Kimberly Ryan Limited - Our client, a leading Fintech company, is recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:
Job Title: Product Analyst
Location: Lagos
Job Description
- An experienced Product Analyst’s primary responsibility is advancing the research, strategy and development of client suite of solutions, identifying and recommending marketing firms, tracking marketing data; generating and maintaining promotional materials inventory; planning meetings and trade shows; maintaining databases; preparing reports.
Details
- The Product Analyst’s primary responsibility is advancing the research, strategy and development of client suite of solutions.
- The Product Analyst will be responsible for identifying product requirements, understanding client and market movement, and creating solutions to deliver quality products to our expanding consumer portfolio.
- Our ideal candidate must be a subject matter expert with tangible professional experience relating to the strategy, development and administration of product offerings with relevant product, operations, or marketing experience.
- The Product Analyst will work cross-functionally with teams across the organization to deliver clarity, alignment and focus the company expanding suite of solutions.
Specific Duties
- Aids in the research, development, and launch of new products or product enhancements to further the Organization’s mission
- Maintains a solid knowledge base of the functional capabilities and is a subject matter expert for the products and initiatives assigned
- Responsible for identifying product requirements, understanding client and market movement, and creating solutions to deliver quality products to partners
- Conducts gap analysis between feature/workflow requirements and existing application/solution functionality
- Collaborates and assists product managers, product directors, software developers, quality assurance testers, data science, and project managers to plan and develop product enhancements as well as scale go to market strategies
- Creates documentation including requirement user stories, acceptance criteria, new feature PowerPoint decks, process workflows, personas, journey maps, wireframes and user guides
- Drives external product and market research initiatives (focus groups, on-site visits, solicitation of client feedback)
- Supports in client presentations and client facing discussions as a product subject matter expert
- Effectively communicates to internal and external stakeholders’ milestones, roadblocks, new insights and scope changes
Primary Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent educational or professional experience and/or qualifications
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in business analysis, product analysis, and/or project management in Fintech or related industry
- Thrives in a fast-paced work environment
- Belief that the status quo can be improved upon, and an innate desire for process improvement, problem solving, and results
- Superior oral and written communication skills
- Experience in dealing with multiple projects and cross-functional teams, and ability to coordinate across teams
- Ability to effectively conduct strategic discussions directly with senior management, clients, and ecosystem partners
Finishing Touches (preferred):
- Track record of grit, results, and working on high-performance teams
- Voracious appetite for learning and self-improvement
- Start-up, sales, and/or entrepreneur skills a plus
- Experience with and knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (to include one+ of the following)
- Experience with agile software development, including scrum/Kanban workflows, test-driven requirements
- Working knowledge of data structures and query languages (e.g. SQL) to facilitate product validation, troubleshooting, and ideation for capability enhancements.
Application Closing Date
25th November, 2019.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to:
[email protected] clearly indicating the "Job Title and Location" as the subject of your mail.