Meristem Securities Limited Job Recruitment 2022 – Apply Here

Meristem Securities Limited Job Recruitment 2022 – We wish to inform everyone about the current job recruitment for qualified and eligible persons. All who who wish to apply may click the link below.

Meristem Securities Limited is a leading capital market conglomerate that offers Wealth Management services, Stockbroking services, Registrar services, Trustee services and Investment Banking services to our clients.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Tax

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time
Specialization(s): Accounting / Audit / Tax

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Job Summary

• We are looking for a tax and accounting expert to manage and facilitate the accurate preparation and filing of the Group’s Tax and Related Matters.
• The ideal candidate is a team player who manages the tax team to greater performance, creates and implements tax plans and works with the accounting and leadership teams to identify opportunities for process improvement and potential areas of risk.
• The Head of Tax will ensure compliance with all tax laws locally and internationally applicable to our business and financial transactions through a series of systems and system controls that are designed to ensure accurate, timely reporting.
• He/she will monitor current and impending changes to tax regulation and make the appropriate updates to policies and strategies.
• He/she will participate in budget and project implementation with sole aim of identifying tax risks and opportunities.
• The ideal candidate is single minded in their pursuit of ensuring compliance and achieves this goal through optimizing reporting procedures and driving the successful function of the tax team.

Job Description

• Facilitate and manage the preparation and review tax computations, estimates and reports accruals deductions, remittance of tax dues and filing of tax returns and the accurate within the stipulated statutory time frame, including partnering with the business units accounts, finance and legal teams.
• Find and implement opportunities for process improvement in company tax procedures.
• Develop and implement strategic tax planning for all necessary federal and state taxes.
• Manage members of the tax team in the discharge of various tax responsibilities
• Plan for and develop overall return calendar and coordinate timing and inputs with tax team.
• Maintain effective control procedures over all aspects of the tax process.
• Recommending tax strategies that align with business goals
• Management of Tax Accountants (if applicable)
• Responsible to legally minimise tax liabilities through informed application of tax laws and regulations
• Manage tax compliance, reporting, and filing works for the Group and ensure timely and accurate filing of all applicable tax returns
• Establish appropriate system or processes for tax risk management for the Group
• Act as the key point of contact and support for relevant tax authorities on taxation matters
• Liaise with tax authorities and external tax expert and provide tax audit support for the Group
• Provide internal tax advisory services and support on business operation matters to the Group
• Manage and facilitate FIRS and State Inland Revenue Service Tax Audits in conjunction with external tax expert regarding preparing responses, creating schedules, etc.
• Monitor legislative and regulatory tax law developments, communicate the effects of these developments to management and the tax team and create strategies to capitalize on changes to taxation legislation.
• Provide support with various internal audits and special tax related projects.
• Keep close contact and manage relationship with FIRS and relevant State Inland Revenue Services
• Monitor and maintain compliance with transfer pricing rules and documentation of the group
• Manage and mentor members of tax team to greater levels of effectiveness and engagement.
• Any other assignment as may be assigned by your supervisor

Job Requirements

• Minimum of Second-Class Upper Degree in Accountancy, with ACCA, ACA, ACTI qualification.
• Master’s Degree a plus but a strong requirement.

Experience:

• Minimum of 8 years’ tax experience in public accounting firm (Big 4 maybe an advantage)
• Prior experience in tax strategy implementation, planning support and project management will be advantageous.
• Prior strong working relationship with FIRS and State Inland Revenue Services.

Skills:

• Demonstrate strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and meticulous
• Possess good business acumen and highly adaptive.
• Mature, proactive, resourceful, and hands-on with good initiative.
• Independent and fast worker who can work well with minimal supervision.
• Strong experience with a variety of tax operations and ability to drive process improvements.
• Strong ability to utilize project management and accounting best practices to organize and prioritize tasks and the tasks of other tax team members.
• Exceptional client service along with the ability to develop excellent client relationships
• Ability to multitask
• Proficiency in the following areas: Strong skills and experience with Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Familiar with Tax ProMax of FIRS and other relevant tools.
• Ability to work well with stakeholders and communicate the benefits of tax initiatives.
• Extensive knowledge of all tax laws and regulations applicable to our business and financial transactions
• Strong accounting, analytical, and research skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles, analytical and research skills and standards especially International Financial Reporting Standards
• Good at meeting deadlines and solving problems

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply

Job Title: Growth Officer

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time
Specialization(s): Consulting / Business Strategy & Planning

Job Summary

• The Growth Analyst role within Meristem is one that is responsible for driving the achievement of revenue enhancement objectives and KPIs
• Achieve growth and retention focused cross-selling models, revenue management plans, customer information management tools, loyalty and rewards programs as well as Customer Value Proposition (CVP) enhancements.
• Develop and execute customer acquisition strategies
• Partner with the Data Science and Digital Transformation team to understand customer behavior and inform decisions
• The role holder will require strong analytical skills, innovative thinking and be able to develop and execute strategy effectively.

