Job Openings at First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) – 6 Positions

Applications are invited from interested and qualified candidates to apply for the job openings at First Bank of Nigeria.

First Bank of Nigeria is a Nigerian multinational bank and financial services company headquartered in Lagos. It is the biggest bank in Nigeria in terms of total deposits and gross earnings.

Working at First Bank of Nigeria offers several benefits, including a comprehensive employee benefits package that includes medical coverage for employees and their families. The bank also provides free annual comprehensive medical check-ups. Employees also have access to various types of leave.

Individuals interested in job openings at First Bank Nigeria should review the job details, requirements, and application process provided below.

Analytics & Target Setting Officer

Specifications:

• Full Time
• Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND 
• Location: Lagos| Nigeria. See other Jobs in Lagos
• Category: Banking Jobs
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Description:

• Support the Unit Head, Risk Analysis & Profiling in delivering on the routine and ad-hoc deliverables of the banks’ Operational Risk Management Risk Analysis and Profiling function and provide added value by utilizing skills in data analytics to analyze Operational Risk data collated in the bank into insightful and useful information to aid informed decision making.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide support for assessing, measuring and quantifying operational risk within the bank utilizing approved Risk Grading matrix and other available data.
• Analyse the Bank KRI data to determine root cause and loss drivers e.g trend analysis, deep-dive analysis of risk themes e.g fraud.
• Collate external risk analysis data, considering the lessons learnt, potential new threats, systemic issues and triggers for targeted reviews.
• Ensure integrity of data inputs and outputs and alignment to business unit risk profiles.
• Develop and create risk reports for assessing the bank’s operational risk exposures.
• Support and actively participate in the development of Risk and control Library for all products, processes, systems and activities mapped in liaison with respective process owners and other stake holders.
• Carry out ad-hoc analysis of Operational Risk data as required for necessary reporting to Business and Senior Management.
• Develop risk awareness initiatives through Oprisk newsletter and Oprisk flyers.
• Any other job assigned by the Unit Head.
• As part of the Bank’s Information Security requirements, maintain the security of all Information entrusted to the staff and comply with the principles and policies in the Information Security Handbook.

Qualifications and Requirements:

Education:

• First degree in Applied Sciences. The ideal candidate will have an advanced degree.

Experience:

• Minimum experience: four (4) years of relevant banking experience within Risk Management Analysis. Knowledge of Data Analysis and experience using data analysis tools, MS Excel, Power BI is essential.

Key Competency Requirements:
Knowledge:

• Data Gathering and Analysis using modern tools such, Power BI, Tableau etc. 
• Banking structure, policies and procedures.
• Core Banking Processes
• Industry knowledge
• An in-depth knowledge of OR loss events in financial firms
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office, especially Excel
• Research orientation

Skill/Competencies:

• Risk Control & Governance
• Investigation
• Risk Modeling
• Customer Relationship Management
• Financial Accounting
• Data Gathering and Analysis
• Process Improvement
• Business/Operational Strategy
• Business Continuity Management
• Understanding of CBN Prudential Guidelines
• Operational Risk Management
• Corporate Governance.

Product Business Analyst

Specifications:

• Full Time
• Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND 
• Location: Lagos| Nigeria. See other Jobs in Lagos
• Category: Banking Jobs
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Description:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and document business and functional requirements.
• Translate business needs into use cases, process flows, and detailed functional specifications.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Developers, and other stakeholders to clarify requirements and support solution design.
• Assist in prioritizing product features and enhancements based on business value and technical feasibility.
• Conduct gap analyses and impact assessments for new product features, initiatives, and enhancements.
• Participate in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to validate that solutions meet business requirements and expected functionality.
• Prepare reports, presentations, and stakeholder communications on requirements, project progress, and product performance.
• Monitor market trends, industry developments, and customer feedback to identify opportunities for product improvement.
• Develop and support API initiatives in compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Facilitate effective collaboration between business and technology teams throughout the product development lifecycle.

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Qualifications and Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.

