Ongoing Recruitment for Guinea Insurance Plc

Guinea Insurance Plc was incorporated on December 3, 1958, as a non-life insurance underwriting firm to provide first-rate insurance solutions in the General and Special Risks business underwriting categories. Our mission is to provide professional services to our esteemed customers through the introduction of quality products driven by state-of-the-art technology backed by a group of high-profiled personnel, to maximize returns to shareholders.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Team Lead, Enterprise Risk Management

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

Job Overview

• To minimize risk of loss by defining and ensuring compliance with the approved risk management framework and processes for identification, controlling, managing and reporting operational, underwriting and claims, strategic and reputational risks across all businesses of the GIP.

Job Responsibilities

• Establish framework, procedures and practices to ensure that operational, strategic  and reputational risk is appropriately identified, measured, monitored and controlled
• Drive implementation of operational risk action plan approved by the board
• Oversees the implementation of operational risk approach and strategies that are aligned with the GIP’s vision, mission and corporate objectives
• Identifies specific business risks in light of strategy and business specific operational changes 
• Provide direction and drive assimilation of Operational risk management culture across all levels and functions Company wide
• Establish risk mitigation and control processes
• Ensure quarterly surveys are carried out on all identified stakeholders
• Ensure timely regulatory renditions of reports
• Determine and approve operational risk tolerance limits
• Formulate and ensure compliance with sensitive operational risk policies
• Develop strategies for mitigating all business and operational risk
• Oversee and ensure the integrity of operational risk assessment process across the business
• Regularly estimate economic capital for strategic, reputational and operational risks
• Estimate and ensure stress testing on strategic and reputational risk
• Develop risk models for measuring strategic and reputational risk
• Establish and maintain effective BCM for business resilience in GIP

Requirements

• A First Degree in any discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years of post qualification experience in operational  risk management within the Financial Services Industry , of  which at least 3 must have been in the Insurance Sector
• Relevant Master’s Degree, preferably in Risk Management.
• Recognized professional certification such as ACII, ACIIN, MIRM, CFA, ACCA, ACA, etc.

Skills and Competencies Requirement:
Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Knowledge of operational risk best practices
• Advanced knowledge of operational, strategic and reputational risk measurement  methodologies
• Insurance Operations
• Technical Expertise
• Environmental / Industry Analysis
• TQM
• Documentation.

Generic Skills:

• Strategic Focus/ Orientation
• Integrity and Discretion
• Initiative/ Proactive
• Interpersonal skills
• Communication (oral & written)
• Supervisory Skills
• Leadership
• Mentorship
• Entrepreneurship
• Analytical skills / Problem solving
• Resilience, Tenacity and Integrity
• Initiative/Entrepreneurship/ taking ownership
• Team building / conflict management
• Organization & coordination
• General managerial /administration.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: recruitment@guineainsurance.com using the Job Position as the subject of the email.

2.) Digital Marketing Executive

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

Job Overview

• The Digital Marketing Executive will assist in the planning, execution, and optimization of our online marketing efforts.
• The promotion of products and services through digital channels is a complex procedure with great potential which becomes increasingly useful for companies such as ours.
• The ideal candidate will have a passion for all things marketing and technology.
• You will be well-versed in the concepts surrounding digital marketing and how the Internet can become a strong asset to securing growing revenue.
• You will be tech-savvy and intuitive with great ideas to reinforce our marketing campaign.
• Experience with lead generation campaigns is highly desired.

Job Responsibilities

• Business Development and Business Generation responsibility with monthly; quarterly and annual income generation targets specifically from Digital Marketing and generally from sales.
• Assist in the formulation of strategies to build a lasting digital connection with consumers.
• Provide creative ideas for content marketing and update website.
• Collaborate with graphic designers to improve user experience.
• Measure performance of digital marketing efforts using a variety of Web analytics tools (Google Analytics, Web Trends etc.)
• Plan and monitor the ongoing company presence on social media (Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook etc.)
• Launch optimized online adverts through Google AdWords, Facebook etc. to increase company and brand awareness.
• Be actively involved in SEO efforts (keyword, image optimization etc.) in tandem with IT Department.
• Acquire insight in online marketing trends and keep strategies up-to-date
• Maintain partnerships with media agencies and vendors.

