Whether it’s the jumbo pay, prospects for career growth, organizational culture or management structure, some companies just know how to treat employee right.
This subject matter ‘Top companies to work for in Nigeria’ is often searched and researched by job hunters to better prepare and position themselves for gainful employment in these organizations.
Jobberman, one of Nigeria’s biggest recruitment agencies, published a broad-based report titled “The Best 100 Companies to Work for in Nigeria” ranking Nigerian-owned companies and multinationals on six indicators: job satisfaction, employee happiness, career growth & advancement, work-life balance, welfare benefits and job security, to determine the best companies people can work in Nigeria.
Their survey captured the thoughts of over 2, 000 career professionals and employees across all sectors in the Nigerian corporate environment.
Below are the top ten companies to work for in the country based on Jobberman’s compilation.
Andela
Established five years ago, Andela was birthed with the mission to build and raise a technology dream team to disrupt the IT workforce and showcase to the rest of the world that Africa is actually of age in technology advancement.
The tech firm focuses on software and web development. They train and pay young, vibrant and enterprising youths with tech-driven solutions and high productivity level.
United Bank for Africa (UBA)
UBA is one of Nigeria’s biggest banks. The lender took the first spot among Nigerian companies to work for in the banking industry and came second across all sectors.
Founded in 1949 by Nigerian business mogul Tony Elemelu, the bank is rated as one of Africa’s largest financial services providers with operations in 20 African nations and three global financial centers: New York, London and Paris. It has a large workforce with an attractive package for staff.
Courteville Business Solutions
Simply known as Courteville, it’s a foremost Nigerian advisory firm that is into the development of electronic business solutions for process re-engineering in all sectors.
Courteville is Nigeria’s first publicly quoted IT firm on the Nigerian Stock Exchange with shareholders fund over USD five million, and also West Africa’s biggest e-business solutions firm. It has evolved from a mono-product company to be in 17 states in Nigeria, with presence in Sierra Leone, Kenya, Guinea and Jamaica.
Union Bank
The mid-sized bank has been operating in Nigeria as far back as 1917, serving individuals, small and medium-scale enterprises as well as large corporates. In July 2009, the bank was rated as 556th largest bank in the world and the 14th largest in Africa.
As of March 31, 2018, Union Bank’s asset base stood at N1.38 trillion (USD 4.1 bn) with shareholder equity at N286 billion (USD 851m). The bank maintains a vast network of interconnected branches in all Nigerian states, with expansive staff size.
Access Bank
Nigeria’s biggest lender by assets, Access Bank is an indigenous multinational commercial bank owned by Access Bank Group.
It merged with Diamond Bank in the first quarter of 2019 which saw the combined entity becoming Africa’s largest bank by customer base. The bank has presence in United Kingdom and eight other African nations.
MTN Nigeria
The company is the Nigerian unit of South Africa-based MTN Group Limited. The shares of the telco giant were listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) with market capitalization close to N3 trillion. Its parent company operates in over 20 countries across Africa, Asia and Europe, with one-third of revenue coming from Nigeria where it holds about 35 percent market share.
Guinness
Manufactured by Diageo, Guinness is one of the most successful beer brands globally. The beer is brewed under license internationally in several countries, including Nigeria, Kenya, Cameroun, Bahamas, Namibia, Indonesia and Uganda among others.
KPMG
It’s a multinational professional services network, and one of the ‘Big Four’ accounting organizations. Seated in Amstelveen in the Netherlands, KMPG has three lines of services: financial audit, tax and advisory. It has a global workforce of about 210, 000.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
PwC is a multinational services network with headquarters in London, and ranks as the second-largest professional services firm globally. PWC operates in 158 countries, 721 locations with about 251, 000 people. PwC’s core business lines include assurance, tax and advisory practices.
Dangote Cement
Owned by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, the company is Nigeria’s biggest cement producer headquartered in Lagos. The company deals in the manufacture, preparation, import, packaging and distribution of cement and related products in Nigeria with plants in nine other African nations.
