Ongoing Recruitment at NOVO Car Rentals

NOVO Car Rentals is a leading player in the Fleet Management/Logistics Industry. We are conveniently located in Lekki Phase 1, Lagos and with branches in major cities in Nigeria. We offer services in the areas of Vehicle Rentals, Outsourcing and Logistics, as well as a Consumer and Business Credit Facility.

We are recruiting to fill the positions below:

Job Title: Account Officer Locations: Lagos, Abuja

Job Details

• Responsible for completing payments and controlling expenses by receiving payments, processing, verifying and reconciling invoices.

Job Description

• Resolving accounts to the general ledger.
• Contacting clients about transactions and invoices.
• Handling queries related to accounts.
• Maintaining financial records.
• Handling accounts payable and receivable.
• Checking invoices.

Job Specification

• Familiarity with accounting software a plus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong critical thinking skills
• Minimum of Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related field required
• Experience in a public accounting or business firm a plus
• Familiarity with general software, such as Microsoft Office suite

Job Title: Account Supervisor Locations: Lagos, Abuja

Job Details

• They oversee the work of junior accounting staff, review financial statements to ensure accuracy, and reconcile general ledger accounts.
• Accounting Supervisors ensure that all financial and accounting operations within an accounting department run smoothly.

Job Description

• Recommends financial actions by analyzing accounting options.
• Reconciles financial discrepancies by collecting and analyzing account information.
• Maintains financial security by following internal controls.
• Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and ensure timely rendition of necessary statutory returns
• Prepares special financial reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing account information and trends.
• Protects operations by keeping financial information confidential.
• Summarizes current financial status by collecting information; preparing balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and other reports.
• Compiles and analyzes financial information to prepare entries to book of accounts, such as general ledger accounts, documenting business transactions
• Maintains accounting controls by preparing and recommending policies and procedures.
• Guides accounting support staff by coordinating activities.
• Reviews, investigates, and corrects errors and inconsistencies in financial entries, documents, and reports.
• Prepares asset, liability, and capital account entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
• Documents financial transactions by entering account information and assign entries to proper accounts.

Job Specification

• The ability to think analytically and draw synthetic conclusions.
• Broad knowledge of tax law
• Broad knowledge of accounting
• IFRS knowledge
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office Suite including PowerPoint and Excel.
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or relevant field.
• Relevant professional certifications such as ACA, ACCA is required.
• Minimum of 5 years proven work experience as an accounting supervisor.
• At least 2 years working knowledge of ERP systems, preferably SAP experience.

Job Title: Fleet Officer Location: Lagos

Job Details

• Responsible for giving adequate support to the Operations Manager in managing the company fleets.

Job Description

• Prompt response to drivers’ complains.
• Regular workshop visitation to ascertain progress on vehicles repairs.
• Assist in ensuring vehicles and drivers are tidy for deployment.
• Site inspection of vehicles and drivers at client’s location.
• Assist the Fleet Manager on day to day activities.
• Generate various operations report as demanded by the Fleet Manager.
• Carry out any other assignment from time to time
• Organize the fleet purchases in close collaboration with the Fleet Manager.
• Carry out fleet and driver daily management.
• Schedule and follow up on servicing of vehicles.
• Carry out the adequate usage, maintenance and condition of vehicles
• Ensure proper use of fuel card.
• Assisting in the dispatch of vehicles.
• Keeping of register of vehicles to workshop.

Job Specification

• Must be highly innovative and clear in planning and implementation
• Good knowledge on fleet procedures
• Familiarity with commonly used computerized software e.g. Syserve
• A good university degree in Logistics, Transport Management or any related course
• 5 years post NYSC experience, 2 of which must be in fleet management
• Good analytical skills
• Must have excellent organizational, communication and time management skills.

Job Title: Marketing Supervisor  Location: Lagos, Abuja

Job Details

• Responsible for coordinating all internal and external marketing and promotional efforts including merchandising, community relations, public relations, information, events, and demos, as well as measure, evaluate, and analyze the marketing programs as and when needed.

