Associate, Business Intelligence at Babban Gona Farmer Services Nigeria Limited

Babban Gona Agricultural Franchise is a financially sustainable, high impact and highly scalable social enterprise, which is part-owned by the farmers it serves. Babban Gona is an innovative model designed to serve the bottom of the pyramid and transform agriculture into a job-creation engine. Through this agricultural franchise, Babban Gona offers a suite of services to smallholder farmers, helping them to overcome the challenges of fragmentation and low economies of scale.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Associate, Business Intelligence

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Industry: Technology

Key Responsibilities

• Work with key stakeholders and team members to identify strategic and tactical business needs, and align appropriate data driven solutions to them.
• Develop scalable and recurring processes and reporting to support the organizational business needs.
• Analyze and document functional processes and controls ensuring gaps and deficiencies are inventoried.
• Partner with required team members to design and build targeted dashboards, reports, and data extracts.
• Support and/or lead communication with subject matter experts across multiple departments and levels of leadership to define BI requirements and strategy.
• Support the administration of business intelligence applications including software maintenance, new user setup, and best practices of site management before, during, and after releases.
• Generate summaries and dashboards which represent operational data in brief and intelligible format suitable for the target audience.
• Trail industry yardstick, trends and benchmarks, and convey such information to executive leaders.
• Define, develop and optimize curated datasets and schemas with standardized metrics and definitions across the company.
• Work closely with technical partners on designing and developing robust data structures and highly reliable data pipelines.
• Perform ad hoc analysis, insight requests, and data extractions to resolve critical business issues.
• Support data analysis, market intelligence and competitive intelligence of all sales and pipeline activity.
• Undertake data collection, preprocessing and analysis to discover trends and patterns.
• Lead cross-functional projects using advanced data modelling and analysis techniques to discover insights that will guide strategic decisions and uncover optimization opportunities.
• Build, develop and maintain data models, reporting systems, data automation systems, dashboards and performance metrics support that support key business decisions.
• Oversee the design and delivery of reports and insights that analyze business functions and key operations and performance metrics.
• Manage and optimize processes for data intake, validation, mining and engineering as well as modelling, visualization and communication deliverables.
• Examine, interpret and report results of analytical initiatives to stakeholders in leadership, technology, sales, operations and product teams.
• Oversee the data/report requests process: tracking requests submitted, prioritization, approval, etc.
• Develop and implement quality controls and departmental standards to ensure quality standards, organizational expectations, and regulatory requirements.
• Organize and drive successful completion of data insight initiatives through effective management of analyst and data employees and effective collaboration with stakeholders.
• Communicate results and business impacts of insight initiatives to stakeholders within and outside of Babban Gona.
• Other responsibilities and tasks required to support organizational goals and objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a calculation intensive field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, etc.
• 3 - 5 years of related experience in a Business Intelligence or Data Analytics role
• Experience using data analytics tools such as Power BI and/or Tableau
• Experience with languages such as Python, SQL, etc.
• Experience using Microsoft Office packages including Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Access
• Adequate grasp of business and economic principles (macroeconomics, microeconomics, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to interpret data to derive business insights
• Working knowledge of data mining principles: predictive analytics, mapping, collecting data from multiple data systems on premises and cloud-based data sources.
• Understanding of and experience using analytical concepts and statistical techniques: hypothesis development, designing tests/experiments, analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and developing actionable recommendations for business units.
• Experience working with and creating databases and dashboards using all relevant data to inform decisions.
• Experience using analytics techniques to contribute to company growth efforts, increasing revenue and other key business outcomes.

Other Requirements:

• Strong quantitative and analytical skills with business knowledge and excellence in planning and execution
• Strong problem solving, good judgment, strategic and multidimensional thinker
• Strong ability to plan and manage numerous processes, people and projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and delegation skills.
• Ability to work independently or collectively to develop ideas and lead or contribute to initiatives that will support the attainment of revenue and/or attainment of market share
• Proven ability to leverage technology to translate business requirements
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, owns deliverables end to end, and partners with other teams to achieve goals.

Start Up Environment:

• Thrives in a fast-paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health Insurance
• Pension
• Performance Bonus
• Annual paid vacation
• Group Life Insurance.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
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