An interesting opportunity exists for a Chief Information Officer (CIO) with one of the top 10 banks in Nigeria. The CIO will lead a challenging change agenda to support the bank’s massive expansion programme into the rest of Africa. The role is part of the executive management team, focusing on leadership and communication.
Job Description:
Top executive responsible for the global information strategy and the role of technology as a business enabler. Establishes corporate strategy to determine the role of information technology to establish the most efficient utilization of information technology and optimization of business processes. Establishes and directs the strategic long term goals, policies and procedures for an information technology department.

Primary responsibilities:
The CIO will have overall responsibilities for the group's IT - strategy, compliance and direction. He or she will have a wide range of responsibilities including:
• Change Leader enabling and managing change throughout the bank
• Participate in strategic planning at the executive level ensuring that the IT strategy is aligned with business objectives
• Effective supplier management
• Ensures that information technology infrastructure provides the most accurate, and current information to the organization to assist with decision making, resource deployment and establishment of business processes.
• Optimizes resources and aligns IT strategy to support increasing company growth and geographic expansion.
• Overall responsibility for managing the IT – Business Units working relationship and customer interfaces. Establishes a seamless partnership of trust and credibility between the technology function and the business units.
• Identifies solutions and opportunities that leverage the Company’s information assets while providing the organisation with information systems that allow for proactive and accurate business decision-making.
Required experience and skills:
• Previous experience in CIO-level position, and have worked in the industry for at least 15 years.
• Is a co-creator of IT opportunities to change the business and able to take the lead in redefining the busines accordingly, able to change the IT strategy in consonance with business changes.
• Understands business processes and information needs to drive the business.
• A sound commercial focus that can achieve a bridge between the IT content of the project and ensure full ownership by the business units and end users.
• Can demonstrate real delivery of initiatives and evidence of adding real value, evolving strategies that would drive the business and conversant with the strategic goals of the business and the alternative ways that the company can meet them
• Exceptional background in a major global organisation driving acquisition and integration efforts.
Personal Competencies:
• Commercially astute with excellent technology market awareness
• World class strategic background, innovative and creative in driving change globally across the business
• Ability to deliver quickly and efficiently in a complex and challenging environment on a global footprint
• A business strategist in your head and technologist in your heart i.e. ‘lead the leaders’ and ‘advise the advisors’
• Innovative and entrepreneurial with a “can do” and “will do” attitude
• Demystify complexity by providing a transformation path that both business and IT can follow

All candidates MUST have the following experiences to qualify for consideration
• Bachelor's degree in IT, Business Management, Finance or related field of study required. MBA a plus
• Minimum five years leading the group IT function for a organization spanning different countries
• 10+ years experience with demonstrated success and increased responsibility in the development, operations, and maintenance of enterprise information systems
• Senior management experience in the professional services industry or in a similar business
• Experience with a smaller more entrepreneurial organization would be advantageous. •

Mode of Application:
To apply for this position, kindly forward your résumé or C.V. with a covering e-mail to: recruitment@hartfordconsulting.com