Recruitment at IT Horizons Limited

IT Horizons Limited is a company with diverse talents and skills on existing, recent and upcoming technologies worldwide. We are a team of young, vibrant, ambitious but experienced professionals who deal with everything relating to technologies especially information communication technologies (ICT). Inaddition, we have the ability to update with latest trends and requirements of our esteemed clients. Our company established in 2010, had been driven by innovations and excellence, and with its rapid rate of success and customers’ requirements, we were fully incorporated into a private limited company in 2012 with the aim of helping organizations in achieving their goals by providing optimum technological solutions while reducing total cost of ownerships.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Finance Manager

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• To achieve cost-effective Utilization of IT Horizons’ financial resources, through the definition of financial standards, policies and procedures.

Job Responsibilities

• Engages Executive Management and the appropriate Board Committee to develop short, medium, and long-term financial plans and projections.
• Develops and utilise financial models and activity-based financial analysis to provide a basis for investment decisions and business planning.
• Manages key banking relationships to facilitate proper, timely and cost-effective funding of business operations.
• Develops and maintain a system of appropriate financial policies, procedures and controls to ensure efficient financial management.
• Monitors all third-party payments to ensure that such payments are justified by the value of work successfully completed and are in alignment with the approved budget.
• Oversees the preparation and communication of timely, accurate, and useful financial and management reports for investors or lending institutions and IT Horizons’ management on aperiodic and /or ad-hoc basis.
• Raise funds as approved by the Board of Directors to finance IT Horizons’ activities.
• Implement a sound accounting framework in compliance with statutory provisions.
• Develops and implement a robust and reliable financial reporting system in compliance with statutory requirements.
• Ensures that adequate controls are in place to facilitate seamless payment system.
• Establish measures or controls to ensure that all financial transactions are accurately captured and reported.
• Approve accruals and adjustments on erroneously posted financial transactions into the financial system.
• Liaise with statutory auditors to discuss and resolve queries as they arise to ensure seamless audit exercise.  Develops and manage relationships with relevant external bodies e.g. regulatory organisations, auditors, solicitors, banks etc.
• Respond to relevant requests from financial institutions.
• Approves payroll along with Chiefs, P&C to facilitate payment to staff.
• Advise executive management on changes in financial regulations, legislation and government tariffs.
• Manage IT Horizons’ treasury assets to achieve optimal sourcing, application and growth of funds.
• Provide technical training, guidance and advise on financial accounting issues, developments and trends to other business or departmental heads.
• Manage day-to-day accounting transactions and provide leadership to company’s Finance Department.
• Manage the performance of staff in Finance Department.
• Review weekly financial reports submitted by relevant departments or units and presents timely reports to the CCO.
• Coordinates the preparation of the company’s financial reports and statutory reporting process.
• Oversees the preparation of regular financial and management accounts.
• Perform other duties that may be assigned by the CFO.

Application Closing Date
31st March, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@ithorizonsgroup.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

Job Title: Team Lead, Security Presales Engineer

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• You will be responsible for implementing, maintaining, supporting, developing and, in some cases, designing communication networks within an organization or between organizations.
• Your goal is to ensure the integrity of high availability network infrastructure to provide maximum performance for users. Users may be staff, clients, customers and suppliers.
• You will be part of a team that is responsible for designing and developing scalable, maintainable, highly available network architectures that meet business objectives and SLAs.

Responsibilities

• Design and Configuration of routing and switching equipment
• Design and Configuration of voice services (IP/Traditional; On-premise/Hosted)
• Design and Configuration of Telepresence Solutions
• Design and Configuration of Contact Center Solutions
• Design and Configuration of Multimedia Solutions
• Design and Configuration of Collaborative Solutions
• Design and Configuration of Wireless Solutions
• Design and Configuration of Enterprise Mobility Solutions
• Design and Configuration of Network, Systems and Application Monitoring Solutions
• Remote support of on-site engineers and end users/customer
• Remote troubleshooting and fault finding when issues occur
• Provide Level-1/2 support and troubleshooting to resolve issues
• Liaising with project management teams, third-line engineers

Speaking with customers via email and phone for initial requirement capture:

