Job Openings at Paga Limited

Paga is a licensed financial services company and a leading payments company in Nigeria with a massive transformative purpose - to make it simple for one billion people to access and use money. It was founded on the simple belief that the ubiquity of mobile phones can be leveraged in building an ecosystem that enables people to digitally send and receive money and creating simple financial access for everyone.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer

Job Location: Yaba, Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Description

• As a Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer at Paga, you will be responsible for broad technical design, implementation and administration of numerous platform services on Paga’s cloud infrastructure. You will be expected to be able to effectively assume independent ownership for the operation of significant components or areas of the cloud infrastructure, to successfully help the organization scale efficiently, and cost-effectively.

Responsibilities

• Be able to quickly grasp abstract concepts and translate them into appropriately cloud systems solutions.
• Be comfortable taking ownership for broad and important areas of cloud solution design and implementation.
• Be a core business resource for both decision making in the business that has platform relevance.
• Be meticulous about scripting and testing solutions to foster knowledge transfers, scalability and repeatability.
• Be a “performance maven”, focused on highly-performant delivery of system resources in as cost-efficient a manner as possible.
• Clearly understand and effectively weigh business trade-offs in decision-making.
• Be able to multitask well and be comfortable juggling multiple product-development streams at once. Be comfortable with rapid change and be comfortable taking ownership to deliver results in a high-pressure product development environment.
• Vision & Strategic Leadership – Help develop and grow the technical vision for the Paga platform and engage meaningfully in the strategic development of the overall business. Engage directly in business strategic leadership when it relates to platform solutions
• Broad-scoped Technical Ownership – Independently own/oversee major areas of the cloud platform infrastructure including planning, architecting, operating, monitoring. Own responsibility for key delivery criteria such as availability, performance, reliability, cost, security and maintainability for large portions of the cloud infrastructure.
• Have a passion for quality and an ability and willingness to grow the ability of others in your team to meet those standards. Drive quality delivery across teams with which you work.
• Communicate clearly and transparently.
• Be comfortable operating at both a high and deep-dive (low) levels of abstraction.
• Technical Leadership – Provide technical leadership to foster a motivated and productive small team of platform engineers. Contribute continuously to the professional growth of other more junior peers. Provide broad-scoped yet in-depth review of the work of teammates and reports.
• Process Leadership –Drive development and improvement of technical product development processes in collaborations with the other product development teams.
• Partner Engagement – Working effectively with industry/ecosystem partners to accomplish business goals related to the platform.

Requirements

• A degree in a related discipline
• 5+ years continuous experience working on enterprise platform engineering and 3+ years of cloud platform implementation/administration
• While we use an increasingly diverse software and platform stack, the following technologies and skills are most heavily used and therefore required to have extensive experience in:
  • Azure cloud services and management
  • Kubernetes cluster management
  • Docker containerization frameworks, deployment & management
  • Jenkins CI/CD environment implementation and management
  • Java application deployment and Tomcat
  • Infrastructure as code practices
  • Microservice architecture concepts
  • Relational DB architecture and administration (SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
  • Application performance monitoring solutions (e.g. Prometheus).

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2.) Senior Accountant

Job Location: Yaba, Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Description

• Paga is looking for a passionate, self-driven and experienced Senior Accountant to join our team!
• As the Senior Accountant, you will keep financial records, prepare reports, and update financial information.
• You must be familiar with accounting procedures and should have experience with accounting software programs (like SAP and Oracle).
• The ideal candidate will be able to process business transactions, handle accounts payable and receivable, expense reports, receipts, prepare management accounts and other financial matters. Proven accounting experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Analyze financial information and summarize financial status
• Spot errors and suggest ways to improve efficiency and spending
• Supervise month end financial activities. Assign and enforce deadlines for all stages of the closing process. Assist and contribute to the yearend closure process
• Fixed assets management and accounting
• Responsible for managing payroll journals at month end
• Assist the Finance Manager in managing and accounting for the company’s investment portfolios
• Ensuring tax compliance and prompt remittance
• Inventory control and accounting; to include daily analysis to predict potential challenges with the aim of reducing obsolete stock
• Supervise the delivery of internal and external audit
• Take ownership of the application and accounting of prepayment and accrual transactions
• Loans and grants management from point of acquisition to final repayment
• Timely and accurate preparation of monthly management report for review by supervisor
• Ensure compliance with all financial regulations
• Comply with International Financial Reporting Standard for financial statements
• Provide input into department’s goal setting process
• Produce error-free ad-hoc accounting reports and present their results to supervisor and management

Requirements

• Minimum 7-years of experience in accounting, audit, or finance related function
• Proficiency across Data and Financial Analysis
• BSc. In Finance, Accounting or any related field and must be a chartered accountant (ACCA or ICAN) with at least 3-years post qualification experience
• Experience in Nigerian tax regulation and management is an added advantage
• Advanced computer software skills, including Excel, PowerPoint, and other accounting packages
• Must have completed the mandatory NYSC.

