Business Analyst at AgroMall Discovery and Extension Services Limited

AgroMall is at the intersection of digital agriculture and digital financial services. We have worked with over a million farmers and other participants in agricultural value chains to improve their yields; create market access; facilitate financial services and support logistics. We are helping to change the narrative in agriculture and improving the profile of the farmer and agribusiness from that of subsistence practices to thriving commercial entities. Working with international development partners across the world; financial services providers and governments, we are creating digitally enhanced and connected ecosystems in agricultural value chains in multiple countries across Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: Lagos
Job Level: Mid Level
Employment Type: Full Time
Job Function: Business Transformation Unit

Where you fit in

• We are committed to change the world for the better by bringing greater meaning and happiness into people’s lives, everywhere through agriculture and technology.
• We are passionate about our mission and excited to grow our company with people who want to do the same - and people who will bring in their different perspectives to help us continue to shape our team and company.
• If this is you, we encourage you to swim into our candidate pool!

Job Purpose

• The Business Analyst will be responsible for driving a new way of thinking, working, collaborating, planning, and delivering products.
• You will be working with multiple stakeholders to enable product development and features enhancement.

Principal Responsibilities

• Interfacing with cross-functional team and act as a liaison between business and technical teams; highlighting product features and telling stories in a manner clearly understandable to the development team,
• Participating in backlog grooming, sprint planning, and demo meetings and providing feedback on sprint achievements and goals,
• Monitoring the progress of product development, and together with IT Project Manager facilitating product release planning and testing,
• Working with Product Managers to prioritize feature development based on the business value,
• Eliciting and creating initial epics/features and elaborating into user stories, process flows, wireframes, mockups/demos, and acceptance criteria that clearly describe the functional and non-functional requirements,
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams within a Scrum framework to conduct work sessions and document new features, perform testing in Development and UAT environment, and track bugs, enhancements and ensure issues are resolved before going to production/live environment,
• Implement rapid ‘test-and-learn’ pilots to test new features and products, and working closely with the Product Management and Developers teams to quickly scale up winning pilots,
• By interfacing with Strategy and Planning Manager, Product Manager and Commercial Analyst maintaining deep and timely intelligence on clients’ needs, market conditions, industry and regulatory trends, and competitors,
• Integrating the business implications of market intelligence and helping Developers’ team understand and act upon these insights.

Requirements

• A University degree, MSc/MBA is an added advantage
• Solid experience and understanding of Agile in developing epics, themes, user stories, and requirements gathering,
• “Own it” mentality and unique ability to cut through the noise to get things done inventively and efficiently
• Ability to plan and execute with and through people in a matrixed organization
• Good At collaborating, building positive relationships, and advancing business goals.
• Outstanding critical thinking, analytical, influencing and communication skills.
• Organized, independent, flexible multi-tasker with keen attention to detail
• Comfortable in a fast-moving environment with contending projects and priorities
• Capable of facilitating meetings and communicating findings and results to project leadership

Culture Traits:

• Must be a High performer with a drive for excellence and growth
• Must be an optimist disruptive thinker with a sight for possibilities irrespective of the situation.
• An outside-the-box thinker with a start-up attitude.
• Must be committed to continuous learning and showing mutual respect to all levels of staff.
• A bold and strategic leader who can work in a diverse team
• Must be an optimist disruptive thinker with a sight for possibilities irrespective of the situation
• Must be very strong at execution and executing within timelines.

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Learning & Growth Opportunities
• Flexible time and days of work
• Subsidized lunch
• Opportunity to work with bright minds and even more.

Application Closing Date
31st March, 2020.