Job Openings at GVA Partners Limited

The right candidate will have:

Experience

At least 2 years of experience trading bonds and bills, including primary and secondary market trading of treasury bills, sovereign bonds and corporate securities and instruments

Required Skills

• Detail oriented, good with numbers and competitive, the right candidate will have some experience with financial modeling and valuation, and will be good with presentation generation and analysis.
• Demonstrable experience and interaction with other dealers and traders in the market and demonstrated ability to keep tabs on prices and levels of security prices.
• This person should be able to work closely with other treasury market dealers and investors and should be entrepreneurial, able to build relationships with others in the market, collating relevant information and experienced in executing trades
• This person should possess excellent research skills to help determine market sentiment via valuation and data analysis. This candidate should be conversant with FMDQ trading platforms, software and initiatives as well as being familiar with Bloomberg trading platform.
• Monitoring the Nigerian and international market performance. Monitoring prices in specific products. Providing key parties with daily trading information. Female candidate is preferred

Independence

• We are a flat organization, and we want someone who can report to very senior executives and work thoroughly with minimal supervision.
• We are prepared to compensate generously, and we will expect to examine candidates to verify their skills.

Qualifications

• 1st Class or 2nd Class Upper Degree
• At least, 2--5 years of progressive  professional experience in trading
• Experienced dealing with banks and other financial institutions that trade bonds and other securities
• Must have completed the mandatory NYSC or have an exemption letter

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The  right  candidate  will  have:    

Technical  Skills.     Detail  oriented,  good  with  numbers  and  competitive,  the  right  candidate will  have  some   experience  with  financial  modeling  and  valuation,  and  will  be  good  with presentation  generation   and  analysis     This  person  will  have  advanced  accounting  skills  and financial  statement  analysis  abilities,  and   would  have  professional  experience  either  with an investment  bank  or  an  accounting  firm  where   they  have  formally  learned  how  to  evaluate financial  information  and  how  to  present  it. The  right  candidate  will  be  an  expert  in Microsoft  Excel,  Word  and  Powerpoint,  and  will  be   teachable,  and  a  quick  learner. Communication  to  others  will  be  a  key  part  of  this  role,  which   requires  collaboration  and the  ability  to  work  in  a  team.  

Independence   We  are  a  flat  organization,  and  we  want  someone  who  is  able  to  report  to very  senior  people  and   work  thoroughly  with  minimal  supervision.     We  are  prepared  to compensate  generously,  and  we  will  expect  to  examine  candidates  to  verify   their  skills.  

Qualifications

• 1st  Class  or  2nd  Class  Degree    
• 1-­3  years  of  professional  experience  in  finance,  accounting  or  banking.  

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Responsibilities

Overall Strategic Leadership

• Set  the firm’s technical vision, develop and  implement strategies to achieve business objectives 
• Ensure that the firm’s technology and systems evolve at a pace that continues to exceed client and  business expectations
• Lead the strategy for application delivery, technology platforms, partnerships, and external relationships
• Foster an agile and continuous improvement culture within the firm
• Demonstrate fidelity to the organization’s culture in words and deeds

Strategic Management:

• Develop technical policies, processes, and procedures to achieve operational needs, and ensure adherence
• Oversee and scale the firm's technology in terms of people, systems, and processes  
• Make decisions that impact the current and future operations of the company Manage the engineering budget and make investments to align the firm with its vision Provide strategic insights and visibility into the going state of the firm’s infrastructure to the Executive Council.

People and Operations Management: 

• Recruit, manage, mentor, and provide sound technical leadership to a high performing, world-class and collaborative engineering team 
• Lead the engineering team in the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of high-quality products/features, and business tools.
• Manage and scale the firm’s technology platform to serve millions of users
• Work with cross-functional teams to understand and translate the business needs to sought-after products by our clients
• Define the product road map in collaboration with the product management team
• Identify and prioritize development initiatives, set timetable for the evaluation, development, and deployment of all products and solutions
• Conduct application tests and supervise the quality assurance for the web app, mobile app, and software
• Create and maintain excellent documentation of all specifications, systems, and procedures Automate operational delivery and management processes from build/test/deploy to monitoring, alerting, and capacity management
• Develop and implement a framework for application security that prevents vulnerabilities against threats and safeguards the company’s resources and clients data
• Ensure all technological practices comply with regulatory standards
• Stay abreast of best practices, technology trends, and development
• Execute other job-related duties as they arise