Experience:

• 2-5 years’ experience in Business Analysis, Product Analysis, Product Management, or a related role, preferably in the banking, fintech, data, or analytics sectors.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools.

Business Continuity Management (BCM) Relationship Manager

Specifications:

• Full Time
• Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND
• Location: Lagos| Nigeria. See other Jobs in Lagos
• Category: Banking Jobs
• Job Alerts: To receive Job Alerts on WhatsApp, Click HERE

Description:

• Work with the Unit Head, Business Continuity Management (BCM) in developing, implementing, maintaining and testing the Company’s business continuity program.
• The RM will support their respective regions, branches, SBU plan activities necessary to enable their SBUs to manage a crisis event as well as meet compliance requirements for BCP planning.
• The position’s primary goals is to be the focal person for their respective SBU in coordinating the Identification, documentation and testing of business needs against the Company infrastructure and identifying recovery strategies and gaps.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Coordinating Business Continuity Planning efforts for the Business Head Office Departments, Units and branches across regions within responsibility.
• Review Business Continuity Management (BCM) manual, Procedures on BCM developed in line with Bank’s strategy.
• Identify business activities across the organization, determine mission critical activities bank wide and Conduct Business Impact Analysis (BIA) across the Organization.
• Collect and Analyse data for the Continuity Requirements for recovery of mission critical activities bank wide.
• Conduct Organization Risk Assessment to reduce the likelihood of disruption to the Bank and impact in event of unforeseen risk.
• Identify internal and external threats/risks that could impact on the operations of the Bank. 
• Determine the likelihood of occurrence and impact of the identified threats & risk. 
• Proactively follow up and engage branches/dept. within directorate of responsibility to ensure prompt preparation of their BCP documents and their periodic update.
• Facilitate and support the execution of the plans at the time of a crisis event.
• Lead and Facilitate execution of the plan and support plan navigation for all Head Office Departments, Branches & SBUs at the time of an event. 
• Develop and execute the maintenance and testing programs for all business plans, Websites, and other information/communication tools. 
• Provide visibility and reporting to the Crisis Management Committee on the critical functions, individuals and infrastructure within the business plans.
• Assist in conducting Training Needs Analysis for all Business Continuity Management Roles across the Bank.
• Coordinate and facilitate training and awareness sessions with bank-wide training plan for staff on Business Continuity Management & Operational Risk Management.
• Source for and prepare BCM training programmes and materials and customize according to business needs.
• Support the Unit Head, BCM in Business Continuity standard implementation, maintenance and co-ordination and ISO 22301 certification to optimize FirstBank enterprise resilience.
• Support and assist SBU in the development of BCP planning and goals.
• Report to the necessary Steering Committee Meeting and define on-going goals, objectives and initiatives.
• Support the BCM Lead in aligning all BCP planning, initiatives and goals with Organizational goals and Infrastructure capabilities.
• Identify and make recommendations for change and adaptation to meet the needs of the business
• Identify and make recommendations for solutions to infrastructure obstacles and business challenges.
• Develop Training materials (inclusive of e-flyers, e-learning, scenarios, BCM Staff Handbook. 
• Assist in Co-coordinating Business Continuity Management Review Committee Meetings, Damage Assessment Meeting & BCM Exercising & Testing.

Qualifications and Requirements:

Education:

• Minimum Education: First Degree preferably in a numerate discipline; higher degrees /MBA/professional certifications desirable.

Experience:

• Minimum experience – three years in operational risk and banking operations.

Key Competency Requirements:
Knowledge:

• Banking structure, policies and procedures.
• Core Business Processes
• BCM knowledge
• Disaster Management
• Process analysis
• Banking Operations
• Banking services/products
• Use of Banking applications
• Sound understanding of statistics.

Skill/Competencies:

• Interpersonal skills
• Sense of urgency
• Visionary mind
• IT and Computer appreciation
• Communications skills (written and oral)
• Must be self-solution driven, proactive and have acceptable knowledge of the business environment
• Attention to details
• Reasoning and Analytical skills
• Business management skills
• Administration and management skills
• Supervisory skills.