Duties / Responsibilities

• Support the execution of customer growth and retention strategies through the development of customer engagement plans to ensure the achievement of business growth targets.
• Implement the customer management activities that drive greater engagement with products and services, to drive incremental transaction volume and revenue.
• Identify new areas of opportunity and quickly assess the potential upside of a given opportunity.
• Track customer value KPIs to optimize results.
• Develop promotion proposals including business case for approval from relevant stakeholders
• Create below the line communication campaigns and promotions to drive revenue generation efforts
• Monitor, optimize, and report on marketing and growth metrics
• Internalize and closely monitor the business P&L Income and form insight to support the business in areas to drive revenue and cost reduction
• Execute the Customer Value Management framework to deliver delightful customer experiences and increase our share of customer’s wallet
• Monitor business performance to ensure achievement of set targets through Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly business performance reports
• Execute initiatives to reduce churn and build preventive and win back strategies
• Customer profiling and segmentation based on data and behavior to inform the development of customer engagement plans
• Analysis of customer data to inform the appropriate CVM strategies to adopt
• Analyse customer activity and highlighting trends to inform customer engagement plans
• Measure impact of customer growth and retention initiatives to assess effectiveness of growth & retention strategies and recommend the appropriate action
• Develop frameworks, models, tools, and processes to ensure that analytical insights can be incorporated into all key decision making
• Effectively present and communicate analysis to the company to drive business decisions
• Analyze the customer journey, identifying factors that impact conversion and retention, and proactively sharing these opportunities broadly within the company, including with your cross-functional peers, teams, and senior leadership
• Identify the most critical KPIs throughout the customer journey and tracking progress
• Creating dashboards, automated reports, and analyses to standardize and operationalize our reporting and insights
• Develop and deploy metrics, frameworks and dashboards for analysis across all portions of the funnel including acquisition channels, engagement, and retention
• Compile and deliver weekly, monthly consumer dashboards to track performance against KPIs
• Assess the impact of growth and retention initiatives to optimize cost-reward of sales and marketing costs as well as effectiveness of the strategy
• Hands-on exploration of data, including customer or market research to understand user behavior across all facets of the customer journey
• Mine and analyze company data sets to identify key levers to accelerate growth.
• Communicate findings to leadership that goes beyond the numbers to facilitate marketing, sales, and product development strategies
• Develop success metrics and track key KPIs for growth experiments, optimizing performance through rapid, iterative tests
• Design frameworks, scorecards, and dashboards to measure business metrics and track high priority initiatives and experiments
• Discover opportunities to remove barriers for adoption, retention, engagement, and/or monetization, and partner cross-functionally to execute initiatives based on findings
• Help execute projects to drive insights that lead to customer, seller, and growth
• Work closely with marketing, design, product, support, to drive marketing and revenue generation campaigns
• Work with cross-functional teams (including Marketing, Product, Engineering, Design) to provide insights and be a crucial player in helping the teams understand growth opportunities
• Work performance marketing team to solve attribution
• Ad Hoc reporting and analysis to support the Senior Leadership team and inform strategic decisions
• Any other assignment as may be assigned by your supervisor

Key Performance Metrics:

• Increase in new customers
• Repeated transactions realised from existing clients
• Product and Service coverage ratio across the Business Units
• Turnaround time on deliverables
• Accuracy of customer, market intelligence and data gathering
• Effectiveness of customer acquisition strategy and implementation
• Project delivery.
• Number of suggested recommendations that impacted sales
• Revenue growth impacted by analysis, strategy and insights
• Accuracy or correctness of reports

Work Experience and Qualifications

• A good University Degree from a reputable University – preferably in Social Sciences, Finance, or Accounting
• 2 – 4 years’ experience on growth, marketing or analytics teams
• 2 – 3 years of experience using data from multiple sources to create actionable insights
• Demonstrated ability and desire to present data and insights clearly and concisely to multiple audiences, including senior leadership
• Deep experience with Analytics tools such as Google Analytics and Amplitude.
• Experience with data visualization and reporting tools (Periscope, Tableau, Looker, Canva, etc.)
• Ability to translate insights from data into actionable outcomes.
• Track record of independent work that meets or exceeds goals against clearly stated objectives.
• A growth mindset and are continually trying to learn.
• Strong Analytical skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Exceptional Excel, SQL, and data analysis skills, including a good grasp of statistics. Python/R is a plus.
• Experience working with Segment and Google Tag Manager.

