Job Vacancies in a Leasing Company

Our Client – a Leading Asset Finance Company located in the central business district of Lagos state Nigeria is recruiting to fill the following position:

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Junior Accountant

Location: Lagos Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

  • Making and posting of bank transactions;
  • Working on expense claims of employees;
  • Maintains list of vendors and its Master data;
  • Accounting System updates;
  • Assistance in audits;
  • Replace colleagues during their vacations, sick leaves and other absences. Replacement takes place during the working time, and it is not considered as additional work.

Qualifications

  • At least 3 years of experience as a junior accountant in a company with strong control environment;
  • Successfully graduated at least bachelor program in Finance / Accounting / Business administration field;
  • Must have at the minimum completed the skills stage of the ACA/ICAN professional certification
  • Fluent in English language (spoken and written);
  • Advanced computer skills (working experience with MSC Navision and SAP will be a plus);
  • Must be conversant with SAGE, Peach Tree and other accounting software
  • Self-driven and resilient and able to thrive in a challenging environment;
  • High sense of responsibility;
  • The ability to accurately fulfill direct management orders and work tasks;
  • Team Player.

Key Skills and Attributes

  • Strategic Skills
  • Human Management.
  • Leadership abilities
  • Industry Knowledge
  • Analytical Skills
  • Strategic perspective
  • People Management
  • Project Cost and Budget Monitoring
  • Business acumen

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Administrative Officer

Location: Lagos Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description
Office Administrator:

  • Manage reception desk: incoming/outgoing phone calls, mails, visitors to office.
  • Manage internal mails.
  • Support to register the parking and access building card with building admin.
  • Prepare the welcome screen for new associates.
  • Fleet Management.
  • Vendor Management .
  • Procurement and Inventory.
  • Technical support for all staff.
  • Manage and maintain all facilities in the office daily.
  • Supervise maintenance jobs performed by Vendor.

Qualifications

  • Education and Experience Requirements.
  • OND minimum required.
  • 4+ years of experience supporting a large, fast paced office with similar job accountabilities.
  • Demonstrated Microsoft Office Suite skills (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
  • Demonstrated ability supporting multiple managers and helping them to be more efficient and organized.
  • High degree of integrity and ethics and the ability to protect confidential employee and organizational information.
  • High degree of composure and ability to deal with high velocity change, fluctuating priorities and shifting deliverables.

Competencies:

  • Interpersonal Effectiveness – Builds constructive and effective relationships; Presents information and respond to questions with confidence; Uses diplomacy and tact.
  • Customer Focus – Establishes and maintains effective relationships with internal and external partners, gaining their trust and respect.
  • Action Orientation: Highly driven and self-motivated; Capable of working in a deadline oriented environment; Ability to work independently and proactively to develop solutions with minimal guidance; Ability to think creatively.
  • Organizational skills – Ability to multi-task and prioritize daily workload. Ability to meet deadlines and to work independently with minimal supervision; Ability to orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal; Arranges information in a useful manner.
  • Team player – Able to work as part of a team.
  • Attention to detail – Methodical and meticulous; Demonstrates attention to detail.
  • Communication: Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills.
  • Informing: Ability to recognize key issues and effectively communicate to management
  • Perseverance – Pursues everything with energy; Demonstrates drive and a need to finish; Gives up seldom even in the face of resistance or setbacks; Demonstrates a proactive attitude and ability to act on own initiative.
  • Functional / Technical Skills: Demonstrated office management skills; demonstrated meeting and travel scheduling capabilities; Strong Microsoft Office Suite skills (Excel, PowerPoint, etc)

Skills and Knowledge:

  • The ability to sell products and services
  • Knowledge of English language
  • Good presentation skills
  • The ability to use your initiative
  • Leadership skills
  • Customer service skills
  • Business management skills
  • Ambition and a desire to succeed
  • To be able to use a computer and the main software packages confidently
  • Tenacity and drive to seek new business and meet or exceed targets
  • Excellent telephone manners for making initial contact and for ongoing communication with customers and business associate
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills – needed for communicating with a wide range of people, both internally and externally
  • Good IT skills, including the use of spreadsheets
  • A professional manner and presentable appearance for meeting customers/clients
  • Initiative and good decision-making skills
  • Project management skills
  • The ability to motivate yourself and set your own goals
  • Great organisational skills
  • Good networking skills
  • The ability to think strategically
  • The ability to analyse sales figures and write reports
  • Initiative and the confidence to start things from scratch
  • The ability to speak a foreign language may be an asset if you’re dealing with overseas clients.
  • A valid driving license is a requirement.

