Project Coordinator, Fintech
Optasia, Nigeria
Job Description
Optasia is a fully-integrated B2B2X financial technology platform covering scoring, financial decisioning, disbursement amp; collection. We provide a versatile AI Platform powering financial inclusion, delivering responsible financing decision-making and driving a superior business model amp; strong customer experience.
Since company’s inception, over a decade ago, we have grown to become a global leader in the Fintech fields, constantly expanding and adding new solutions, offerings, and untapped monetization opportunities for all our partners and clients. As member of the Project Delivery team in Optasia, your primary objective is the creation, planning, execution and closure of deliverables that involve software development changes. The Project Coordinator is the driver of business processes and guidelines that relate to these deliverables. The role is reporting to Project Delivery Director.
What you will be doing
- Coordinates closely a deliverable’s execution, while taking responsibility for planning the management of scope and schedule
- Monitors and controls each sub-team’s deliverables
- Manages planned and unplanned changes, risks and issues to ensure rapid delivery and greater predictability
- Coordinates stakeholders’ involvement to keep them apprised of progress and address their needs, both internal as with the client, mainly MNO’s.
- Shifts in priorities from senior leadership by ensuring members retain focus to handle changes with minimal disruption to productivity
- Performs reporting as needed.
What you will bring
- 2-3 years of recent related work experience in a financial services, telecommunications amp; IT sectors.
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in IT / Engineering, Telecommunications or related field
- Experience of process and project management
- Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously, facilitating status meetings and presenting to large groups
- Ability to identify problems, to mediate issues, to develop solutions, and to implement appropriate course of action
- Ability to assess and evaluate the criticality and benefits of any required action by the various stakeholders
- Understating of the principles of software development lifecycle
- Project management certification is considered as a plus (PMP, Prince2 Practitioner, PM2)
- IPMA, MSP, Six-Sigma, ITIL practitioner, or agile certification is considered as a plus
- Willingness to travel up to 70% during the delivery phases
Your key attributes
- Comfort with a rapidly changing environment and communicating assumptions amp; risks of decisions
- Excellent research, reasoning, organization, team building and interpersonal skills
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Fast learner, ambitious and self-starter
- Comfortable with working in a fast-paced environment
- Pro-activeness, accountability and results orientation
- Hard working attitude and willingness to commit on projects
- Ability to handle multiple clients, multiple team members and priorities with confidence
- Flexible, eager, ambitious, and adaptable to change
- Passion for learning new technologies and eagerness to collaborate with other creative minds
Why you should apply
What we offer:
Competitive remuneration package
Extra day off on your birthday
Performance-based bonus scheme
Comprehensive private healthcare insurance
All the tech gear you need to work smart
Optasia’s Perks:
Be a part of a multicultural working environment
Meet a very unique and promising business and industry
Gain insights for tomorrow market’s foreground
A solid career path within our working family is ready for you
Continuous training and access to online training platforms