Business Analyst at a Prominent Oil and Gas Company - Oasis Africa Consulting Limited

Oasis Africa Consulting Limited - Our client is a prominent player in the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry, the company’s operations span across major businesses in the Oil and Gas value chain. Presently recruiting for its expanding business.

They are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time

Job Description

• Conducting interviews, workshops, and surveys to gather business needs and requirements  from stakeholders.  
• Process Analysis: Examining existing business processes to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and areas for improvement.  
• Drive awareness of requirements across business units and identify substandard systems  processes through evaluation of real-time data. 
• Serve as thought leader for technical business processes, developing systems prototypes that promote increased efficiency and productivity on multiple levels. 
• Create and implement precise management plans for every project, with attention to transparent communication at all levels. 
• Perform, evaluate, and communicate thorough quality assurance at every stage of systems development 
• Documentation: Creating detailed documentation of business requirements, process flows, and functional specifications.  
• Solution Recommendations: Developing and recommending solutions to address identified problems, including process improvements, software implementations, or technology upgrades.  
• Data Analysis: Analyzing data to identify trends, patterns, and insights that can inform business decisions.
• Collaboration: Working closely with stakeholders, IT teams, and project managers to ensure  alignment and successful implementation of changes.  
• Communication: Effectively communicating findings, recommendations, and project status to  various stakeholders.  
• Conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings,Ensuring solution meet  business needs.
• Managing projects, developing project plans, and monitoring performance.
• Budgeting and Forecasting: Developing and managing project budgets and forecasts.  
• Project Management: Supporting project planning, execution, and monitoring to ensure  projects stay on track and within budget. 
• Using data modelling techniques to identify ways in which an organization can operate more  effectively. 
• Internal Coordination: Be on as many internal and external calls as possible, Collaborate with  the Partnership Researcher 
• Communicate with senior people in organizations to find out what they hope to achieve 
• Formulate ways for  businesses to improve, based on previous research 
• Persuade internal and external stakeholders of the benefits of new technology or strategies 
• Oversee the implementation of new technology and systems 
• Exploring how the organization is currently operating via research, which could include  interviewing employees and collecting quantitative data, explore different solutions, their  risks, benefits and impacts 
• Creating documents to outline the proposed changes and the steps involved. 
• Ensuring the changes are made – for example, by overseeing the implementation of new  technology or a new approach 
• Contributing to training and support for people affected by new systems and processes. 
• Undertake any other tasks as assigned by your Line Manager.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Business Strategy, Finance or related  fields. 
• At least minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Business Analyst or in a similar role. 

Knowledge of:  

• Must possess the ability to draw conclusions from data and create business predictions. 
• Must be Proficient in all MS Office Suite Packages (MS Word, Excel Power-Point etc).

Commercial awareness:

• Confidence working with complex data and systems 
• An understanding of how IT can be used to resolve problems 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work with people at all levels  of an organisation 
• Time management and organizational skills 
• Must be able to communicate the results effectively to senior stakeholders. 
• Must be extremely organized. 
• Should be comfortable handling cross-functional projects. 
• Must have an understanding of data visualization tools.  

Proven abilities to: 

• Communicate sensitively and effectively both verbally and in writing with a wide range of people. 
• Have a strong business acumen and project management and experience in digital, marketing  and communications. 
• Demonstrate respect, openness and genuineness in developing working relationships with  others and contribute to positive working relationships in a team and stakeholders. 
• Analytical, interpretative and decision-making skills. 
• Good communication and presentation skills. 
• Sound Business Analyst knowledge.  
• Work without direct supervision.  
• This list of tasks is not exhaustive and will be reviewed from time to time in discussion with the post  holder. 

Special Conditions:

• Ability to undertake occasional travel.  
• To be able to work flexibly including some evenings and weekends when required.

Renumeration

• Competitive 

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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