{"id":2310,"date":"2011-02-15T13:53:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T13:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2016-11-14T09:59:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T09:59:25","slug":"accion-international-head-of-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/accion-international-head-of-technology.html","title":{"rendered":"ACCION International: Head of Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ACCION International<\/strong> is a private, nonprofit organization with the mission of giving people the financial tools they need microenterprise loans, business training and other financial services to wrok their way out of poverty. A world pioneer in microfinance, ACCION was founded in 1961 and issued its first microloan in 1973 in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>ACCION International&#8217;s partner microfinance institutions today are providing loans as low as $50 to poor men and women entrepreneurs in 23 countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa and the United States. In the last decade alone, ACCION partners have disbursed more than 36.1 million loans totaling more than $31.8 billion; 97 percent of the loans have been repaid<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ACCION International seeks Head of IT to join the ACCION Microfinance Bank Lagos, Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Development and implementation of IT Strategy which is closely aligned with the business strategy<br \/>\nSets objectives, goals and plans for the unit as derived from the IT department&#8217;s strategic objectives<br \/>\nPlan, analyze, and deploy new technology projects to increase revenue and gross margins, and net and internet, website maintenance and internet banking<br \/>\nHire, develop, and train the IT staff to provide an efficient and effective workforce<br \/>\nWork with business heads to review existing processes to ensure the efficient use of the bank&#8217;s resources (reduces cycle time, variance, handoffs, manual processes, etc)<br \/>\nManage relationships with IT vendors to achieve cost goals<br \/>\nFormulate appropriate IT policies and procedures to provide user friendly guidance for the appropriate use of the bank&#8217;s IT resources; and<br \/>\nLiaison with Headquarters and Accion International regarding IT operations<\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Skills or Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In depth knowledge of corporate and retail banking infrastructure<br \/>\nProven ability to manage 7&#215;24 operations for banking, call centers, and transaction processing, Extensive banking IT management experience in a Bank or Financial Institution; Specific experience with Temenos Globus\/T24 banking software would be useful<br \/>\nPrior expensive with innovative technology and channels is a plus (point of sale devices, ATMs, prepaid cards, mobile phone banking, internet infrastructure and banking, etc)<br \/>\nMinimum of Bachelor degree in Engineering, Electronics, Computer Science, and\/or related fields with numerate coursework is preferred<br \/>\nPossession of a relevant professional certification like ITIL, PMP, Prince2, MCSE etc, is required<\/p>\n<p><strong>How To Apply<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Interested applicants should send their CVs and covering letters to:<strong> jobs@accion.org<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACCION International is a private, nonprofit organization with the mission of giving people the financial tools they need microenterprise loans, business training and other financial services to wrok their way&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[38,3,96],"tags":[359],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-Bg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}