Job Description

• Proactively originate and create demand for new opportunities for the Company to generate new revenue streams.
• Actively maintain and track business opportunities in line with policies and processes.
• Support significant pursuits to ensure bids are converted to sales.
• Liaise with the marketing team to develop pricing frameworks and ensure such frameworks are fully optimized.
• Proactively pursue and maintain competitor intelligence to have a view of the competition.
• Work closely with management to prioritize business and information needs.
• Coordinate the activities of the Marketing Officers
• Identify new markets for the company products
• Analyze competition trends
• Develop special deals and discounts
• Prepare marketing strategy

Job Specification

• Ability to work independently in a goal-oriented manner.
• Ability to prioritize deliverables and meet deadlines.
• Proficiency in Microsoft office.
• Meticulous with good attention to details.
• Ability to demonstrate exceptional interpersonal skills that have resulted in business relationships with results.
• A good university degree in Business Administration, Marketing or any related course.
• At least 6 years post NYSC experience in a similar role.
• Demonstrated success in identifying, initiating, and nurturing new or on-going business opportunities.
• High analytical capabilities and ability to draw decisions based on intuition and given data

Job Title: Marketing Officer Locations: Lagos, Abuja

Job Details

• Responsible for marketing the company’s services which includes Car Rental, Fleet Management, Outsourcing and Leasing Services.

Job Description

• Liaise with stakeholders and ventures to promote success of activities and enhance the company’s presence.
• Conduct market research to identify areas of opportunities.
• See all ventures through to completion and evaluate their success using various metrics.
• Prompt collection of rental fees.
• Monitoring of competitors activities in reference to pricing, business strategy, etc.
• Prospecting of new clients and ensuring conversion of prospects to clients.
• Managing of existing clients.
• Plan advertising and promotional campaigns for the company’s services on variety of media (social, print, etc.)

Job Specification

• Strong and confident communicator.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• 5 years post NYSC experience, 3 of which must be in Marketing.
• A good degree in Marketing or a related field.

Job Title: Marketing Officer, Consumer Credit Location: Lagos

Job Details

• The Role requires a good understanding of lending procedures and customer service experience.
• Responsible for preparing loan applications, evaluating clients’ financial information and calculating risk ratios.

Job Description

• Represent the Company in highest of professional standards.
• Enhance business volume/opportunities from existing customers.
• Attend to minor customers enquires, complaints and requests, and refer complex issues to appropriate desks/units.
• Carry out weekly market storm in their various location as scheduled by the Head of Credit.
• Ensure that Customer satisfaction levels are high & such that customer referrals are generated given good services.
• Assist in back-end documentation.
• Achieve sales of Personal Loans, Business Loans and other Retail Products.
• Identify Clusters of Traders, Small Business Owners, Traders, Salary Earners, etc.
• Identify and educate small business owners, traders, salary earners, etc. on how to access funds for their businesses.
• Ensure that the sale quality is in line with the values of the Company.
• Ensure Customer financing needs are met effectively with high levels of customer satisfaction.

Job Specification

• Customer service experience
• Proficiency in statistical packages and financial software
• Up to date with legal, compliance and market risk related issues
• Ability to analyze cash flows, leverage, collateral and customer strength.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Sound judgment.
• Strong business acumen
• Sound knowledge of Micro-finance services, procedures, laws and regulations
• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing or in any related discipline.
• Graduate member of National Institute of Marketing is an added advantage
• Strong customer orientation
• Strong analytical skills
• Three 3 to 5 years’ proven work experience as a Credit Officer, Loan Officer or similar role
• Hands-on experience with lending procedures and products Ability to create and process financial spreadsheets
• Knowledge of micro, small and medium enterprise market.

