Business Analyst at Airtel Nigeria

Airtel Nigeria (Airtel Networks Limited), a leading mobile telecommunication services provider in Nigeria and a member of Airtel Africa Group, is committed to providing innovative, exciting, affordable and quality mobile services to Nigerians, giving them the freedom to communicate, rise above their daily challenges and drive economic and social development.

A truly innovative company, Airtel has showed resilience, charting new paths in meeting the demands and needs of its esteemed stakeholders and enhancing distribution as well as providing affordable services to empower more Nigerians.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: Lagos

Job Purpose

• To develop commercial plans & business cases, business valuations and appraisal of investment opportunities in the Telecoms industry in Nigeria.
• To develop competitive intelligence reporting of telecoms industry and carry out data collation, market intelligence report and analyze macroeconomic indicators to identify new investment and growth areas for the business.

Key Accountabilities
Business valuations and Investment Appraisals:

• Return on Investment analysis for capital expenditures on tangible and non- tangible telecom assets
• Strategic appraisal and valuation of merger and acquisition proposals.
• Evaluation of business investment opportunities
• Long term business planning

Decision Support:

• Greenfield projects, risk and strategic projects evaluation
• Evaluate potential new investments and perform qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Review investments and prepare materials and Investment Committee proposals and presentations
• Interacts with other departments to create financial models in order to evaluate investment profitability under a bearable risk level

Commercial Decision Support:
Commercial appraisal of:

• Enterprise Business - Wholesale leased line, fibre swap and carrier business opportunities
• Data Business - New lines of business within data space
• Mobile Money - New applications of mobile money

Market Intelligence and Macroeconomic analysis:

• Research investment and economic market trends to create sales ideas and educational white papers.
• Gathers and analyses relevant financial data and economic information from a variety of sources, using financial modelling tools and techniques
• Promote information flow to capture gathered intelligence from internal and external sources.

Desired Skills and Experience
Educational Qualifications and Functional / Technical Skills

• Graduate Electrical Engineering preferably
• Professional qualification in Accounting
• MBA finance

Relevant Experience

• 4-6 years in FMCG & Telecoms
• In-depth knowledge of the telecoms industry.
• understanding of Telecom accounting
• Strong data analytical skills
• Experience of Business Intelligence tools like Hyperion, Cognos etc.
• Advanced Knowledge of SQL script writing and data mining techniques
• Deep understanding of company/project valuation concepts
• Understanding of investor relations reports
• Proficiency in use of Microsoft Excel, Word & Power Point
• Excellent research and data mining
• Strong analytical, computational and communication skills

Other Requirements:

• High level of commitment
• Attention to detail
• Results oriented
• Good interpersonal skills

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How To Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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