Operational Risk Relationship Manager

Specifications:

• Full Time
• Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND
• Location: Lagos| Nigeria. See other Jobs in Lagos
• Category: Banking Jobs
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Description:

• Assist Head ORM and Unit Heads in ORM in coordinating, driving and directing effective operational risk management activities bank-wide with focus on relevant SBU/SRF.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Implementation and maintenance of the OR framework in close relationship with the BORMs.
• Drive and support Oprisk community to adopt and embed relevant operational risk management tool- sets.
• Carry out timely monthly reconciliation of Oprisk loss database and general ledger.
• Proactive and aggressive engagement of BORMs to ensure prompt submission of risk reports and returns.
• Provide strong support in assessing and quantifying operational risk within the bank utilizing approved Risk Grading matrix and other available data. Coach BORMs in appropriate risk grading as a basis of prioritizing efforts and focus.
• Support Operational risk community (SBU/SRF) in prompt identification and management of operational risks by carrying out the following: Risk identification & Assessment workshops, Operational loss event analysis, RCSA analysis, , Incident analysis etc.
• Development of Oprisk newsletter (Focus) for bank-wide consumption.
• Facilitate basic ORM trainings for new joiners’ bank wide and other adhoc trainings to the risk community based on request. 
• Provide support to the BORMs during RCSA workshops to ensure robust output. 
• Develop relevant Oprisk Templates and provide guidance to the BORMs in line with approved framework/policies and best practices. 
• Review, quality assure and consolidate Operational risk issues and losses reported by the BORMs for completeness and accuracy in line with approved framework/policies and best practices. 
• Preparation of the bank’s OR profile. 
• Identification and reporting of relevant External loss events for inclusion in operational risk management report.
• Analyze the Bank internal loss data and report trends. 
• Track potential losses and near-misses and report on same monthly 
• Provide support to the Risk Analysis & Profiling Team in product reviews 
• Assist Head, ORM in secretariat duty to the BRCC. 
• As part of the Bank’s Information Security requirements, maintain the security of all Information entrusted to the staff and comply with the principles and policies in the Information Security Handbook.
• Any other task that may be assigned by the Supervisor

Qualifications and Requirements:

Education:

• Minimum Education: First degree preferably in a numerate discipline.
• Higher degrees/MBA/professional certifications are also desirable

Experience:

• Minimum experience – Five years relevant working experience

Key Competency Requirements:
Knowledge:

• Banking structure, policies and procedures.
• Core Banking Processes
• Industry knowledge
• Banking Operations 
• Banking services/products
• Use of Banking applications
• Understanding of CBN Prudential Guidelines
• Corporate Governance

Skill/Competencies:

• Risk Control & Governance 
• Investigation 
• Customer Relationship Management
• Budget Planning and Control
• Financial Accounting
• Data Gathering and Analysis
• Process Improvement
• Project Management
• Business/Operational Strategy
• Change Management
• Business Continuity Management
• Market Risk Monitoring & Control
• Operational Risk Management
• Credit Risk Management.

Information & Cybersecurity (ICS) Security Standard Officer

Specifications:

• Full Time
• Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND
• Location: Lagos| Nigeria. See other Jobs in Lagos
• Category: Banking Jobs
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Description:

• Information/Cybersecurity risk and governance team that is responsible for development and enforcement of policies and guidelines that is aligned to business requirements and processes.
• Implement and Maintain Security Compliance Standards and regulatory requirements – ISO27001, PCI DSS, Cybersecurity etc.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Perform security requirement validation and documentation reviews to ensure they are performed 
• efficiently and effectively.
• Plan and coordinate independent Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Test (VAPT).
• Monitors compliance with Information/Cybersecurity policies, baselines, guidelines and procedures.
• Assesses threats and vulnerabilities in the Banks electronic products and related technology platforms and provide information/cybersecurity risk guidance.
• Assesses threats and vulnerabilities regarding information assets and recommends the appropriate information security controls and measures.
• Ensure timely and effective corrective actions are taken to correct deficiencies and provide status reporting.
• Manage Internal and External Security Audit. 
• Develop metrics and monitoring processes to assess the effectiveness of the Bank’s overall information and cyber security risk management and measure its performance and efficiency.
• Obtain and review periodic PCI DSS compliance report from stakeholders in support of security requirements and report on any identified gaps for remedial action.

