Ongoing Recruitment at First Bank of Nigeria Limited

First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) is Nigeria's largest financial services institution by total assets and gross earnings. With more than 10 million customer accounts, FirstBank has over 750 branches providing a comprehensive range of retail and corporate financial services. The Bank has international presence through its subsidiaries, FBN Bank (UK) Limited in London and Paris, FBNBank DRC, FBNBank Ghana, FBNBank Gambia, FBNBank Guinea, FBNBank Sierra-Leone and FBNBank Senegal, as well as its Representative Offices in Johannesburg, Beijing and Abu Dhabi.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Business Manager - Commercial Banking (Lagos & South South Group)

Job Identification: 1019
Job Locations: Lagos and Delta
Job Schedule: Full time

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and direction in the execution of the team’s functions and activities.
• Optimally manage and deepen relationships with new and existing customers in target market.
• Coordinate the overall marketing activities of the Relationship Managers (RMs) within the team; and ensure a significant increase in market share of new and existing customers.
• Deliberate growth of the team’s trade transaction volumes: Form M / Letters of Credit / Bills for Collection etc.
• Develop budgets and goals for the team and ensure budgets are met and manage resources for profitability.
• Identify new business opportunities and formulate strategies for retaining and winning new accounts.
• Structuring of deals and relating with co-lenders in syndication arrangements.
• Periodically review and evaluate the performance of the team and ensure corrective actions to achieve Group’s strategy and annual plans
• Responsible for driving of trade-related transactions for the bank (Fx business)
• Provide support in the structuring of credits in line with business potentials.

Educational Qualification

• Minimum Education: First Degree or its equivalent in any discipline preferably business-related.
• Higher Degrees and relevant Professional Certificate will be an added advantage.

Experience:

• Minimum experience - 9 years of relevant banking (marketing and credit) experience.
• Prior experience in Commercial Banking.

Knowledge:

• Good Knowledge of the business environment
• Credit/Risk Management
• Banking structure, policies, and procedures
• Customer Service
• Strategic Business Planning

Skill/Competencies:

• Negotiation skills
• Strong networking and relationship
• Management skills
• Reasoning and analytical skills
• Deal structuring skills
• Strong credit and marketing skills
• Excellent people management skills
• IT and Computer appreciation
• Communications skills (written and oral)
• Customer Relationship Management
• Budget Planning & Control
• Portfolio Management
• Credit Assessment and Structuring
• Marketing/ Sales
• Business/ Product Development
• Financial Analysis Business
• Operational Strategy

Application Closing Date: 22nd April, 2024.

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Note: Only Shortlisted Applicants will be contacted.

2.) Relationship Manager - Commercial Banking

Job Identification: 1020
Job Locations: Lagos; Ado Ekiti, Ekiti; Aba, Abia; Anambra; Abeokuta South, Ogun; Rivers; Imo; and Delta
Job Schedule: Full time

Duties & Responsibilities

• Book quality assets and ensure effective portfolio monitoring for early detection of defaults.
• Work closely with the Business Manager in the execution of the team’s functions and activities.
• Provide support in the structuring of credits in line with business potentials.
• Manage and deepen relationships with existing and prospective customers.
• Win new accounts and resuscitate dormant relationships.
• Champion the drive for deposit mobilization and trade transaction
• Provide the best customer service available in the industry.
• Develop and maintain relationship with clients by providing professional and specialized financial solutions in all areas.
• Assist in Transaction Memos and provide relationship background and financial information support, as necessary.
• Market the bank’s products to meet customer needs.
• Initiate development of products required to meet customer needs.

Educational Qualifications

• Minimum Education: First Degree or its equivalent in any discipline preferably business-related.
• Higher Degrees and relevant Professional Certificate will be an added advantage.

Experience:

• Minimum experience – 3 years of relevant banking (marketing and credit) experience

Knowledge:

• Good Knowledge of the business environment
• Credit/Risk Management
• Banking structure, policies, and procedures
• Customer Service
• Strategic Business Planning

Skills / Competencies:

• Negotiation skills
• Strong networking and relationship
• Management skills
• Reasoning and analytical skills
• Deal structuring skills
• Strong credit and marketing skills
• Excellent people management skills
• Marketing/ Sales
• Business/ Product Development
• Customer Relationship Management
• Budget Planning & Control
• IT and Computer appreciation
• Communications skills (written and oral)
• Portfolio Management
• Credit Assessment and Structuring
• Financial Analysis Business
• Operational Strategy.

Application Closing Date: 22nd April, 2024.

