTech
Reports to: Software Team Lead / Software Architect
Summary
- Our purpose at Paga is to make it simple for 1 billion people to access and use money. We do that by delivering innovative financial services to the mass market across large, underserved markets.
- We were founded on the simple belief that the growing ubiquity of the internet and mobile phones enables us to build an ecosystem that empowers everyone to digitally send and receive money and to use simple but meaningful financial services.
- At Paga we value above all else, Collaboration, Ownership, Results Orientation, Integrity and Innovation (CORII).
- As a Senior Software Engineer at Paga, you will take on ownership for the implementation and technical effectiveness of broad functional and/or technical areas of the platform.
- You will be expected to contribute meaningfully to the design and improvement of the solutions you work on.
- You will be expected to contribute to the development of the improvement of the software development practice as a whole through peer leadership, code review, technical training, process improvement and technical thought leadership.
Requirements, Knowledge and Skills
- A degree in a related discipline
- 6+ years of continuous experience working on enterprise software application development OR an advanced degree in a related discipline and at least 4+ years of continuous experience working on enterprise software application development
- Solid experience working with team development tools and organization structures.
- Ability to multitask very well
- Comfort and experience providing technical leadership in a software development team
Technical Expectations:
- Code Sophistication – Understands a wide range complex code constructs, design patterns and frameworks proficiently and is able to navigate and apply them in their work. Is able to adapt third party frameworks to work better within their own domain of work. Is able to conceive of and implement custom frameworks that improve product development for themselves and others.
- Code Performance and Optimization – Is a “performance-maven”, consistently applying performance-optimization considerations in work products. Actively contributes to the improvement of product design from a technical perspective including usability, security, memory management, manageability, reliability and performance.
- Abstraction Knowledge – Has mastery of most abstract software engineering concepts, applies them broadly across their work and improves the work of junior peers by applying these concepts in feedback.
- Technical Independence – Has end-to-end product development ownership for broad products/features/framework or product areas. Engages and provides constructive input into platform-wide technical and architectural discussions.
- Code Testing (Manual, Auto, Unit) – Contributes to the overall improvement of code testability and code testing tools and processes.
- Code Review Quality – Consistently performs in-depth code review within areas of responsibility, with feedback that goes beyond typical error-checking to include overall structure, performance, reliability and maintainability of the platform & code base.
- IDE/Tool Usage & Routine Automation – Implements automation to improve the development practice individually and across the team. Implements useful tools to improve development practices.
- Process Adherence & Development – Helps oversee process adherence across the team and contributes meaningfully to process improvement.
- Aesthetic Design – Contributes to improvement of overall product design through insightful feedback and implementation. Oversees aesthetic standards of more junior peers.
Non-Technical Values & Traits:
- Scope – Owns end-to-end responsibility of medium-sized or relatively complex projects including engagement with project stakeholders. Requires little-to-no supervision of day-to-day work and consults senior architects when appropriate. Manages other more junior engineers contributing to their area of work.
- Initiative – Independently identifies technical problems and proposes solutions across the platform, particularly in their areas of mastery. Seeks out ways to improve the system and product development practice and proposes them to the team leadership. Seeks out opportunities to improve the work-products of their peers. Own the technical testing and performance planning side of their projects
- Follow Through / Scrappiness / Grit / Availability – Drives high-quality completion of their products fairly independently with little-to-no supervision. Influences stakeholders in their areas effectively to bring solutions to life. Is highly available in urgent moments to solve technical problems.
- Mastery / Depth of Understanding – Is the go-to expert in some significant area(s) of the code base. Has basic understanding of all key system frameworks and components and deep understanding of some. Has strong business-knowledge in one or more business functional areas. Thoroughly understand company processes and methodology well and promote understanding with others. Has sufficient knowledge of broad areas of the platform to provide intelligent technical input to the business
- Business Impact Awareness, Pragmatism – Understands the tradeoffs between technical, analytical and product goals, and strive to create solutions that satisfy all of these goals
- Vision & Strategic Perspective – Engages in the strategic decision-making process and provides useful input to strategy. Consistently provides strategic context and understanding to junior team members
- Collaboration – Courteous, tactful and diplomatic. Responds positively to request for help from internal and external partners. Does his/her share of tasks. Takes on additional work, when asked, to help a colleague out. Keeps people informed of progress on key tasks.