Skills & Competencies:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent prospecting and marketing skills
• Good knowledge of the Capital market and its operations
• Excellent presentation skills
• Display resourcefulness to achieve tasks
• Ability to be flexible and adaptable
• Ability to follow through on tasks and deliverables
• Display strong attention to detail
• Ability to manage cross-functional processes for the development of customer value propositions and how they are positioned to grow and retain customers.
• Ability to leverage data analytics capability into understanding customer behavior and using the outcomes to inform customer growth and retention initiatives and product enhancements.
• Must possess good selling skills
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills
• Results orientated
• Problem-solving
• Strong numerical skills
• Display strong research skills
• Self-learner with the ability to acquire the knowledge required to complete tasks
• Good appreciation of major industry and regulatory trends and challenges

Skills / Knowledge:

• Fluent in the full spectrum of Customer Value Management (CVM) systems.
• Ability to use imagination and new ideas to solutions.
• Good knowledge of the Capital market and its operations
• Excellent presentation skills
• Must possess good selling skills
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills
• Can formulate new ideas or to adapt or use existing ideas in a new or unexpected way to solve problems. Ability to define appropriate measurements for growth
• Good understanding of consumer psychology
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent prospecting and marketing skills

Attributes:

Leadership:

• Ability to influence others to do what is to be done.
• Must be fair, goal oriented, responsible and aggressive
• Must be able to evaluate others
• Must be charismatic
• Must be socially present

Proactive decision-maker:

• Ability to look beyond the obvious/routine
• Ability to question assumptions
• Ability to proactively measure performance
• Ability to see what others cannot see
• Ability to seek a richer set of alternatives

Risk taker:

• Sound ethics and integrity
• Must have high sense of integrity, accountability, and dependability
• Must uphold high ethical standard i.e., know and stick to all capital market rules as contained in Regulatory rules & code of ethics guiding operations in the industry.

Job Interactions:

Internal:

• Business Units
• Information Technology
• Digital
• Customer Acquisition and Retention
• Customer Relationship Management

External:

• Business Partners.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply

Job Title: Business Development Officer

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time
Specialization(s): Business Development / Analysis

Job Summary

• The firm is seeking an experienced hire to join the lease and credit team. Ideal candidates should have successful experience working in a sales role.

Job Duties / Responsibilities

• Enhance client and industry relationships, generate sales opportunities and tailor superior solutions.
• Educate the customer by demonstrating an in-depth knowledge of the features, benefits and applications of available products and services.
• Demonstrate macro-level knowledge of credit risk policy and internal credit ratings to determine client’s creditworthiness.
• Develop and foster mutually beneficial relationships with industry contacts including dealers, brokers, insurers, and suppliers.
• Establish credibility so as to be viewed as a trusted business advisor within the client organization and industry network.
• Through direct selling, generate qualified equipment finance and leasing leads, proposing on and eventually closing required amounts of business.
• Properly and consistently recording customer and prospect data and sales efforts in all company-used databases and management systems.
• For the equipment financing relationship, act as the primary contact for customers and prospects, effectively communicating the company’s products and capabilities to the customer and the customer’s needs to the company.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or its equivalent
• At least, 5 years of experience in a similar position
• Professional qualification will be an added advantage.
• The candidate should possess an in-depth knowledge of the financial services sector and the ability to negotiate and close transactions.

Skills & Competencies:

• Negotiation Ability
• Interpersonal
• Leadership
• Integrity
• Team spirit
• IT savvy

Attributes:

Leadership:

• Ability to influence others to do what is ethically right.
• Must possess good listening skills
• Must be able to evaluate others
• Must be charismatic
• Must be fair, goal oriented, responsible and skilled
• Must be a good director of affairs both human and material

Proactive decision-maker:

• Ability to forecast the market
• Ability to question assumptions
• Ability to proactively measure performance.
• Ability to pay attention to details
• Ability to penetrate the market and get the best of prices for goods

Self-starter:

• Must be an energetic person with unusual initiative
• Must be discernibly honest and of consistent upright character.
• Must be ethical i.e. must follow the ideals and responsibilities of the banking industry as set out in the code of ethics guiding operations and operators in the industry.
• Must be resilient
• Sound ethics and integrity.

Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply

Application Deadline  30th June, 2022.