Stanbic IBTC Bank is a leading African banking group focused on emerging markets globally. It has been a mainstay of South Africa's financial system for 150 years, and now spans 16 countries across the African continent.
Group Finance is a corporate function that serves the overall Standard Bank group across a variety of accounting disciplines - internal and external reporting, budgeting and planning, tax, technical accounting and investor relations. It also runs the bank's capital management and regulatory reporting teams and the financial shared services processing centre. Group Finance has its own, dedicated SAP technical support and development team and a new financial systems and process improvement programme team known as Refine.
We are recruiting to fill the above position of:
Job Title: Assistant Business Information Officer
Job ID: 11823
Location: Nigeria
Position Description
- Ensure that the MIS needs for the Bank is meant for all business units PBB/CIB/Credit/Business Support.
- Ensure that reliable information is available and data integrity is maintained.
- Implement IS Solution(s) that meets the changing business requirements of Stanbic IBTC
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver functional MIS to address all business needs:
- Define business requirements and source for appropriate MIS that adequately meets the business needed
- Manage stakeholder and customer interface regarding system enhancements
- Implement, maintain & support Enterprise Data Warehouse
- Support business in extracting the MIS information using Cognos or any other BI tool.
- Manage Data integrity in the IT systems.
Maintaining extensive knowledge of Stanbic IBTC IT systems:
- Maintain intimate knowledge of MIS/IT configuration and customization as implemented in Stanbic IBTC.
- Explore MIS/IT to identify potential options useful for the business
- Ensure that system Changes meets business requirements by performing test plans
- Ensure monthly exception reports are produced to maintain cleanliness and integrity of country data
- Managing extensive knowledge of business dynamics and processes:
- Maintain business models on which requirement specifications can be based
- Understand business intelligence requirements and business trends
- Liaise or be a contact point with the IT department in terms of MIS/IT Initiatives.
- Drive MIS initiatives within the business units in Nigeria.
Technically
- Manage system capacity in line with existing IT strategies.
- Provide system support to users
- Desire reports in the MIS system for users
- Manage the data warehouse of the Bank as DBA.
- Maintenance of the MIS database with a view of improving and maintaining data integrity.
- Act as a facilitator to the process of providing information.
- Provide Management Information to substantiate business case or projects.
- Develop or initiate new process of delivering information to all business units.
- Coordinate MIS/IT Specialist support for business units within the country.
- Provide training on existing and new MIS tools in country.
- Balance Scorecard Measurement (Including branch scorecard).
Required Skills and Qualifications
- B.Sc (IT/CS/Statistics),B Com (Informatics) or similar degree
- Professional IT qualification (Equivalent to degree level).
- Database & Data warehousing Qualification
- 2-3 years minimum in the banking industry
- At least 2 years experience in report writing
- Experience in systems support or analysis
- Banking systems knowledge (e.g. GL systems (SAP), Front end transactional platforms (Equinox, Finacle, Calypso & Bank Master)
- Advanced computer literacy and knowledge of personal computers and software packages such as MS Office and BI tools.
- Good communication and presentation skills at a high levels
- Ability to positively lead change.
Required Competencies
- An appreciation and a good understanding of macro economics and external factors affecting the business strategies adopted,.
- Ability to analyse and evaluate data for acceptability, correctness and identify risks.
- Structured thinking and solution orientated
- Impeccable level of accuracy
- Ability and experience in communicating with all levels of management regarding management information needs.
- Good interpersonal skills required in liaising with people at different levels within the bank.
- Good planning and organisation skills.
- Dynamic self-starter with a personal ambition to succeed.
- Ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
- A person with high integrity.
- Excellent computer skills particularly in MS Office and Business Intelligence BI tools.
- Good programming skills in SQL and MS Office VBA Macros and Oracle 10g PLSQL
- Good knowledge of data warehousing.
Application Closing Date
31st July, 2013
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online