 Requirements

Personal Qualities:

• Demonstrated passion for technology and for developing sophisticated products for clients
• Evidence of being a doer – strong work ethic and self-accountability, and high emphasis on excellence Strong interpersonal communication skills, with a high degree of empathy
• Comfortable driving results in a fast-changing environment
• Ability to pay close attention to the details that make the difference between doing a good job and doing a great one
• Belief in the importance of lifelong learning and continuous development of self and team members
• Comfortable in an open and collaborative, team-focused, work culture
• A clear sense of a personal mission for one's career and life

Professional Expertise:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• At least 10 years working in a technological role
• At least 4 years of managerial experience leading diverse teams of engineers
• Experience building financial products is a plus
• Demonstrated experience in developing and deploying products that reached over 300,000 users
• Experience building business tools to enhance operations and efficiencies
• Strong mobile/web architecture experience
• Strong working knowledge of PHP, Python, Nodejs, React, JavaScript
• Demonstrated experience in using SQL, MySQL,
• Demonstrated experience in using API communication protocols such as REST, SOAP,
• Demonstrated experience with CI/CD deployment process
• Experience on server management, vulnerability assessment, security, etc
• Experience working in cloud environments such as Amazon AWS
• Excellent leadership and communication skills

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Responsibilities
An exciting opportunity exists for a dynamic and IT security engineer to join a dynamic project team for a 6 months project. The resource shall be responsible for the following:

• Participate in the delivery cybersecurity through vulnerability and threat identification, incident detection and response, forensic investigations, Patch and Vulnerability Management. Engage with infrastructure and applications teams in mitigation and remediation efforts.
• Engage with other IT units to establish and enforce security best practices, protection objectives and process improvements.
• Review and make recommendations regarding on-premise, data centre and cloud infrastructure, networking and security settings and posture.
• Create and maintain key metrics that are indicative of security posture of the infrastructure.
• Keep abreast of threat intelligence feeds to stay abreast of industry reports and emerging threat that may affect

Functions

• Lead cybersecurity initiatives in conjunction with Group Cybersecurity team.
• Design and implement security controls to safeguard and monitor events for information systems, enterprise applications and data.
• Lead the implementation of Information Security projects
• Drive internal and external vulnerability assessment, penetration tests engagements and manage results to remediation.
• Respond to escalated security events and drive security incident response processes to ensure timely resolution with minimal disruption.
• Design, document, and deploy secure infrastructure solutions to enhance and evolve the security posture of the business to ensure integrity, availability and confidentiality of all critical enterprise data.
• Provide expertise on security tools, including but not limited to firewalls, Web Application firewalls, IDS/IDP, anti-malware software
• Liaise with stakeholders in respect of operational implementation of security policies and best practices
• Prevent data loss and service interruptions by researching new technologies that will effectively protect the enterprise network.

Supervisory / Managerial Responsibilities

• Ensure conformance to Cyber security Blueprint/Roadmap
• Provide inputs to company strategic plan on all initiatives to ensure that Security gaps/vulnerabilities are identified & closed
• Establish and ensure credibility through strong relationships, value-add to operations and professionalism

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years experience in an area of Security specialisation; with experience working with others
• Experience working in a Large organization and preferably in the Telecommunications industry
• Strong background as an Engineer/Architect in application security infrastructure and various network technologies to include devices such as firewalls, VPN, intrusion/extrusion detection, vulnerability & risk assessment tools, encryption technologies, virus/worm/malware prevention, E-business and web application technologies, Data Loss Prevention, whole disk & device encryption solutions, two-factor authentication, common Windows (desktop & server) platforms,
• Experience with Microsoft, Solaris, Unix, Oracle and MSSQL
• Experience working in telecommunications industry
• Managingnetworkand/ornetworksecurity
• Knowledge should be current with information security best practices and global trends
• Knowledge of security best practices such as; defense in-depth, least privileges, need-to-know, separation of duties, access controls, encryption
• Useraccountidentity,authorizationandauthenticationmanagement.
• Securityincidentandeventmanagement
• Experience in researching new or emerging technologies and processes that may be incorporated as solutions to reoccurring security concern

Training:

• Penetration Testing
• Vulnerability life cycle management
• Advanced Security IncidenceReponse
• Systems Auditing,, Database Security, Firewall Design, Intrusion detection system administration Implementation
• Security enforcement on systems level, security audit and vulnerability management
• Telecommunications,Network,wireless&InternetSecurity