Job Vacancies at Soteria Eye Clinic

Soteria Eye Clinic is a private enterprise registered in Nigeria as a limited liability company to offer high quality, affordable and accessible comprehensive world class eye care services to our immediate community and environs. Our purpose is to create and deliver first class comprehensive eye care services to ALL in order to “Improve Lives through Affordable Quality Eye Care.”

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Human Resources / Administrative Officer

Job Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Your essential job responsibility will be to provide oversight and guidance to the development and monitoring of processes related to recruitment and retention, compliance, compensation, benefits, training, and development.
• Additionally, you need to support operations by supervising staff; planning, organizing, and implementing the administrative system.
• Other main administrative duties include overseeing up-to-date maintenance of personnel records, proper management of HR documents such as employment records and onboarding guides, and updating internal databases.

Responsibilities
Human Resources:

• Handling Human Resources and Administrative responsibilities including; recruitment, onboarding, employee relations, performance & talent management, HR reporting and other administrative duties assisting leadership in the people management area and act as the facilitator for the HR management team.
• Provide advice, guidance and support to management and employees on employee- related matters.
• Coordinate and monitor the performance management process. Support management in identifying development needs and facilitate development activities (on individual, team and organizational level).
• Ensure all payroll transactions are processed and administered accurately and in time, and according to Nigeria Federal legislation, labour laws and payroll practices.
• Coordinate and execute HR processes including but not limited to, confirmation, discipline, transfer, and leavers.
• Ensure accurate and up-to-date personnel administration that complies with local legislation. Administer and coordinate compensation benefits (health insurance, compensation, leaves of absences, and paid time off).
• Provide human resources analysis such as headcount planning and budget reporting.
• Coordinate staff recruitment as approved by management.
• Forming and maintaining employee records
• Updating databases internally, such as sick and annual leave
• Reporting monthly on HR metrics, such as company turnover
• Being the first point of contact for employees on any HR related queries
• Assisting with payroll by providing the department with relevant employee information, i.e., holiday and sick days taken
• The first point of contact for all HR-related queries
• Administer HR-related documentation, such as contracts of employment
• Ensure the relevant HR database is up to date, accurate and complies with legislation.
• Liaise with recruitment agencies.
• Oversee all staff engagement for all branches and manage the new hire orientation and exit process.
• Review the Personnel Handbook recommending amendments needed due to changes in local conditions or labour laws.
• Manage time clocking system for office, ensuring timely submission, approval, accuracy, and filing.
• Facilitate job analysis and update job descriptions.
• Set up interviews and issue relevant correspondence.
• Develop and oversee the recruitment process.
• Review job advertisements prior to posting, screen CVs, conduct telephone screenings, coordinate interview teams, participate in interviewing candidates
• Ensure candidate documentation is collected and recorded/filed.
• Undertake employee training and development and make recommendations.
• Coach, counsel, and discipline employees.
• Investigate employee relations issues and work to ensure human resources-related decisions are consistent and fair.
• Initiate, coordinate, and enforce systems, policies, and procedures.

Administration:

• Ensure smooth running of all administrative functions across branches.
• Supervise all travel and hotel arrangements for staff and visitors, including visas and work permits as applicable.
• Ensure the smooth running of the central Office and the branches.
• Monitor vehicle usage.
• Ensure all utility bills are processed in a timely manner.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess First Degrees with 4 - 5 years of relevant work experience.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: recruitment20207@gmail.com using the Job Posiiton as the subject of the email.

2.) Senior Accountant

Job Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Perform financial management duties including generating financial data, compiling and submitting reports, analysing industry trends and assessing the financial health of the company.
• Oversee the operations and development of the company’s finance departments including creating and reviewing policies, budgeting, recruiting, training and conducting regular assessments of financial procedures.
• Supervise the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual account reconciliations, monitor and enforce compliance with tax and financial reporting standards and assist with cash flow forecasting.
• Advise colleagues and executive management on decisions related to the company’s finances.
• Supervise the documentation of the company’s financial status and forecasts.
• Mediate between the organization, employees, stakeholders, shareholders and investors on financial issues for amicable resolution of differences.
• Create strategic business plans based on the analysis of the company’s status and financial forecasts.
• Plan, organize, and execute financial tasks and projects of the organization.
• Make estimates of funds required for the short and long-term financial objectives of the organization.
• Complete financial reports, lead the month-end closing process and conduct monthly financial forecast.
• Develop and implement plans for budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
• Provide financial insight and analysis to drive the business performance of the organization.
• Manage and monitor metrics, KPI tracking, and financial reports of branch manager.
• Evaluate the financial performance of the organization and measure returns on investments.
• Achieve a proper mix of equity and debt to minimize cost and maximize operational profit.
• Strategize on fund procurement through banks and other financial institutions.
• Prudently make investments on assets that maximize returns.
• Understand and calculate the risks involved in the financial activities of the organization.
• Monitor the day-to-day financial operations within the company (invoicing and other transactions)
• Prepare monthly and quarterly management reporting
• Participate in strategic data analysis, research, and modelling for senior Management.
• Predicting future financial trends.
• Reporting to management and stakeholders, and providing advice how the company and future business decisions might be impacted.
• Producing weekly and monthly financial reports related to budgets, account payables, account receivables, expenses etc. And develop a long-term business plans based on these reports.
• Reviewing, monitoring, and managing budgets.
• Support project analysis, validation of plans, and ad-hoc requests.
• Manage the company's financial accounting, monitoring, and reporting systems.
• Ensure compliance with accounting policies and regulatory requirements.
• Collecting, interpreting, and reviewing financial information.
• Develop strategies that work to minimise financial risk.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: recruitment20207@gmail.com using the Job Position as the subject of the email.

3.) Optician

Job Location: Uyo, Akwa Ibom 
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Provide expert service to customers regarding their optical needs.
• Measure, fit, adapt, adjust and repair eyewear. Repair frames by replacing hinges, nose pads or temples.
• Interpreting the results of eye examinations, using prescriptions written by Optometrists.
• Take appropriate markings on the patient’s frame and fixing with axis orientation.
• Prepare and deliver work orders to the laboratory for lens grinding and eyewear fabrication, as needed.
• Verify quality and measurements of materials returned from the lab.
• Adjusting frames so they fit properly
• Manufacture lenses in on-site finishing lab (when possible) to measurements taken.
• Verify that finished lenses are ground to specific.
• Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.
• Preparing orders for glasses and contact lenses by checking prescriptions, lens thickness and other specifications
• Making sure that orders for glasses and contact lenses have been processed accurately.
• Maintain knowledge and awareness of current trends in eyewear and ophthalmic lens technology.
• Order and verify contact lens orders.
• Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centres of eyes, using measuring devices.
• Interpreting the results of eye examinations, using prescriptions written by Optometrists
• Perform other duties as assigned.

The Person

• 1-3 years’ cognate work experience.
• The person must possess a certification in opticianry.
• Valid license to operate as an optician.
• Excellent customer service and sales ability skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Mathematics skills for calculating vision angles and distances.
• Knowledge of visual defects/anomalies and lens types
• Experience using optical instrumentation
• Precision and excellent attention to detail.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: recruitment20207@gmail.com using the Job Position as the subject of the email.