Your day – to – day duties will include:

  • Researching organisations to find new customers and identify who makes the decisions
  • Cold calling’ to arrange meetings at customers’ premises
  • Finding out what an organisation needs and working with a team to plan proposals and pricing
  • Selling products and services to new and existing customers
  • Negotiating with customers and building positive relationships
  • Attending events and conferences
  • Writing reports and making presentations to customers and senior management
  • Identifying new methods and opportunities for sales campaigns
  • Forecasting sales targets and making sure they’re met
  • Delivering training to business developers and junior sales teams
  • Identify new business opportunities – including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, products and services
  • Seek out the appropriate contact in an organisation
  • Generate leads and cold call prospective customers
  • Meet with customers/clients face to face or over the phone
  • Understand the needs of your customers and be able to respond effectively with a plan of how to meet these
  • Think strategically – seeing the bigger picture and setting aims and objectives in order to develop and improve the business
  • Work strategically – carrying out necessary planning in order to implement operational changes
  • Draw up client contracts – depending on the size of company, this task may be completed by someone else or agreements may not be as formal
  • Have a good understanding of the businesses’ products or services and be able to advise others about them
  • Ensure staff are on board throughout the organisation, and understand the need for change and what is required of them
  • Train members of your team, arranging external training where appropriate
  • Discuss promotional strategy and activities with the marketing department
  • Liaise with the finance team, warehousing and logistics departments as appropriate
  • Seek ways of improving the way the business operates
  • Attend seminars, conferences and events where appropriate
  • Keep abreast of trends and changes in the business world.
  • Help to plan sales campaigns
  • Create a sales pipeline
  • Negotiate pricing with customers, and suppliers in some cases
  • Carry out sales forecasts and analysis and present your findings to Senior Management.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Business Development Manager

Location: Lagos Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full time

The Role

  • The Business Development Manager will lead sales and client-relationship management, tracks new markets and emerging trends, recommends new products and services, proposes and develops new strategic partnerships, writes proposals and plans, and guides long-term objectives to meet business needs and requirements.
  • As a business development manager, you’ll be concerned with improving and growing the business by fostering and developing relationships with customers, and other partners. You will work to improve profitability through careful strategic planning and positioning in the appropriate markets, or to enhance the operation of the business, position or reputation in some way.
  • We are looking for an ambitious and energetic Business Development Manager to help us expand our clientele, drive sales and increase profitability.
  • You will be the front of the company and will have the dedication to create and apply an effective sales strategy.
  • The goal is to drive sustainable financial growth through boosting sales and forging strong relationships with clients.

Job Summary

  • Identify and cultivate lease financing and loan lending opportunities within the corporate and retail sectors and specifically your assigned sub-sector.
  • Establish/originate, evaluate/develop, qualify and maintain lease financing and loan lending opportunities and offer lease financing and loan lending to customers.

Your day-to-day duties will include:

  • Researching organisations to find new customers and identify who makes the decisions
  • ‘Cold calling’ to arrange meetings at customers’ premises
  • Finding out what an organisation needs and working with a team to plan proposals and pricing
  • Selling products and services to new and existing customers
  • Negotiating with customers and building positive relationships
  • Attending events and conferences
  • Writing reports and making presentations to customers and senior management
  • Identifying new methods and opportunities for sales campaigns
  • Forecasting sales targets and making sure they’re met
  • Delivering training to business developers and junior sales teams
  • Identify new business opportunities – including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, products and services
  • Seek out the appropriate contact in an organisation
  • Generate leads and cold call prospective customers
  • Meet with customers/clients face to face or over the phone
  • Understand the needs of your customers and be able to respond effectively with a plan of how to meet these
  • Think strategically – seeing the bigger picture and setting aims and objectives in order to develop and improve the business
  • Work strategically – carrying out necessary planning in order to implement operational changes
  • Draw up client contracts – depending on the size of company, this task may be completed by someone else or agreements may not be as formal
  • Have a good understanding of the businesses’ products or services and be able to advise others about them
  • Ensure staff are on board throughout the organisation, and understand the need for change and what is required of them
  • Train members of your team, arranging external training where appropriate
  • Discuss promotional strategy and activities with the marketing department
  • Liaise with the finance team, warehousing and logistics departments as appropriate
  • Seek ways of improving the way the business operates
  • Attend seminars, conferences and events where appropriate
  • Keep abreast of trends and changes in the business world.
  • Help to plan sales campaigns
  • Create a sales pipeline
  • Negotiate pricing with customers, and suppliers in some cases
  • Carry out sales forecasts and analysis and present your findings to Senior Management.

