Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-Time, Onsite
Work Schedule: Monday – Friday
Industry: Financial Services
About the Role
- They are looking to hire an experienced and commercially driven Business Development Officer to join its team in Lekki.
- This is a hands-on business development role for someone who understands the traditional financial services market, knows how to identify and convert corporate clients, and can actively drive revenue.
- We are NOT looking for a FinTech Business Development Officer.
- We are specifically interested in professionals who have worked directly within the financial services industry, particularly businesses involved in corporate lending, fixed deposits, investment products, finance houses, microfinance banking, merchant banking, commercial banking, or related financial services.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute strategies to acquire new corporate clients.
- Identify businesses and organisations with potential borrowing and investment needs.
- Generate and manage a strong pipeline of corporate lending prospects.
- Build relationships with business owners, CFOs, Finance Directors, Treasurers and other key decision-makers.
- Drive the acquisition of corporate deposits and fixed deposit customers.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with existing clients.
- Conduct client meetings, presentations and business negotiations.
- Understand clients' financial needs and recommend appropriate lending or investment solutions.
- Achieve agreed monthly and quarterly business development and revenue targets.
- Generate leads through direct prospecting, referrals, networking and existing relationships.
- Monitor market trends, competitor activities and emerging business opportunities.
- Work closely with Credit, Risk, Operations and Management teams to ensure smooth execution of transactions.
- Maintain accurate records of prospects, client interactions, opportunities and conversions.
- Provide regular reports on business development activities, pipeline and performance.
What We Are Looking For
The ideal candidate must:
- Have proven Business Development/Sales experience within the traditional financial services industry.
- Have direct experience selling or facilitating corporate loans, fixed deposits, investment products or related financial services.
- Understand how the corporate lending and deposit mobilisation market works.
- Have an existing network of corporate/business relationships that can be leveraged for business development.
- Be highly target-driven and commercially minded.
- Be confident engaging business owners, senior executives and corporate decision-makers.
- Demonstrate a strong ability to prospect, negotiate, close deals and grow client relationships.
- Be proactive, resourceful and capable of working independently.
- Have strong communication, presentation and relationship-management skills.
- Be comfortable working in a fully onsite environment from Monday to Friday.
- Candidates should be approximately 30–49 years old and must have sufficient hands-on experience to independently deliver the responsibilities of this role.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Banking & Finance or a related discipline.
- 5+ years of relevant Business Development/Sales experience, preferably within traditional financial services.
- Demonstrable track record of achieving business development or revenue targets.
- Professional qualifications in banking, finance, sales or related fields will be an advantage.
Salary
N800,000 monthly.
Application Closing Date
10th September, 2026.
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CVs to: kaploafrica@gmail.com using “Business Development Officer –Financial Services” as the subject of the email.
Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.