Competencies:

• Highly motivated and result oriented with a keen eye for details
• Good time management skills and the ability to prioritize
• Strong attention to detail and an investigative mind
• Problem-solving skills and initiative
• Ability to keep confidential information and always remain discreet
• Ability to work and deliver within deadline without supervision
• Good understanding of IFRS standards
• Ability and willingness to meet deadlines consistently
• Integrity and high personal ethical standard
• Proven ability to calculate, post and manage financial records
• High analytical skills
• Ability to prioritize and multitask
• Ability to work as part of a broader team of different levels
• Intermediate computer software skills, including Excel and Accounting packages
• Training and mentoring junior staff
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience in communicating and influencing senior stakeholders
• Decisiveness, good judgement, strong organizational skills
• Self-Driven and smart working

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3.) Business Data Analyst

Job Location: Yaba, Lagos
Job Type: Full time

About the Role

• As Business Data Analyst you will be a vital member of Paga’s business units, which have the aim of combining product and marketing data with business acumen to drive consumer adoption and retention, in partnership with business partners across the organizations.
• In this role you will be expected to possess and use a mix of strategic, analytical, and administrative skills, providing support and data-driven direction to all within the Growth team.
• The Business Data Analyst at Paga is a hybrid of traditional roles in strategy, product marketing, and business intelligence. In this dynamic role, you will be at our center of truth - consumer behavior and transaction data.
• You will be charged with qualitative and quantitative consumer research, analysis with systemization of trends, crafting actionable insights, project management, measurement, and reporting; all in a bid to ensure the business goals of consumer acquisition and retention are achieved sustainably.
• You’ll be expected to collaborate closely with stakeholders across the company, and deliverables will be in the form of driving execution on your strategic recommendations.
• The successful candidate will possess a passion for innovative analysis, strong communication skills, processes that scale, and the wherewithal to develop findings and recommendations that transcend the numbers.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop, evaluate, and report targeted marketing strategies and initiatives
• Develop a wide variety of models to predict and better understand consumer behaviour
• Design and launch experiments, determine campaign targeting strategies, and develop category-specific KPIs, forecasts, and goals
• Conduct user/transaction analysis
• Conduct market and consumer behaviour trend analysis
• Keep abreast of industry and market trends
• Build dashboards, reports, and alerting systems for the ongoing analysis and monitoring of marketing campaigns, categories, and channels
• Identify process and system improvement opportunities by monitoring existing metrics, analysing data and partnering with internal teams as needed
• Support the ongoing analysis of business performance required to inform marketing and product development decisions on a day-to-day basis
• Enable effective decision making by retrieving and aggregating data from multiple sources and compiling it into a digestible and actionable format.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with internal business partners and external vendors, to improve strategies and make recommendations.
• Work collaboratively with consumer insights/data analysts/data scientists to translate data into insights and outcomes that the domain can leverage
• Managing ongoing delivery of data and insights from existing tracking and internal data
• Create reports and dashboards visualizing the output of analyses
• Communicate insights using data visualization and presentations to stakeholders
• Other roles as assigned by the Growth leadership.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 2.1 is required.
• At least 3 years of relevant experience in data analysis.
• Must be able to work in a high-velocity, high performance environment.
• An understanding of Financial services, particularly Money Transfer and Mobile commerce
• Creative thinking and innovative approach to solving challenges
• Active listening skills
• Knowledgeable/Comfortable with technology
• Must have completed the mandatory NYSC.

Key Competencies:

• Data Fluency: Expert quantitative analysis and logical reasoning; 3+ years of experience using database languages (e.g. SQL or BigQuery) and visualization tools (PowerBI and Tableau) on large data sets to extract trends and insights.
• Excellent use of Microsoft excel and the rest of the Microsoft Office suite.
• Bright, quick thinking and self-confident.
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and manage competing priorities.
• Intrapreneurial, self-driven, hardworking, takes initiatives and gets actively involved.
• Hands-on experience conducting customer segmentation, cohort performance, and product funnel analyses preferred.
• Strong focus on metrics to measure and demonstrate success.
• Strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills along with the resilience and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication skills – verbal, non-verbal and written.
• Proven tremendous planning, organization presentation, project management, organizational, technical and analytical skills.
• Having a keen eye for details, market and consumer insights, how to utilize it to commercial advantage.
• Proven problem analysis and problem-solving skills, good judgement and decision-making ability.
• Project management certification would be a bonus.

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