Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer (MD/CEO)
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Executive Management
Industry: Law
Report To: Board of Director
Responsibilities
The ideal candidate will (but is not limited to):
- Define and execute the bank’s multi-year strategy, annual business plan and competitive positioning.
- Build a differentiated digital-bank proposition with continuous innovation in products, pricing, distribution and customer experience.
- Grow the customer base sustainably, with emphasis on active customers, transaction frequency, deposits, revenue, retention and customer lifetime value.
- Build scalable payment, merchant, agency, corporate and embedded-finance ecosystems.
- Develop a competitive remittance and cross-border payments strategy, including appropriate IMTO and other licensed/regulated partnerships, subject to applicable approvals.
- Create commercially sound partnerships across PSSP, PTSP, Super Agent, switching, processing, merchant acquiring, telecommunications, remittance and technology ecosystems.
- Ensure the bank maintains strong governance, regulatory compliance, cybersecurity, AML/CFT, fraud management, consumer protection and operational resilience.
- Build a high-performance executive team and a culture of innovation, accountability, speed and integrity
- Identify administrative and operational challenges and recommend and implement practical solutions to improve efficiency and service delivery.
- Own the bank’s strategy and translate Board-approved objectives into measurable commercial and operating outcomes.
- Develop new revenue streams and continuously challenge existing products, processes and business models.
- Lead market-entry and growth strategies for retail, SME, merchant, corporate, diaspora and other priority segments.
- Own P&L performance, profitability, liquidity, capital adequacy, asset quality and cost efficiency against Board- approved targets.
- Use data, analytics, customer insight and technology to drive commercial decisions.
- Build a disciplined approach to unit economics, customer acquisition cost, lifetime value, transaction economics and partner economics.
- Ensure innovation is commercially viable, scalable, and appropriately risk-managed, with teamwork and high service standards among administrative and support staff.
- Support the implementation of management decisions relating to the firm's administrative and operational activities.
Requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, Public Administration, Office Administration, or a related field.
- Minimum of 8–12 years of progressive professional experience, with at least 5 years in a senior management or executive leadership position.
- Proven experience in managing an organisation, business unit, or large-scale operations.
- Demonstrated experience in business growth, strategy development, and revenue generation.
- Experience managing budgets, financial performance, and organisational resources.
Required Competencies:
- Strategic vision and entrepreneurial leadership
- Digital-finance and fintech expertise
- Product innovation and customer-centricity
- Payments and transaction-economics expertise
- Remittance and cross-border payments knowledge
- Commercial and P&L leadership
- Strategic partnership development and negotiation
- Technology and data literacy
- Regulatory and risk leadership
- Executive communication and public representation
- Stakeholder and Board management
- High integrity, sound judgment, and decisiveness
- Ability to operate at speed while maintaining strong controls
- Strong time-management and multitasking abilities.
- Ability to maintain high professional and ethical standards.
Application Closing Date
30th September, 2026.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: jobs@eclathrconsulting.com.ng using the job title as the subject of the email.
Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.