Specialist, Business Analysis at IHS Towers

IHS Towers is one of the largest independent owners, operators, and developers of shared telecommunications infrastructure in the world by tower count and is the only towerco solely focused on emerging markets. The Company has more than 40,000 towers across its 11 markets, including Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Kuwait, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, South Africa, and Zambia.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Specialist, Business Analysis

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time
Employee Type: Permanent
Department: Procurement

Job Description

• Create TCO models for Suppliers and IHS and create financial models. 
• Develop optimization algorithms for various spending areas. 
• Assist in structuring 3rd-party expenditures and spend management strategies. 
• Drive spends analytics strategy, including data integrity, reporting, and process alignment. 
• Utilize advanced analytics for commodity catalogs, price books and scenario modeling. 
• Oversee procurement data solutions and ERP system integrations. 
• Collaborate on the creation and implementation of product and service catalogs. 
• Conduct value engineering on procurement requests. 
• Prepare monthly reports and slide decks. 
• Perform financial modeling. 
• Review tender scopes for accuracy. 
• Sign off awards to ensure that all calculations and capturing was done correctly. 
• Review the financial viability of the vendors before award. 
• Implement OTP calculations. 
• Develop comprehensive catalogues that are electronic and searchable. 
• Maintain and update price indexes and catalog databases. 
• Standardize and streamline catalog practices. 
• Identify opportunities for catalog utilization. 
• Integrate catalogues into procure-to-pay processes. 
• Analyze and report on catalog-related metrics. 
• Create and implement variance reporting tools. 
• Review all strategic suppliers' financial status annually. 
• Track and validate negotiated savings. 
• Support procurement performance assessment. 
• Partner with Finance and business units to incorporate savings into budgets. 
• Define overall and category-specific user system requirements. 
• Evaluate and recommend system improvements. 
• Drive change management and transitions. 
• Develop and implement Supply Chain best practices, including KPI measurement and reporting automation. 
• Convert business requirements to workable system solutions. 
• Manage small- to medium-scale projects. 
• Identify process gaps and recommend improvement initiatives. 
• Collaborate with Supply Chain categories to optimize opportunities. 
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Senior Specialist

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, Finance, Data science, AI or Value engineering. 
• +3 years’ experience in analytics, business analysis, Data Science. 
• Advanced proficiency in use of MS Excel, Access, SharePoint, and PowerPoint 
• Experience with AX, Power BI, SAP, SQL, Business Objects and Tableau is desirable 
• Knowledge of general trade spending, budget planning, forecasting and pricing execution. 
• Knowledge and implementation experience with catalogue platforms and price indexes. 
• Polygraph and psychometric tests prerequisite 

Application Closing Date
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