• Perform network maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes and security configurations
• Monitor performance and ensure system availability and reliability
• Monitor system resource utilization, trending, and capacity planning
• Establishing the networking environment by designing system configuration, directing system installation, defining, documenting and enforcing system standards
• Design and implementation of new solutions and improving resilience of the current environment
• Maximizing network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network problems and outages, scheduling upgrades and collaborating with network architects on network optimization
• Updating job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks and participating in professional organizations
• Reporting network operational status by gathering and prioritizing information and managing projects
• Deliver Proof of Concepts (POC)
• Product presentations and demonstrations
• Support with the technical qualification of sales opportunities
• Collaborates with sales, service, engineering, and technical support resources to ensure proposed deals include technical solutions that accurately address customer needs, and are appropriately supported by key customer technical decision-makers.
• Provide answers to (technical) questions in a Request for Information (RFI) or a Request for Proposal (RFP)
• Support the Head of Department in preparing and implementing annual work and resource plans; support their applicability within the overall company strategy
• Recognize and actively seek ways to exploit IT to address the complex business, organizational and technical issue
• Provide Professional network security knowledge; participate in proposing and developing network security solutions
• Implement appropriate procedural and technical access control mechanisms; participate in security incident management, security assessments, and vulnerability testing and make recommendations for corrective actions
• Take overall responsibility for ensuring the availability, performance and security of network services within agreed service levels; lead the development of procedures and standards for IT network security operations
• Plan, monitor and control projects using the either PMBOK/PRINCE2 methodology
• Investigate and resolve problems for services within your own area of responsibility; delegate to team members as appropriate, following ITIL processes; manage major network-related incidents and bring them to a satisfactory closure.

Requirements

• University degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or other related courses or numerate disciplines.
• MSc will be an added Advantage
• CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional)
• CCNP – Collaboration (Cisco Certified Network Professional – Security, ITIL, Sophos Certified Engineer
• Good at problem solving
• Good at organizing and multitasking and prioritize under pressure
• Able to explain technical problems in a simple term
• Work well with people and Willingness to travel
• In depth knowledge of the four network types (LAN, WAN, MAN and GAN)
• Analytical and problem- solving ability;
• Teamwork skills and the ability to feel comfortable working with different teams, clients and groups of staff across an organization;
• Organizational skills and the ability to prioritize your workload.
• Proven hands-on network Engineering experience
• CCNP or Higher.
• Indepth understanding of networking protocols (e.g., IPSEC, HSRP, BGP, OSPF, 802.11, QoS).

Application Closing Date
2nd April, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@ithorizonsgroup.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.

Job Title: Team Lead Network and Collaboration Engineer

Location: Nigeria

Job Summary

• As a network and collaboration engineer, you will be responsibility for deploying, manage and support enterprise networks. Configure, install, support, and troubleshoot voice, video and enterprise network equipment.
• Your role will include designing system configurations, documenting and managing the installation of a new network, and maintaining and upgrading existing systems, as necessary.
• Oversee and execute planned network maintenance activity while minimizing impact to services. You will also need to be able to implement, administer, and troubleshoot network devices including WAPs, firewalls, routers, switches, and controllers.
• Provide technical leadership on operational and project related work. Design and implement plans to introduce new technology into the voice, video and enterprise networks while minimizing network outages and insuring a seamless end-user experience.
• Collaborate with assigned team responsible to maintain and enhance the overall performance and availability of network infrastructure solutions to include data, video, voice, and wireless.
• Analyze technologies and recommend upgrades/changes based on assessments of the organization’s current and future network technology needs.
• In this role, you will be responsible for designing and deploying enterprise solution architecture, coordinating installations and migrations, and managing SLAs for IP telephony applications.
• You may also be required to troubleshoot LAN and WAN hardware systems and respond to customer inquiries. Performance of the solutions will be evaluated from time to time as deem fit by the organization.
• You will be part of a team that is responsible for designing and developing scalable solutions that is in line with customer requirement. You will be involved in project delivery and support activities from time to time as deem fit.

