Business Analyst / Business Intelligence Job 2015

Job Description

Our client a digital payments business that run an ecosystem of consumers, merchants and banks in which they facilitate payments and build value through the value-added services are seeking to recruit an innovative, energetic and aggressive Business Analyst / Business Intelligence (BI).
 

Salary: 160K – 180K
 

Reporting to: Enterprise Systems Manager

Role Summary: The Business Analyst will understand the current business processes; learn the details of Enterprise Systems capabilities; gather and interpret user needs; question practices; identify process gaps and opportunities; propose alternatives; and build consensus on the solutions that make sense for both users and the company.

Other Key Roles

Business Processes

Guide teams on the development, redesign and/or documentation of critical processes to meet current and future business objectives.

Translating business requirements into effective technical solutions by presenting development options based on best practices

Build strong internal relationships and work effectively across functional areas

Determine opportunities for improving business processes through automation.

Enterprise Systems

Participate and provide thought leadership in the development and post implementation support of company’s ERP and Data warehouse Projects

Create high quality end–to-end requirement documentation and accurately document requirement revisions in all business requirement documents

Collaborate with implementation vendors and business teams during design/testing walkthrough sessions to ensure business requirements are accurately mapped in the systems

Guide teams on the adoption of new Enterprise Systems by ensuring training enables users to utilize the Systems to their full potential.

Engage in project life cycle steps of User Acceptance Testing and Post Production Validation for each project with defined durations

Act as subject matter expert for functional requirement areas

Periodically review existing Enterprise Systems, prepare gap analyses between user requirements and the Systems’ functionality and recommend improvements where applicable e.g. work-arounds, System upgrade, replacement, integration, etc.

Guide the build of internally-developed Enterprise Systems.

Identify and initiate resolution of Enterprise System functional and technical issues in conjunction with the Technical Architect.

Assist users to configure reports, processes and settings in Enterprise Systems.

Qualifications

A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or information Systems or equivalent

Experience in large ERP and/or Analytics Projects in multiple countries or equivalent experience

Strong interpersonal and influence skills, including ability to interact effectively with all levels of management

3 years working experience in Implementation of systems.

Strong personal computing skills, including proficiency with Microsoft office products (Word, Advanced Excel, Access, Project, and PowerPoint)

Ability to multitask, prioritize, problem solve and make decisions on competing priorities

Proficient in writing business requirements and 
knowledge of data and process flows

Demonstrates accuracy, thoroughness and orderliness in performing work assignments

SQL query writing skills preferred

MS Visio modeling skills preferred

Ability to balance conflicting requirements and varied teams aligned on a common solution.

Versatile/agile to design/document processes where there are none.

Understanding of technology and System design

How to Apply

Kindly send your application letter and CV to jobs@jantakenya.com clearly indicating ‘Business Analyst/BI’ on the subject line by 25th August, 2015.





Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted.

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