Jobs at Alfred & Victoria Associates

Role Overview

• We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Pre-Sales Sales Engineer to join our team.
• The ideal candidate will be responsible for supporting the sales process by providing technical expertise and developing solutions that leverage Microsoft, Huawei, Oracle, and AWS cloud services.
• You will work closely with the sales team and clients to understand their requirements, demonstrate the value of our solutions, and ensure successful implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Consultation: Collaborate with clients to understand their business needs and technical requirements. Provide expert guidance on the best cloud solutions from Microsoft, Huawei, Oracle, and AWS.
• Solution Design: Develop and present tailored cloud solutions and architectures that address client challenges and align with their strategic goals.
• Demonstrations and Proof of Concept: Conduct product demonstrations, workshops, and proof-of-concept engagements to showcase the capabilities and benefits of our cloud services.
• Proposal Development: Assist in creating detailed technical proposals, including solution architecture, scope of work, and pricing, to support the sales process.
• Customer Support: Address technical questions and provide post-sales support to ensure client satisfaction and successful implementation of solutions.
• Collaboration: Work closely with the sales team to strategize and plan client engagements, provide feedback on client needs, and refine sales tactics.
• Market and Product Knowledge: Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in Microsoft, Huawei, Oracle, and AWS cloud technologies. Share insights with the team and contribute to ongoing learning and development

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Advanced certifications in Microsoft, Huawei, Oracle, and AWS cloud platforms are highly desirable.
• Proven experience as a Pre-Sales Engineer or Technical Sales Engineer, with a strong background in cloud solutions and services.
• Expertise in Microsoft Azure, Huawei Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and AWS services, including solution architecture, migration strategies, and integration.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a customer-oriented approach.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team.

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Job Description

• The Operations Manager will be responsible for overseeing daily operations of assigned locations.
• Their tasks will include coordinating with division heads, ensuring efficient processes, managing resources and budgets, implementing strategies for improvement, and overseeing the delivery of high-quality solutions..

Responsibilities

• Assign and monitor operational responsibilities, such as inspection of projects and sites, responding to technical problems and ensuring that customers' requests/complains are addressed effectively.
• Coordinate the teams on maintenance service, repairs of all capacities of Generators & Machinery.
• Supervises the usage, preservation, and office Generators.
• Review reports sent by team Leads and analyze the major and repetitive breakdowns, delays and proffer long lasting solution.
• Ensure Improvement on operational management system, processes and best practices
• Preparing an annual operating budget, goals and objectives for each department and monitoring the departments' performance.
• Work closely with other managers to improve profitability and efficiency.
• Performs periodic checks to ensure the teams are working in line with the compliance policies.
• Supports the Management on strategic decision making towards improving performances and general employees.

Qualifications

• MSc/BSc/HND in Mechanical or electrical engineering or related field.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in a related role.
• Compliance management and other relevant certifications.

Skills:

• Proven experience in operations management
• Strong leadership and decision-making skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Ability to analyze complex situations and develop effective solutions
• Knowledge of industry best practices and trends
• Ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively with diverse teams
• Proficiency in project management software and tools
• Knowledge of the Nigerian market and industry regulations
• Prior experience from a generator company is a must-have.

Salary
Very attractive.

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Job Summary & Purpose

• Account manager responsibilities include developing long-term relationships with a portfolio of clients.
• Account Managers liaise between customers and cross-functional internal teams to ensure the timely and successful delivery of our solutions according to customer needs.
• Manage and develop client accounts to initiate and maintain favorable relationship with clients.

Responsibilities

• Be the primary point of contact and build long-term relationships with customers.
• Ensure the timely and successful delivery of solutions according to customer needs and objectives.
• Responsible for keeping current clients satisfied and delivering exceptional client service on a day-to-day basis.
• Liaise between the customer and internal teams.
• Build and maintain strong, long-lasting client relationships.
• Cross selling and Upselling to increasing revenues
• Clearly communicate the progress of monthly/quarterly initiatives to internal and external stakeholders
• Develop new business with existing clients and/or identify areas of improvement.
• Assist with challenging client requests or issue escalations as needed.
• Daily Proactive Routine Calls for Customer Survey.
• Retention and Win-back

Requirements

• BA/BS degree in Business Administration, Sales or a relevant field
• A minimum of 3 years cognate experience in a similar role
• Proven work experience as an Account Manager, Key Account Manager, Sales Account Manager, Junior Account Manager or relevant role
• Solid experience with CRM software (e.g. Salesforce, Zoho CRM or HubSpot) and MS Office (particularly MS Excel)
• Experience delivering client-focused solutions to customer needs
• Excellent listening, negotiation and presentation abilities
• Ability to prioritize and multitask
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to have difficult conversations
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Salary
Very Attractive.

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Job Summary

• We are seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Accountant with 3 - 5 years of professional experience to join our finance team.
• The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining financial records, preparing reports, and ensuring accuracy and compliance with accounting standards and regulations.
• Additionally, the Accountant will assist with various administrative tasks to support the efficient operation of the office.
• The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, be proficient with accounting software, and possess a solid understanding of accounting principles.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and examine financial records, ensuring their accuracy and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Maintain and reconcile general ledger accounts, preparing journal entries as needed.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements and reports.
• Assist in the preparation of budgets and forecasts, monitoring financial performance against projections.
• Conduct internal audits to ensure compliance with internal controls and financial policies.
• Manage accounts payable and accounts receivable, ensuring timely payments and collections.
• Prepare and file tax returns, ensuring compliance with tax regulations.
• Assist with the preparation of financial statements for annual audits and liaise with external auditors.
• Analyze financial data and trends, providing insights and recommendations to management.
• Support the finance team with ad hoc projects and tasks as needed.

