Company Info
Large organization
200 + Employees
First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) is Nigeria's largest financial services institution by total assets and gross earnings.
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. 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.
1). Senior Analyst, Group Reconciliation Unit
Job Identification: 1318
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Job Description
- Manage centralized reconciliation processes at the HUB
- Drive centralization of Reconciliation process across the bank network (Nigeria, and SSAs)
- Recons process design- Analyze and interpret process dynamics to design suitable processes of reconciliation or monitoring
- Interact with account owners and operations teams to have a good knowledge of their process and data for effective migration of their manual reconciliation to TLM Corona.
- Drive process improvement, optimization, and automation of reconciliation process.
- Change Management – drive and coordinate assigned GRU change management as relates reconciliation activities.
- Project Delivery- Drive timely delivery of GRU projects-automation and reconciliation projects
- Managing information and data risks as related to reconciliation data
- Foster a risk awareness culture into people, processes, and systems within G&C to mitigate risk exposure from Reconciliation breaks
- Ensure completeness and accuracy of reconciliation data.
- Work with management to prioritize business and information needs.
- Identify and define new process improvement opportunities.
- Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets.
- Liaise with Vendor and ensure that all reconciliation tools are maintained as when due.
- The first point of contact in data mining and management on Recons.
- Manage and resolve stakeholder issues on reconciliation matters.
- Provide Reconciliation data/MIS periodically to management for decision making
- Provide reconciliation data to stakeholders on requests (internal and external parties)
- Ensure regulatory compliance in reconciliation processes and data exchange- PCI DSS, CBN
Job Requirements
- Minimum Education: First degree in any discipline
- Certifications in Database languages and Advance Excel will be an advantage.
- Minimum of 5 years banking experience.
- Experience on Process management and I.T Knowledge
- Database languages skills.
- Proficient in the design and use of Excel Macros and various MS Office automation tools.
- Previous knowledge in banking operations and recons is key.
Application Closing Date
27th March, 2025; 03:58 PM.
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2). MSC Media & External Relations Personnel
Job Identification: 1311
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Job Description
- Support the Team Lead in media planning and guidance across the group to drive PR optimization of events and activities
- Develop and disseminate press release features; and photo stories across the media to generate publicity and positioning of the brand
- Support the team lead in implementing crisis management initiatives to mitigate against reputational risks and build positive PR capital
- Support the team lead to conduct media monitoring and analysis across news and PR channels for Banks and Holdco along the lines of agreed metrics.
- Proposal review and analysis to identify opportunities that promote brand image building and strengthened relationship with the media
- Feature articles commissioning to the media to drive Top of Mind Awareness of the brand through brand positioning as a clear leader in various products and services
- Support the team lead in coordinating media participation at the bank’s events, publishing of post event reports and news stories to generate awareness
- Daily News Report to management
- Payment processing to partners and stakeholders
Requirements
Education:
- Minimum Education: First Degree in Mass Communication, Marketing or social sciences-based discipline.
Experience:
- 2 – 5 years significant work experience to include firsthand interaction on corporate communications related tasks in the Banking; Telecommunications; or agencies in the corporate communications industry.
Application Closing Date
19th March, 2025; 10:38 AM.
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3). Category Specialist – Procurement
Job Identification: 1307
Location: Lagos
Job Schedule: Full time
Responsibilities
- Implement Technology Category Management strategies and activities across multiple dimensions, including category analysis, contract implementation, and supplier relationship improvement initiatives to increase market competitiveness and sustain ongoing category improvements
- Proactively work with Category Manager (Technology) to identify and plan category related procurement activities for the financial year and periodically review category spend to identify and pursue strategic sourcing and demand management opportunities
- Execute Go-To-Market strategies utilizing an end-to-end value chain approach -specifically, obtain complete and accurate business requirements from the end users, develop RFx (RFI/RFQ/RFP) documents and identification of qualified vendors; manage source to contract until PO Is created
- Collate responses from vendors and liase with the various committee (TEC, PMC) for evaluation
- Ensure compliance to the Bank’s Procurement Policy, standards and guidelines for all category related products or services
- Conduct vendor contract negotiations with suppliers to procure category related products/services to ensure best value regarding pricing and quality
- Ensure adherence to defined parameters for quality assurance of goods/services received as well as the escalation route for complaints/rejection.
- Prepare periodic report of trend analysis for procurement volumes and cycles to support the various category management activities
- Proactively perform market surveys to verify competitiveness of purchase prices and best value goods specifications for procurement categories
- Identify relevant external market trends with respect to the technology industry
- Provide input for supplier appraisal via supplier audits, performance evaluations etc. to validate ability of suppliers to meet defined standards and rate suppliers accordingly
- Collaborate with centralized admin for invoicing and payment of suppliers and resolve or escalate identified issues (if any)
- Supervise and coach Category Analysts
- Undertake any other responsibilities as requested by the Category Manager in accordance with the scope and responsibilities of the role
- Comply with the principles and policies in the Information Security Hand book of the Bank.
Requirements
- B.Sc (First Degree) in Social Sciences.
- Higher Degrees/Professional Certifications (an added advantage).
- Minimum experience: 5 years relevant experience in Procurement, inventory and market
- Minimum of CIPS Diploma or relevant certifications (CPIM, CPP, CSCP).
Application Closing Date
19th March, 2025; 16:56.
How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should use the links below to apply: