IT Business Analyst at Northwest Petroleum & Gas Company Limited

Northwest Petroleum & Gas Company Limited is a Company in the Oil & Gas Sector of the economy with international repute. The Company has vast experience in the importation, supply, distribution, and storage of Petroleum Products and is also actively involved in the official export of Crude Oil from Nigeria being one of the twenty-seven Companies approved by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for allocation and export of Nigerian Crude Oil. Presently, amongst other facilities, the Company operates two (2) Ultra-Modern Mega Petroleum Products Storage Terminals with a combined capacity of 96.8 million litres certified and duly licensed by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and an Ultra-Modern Berthing Facility with an International state of the art Fire Fighting and Safety Equipment in the Calabar Free Trade Zone, Cross River State.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: IT Business Analyst

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time, Onsite

Objective

• The role will serve as the liaison between the IT department and other departments in the company.
• The role will also be responsible for translating business needs to IT solutions, and vice versa, with current programs, projects and initiatives in mind.
• The role will also leverage data analytics to assess processes, systems, and determine requirements and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to stakeholders

Main Key Responsibilities

• Collaborates with business staff to thoroughly understand the needs to be supported by the information systems and technology.
• Gathering, validating and documenting business requirements.
• Analyzing commercial data such as budgets, sales results and forecasts
• Modelling business processes and identifying opportunities for process improvements.
• Identifying issues, risks and benefits of existing and proposed solutions and outlining business impacts.
• Creating functional specifications for solutions.
• Estimating costs and identifying business savings.
• Implementing and testing of solutions.
• Discover, organize, and clarify business needs and review/produce specifications for change
• Supporting business transition and helping to establish change.
• Leveraging on data to build intelligent dashboards that can aid management decision-making
• Support the Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution
• Negotiates plans and timeframes, ensuring that clients understand the anticipated result.
• Develops and communicates detailed specifications for implementation.
• Produces reports, timelines, and graphics to communicate expectations and progress to management, customers, investors, and other relevant parties.
• Maintains and ensures proper documentation and coordinates or performs testing of system modifications.
• Developing business intelligence dashboards using Power BI, Tableau, etc.

Qualification / Experience / Key Competencies

• Relevant degree in any IT related field
• IT certifications will be an added advantage
• Adequate Knowledge in Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions
• Developing business intelligence dashboards using Power BI, Tableau, etc.
• Problem-solving skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Communication skills
• Database Management

Key Metrics:
Stakeholder / end user satisfaction

• Quality of scope document and requirements and analysis documents
• Improvement in productivity in departments because of BA inputs
• Quality of BI reports
• Time and cost reduction in business processes.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.