Key Perfomance Indicators:

  • Ensure a Balanced Scorecard perspective of metrics and ratios of financial, customer, internal process, lease terms and payments.
  • Adhere to organizational procedures and policies for all lease processing.
  • Develop and apply full knowledge of application information required, screening processes and policies regarding leases.
  • Ensure efficient and timely processing of all required administrative forms, reports and related information.
  • Ensure the creation, development and maintenance of a comprehensive database of external contacts and clients.
  • Knowledge of current market conditions; competitor and market analyses, monitoring and reporting.
  • Coordinate customer interaction and interface with all parties involved on each individual lease that is originated from application to closing including, but not limited to: counselling and pre-qualifying potential lessees, taking complete and accurate application; obtaining all necessary support documents along with the appropriate fees and equity contributions and lock-in information; overseeing the lease process by monitoring lease status and ensuring conformity with terms; assisting in collecting additional documents and promptly communicate lease status to parties.
  • Maintain a blotter or schedule of all disbursements, pendings, maturities and defaults.
  • Maintain a professional image and standards consistent with company policies and procedures.
  • Submit a weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly and periodic summary of achievements, closures, meetings/presentations to the Manager.

Qualifications

  • Bachelors of science in any social science degree
  • Master’s degree will be an added advantage
  • Good knowledge of the leasing industry
  • Minimum of 10 years working experience

Skills and Knowledge:
You’ll Need:

  • The ability to sell products and services
  • Knowledge of English language
  • The ability to use your initiative
  • Leadership skills
  • Customer service skills
  • Business management skills
  • Ambition and a desire to succeed
  • To be able to use a computer and the main software packages confidently
  • Tenacity and drive to seek new business and meet or exceed targets
  • Excellent telephone manners for making initial contact and for ongoing communication with customers and business associate
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills – needed for communicating with a wide range of people, both internally and externally
  • Good IT skills, including the use of spreadsheets
  • A professional manner and presentable appearance for meeting customers/clients
  • Initiative and good decision-making skills
  • Project management skills
  • The ability to motivate yourself and set your own goals
  • Great organisational skills
  • Good networking skills
  • The ability to think strategically
  • The ability to analyse sales figures and write reports
  • Initiative and the confidence to start things from scratch
  • The ability to speak a foreign language may be an asset if you’re dealing with overseas clients.
  • A valid driving license is a requirement.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Front Desk Officer

Location: Lagos Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Description

  • Responsible for admitting guest and issuing visitors badge
  • Responsible for taking and receiving visitors phone calls
  • Responsible for sorting correspondence
  • Responding to client’s inquiries and complains
  • Collating and ordering companies supplies
  • Ensuring the reception area is clean and organized all time
  • Updating company’s documents and files and ensuring mistakes are looked into
  • Maintaining and updating meeting schedules for the company
  • Making traveling plans and arrangements when the need arises
  • Maintaining Companies social media account
  • Providing administration support to senior management.

Qualifications

  • HND / BSC in Business Administration or any related discipline.
  • 1-2 years proven experiences and front desk representative agent or relevant position

Key Skills and Attributes:
Strategic Skills:

  • Human Management.
  • Leadership abilities
  • Industry Knowledge
  • Analytical Skills
  • Strategic perspective
  • People Management
  • Project Cost and Budget Monitoring
  • Business acumen.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online