Business Analyst at Valueminds Limited

Valueminds Group is a fast growing concept development & capacity building group of firms that provide research services, business decision support services and e-learning services to a wide spectrum of clients.

Valueminds Limited is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: Lagos

Job Description
The firm is primarily involved in:

• Concept Structuring & Business Model Development
• Strategic Planning & business model strategy advisory
• Research & Due-Diligence requirements gathering to inform business decisions
• Design, development & provision of face-to-face and technology enabled learning for professionals & corporate organizations.
• We seek entry-level professionals, who can thrive in an agile and fast paced environment. The right candidate will be a self leader, creative, analytical, a passionate problem solver with a flair for technology.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Engage and communicate with clients to elicit challenges, needs, requirements and desired outcomes
• Use strong analytical reasoning to understand end user’s requirement, Organize & develop chaotic/random ideas from discussions & research into structured scenarios, concepts, initiatives & proposals
• Conduct comprehensive industry, market, and solution research and create resulting visual models
• Pro-actively communicate and collaborate with colleagues and clients to critically evaluate information and requirements gathered, define concepts, draw informed conclusions and design solutions
• Develop comprehensive solution requirements and design documents
• Develop technical writing, research reports, business cases, business plans & presentations, financial and technical proposals
• Conduct risk assessment, identification and profiling on potential projects
• Contribute to strategic direction and growth strategies of the Firm
• Any other duties as assigned by management

Relevant Skills:

• Good Questioning Skills: Able to optimally use different questioning techniques to dissect a context and optimally collect requirements.
• Brainstorming Skills
• Mind-mapping Skills
• Sound business/proposal writing skills.
• Sound Skills in Microsoft Word, Excel & Power point
• Excellent Presentation Skills
• Data research & Collection Skills
• Good understanding of web & mobile technologies

Relevant Traits:

• Ability to manage several task streams in parallel
• Analytical Thinking: Able to break a scenario into smaller parts and linearly think through the scenario and make informed if-then judgments.

Analytical thinking:

• Framework thinking: Ability to identify cause & effect patterns in a context and articulate such patterns into a documented framework to aid faster and more consistent decision making.
• Strategic Thinking: Naturally disposed to thinking several steps ahead, extracting & planning for the implication of current decisions in the future, Able to play out several mental scenarios and make informed decisions based on cause & effect relationship
• Ability to organize chaotic ideas into a coherent stream of thoughts
• Lateral Thinking Skills
• Self Leader and finisher.
• Optimistic and visionary mindset
• Must be willing to ask questions and validate assumptions
• Must be able and willing to work independently and in groups
• Must be a fast learner, good listener, detail oriented

Qualification

• A university degree.
• A Major in Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, economics is preferred.
• Minimum of 2nd class lower
• Needs to be available for immediate employment
• An IT background is an added advantage.

Application Closing Date
30th May, 2014.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV's and application letter (containing a description of any relevant experience had) to: [email protected]

Note: Please reference the job role you are applying for in the subject of you email.