MFS Africa is the leading digital payments platform in Africa, enabling low-cost payments across the continent. The company works in close partnership with mobile network operators and financial institutions to bring simple and relevant payment services to African consumers and businesses. MFS Africa connects over 320 million mobile money users across Africa through its platform, which enables cross-border payment for mobile money networks, banks, money transfer operators, and large corporates.
As a fintech company, we strive towards elegance and simplicity in everything we do. Our mission is to make borders matter less, and our values are to simplify, care, and be revolutionary. We pride ourselves on world-class operations and a distributed team. Our offices include Abidjan, Accra, Johannesburg, Kampala, Lagos, London, Nairobi, and Port-Louis, and many employees work remotely from locations where we do not have offices. We are regulated by the FSC in Mauritius, BoG in Ghana, BoT in Tanzania, and FCA in the UK.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: System Analyst - Global Technology Partners (GTP)
Location: Lagos
Department: Product
Duties, and Responsibilities
Experienced with analytical documentation including BRDs, process flows, and state diagrams.
Systems thinking - Associate a process to its related systems & understand high level what each method does.
Understanding of relational database concepts, such as referential & entity integrity
Project leadership skills, such as the ability to lead a scoping call and drive for simple solutions to challenging problems.
Capable of interpreting a customer request into a system improvement
Responsible for understanding transaction data, designing, and analyzing reports, and sharing findings with various company departments.
Responsible for coordinating with Data Services to facilitate custom reporting for clients to support AML/KYC monitoring and Regulatory requests.
Continuously evaluate and improve current data processes. Collaborate with IT to ensure data quality, and process flow completion, and identify opportunities for process automation.
Responsible for managing bank and 3rd party connections from onboarding through the various stages of integration with SOAP and RESTful web services.
Responsible for provisioning and troubleshooting access to the sandbox and production environments for web service consumers.
Responsible for certification and recertification of integrations, including review of application design, usage activity, post-migration monitoring, and enforcement of application change management with web service consumers.
Manage and maintain process and procedure documents related to access provisioning and web service consumers.
Complete other business analysis, requirements gathering, and project management tasks as needed.
Maintain a current understanding of money laundering and terrorist financing issues including policies, procedures, regulations, industry best practices, typologies and developing trends.
Maintains professional knowledge by attending educational workshops/webinars, reviewing professional publications, and participating in professional societies.
Previous experience in fintech/neo bank/cards environment is preferable.
Qualifications
Education:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / IT preferred.
Experience:
3 - 5 years relevant work experience in IT / fintech environment supporting software development projects.
Skills:
BRD, FSD, FRD, SQL, Crystal Reports, Database knowledge, System Analysis, Business Analysis, Design thinking, Product development, core banking/cards experience.
Abilities:
Thinks analytically and creatively to make the most of available data.
Generates new ideas, proposes change, encourages innovation, and solves problems creatively.