Job Vacancy: Job title: Business Analyst – BI (Lagos, Nigeria)
Job description: Job Description:
Kuda is a money app for Africans on a mission to make financial services accessible, affordable and rewarding for every African on the planet.
We’re a tribe of passionate and diverse people who dreamed of building an inclusive money app that Africans would love so it’s only right that we ended up with the name ‘Kuda’ which means ‘love’ in Shona, a language spoken in the southern part of Africa.
We’re giving Africans around the world a better alternative to traditional finance by delivering money transfers, smart budgeting and instant access to credit through digital devices.
We’ve raised over $90 million from some of the world’s most respected institutional investors, and we’re rolling out our game-changing services globally from our offices in Nigeria, South Africa, and the UK.
Role Overview
We’re looking for a passionate and versatile Business Analyst working in the BI space who can analyze and communicate Data Engineering, BI & Analytic requirements via collaborations with key stakeholders as well as the BI team.
You will proactively gather data and reporting requirements, capture the requirements in technical writing, size the requirements, and assist the stakeholders and the BI team to set the correct delivery timeline and priority. You will also take on scrum mastering and project management responsibilities within the Data and Decision Science team.
To be successful in this role, in addition to the skillsets commonly shared by Business Analysts, you will also need SQL and a good technical understanding of Data engineering, BI, prescriptive analytics, and predictive modelling.
If you are passionate about applying yourself to business challenges that require data-driven solutions, we would like to hear from you.
You will be expected to:
- Engage in product planning stage to provide input from Data Engineering, BI and Analytic perspective
- Gather and document requirements for Data Engineering, BI and Analytic perspective
- Assist the team to translate the requirements into tasks in the form of Jira tickets
- Assist the team to size the Jira tickets
- Assist the stakeholders and the BI team to set the correct delivery timeline and priority
- Manage the change process – making sure that the requirements and the Jira tickets are up-to-date, and the team delivery is aligned with business priorities
- Manage the change process – guide the business to review priorities with concise communications in cases when the requirements change will require a priority change
- Act as scrum master in sprint reviews and plannings
- Manage and maintain BI data dictionary and business glossary
Requirements:
We are looking for someone who has the following:
- 5+ Years of experience in a Business Analyst role, with some of them in the BI space
- A good understanding of ERD and database design patterns
- A good understanding of UML and its equivalent business analytic models
- Strong knowledge and proven experience using SQL
- Strong knowledge and proven experience using Jira
- Good knowledge and experience in scrum mastering and project management
- Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills
- Excellent documentation skills
- Excellent communication skills
- The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions
- Advance technical skills
- A degree in the information technology field or relevant industry certification (e.g., Statistics, Economics, Math, Science, Engineering)\
- Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills
Nice to haves:
- Experience using BigQuery
- Good understanding of the software development process and best practices
- Strong knowledge of and experience with visualization tools like Looker, QlikView, Tableau or PowerBI
Benefits:
At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:
- Pension
- Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
- Group life insurance
- Health insurance
- L&D training
- We are advocates of work-life balance and offer a 3 day per week remote working option
Location: Lagos, Lagos State
Job date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 07:36:49 GMT
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