Responsibilities

• Proactively scopes the technical solution required to address customer requirements, assesses customers met and unmet needs, and recommends solutions that optimize value for both the customer and the firm.
• Oversee and execute planned network maintenance activity while minimizing impact to services.
• Provide technical leadership on operational and project related work. Design and implement plans to introduce new technology into the voice, video and enterprise networks while minimizing network outages and insuring a seamless end-user experience.
• Conduct thorough analysis of service results and respond to any escalated service delivery issues in a timely manner.
• Design solutions and create implementation and support models for technology encompassing a specific specialization or platform.
• Configure, install, support, and troubleshoot voice, video and enterprise network equipment.
• Work effectively with other IS teams and outsourcing provider(s) to ensure technology solutions are effectively managed and performed.
• Review reports to ensure all services are completely and successfully delivered. Proactively intervene to correct problems when they are encountered. Use metrics to improve processes.
• Assist in the development of voice and video network operations processes, procedures, and documentation.
• Interface with the business users to elicit and define network communications requirements.
• Perform other duties as requested.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimal performance.
• Establishing the customer environment by designing system configuration, directing system installation, defining, documenting and enforcing system standards
• Design and implementation of new solutions and improving resilience of the current environment.
• Analyzing existing VoIP networks and computer systems.

Qualifications

• University Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or other related courses or numerate disciplines.
• M.Sc will be an added Advantage
• CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional), CCNP – Collaboration (Cisco Certified Network Professional – Collaboration), Security (Cisco Certified Network Professional – Security), ITIL, MSCA, MSCE

Application Closing Date
21st March, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@ithorizonsgroup.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.

Job Title: Team Lead, Network and Collaboration Engineer

Location: Nigeria

Resposibilities

• Proactively scopes the technical solution required to address customer requirements, assesses customers met and unmet needs, and recommends solutions that optimize value for both the customer and the firm.
• Oversee and execute planned network maintenance activity while minimizing impact to services.
• Provide technical leadership on operational and project related work. Design and implement plans to introduce new technology into the voice, video and enterprise networks while minimizing network outages and insuring a seamless end-user experience.
• Conduct thorough analysis of service results and respond to any escalated service delivery issues in a timely manner.
• Design solutions and create implementation and support models for technology encompassing a specific specialization or platform.
• Configure, install, support, and troubleshoot voice, video and enterprise network equipment.
• Work effectively with other IS teams and outsourcing provider(s) to ensure technology solutions are effectively managed and performed.
• Review reports to ensure all services are completely and successfully delivered. Proactively intervene to correct problems when they are encountered. Use metrics to improve processes.
• Assist in the development of voice and video network operations processes, procedures, and documentation.
• Interface with the business users to elicit and define network communications requirements.
• Perform other duties as requested.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimal performance.
• Establishing the customer environment by designing system configuration, directing system installation, defining, documenting and enforcing system standards
• Design and implementation of new solutions and improving resilience of the current environment.
• Analyzing existing VoIP networks and computer systems.
• Developing architecture plans for voice and data services.
• Installing network hardware modules including IP and PBX communication servers.
• Designing and implementing Cisco Unity systems.
• Troubleshooting VoIP network issues.
• Analyzing and upgrading network security systems and protocols.

Requirements

• University degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or other related courses or numerate disciplines.
• MSc will be an added Advantage
• CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional), CCNP – Collaboration (Cisco Certified Network Professional – Collaboration), Security (Cisco Certified Network Professional – Security), ITIL, MSCA, MSCE.
• CCNP level certification. Substantiated experience may substitute.
• Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) and SIP Trucking
• Cisco UC Manager Automation
• Cisco Voice IOS Gateways with H.323, MGCP
• Cisco Jabber, WebEx, Zoom, etc.
• Cisco Contact Center (UCCX/PCCE)
• Analytical and problem- solving ability.
• Cisco Unity Voicemail
• Cisco Telepresence Management Suite (TMS), Telepresence Server
• Cisco IP Phones
• In-depth understanding of networking protocols (e.g., IPSEC, HSRP, BGP, OSPF, 802.11, QoS)
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, network diagnostic and network analytics tools
• Minimum of 4 years of experience

Application Closing Date
30th March, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@ithorizonsgroup.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.