Requirements

• BSc/HND in Marketing, Business Administration or any related course
• Minimum of 3 years of progressive and related experience in digital marketing
• Excellent understanding of digital marketing concepts and best practices
• Perfect knowledge of web analytics tools (e.g. Google Analytics, NetInsight, WebTrends etc.)
• Skills and experience in creative content writing
• Experience with B2C social media, Google AdWords and email campaigns and SEO/SEM
• Working knowledge of ad serving tools (e.g., DART, Atlas, etc)
• Analytical mindset and critical thinking
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: recruitment@guineainsurance.com using the Job Position as the subject of the email.

3.) Team Lead, Compliance & Internal Control

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

Job Overview

• To Implement measure that would ensure the adherence to appropriate compliance and internal control framework and  procedures so as to minimize loss  from non-compliance with the regulatory requirement and company’s policies & procedures.

Job Responsibilities

• Implement methodologies for identifying, assessing, monitoring, controlling and reporting compliance risks. 
• Agree on the type and frequency of monitoring in relation to the company’s scale of the activity.
• Ensures company-wide compliance with established policies and controls and ensures that violations are thoroughly investigated.
• Creation of awareness/training on KYC/AML/CFT/PEP
• Branch visitation to ascertain adherence to KYC
• Monitoring of regulatory renditions to ensure compliance with deadlines for submission
• Review of transactions & identify regulatory and control exceptions
• Ensure prompt response NFIU/EFCC/NAICOM enquiries.
• Regulatory reporting to NFIU
• Ensure Compliance with NAICOM’s code of Corporate Governance from Legal and other regulatory requirements
• Monitoring of compliance with AML/CFT guidelines for all the policies booked by the company
• Preparing KYC and AML Risk matrix for the company along product, customer, business and location lines and assigning these to Team Leads for monitoring
• Prepare AML/CFT training plan for the company and ensure adherence to the plan
• Ensure prompt response to auditors’ requests
• Continuous update of company’s bank authorized signatory list.
• Ensure Daily call-over of Transaction Checks/Reviews- Underwriting (Both Life and general)
• Ensure transactions processed by CPU, Claims, Underwriting and Re-Insurance are reviewed daily to identify any area of non-compliance with the company policies 
• Ensure prompt closure of control and audit exceptions
• Device Measure that will mitigate against reoccurrence of exceptions
• Ensure reports are rendered periodically based on unit reviews carried out.
• Prepare quarterly Spot-Check plan and ensure that Spot-Checks reviews of non-processing are carried out in line with the plan
• Ensure Security sweep on the Head Office and branches and collate reports
• Ensure only authorized users are given access to the system

Requirements

• A good first degree in any discipline.  Masters’ degree will be an advantage
• Minimum of 5 years of post qualification experience in Compliance & Internal Control within the financial services industry, of which at least 3 years must have been in the Insurance sector.
• Professional certifications such as CFA, CIS, ACCA, ACA, CFP,CFE,ACAMS, IT Certifications, etc

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Insurance Operations
• Accounting
• Credit Analysis / Appraisal
• Environmental / Industry Analysis
• Risk Management
• Operational risk
• Investment / Portfolio Management
• Assets & Liabilities Management
• Financial analysis / interpretation
• TQM
• Documentation
• Generic Skills
• Strategic Focus/ Orientation
• Integrity and Discretion
• Initiative/ Proactive
• Entrepreneurship
• Analytical skills / Problem solving
• Resilience, Tenacity and Integrity
• Interpersonal skills
• Communication (oral & written)
• Supervisory Skills
• Leadership
• Coaching /Leadership / Influencing
• Initiative/Entrepreneurship/ taking ownership
• Team building / conflict management
• Organization & coordination
• General managerial /administration.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: recruitment@guineainsurance.com using the Job Position as the subject of the email.