Project Coordinator, Fintech at Optasia

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.

Job Title: Project Coordinator, Fintech

Location: Lagos

job Type: Full-time

Description

• We are seeking for enthusiastic professionals, with energy, who are results driven and have can-do attitude, who want to be part of a team of likeminded individuals who are delivering solutions in an innovative and exciting environment.
• 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.

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.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should Click Here to apply online