Company Info
Optasia is a fully-integrated B2B2X financial technology platform covering scoring, financial decisioning, disbursement & collection. We provide a versatile AI Platform powering financial inclusion, delivering responsible financing decision-making and driving a superior business model & strong customer experience. Since company’s inception, over a decade ago, we have grown to become a global leader in the Fintech fields, constantly expanding and adding new solutions, offerings, and untapped monetization opportunities for all our partners and clients.
Title: Project Coordinator, Fintech
Location: Lagos
Category: Operations
Description
- As member of the Project Delivery team in Optasia, your primary objective is the creation, planning, execution and closure of deliverables that involve software development changes.
- The Project Coordinator is the driver of business processes and guidelines that relate to these deliverables.
- The role is reporting to Project Delivery Director.
What you will be doing
- Coordinates closely a deliverable’s execution, while taking responsibility for planning the management of scope and schedule
- Monitors and controls each sub-team’s deliverables
- Manages planned and unplanned changes, risks and issues to ensure rapid delivery and greater predictability
- Coordinates stakeholders’ involvement to keep them apprised of progress and address their needs, both internal as with the client, mainly MNO’s.
- Shifts in priorities from senior leadership by ensuring members retain focus to handle changes with minimal disruption to productivity
- Performs reporting as needed.
What you will bring
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in IT / Engineering, Telecommunications or related field
- 2 – 3 years of recent related work experience in a financial services, telecommunications & IT sectors.
- Experience of process and project management
- Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously, facilitating status meetings and presenting to large groups
- Ability to identify problems, to mediate issues, to develop solutions, and to implement appropriate course of action
- Ability to assess and evaluate the criticality and benefits of any required action by the various stakeholders
- Understating of the principles of software development lifecycle
- Project management certification is considered as a plus (PMP, Prince2 Practitioner, PM2)
- IPMA, MSP, Six-Sigma, ITIL practitioner, or agile certification is considered as a plus
- Willingness to travel up to 70% during the delivery phases
Your key attributes:
- Comfort with a rapidly changing environment and communicating assumptions & risks of decisions
- Excellent research, reasoning, organization, team building and interpersonal skills
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Fast learner, ambitious and self-starter
- Comfortable with working in a fast-paced environment
- Pro-activeness, accountability and results orientation
- Hard working attitude and willingness to commit on projects
- Ability to handle multiple clients, multiple team members and priorities with confidence
- Flexible, eager, ambitious, and adaptable to change
- Passion for learning new technologies and eagerness to collaborate with other creative minds.
Why You Should Apply
What we offer:
- Competitive remuneration package
- Extra day off on your birthday
- Performance-based bonus scheme
- Comprehensive private healthcare insurance
- All the tech gear you need to work smart.
Optasia’s Perks:
- Be a part of a multicultural working environment
- Meet a very unique and promising business and industry
- Gain insights for tomorrow market’s foreground
- A solid career path within our working family is ready for you
- Continuous training and access to online training platforms.
Deadline: Not Specified.
How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should Click Here to apply online