Latest Vacancies at Arca Payments Company Limited

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Arca Payments Company Limited was founded in 2016, with a clear vision to become Africa's premier payment services platform, fostering Financial inclusion and innovation & actively shaping the future of Financial Services, throughout the region. We are recruiting to fill the position below:       Job Title: Technical Product Manager - Core Technology Department Location: Lagos Job Description

• The person mush have hands on experience of product conceptualization, planning and execution of production cycles.

Responsibilities They are listed but not limited to the outline: Product Vision & Strategy/Management:

• Gain a deep understanding of product requirements and from that create the long-term vision and strategy for the Company’s products
• Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners
• Develop product pricing and positioning strategies
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes
• Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth
• Manage product development from concept, to design, sample production, testing, launch, promotion, support, and finally product end of life
• Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact
• Work closely with the technology team to deliver on roadmap deadlines and drive product launches
• Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding

Reporting:

• Provides information for management by preparing short-term and long-term product sales forecasts and special reports and analyses; answering questions and requests.
• Manage Project Close- out by preparing Project Acceptance Certificate (PAC) to customers to sign off accepting the project had been completed market Analysis
• Assesses market competition by comparing the company's product to competitors' products.
• Provides source data for product line communications by defining product marketing communication objectives.
• Obtains product market share by working with Head, Business Development to develop product sales strategies.
• Assesses product market data by calling on customers with field salespeople and evaluating sales call results.

Education & Qualification

• MS/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent preferred
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in product management or as an associate product manager
• Track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its life-cycle
• Ability to develop products and effectively communicate recommendations to executive management
• Technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and
• Web technologies
• Problem solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Compensation Compensation and benefits are highly attractive and competitive. Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply     Job Title: Business Analyst Location: Lagos Brief

• The person must have practical knowledge of documenting product requirement for technology, and can coordinate software development cycle process with the technology team.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate the sprint planning session and ensure the development team understands the requirement and can delivery base on the documentation provided by the Business Analyst.
• Collaborate with project manager, product manager and business development to understand priorities and elaborate on requirements.
• Develops , reviews, analyze and evaluate business systems and user needs
• Construct workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing specifications in a way that the technical team can use such as a bases for developing solutions.

Education & Qualification

• MS/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent preferred
• Minimum of 3 years' experience in business analysis and or system design
• Track record of managing all aspects of a business analysis – elicitation, documentation and system design and modelling.
• Ability to develop epics, user stories, acceptance criteria and communicate same with all the relevant stakeholders. Involved in stakeholders management.
• Technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies, understanding of payment eco-system is a plus.
• Problem solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with great collaborative and stakeholder’s management skills.
• Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc and understand the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of JIRA, Confluence and Draw.io
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) qualification a plus.

Compensation

• Compensation and benefits are highly attractive and competitive.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply Additional Information

• We make it a point to review all application received and contact those we want to speak to further within 10 calendar days. With that in mind, if we are interested in a further discussion, you will hear from us again within 10 calendar days from the date of your application submission.

  Application Deadline 5th August , 2019

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