Job Title: Maintenance Supervisor Location: Lagos

Job Details

• This includes supervision of maintenance officers, fleet maintenance and repairs, and ensuring a safety-focused work environment.

Job Description

• Ensures achievement of all maintenance-related key performance indicators (KPIs), including type and timeliness of preventive maintenance inspections, mean distance between failures, time ‘out of service’ and missed service.
• Establishes and adjusts maintenance priorities in accordance with work demands, resources, and department goals
• Initiates, innovates, implements projects and processes that improve efficiency and/or reduce operating costs
• Plans, coordinates and manages the work of the maintenance officers including vehicle servicing and cleaning, vehicle running repairs, component overhauls and preventive maintenance inspections.
• Maintains daily vehicle availability, vehicles undergoing maintenance and return to service activity and reporting.
• Identifies opportunities and efficiencies for improving service delivery methods.

Job Specification

• Proven record of successfully driving financial and operational goals.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including strong verbal and written business communication skills.
• Strong analytical and system skills to drive efficiencies and cost savings.
• ability to work autonomously and to adapt to changing requirements and ad-hoc requests.
• Strong working knowledge and focus on safety.
• A good university degree in Mechanical Engineering or any related course. MSc is an added advantage.
• Five or more years in a transportation operations and/or fleet maintenance leadership role in a well-known establishment. must have knowledge of vehicle repair.
• Drive and ability to progress to higher levels of responsibility in organization.
• Strong leadership and coaching skills.

Job Title: Maintenance Officer Location: Lagos

Job Details

• Responsible for the day-to-day Maintenance Operations including all fleet repairs, diagnostics, inventories and record keeping.

Job Description

• Ascertaining and managing re-order levels for equipment and material supplied such as spare parts, consumables and tyres to forestall unnecessary downtime and ensure timely reactivation of non-operational units
• Recommending and implementing appropriate policies and procedures to address systemic gaps identified during routine repairs and maintenance work
• Processing and analyzing data and information to optimize driver, vehicle utilization and route management
• Responsible for ensuring that the company’s fleet of vehicles and other rolling stock remain in good, serviceable condition.
• Direct all repair and maintenance activities for vehicles and equipment

Job Specification

• Excellent technical and organizational skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment.
• Excellent problem-solving and time management skills.
• A good University degree in Mechanical Engineering or any related course.
• Minimum of 6 years cognate experience in fleet maintenance.

Job Title: Fleet Manager Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Streamline and monitor fuel purchase system with assistance of Fuel Cards for all vehicles and drivers
• Collaborate with human resources to add quality drivers to the fleet
• Ensure proper drivers management by team members to avoid poor behavior, reduce high maintenance cost and regular monitoring of fleets to avoid using vehicles for unauthorized movements
• Develop and manage annual operations budget.
• Conduct analysis of vehicle status and make recommendations for timely replacement, including type of vehicles, spares etc. in order to improve cost-efficiency
• Monitor and ensure fleet operations in compliance with local and state rules and regulations.
• Ensure fleet availability to meet all requests by scheduling, forecasting and surveying current user trends
• Ensure use of fleet management software to monitor vehicle performance and cost
• Ensure prompt dispatch of rental vehicles to reduce loss of income.
• Find ways to reduce downtime due to repairs or lack of routine maintenance
• Ensure proper vehicle registration and documentation for the fleet
• Responsible for the overall management of the company’s fleet operations for optimal productivity.
• Provide management with monthly reports on vehicle status & usage, fuel issued, servicing, etc.
• Develop and implement standard operational standards to maintain vehicles by advocating best practices.
• Responsible for fleet operation tracking and reporting, including the creation of performance, efficiency, vehicle/equipment maintenance and reports.

Job Specification

• Outstanding organizational skills
• Good attention to details
• Exceptional interpersonal skills
• A good university degree in Logistics or any related course
• 10 years post NYSC experience, 7 of which must be in fleet management

How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Position as the subject of the mail.

Lagos State, Abuja