Administrative Responsibilities:

• Assist in managing office operations, including ordering supplies and maintaining office equipment.
• Coordinate and schedule meetings, appointments, and travel arrangements.
• Maintain and organize company files and records, both physical and electronic.
• Assist with preparing documentation and coordinating training sessions.
• Manage incoming and outgoing mail and correspondence.
• Provide general administrative support within the Organisation
• Handle sensitive information in a confidential manner.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• ICAN Certification or towards certification preferred.
• 3 - 5 years of relevant accounting experience.
• Proficiency with accounting software (e.g., Sage, Dynamics Business Central).
• Strong knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and IFRS
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel.
• Strong organizational and multitasking abilities.
• Experience with administrative duties and office management preferred.

Working Conditions:

• Full-time position.
• Office environment with occasional opportunities for remote work.

Company Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Professional development opportunities.

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Job Description

• Experienced  Maintenance / IT Technician with a demonstrated history of carrying out electro-mechanical repairs, managing vendors and has knowledge of Windows Server management, LAN management etc.

Responsibilities

• Ensures strict adherence to company procedures on facilities management, asset management, and procurement activities.
• Initiates and carry out planned maintenance programs for a variety of equipment and preventive maintenance of facility equipment
• Ensure the Installation, configurations and maintenance of all Technological equipment, including network cabling, switches, routers, wireless access points, and other related systems.
• Oversees network maintenance operations and software applications (e.g. servers (file, print, application etc) operating systems, server backup, routine maintenance programs etc.)
• Oversees the administration of all servers and end-user workstations on a primarily Microsoft Windows-based Local area network (LAN).
• Oversees software/application selection, installation and upgrades, coordinating assistance from third parties when necessary.
• Creates and maintains user and computer accounts in the Intranet and on Gsuite, including assigning application access, ensuring security, and confirming their privileges are within standards. Also responsible for expanding and modifying Intranet as enterprise requirements change.
• Coordinate the supply and distribution of utilities, diesel, water; repairs and maintenance of company staff house
• Gets approved suppliers, vendors for all purchases Supervise contractors , vendors etc

Qualifications

• Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical / Electronic Engineering or a related degree.
• 3 years work experience in managing relationships in Health Care Industry.
• Good technical reporting skills. E.g usage of excel, charts, presentations etc.
• Leverage on relationship management having strong relationship-building, alignment-building and negotiation skills with the ability to be personable and tenacious as the situation requires.
• Excellent writing and communication skills including listening and negotiation; have the ability to build and maintain relationships and work well as part of the team.
• Must have the ability to work with little or no supervision.
• Must be able to multitask.
• Organizational skills.
• Team Leadership Experience.
• Financial and Quantitative Analysis skills.
• Strategic/Big Picture Thinking.
• Relationship Management skills.
• Contract Management skills.

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Role Objectives

• The Enterprise Architect sets the direction and establishes the approach of an organization's operations, improves the IT infrastructure, and optimizes their business operations.
• The Enterprise Architect works to align and integrate the organization's strategy and programs with associated technology components.

Responsibilities
Strategy & Planning:

• Evaluating internal functions, business development strategies, and IT processes and suggesting improvements.
• Creating business architecture models to reflect the organization's strategies and goals and creating and implementing business visions and goals.
• Suggesting ideas to reduce costs in IT and business leadership.
• Providing business architecture and systems processing guidance.
• Ensuring the efficiency, security, and support of the organization's goals.
• Creating methods for compliance architecture, such as data storage, metadata management, and change control.
• Determining and implementing build versus buy strategies, mentor personnel, and views of the overall business strategy.
• Supports all architectural disciplines and champions’ architectural initiatives.
• Reviews existing business processes and establishes metrics to improve business processes, as well as support of all architectural disciplines under their direction.
• Works on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains.
• Aligns architecture strategy with business goals.
• Defines, explains, and advocates technology strategy.
• Develops and communicates architectural policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Designs and implements short- and long-term strategic plans to ensure Interswitch’s infrastructure capacity meets existing and future requirements with regards to employee usage and application hosting

Operational Management:

• Ensures the conceptual completeness of the technical solutions.
• Leads teams in developing technology plans.
• Provides strategic consultation to business and IT leaders.
• Lead adoption of the enterprise architecture framework adoption
• Works with business leaders to understand business requirements and help them understand how technology tradeoffs influence strategy.
• Consults with project teams to fit projects to enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.
• Develops a communication plan for architecture at the enterprise level.
• Directs the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry, and market trends.
• Ensures recommendations are based on business relevance, appropriate timing, and deployment.
• Approves the tools and components used within the enterprise.
• Collaborates with project management and IT leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements.
• Drive architectural changes through incident management by proposing relevant changes while collaborating with the respective teams for deployment.
• Leads the change manager team towards continuous improvement of the change management process and ensuring the deployed changes are in line with business needs.
• Developing standards and frameworks towards aligning with business.
• Provide artifacts (information assets, application, and IT services) to be stored within EA for reuse.
• Review the enterprise alongside other architects to streamline processes and reuse resources.

Requirements
Academic Qualification:

• University degree in the field of computer science or “STEM” major (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) or related field.

Knowledge & Experience:

• Minimum of 7 years of IT and business/industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning and operations.
• Experience in working with multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders.
• TOGAF or Zachman certified
• Requires exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture, business re-engineering principles and processes, and basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting.
• Experience with cloud and container technology

Personal Attributes:

• Proven leadership ability.
• Ability to set and manage priorities judiciously.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Strong tactical skills.
• Ability to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical addressees.
• Exceptionally self-motivated and directed.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.
• Exceptional service orientation.
• Ability to motivate in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

Salary

• Very Attractive.