Qualifications and Requirements:

Education:

• Minimum Education:   First Degree in computer science/Engineering.
• Professional Certifications: CISM, CISSP, ISO27001 Lead Implementer, ISO27032 Cyber Security Lead Manager or any Cybersecurity Professional Certifications.

Experience:

• Minimum experience – 5 years’ experience in facilitating and conducting security assessment and compliance related to PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, and Cybersecurity Framework.

Key Competency Requirements:
Knowledge:

• Banking structure, policies and procedures. 
• Banking services/products and operational risk 
• Deep knowledge of Information Security 
• Management frameworks and practices (ISOD7001, PCI DSS, NIST) 
• Enterprise security risk management frameworks and processes 
• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Test Techniques

Skill/Competencies:

• Communications skills (written and oral) 
• Must be self-solution driven, proactive and have acceptable knowledge of the business environment 
• Reasoning and Analytical 
• Interpersonal and leadership skills 
• Good presentation skills.

Team Lead, Credit Secretariat

Specifications:

• Full Time
• Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND
• Location: Lagos| Nigeria. See other Jobs in Lagos
• Category: Banking Jobs
• Job Alerts: To receive Job Alerts on WhatsApp, Click HERE

Description:

• Complying with the principles and policies in the Information Security Handbook
• Collation of the departmental asset register and ensure the departmental assets are well kept and properly used/maintained.
• Management of Departmental Assets (Laptops etc)
• Handling of the quarterly publication of the names of delinquent customers in national new prints.
• Any other credit administration jobs as may be assigned by Head, Credit Risk Management or Head, Credit Administration

Duties & Responsibilities

• Manages and Co-ordinate Management Credit Committee and Board Credit Committee meetings, track and follow up with related parties on issues and ensure completeness of Agenda
• Supervises the Circulation of Credit Papers to GHs & HoDs with papers for presentation
• Prepares and Reviews Credit Matters for MCC
• Prepares and Reviews Credit Matters for BCC
• Preparation and Uploading of MCC Papers on Teams
• Preparation and Uploading of BCC Papers on Board effect
• Taking minutes for all MCC and BCC meetings
• Reviews extract of Committees’ (BCC and MCC) decisions on all credit matters to ensure that decisions circulated are fair reflection of the Committee and ensure that the extract is circulated with five hours after each meeting.
• Reviews update of MCC & BCC decisions on Fintrak
• Liaise with the Value Chain Management Team on maximizing the value chain opportunities of the Bank
• Liaise with the Office of the Company Secretary on issues relating to BCC & BOD Meetings
• Handling complaints and enquiries from CAP, BUs and SBUs 
• Liaise with CAP and the Business Team to ensure credit papers and update/reports dure for the consideration of the Board Credit Committee and Board of Directors are submitted and circulated in time.
• Handling of departmental Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Information Security audits and ensuring all exceptions are resolved.
• Working with the HOU, Credit Administration to ensure all exceptions raised by internal and external auditors on Credit Admin function are resolved in time.
• Management and Control of departmental budget as agreed with the Head, CRM

Qualifications and Requirements:

Education:

• First and Second degrees in any discipline and relevant professional qualifications. A degree in Linguistics or Law will be an added advantage.

Experience:

• Minimum experience: 5 years

Key Competency Requirements:
Knowledge:

• Understanding of the credit approval process
• Understanding Credit Policy
• Understanding operations processes
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office, especially Excel and Word

Skill/Competencies:

• Basic Computer skills – exposure to Microsoft Applications i.e. Word and Excel
• Good interpersonal and people skills.
• Business Writing and communication skills
• Attention to details
• Organizational skills.

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