Latest Job Vacancies at Ecobank Transnational Incorporated

Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), a public limited liability company, was established as a bank holding company in 1985 under a private sector initiative spearheaded by the Federation of West African Chambers of Commerce and Industry with the support of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

1. Job Title: Senior Sales Officer, Institutional Sales

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Purpose

• To aid and support to the Head of Business Development and the Managing Director of the Asset Management Unit to grow the Assets Under Management leading to the growth in business and revenue in a profitable and cost-effective manner.
• To understand client investment needs and objectives and identify opportunities for EDC to provide investment solutions to address such investment needs.
• To aggressively pitch for new Institutional businesses to ensure consistent AUM and Revenue growth.
• To efficiently manage existing institutional clients and ensure repeated businesses from them.

Job Context

• The role requires to be customer centric, and network minded with abilities to address/escalate issues to the Head of Business Development and Managing Director in order to ensure strong customer relationships and superior service quality.
• The incumbent is requested to efficiently manage and provide information on the Institutional aspect of the business.
• Candidate is required to have a strong supervision and presentation skills.
• The incumbent is required to maintain excellent relationships with Ecobank Relationship Managers for business leads.
• The role also comes with the ability to efficiently sell investment solutions and come up with marketing initiatives to grow AUM in the institutional space.

Key Responsibilities

• Attain targeted sales goals and performance targets through effective use of available resources.
• Develop marketing strategy for the institutional business and detailed implementation plan for execution.
• Efficiently maintain relationships with Ecobank Relationship Managers to ensure constant AUM and revenue growth through business leads from them.
• Ensure quick resolution of client queries from the institutional space to delight clients.
• Identify and undertake specific initiatives to win new business at each prospect.
• Identify, contact and qualify new prospects within the identified market, cold calling and following up marketing leads.
• Develop and execute responses to queries from prospects and clients.
• Co-ordinate one-to-one meetings with prospects.
• Organize and perform demonstrations and/or presentations of the company key product offerings to prospective clients.
• Manage sales opportunities from contracts. through to closure
• Negotiate and close new business contracts.
• Work closely with the various banking group within Ecoclosure. propose and execute marketing activities and communication.
• Take ownership of market intelligence within the market (trends, competition and sale team update)

Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree (Minimum)
• SEC licensed

Experience:

• At least 4-7 years sales/marketing experience with good sales track record, in selling investment products.
• Ability to interact and negotiate with the client organization at take basic decisions.
• Sound Knowledge of Investment & Banking sector
• Product knowledge, ideally across various asset classes
• Customer focused & results oriented.
• Ability to pull together various resources to sell and deliver customer solutions.
• Good organizational and time management skills are highly desirable.
• Result driven,
• Inclusive, flexible, savvy, and sensitive to client culture.

Skills & Capabilities & Personal Attributes:

• Demonstrate excellent client acquisition skills.
• Demonstrate excellent leadership skills and team management skills.
• Demonstrate a strong ability to ensure quick resolution of client queries and complaints.
• Cooperative working style and strong communication skills are required, to develop and maintain effective working relationships both externally and internally.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely with clients/prospects and internal contacts.
• Strong interpersonal skills, team-oriented and self-motivated
• Articulate and energetic self-starter with strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Highly self-motivated: ability to generate ideas and demonstrate initiative and perseverance.
• Team player with ability to work successfully under own initiative.a

Application Closing Date
10th November, 2023.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

2. Job Title: Quality Assurance Officer

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Purpose

• This function is responsible & accountable for ensuring proper and successful end-to-end testing of all software development and changes released into the production environment across Ecobank group.
• The role entails the design, implementation, execution, and documentation of developed application test cases and conducting of user acceptance tests towards obtaining business sign off for deployment to the production environment.
• This role is required to preserve the reputation of the bank against irreparable loss which may occur with the introduction of bugs into the live environment.

Job Context

• This role will relate with project managers, Business Analyst, Software Developers, Test & Version Control team and other stakeholders across the Ecobank Group to ensure delivery of qualitative software application/integration in line with business expectations and organizational policies.
• He/she will oversee and guide activities of other quality assurance officers.
• Decision making will be guided by policy and consultation.

Key Responsibilities

• Review business, functional and technical requirements in a bid to create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans, test cases and procedures ensuring usability, functionality, security and performance.
• Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with quality assurance guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.
• Identify, document and track application bugs for remediation and production system stability.
• Perform regression testing when bugs are resolved.
• Analyse test results and Provide advice/recommendations to developers on code/bug fixes.
• Coordinate/Oversees Solution Validation, User Acceptance sessions with all stakeholders and obtain users’ sign off.
• Carry out Change Management documentations and required go-live activities.
• Effective transition of Application support to applicable support teams while providing second Level Support
• Works with software quality assurance officers and internal and outsourced development partners responsible for all stages of quality assurance for complex products and platforms, including testing strategy, analysis, coding, results evaluation, and proposed corrective actions.
• Collaborates and expands relationships with internal and outsourced development and quality assurance partners on software and firmware design and development.
• Provides domain-specific expertise and perspective to cross-organization projects, programs, and activities.
• Drives innovation and integration of new technologies into projects and activities in the software quality assurance team.
• Provides guidance and mentoring to less-experienced Quality Assurance Officers
• Prepare applications for deployment and delivery

Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent. Master’s Degree will be an advantage.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in software testing and quality assurance processes.
• Professional certification in IT Quality Assurance/Testing is highly desirable.
• Proven work experience in software quality assurance.
• Working experience or general knowledge of the ITIL framework is highly desirable.
• French and other language skills is desirable.

Skills & Experience:

• Experience in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including strong verbal, written communication skills and excellent listening skills are required.
• Knowledge with both white box and black box testing.
• Strong Analytical and Critical thinking skills and creative problem solver.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly understand complex systems.
• Ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously in a high-pressure environment.
• Ability to interact with individuals on all organizational levels.
• In depth knowledge of software development concepts and QA methodologies.
• Proven work experience in software application and API testing (REST and SOAP)
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools like Selenium, Katalon, smart bear etc.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
• Good knowledge of new technologies, trends and innovation.

Application Closing Date
17th November, 2023.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online