IT Product Manager Job at AB Microfinance Bank

AB Microfinance Bank is a national microfinance bank licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), with its head office in Lagos and branches spread across Lagos, Oyo, Ogun, Ondo and Anambra State.

AB Microfinance Bank Nigeria is committed to its passion of helping to improve the business opportunities of entrepreneurs by availing them of easy access to affordable loans, as well as improve the general financial status of everyone with its deposit accounts. It is a limited liability company duly incorporated in Nigeria under the 2002 Companies and Allied Matters Act, and is regulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria as a fully fledged microfinance bank.

The Bank has an exceptional group of very strong international shareholders committed to the task of improving access to financial services in the country. These shareholders are Access Microfinance Holding AG of Germany, KfW - the German Development Bank, the African Development Bank, and the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group. Together, they have an established record of setting up and managing microfinance banks across the African and Asian continents in such countries as Nigeria, Tanzania, Liberia, Zambia, Rwanda, Madagascar, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan,Georgia and Brazil.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: IT Product Manager

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

Job Description

• Strategic leadership to drive and support business growth and revenues, development and deployment of technology for all stakeholders, acceleration of product/service delivery, innovation and implementation of technology solutions at optimized costs.

Role Description

• Actively contribute to developing the company’s strategy for using technological resources, aligned to business goals
• Prepare businesses to react, adapt and evolve with resilience and success.
• Ensure the organization is in an ‘always future-ready technology mode.
• Strong domain knowledge and business acumen to ensure company’s technologies are used appropriately.
• Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors.
• Prioritize opportunity areas that can be solved given the organizational capacity and feasibility.
• Create product concepts to achieve the goal of business solutions for our customers.
• Refine, validate and identify top product concepts using available data.
• Rapidly test and iterate identified product concept among users.
• Create prototypes of the successfully tested product concepts.
• Translate insights into a product strategy from driving consensus internally, design, engineering, operations, forging required partnerships, and developing success metrics.
• Closely cooperate with internal teams such as business operations and sales, and e-channels to launch the product.
• Establish product delivery timelines in close collaboration with internal teams and keep stakeholders updated on.
• Evaluate and implement new technologies, systems, and infrastructure for competitive advantage in the current, dynamic digital finance ecosystem in Nigeria.
• Manage all technology assets with the right teams to ensure optimum return of investment using the ITIL framework — including availability, quality, performance, capacity management, financial management, change management, risk management, incident and problem management, and license management.  
• Work with operations subject matter experts and use a broad range of sources to develop innovative functionality.
• Design processes, workflows, and functional components to improve efficiency.
• Work with designers, developers (both locally and remotely) and subject matter experts to get project requirements well-scoped, designed and built.
• Map out talent requirements for the product.
• Build payments landscape, and upgrade plan /roadmap to support business growth and innovation.

Necessary Experience, Skills, Knowledge and Technical Proficiency

• Minimum educational qualification: B.Sc. / HND in any related discipline with cognate experience
• 7+ years of proven experience as a product manager, Developer, IT infrastructure systems engineer or similar leadership role, preferably in the Fintech, Banking, or software development industry.
• Knowledge of technological trends to build strategy.
• Understanding of budgets and business-planning would be an additional asset.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: jobs@ab-mfbnigeria.com using the Job Position as the subject of the email.