Head, Listings Business

• Leading Financial Institution in Africa Talentstone Search • Lagos, Nigeria • via Indeed Head, Listings Business
• Leading Financial Institution in Africa Accounting, Auditing & Finance Lagos Full Time Recruitment Confidential Experience Level: Executive level Experience Length: 15 years

Job descriptions & requirements

Lead Capital Formation for One of Africa’s Most Systemically Important Market Institutions

Nigeria’s capital‑markets ecosystem is entering a defining era — one marked by renewed ambition, structural reforms, and a strategic push to deepen liquidity, broaden investor participation, and strengthen the country’s market‑cap‑to‑GDP trajectory. At the center of this transformation is our client, a leading publicly listed, privately governed market‑infrastructure institution that plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of capital formation across Africa.

As the institution accelerates its growth agenda, Talentstone Search has been exclusively mandated to identify an exceptional senior leader to serve as Head, Listings Business — a role that sits at the intersection of investment banking, equity capital markets, corporate finance, and strategic advisory. This is a rare opportunity for a commercially aggressive, capital‑markets‑fluent professional to lead the expansion of Nigeria’s listings landscape and influence the evolution of one of the continent’s most important financial‑market institutions.

Our client is recognized as one of Africa’s most reputable and systemically important financial‑market institutions. With a mandate to strengthen capital formation, enhance market transparency, and support sustainable economic growth, the institution provides a comprehensive suite of services spanning:

• Regulatory‑oversight functions
• Ecosystem‑development and capital‑markets advocacy

Backed by strong governance, robust risk‑management frameworks, and sustained investment in innovation, the institution is positioned to lead the next era of capital‑market modernization across the region.

Nigeria’s listings ecosystem remains significantly underpenetrated relative to its economic potential. To address this, the institution has set an ambitious mandate to:

• Double the number of listings in the short to medium term
• Expand the issuer universe across private, public, and quasi‑government sectors
• Strengthen the pipeline of IPOs, secondary listings, ETFs, sukuk, and alternative instruments
• Deepen engagement with CEOs, CFOs, boards, and government stakeholders

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