General Manager
Nium, Malta
Job Description
Nium is a next-generation financial services platform that enables companies around the world to unlock new revenue opportunities and improve cash flow economics.
Nium is a leader in its geographical and payment service breadth, owning licenses in the world’s largest and fastest-growing economies. Our modular platform allows banks, payment providers, travel companies, and other businesses to collect and disburse funds in local currencies to over 100 countries, plus issue physical and virtual cards globally. Our proprietary set of APIs embeds financial services and can bring to life multiple B2B and B2C use cases in a matter of weeks.
Nium is part of CB Insights Fintech 250, which highlights the most promising Fintech companies globally. Today, Nium serves over 130 million customers and enables platforms to provide access to financial services to over 3 billion people across the world.
Where do you come into the picture?
The General Manager in Malta will direct and manage the organisation's business activities and develop and implement effective strategies and programs across the Malta business functions as required by the business.
The General Manager for Malta will assist NIUM in maintaining relationships with clients, increasing staff productivity, improving service, ensuring sustainability, and meeting business’ objectives.
Requirements
- Builds a high performance, input driven and multi-functional team in Malta
- Plays a role to attract, hire and retain talent
- Chair/participate in various committees (risk / compliance etc.) as required by the Maltese regulator
- Provides strong mentoring and coaching to all employees in Malta
- Drives strategic meetings with team to help set program direction and priorities
- Acts as an escalation point for HR issues within the Malta team
- Supervises other employees, which might require scheduling of staff, recruitment, and disciplinary conversations
- Develops and maintains office staff wellbeing budgets
- Aides in marketing and public relations for the Malta company
- Maintains a positive outlook and attitude about the organisation and its goals, since this will directly translate to how the staff takes on challenges and processes changes
- Set policies and processes with HR
- Ensure employees work productively and develop professionally
- Oversee recruitment and training policies of new employees
- Evaluate and improve overall operations
- Direct the employee assessment process across the Malta company
- Prepare regular reports for the exec
- Ensure staff follows health and safety regulations
Key Requirements
- Degree in Business Management or Masters in Business Administration or equivalent
- Good knowledge of different business functions
- Strong leadership qualities
- Excellent communication skills
- Highly organized
- Strong work ethics
- Good interpersonal skills
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Proactive nature
- Customer focused
Benefits
- Hybrid working environment, 3 days in the office and 2 days work-from-home
- Full health insurance coverage
- Employee Assistance Programme
- 5 days of winter break time off (over and above national leave entitlement)
- Annual wellness stipend for sports equipment or gym memberships
- Annual eco transport stipend
- Free-flowing, healthy snacks at our Malta office location
- Paid maternity and paternity leave