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Note: Only Shortlisted Applicants will be contacted.

3.)  Relationship Manager - Commercial Banking North (Kano, Katsina)

Job Identification: 1021
Job Locations: Kano and Katsina
Job Schedule: Full time

Duties & Responsibilities

• Book quality assets and ensure effective portfolio monitoring for early detection of defaults.
• Work closely with the Business Manager in the execution of the team’s functions and activities.
• Provide support in the structuring of credits in line with business potentials.
• Manage and deepen relationships with existing and prospective customers.
• Win new accounts and resuscitate dormant relationships.
• Champion the drive for deposit mobilization and trade transaction
• Provide the best customer service available in the industry.
• Develop and maintain relationship with clients by providing professional and specialized financial solutions in all areas.
• Assist in Transaction Memos and provide relationship background and financial information support, as necessary.
• Market the bank’s products to meet customer needs.
• Initiate development of products required to meet customer needs.

Educational Qualifications

• Minimum Education: First Degree or its equivalent in any discipline preferably business-related.
• Higher Degrees and relevant Professional Certificate will be an added advantage.

Experience:

• Minimum experience – 3 years relevant banking (marketing and credit) experience

Knowledge:

• Good Knowledge of the business environment
• Credit/Risk Management
• Banking structure, policies, and procedures
• Customer Service
• Strategic Business Planning

Skill/Competencies:

• Negotiation skills
• Strong networking and relationship
• Management skills
• Reasoning and analytical skills
• Deal structuring skills
• Strong credit and marketing skills
• Credit Assessment and Structuring
• Marketing/ Sales
• Business/ Product Development
• Customer Relationship Management
• Excellent people management skills
• IT and Computer appreciation
• Communications skills (written and oral)
• Portfolio Management
• Budget Planning & Control
• Financial Analysis Business
• Operational Strategy.

Application Closing Date: 22nd April, 2024.

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Note: Only Shortlisted Applicants will be contacted.

4.) Web Developer, Publisher, App & SEO Specialist

Job Identification: 881
Job Location: Lagos
Job Schedule: Full time

Job Description

• Develop webpages, landing pages, microsite etc. for digital marketing campaigns in line with defined brand guidelines.
• Perform routine troubleshooting of the website and resolve identified issues.
• Conduct routine test on website content to ensure clear display and fast page loading times.
• Work on Mobile / App / SEO requests to ensure that are adaptable and best practices are implemented on developed webpages, microsites etc.
• Advise and implement necessary website security standards.
• Develop reports for relevant stakeholders describing usage rates and engagement levels.
• Resolve reported content issues.
• Resolve all issues identified from Crawling Information tool and fix all broken links.
• Upload and remove digital content on website as required.
• Ensure relevant tools for optimizing sites are deployed are used, also ensure search engines show bank owned sites for selected queries. 
• Manage internal and external link details to ensure a good amount of links are pointing to bank owned sites (backlinks) for listing on top of the search results.
• Work with agencies to execute and optimize paid search campaigns.
• Maintain and manage webmaster software.
• Identify and recommend improvement opportunities for FirstBank’s website.
• Regular site audits and vulnerability checks.
• Support in campaign planning.
• Perform A/B test for landing pages, messaging and multiple user experiences.
• Recommend changes to website architecture, content, linking and other factors to improve SEO positions for target keywords.

Requirements
Educational Qualifications:

• Graduate Degree in Marketing, Social Sciences and/or Information Technology or related discipline.
• Digital Marketing certification will be an added advantage.

Experience:

• 3-5 years of experience in marketing communications with at least 3 years’ experience in digital marketing, brand advertising and/or consumer goods marketing. Experience in financial services, product management and investment banking/asset management will be an added advantage.
• Certification in related field is an added advantage such as Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW), Java Script Specialist 
• Work experience in a Digital Lab, FCMG, Telecommunication, IT industry will be an added advantage.

Mastery:

• Java Script Specialist, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

Certification: 

• Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON), National Institute of Marketing Nigeria (NIMN), Digital Marketing, Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM), Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW).

Tools Required:

• Social listening tools access such as Hootsuite, Talk Walker, Similar Web, Keyhole, Tweet Reach, Traackr, Onalytica (tracks campaign monitoring / analysis, influencer marketing, brand & event monitoring and market research), SEM Rush, Canva, SnapSeed, Poster Maker, Knowledge in Structured Query Language (SQL), Infographics, Search engine and email marketing. Any or more of the above will be an added advantage.

Application Closing Date: 21st April, 2024.

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