- Ownership & Results Orientation – Demonstrates self-motivation and initiative taking in personal and professional level. Takes decisive and accurate action to deliver value. Accepts responsibility for outcomes even when elements are not within his/her control, providing a balanced and objective explanation. Supports and encourages others to adopt a constructive attitude to the successful completion of work responsibilities. Share own successes and praise others for motivation. Motivates colleagues through their own enthusiasm and willingness to learn.
- Integrity – IS honest without fail. Treats everyone with respect. Expresses an interest in the way people behave, recognizing the importance of attitudes and motives. Acknowledges the good work of others. Pays close attention to the needs of others.
- Policy Adherence – Keeps up to date with rules and regulations. Applies policies, processes and procedures to daily working. Identifies and proposes solutions for improvements to ways of working.
- Communication – Expresses ideas or facts clearly. Good written and verbal communication skills. Promotes two-way communication with others through correct interpretation of messages and appropriate responses. Communicates in a non-threatening way. Shows empathy.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Manager, Corporate Information Technology
Location: Yaba, Lagos
Sector: Financial Services
Grade 11
Reports To: Chief Technology Officer
About the Role
- The Manager of Corporate IT is expected to establish and maintain company-wide security and IT compliance policies and set the vision and strategy for enabling a highly efficient workforce across all of Paga’s offices.
- Our company is going through significant growth, entering new countries, which means our corporate information technology needs to scale with that growth. We need an experienced IT leader that has worked in a well-organized mid to large-sized company, ideally helping prepare that company for sustainable growth by putting in place all required security policies and compliance controls. This leader will also have significant career opportunities as we continue to expand our business.
Primary Responsibilities
- Supervises CIT department staff, including setting schedules, implementing training, and assessing performance for the team and generally leading the team providing corporate IT services across the company.
- Establish and maintain company-wide security policies and procedures, covering both corporate IT and potentially some datacenter related oversight responsibilities.
- Set vision and strategy for enabling a highly efficient workforce, including evaluating and managing tools for productivity such as communication tools (such as Blink, Slack) and data sharing (Box, Dropbox), and other tools that will support high productivity in light of our increasingly dispersed/remote workforce.
- Own help desk support, including provisioning and maintaining of PC and Mac desktops and laptops for all employees and ensuring appropriate connection to the Internet and corporate networks. This includes supporting corporate headquarters, as well as multiple other offices, both in Nigeria and internationally.
- Implements an IT budget for the organisation as a whole or for specific departments + Tracks inventory and status for hardware and software throughout an organisation
- Support system administration for corporate systems such as billing and accounting systems, human resources, and payroll.
- Be available to support the Data Infrastructure and system administration team for corporate network infrastructure in various areas.
- Coordinates IT support, training, and orientation for new technology users
- Establishes relationships with technology vendors
- Develop emergency plans for equipment, power, or security failure to preserve technology and data.
- Design strategy, deploy and manage critical multi-country, inter-office communications infrastructure
Knowledge and Skill Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in a Science or Engineering discipline
- Experience developing plans and deploying computer and network infrastructure. Overall administration of Corporate IT systems for an organization
- Experience: 6+ years enterprise.
Key Competencies:
- Management, Leadership & Staffing experience
- Budget Planning
- Strategic Planning
- Problem Solving
- Decision Making
- Critical Thinking
- Excellent Written and Verbal Communication,
- Interpersonal Skills,
- Collaboration & Teamwork,
- Attention to Detail
- Working Under Pressure
Application Closing Date
6th September, 2020.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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