Business Strategy Associate at Paelyt Solutions Limited Full Time

Job Title: Business Strategy Associate

Location: Lekki Pennisula, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Summary

• The Business Strategy Manager will be responsible for providing business strategic planning direction for the company as manager of the Strategy and Organisational Effectiveness Division.
• He or She will drive strategic planning, research, and documentation activities in relation to policy formulation, business rules and reporting.

Job Responsibilities
Strategic Responsibilities:

• Develop organisational strategies and policies by analysing the impact of internal and external influencing factors and seeking consultation from relevant stakeholders
• Align functional plans with organisational goals and targets to contribute to organisational strategies
• Evaluate the environmental and external factors that may affect the organisational strategies
• Coordinate research efforts into both local and global best practices as well as the monitoring of industry trends and developments in order to benchmark current best practices
• Supervise the planning, organising and execution of implementation including training/orientation programmes for new/redesigned processes
• Establish a framework to continuously monitor and assess existing organisational processes to support the Company’s strategic goals and objectives

Operational Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders
• Liaise with relevant departmental/divisional heads to define organisation wide process standards
• Strategy definition, reviews, spearheading the strategic vision across all fronts of the business.
• Implement and develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and enforce compliance with SOPs
• Manage the development of corporate plans and budgets
• Establish and review key strategic priorities and translate them into actionable and quantitative plans.
• Supports the strategic planning process to ensure that this process is timely, focused, and value adding.
• Strategic performance management and development of business KPI infrastructure in order to facilitate analysis and reporting of performance against plans and budgets as well as strategic objectives.
• Manage the development of weekly/quarterly/annual performance reports for the business’s leaders
• Facilitate cross-functional business and product performance reviews.
• Coaching, and development of strategy management personnel and identifying and advising on areas for enhancement and focus.
• Develop and implement strategic risk management threat identification and evaluation processes
• Responsible for the development of weekly/quarterly/annual strategic risk reports for the senior strategy management as well as the business’s top leadership.
• Review, manage, and analyse existing business strategies in order to provide counsel to the business’s leadership and ensure alignment with the business’s overall strategy.
• Assist departmental leaders and managers in driving and optimizing improvement of key value levers that will give the business a sustainable competitive advantage.
• Manage business intelligence analyses that will provide valuable benchmarking for management as well as timely insights to various departments.
• Analyze long-term market trends for the purpose of providing recommendations to leadership and management across the business in regard to business development opportunities, inclusive of acquisition and disposal strategies.
• Work with senior executives in setting the vision and agenda of the business and work with the day-to-day planning teams in developing a clear roadmap that will realize the business’s vision.
• And Any other task assigned by your supervisor from time to time based on business priorities of the business.

Required Qualifications

• First Degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
• Postgraduate/professional qualification in a numerate field will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of three (3) to four (4) years’ work experience.
• Past work experience as a management consultant is desired.

Skills:

• Good knowledge of the finance industry business operations
• In-depth understanding FinTech business and products.
• Demonstrate excellent leadership skills.
• Strong strategic and analytical orientation
• Highly developed collaborative nature.
• Attention to details.
• Good Management abilities
• Knowledge of finance, accounting, budgeting, and cost control principles
• Ability to analyze financial data and prepare financial reports, plans, and projections
• Excellent communication & presentation skills
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and other relevant accounting tools.

Abilities:

• Relationship Management Skill
• Team work
• Communication Skills – Written and Oral
• Digital Literacy
• Problem Solving
• Service Orientation
• Financial Management
• Quality Assurance
• In-depth knowledge of company products and services.

Application Closing Date
31st August, 2021.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.