Business Analyst, Retail Banking at FairMoney Nigeria

FairMoney is building the leading mobile bank for emerging markets. We started with a digital microcredit application on Android, and currently roll out additional financial services (current account, savings, debit card) while expanding the product to Western Africa and South-East Asia.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Business Analyst, Retail Banking

Location: Lagos
Category: BI & Analytics

Responsibilities

• Developing SQL code/Python, R scripts to interrogate our data to solve key business problems.
• Proactively bringing new ideas to the table relating to business questions, analytics approaches, datasets and ways of working.
• Assessing opportunities, understanding behaviour, testing hypotheses with data analysis.
• Communicate analysis, relevant trends and operational performances to internal as well as external stakeholders and across the business.
• Forecasting and scenario planning to create a data-driven performance from historic and current data.
• Present insights to stakeholders & senior management, translating analysis into the 'so what?' and identifying possible actions to take as a result.
• Presenting data in a clear and easy to comprehend manner, using visualization tools (Tableau), data warehouse (Bigquery), ELT tool (dbt and git).

Requirements

• You have 2 - 5 years of experience in delivering actionable insight to support decision making in marketing, commercial, product, operational and/or strategic decisions.
• You have the ability to deal with ambiguity & form ambiguous questions into defined solutions to improve the business area.
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to explain results from your analysis in layman's language to business users.
• You have a high level of SQL Proficiency – You’re good at quickly getting a grasp of any dataset that you're working with & support other analysts to do so, Python/R is a plus.
• You have a good understanding of the business – you quickly identify which metrics are relevant for an area and anticipate which data projects will add value.
• You have the ability to effectively form relationships with the business in order to help with the adoption of data-driven decision making.
• You have experience building models and dashboards to tight timelines and embedding these in operations to inform real-time business decisions.
• You have experience capturing stakeholder requirements across various levels of seniority and functions and building appropriate analytical solutions.
• You have strong data visualization skills, including knowledge of self-serve tools like Tableau or similar.
• You’re a self-starter - you take initiative in spotting opportunities and finding ways to solve challenges with data.

Benefits

• Work From Home Allowances
• Training & Development
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays).

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Recruitment Process

• A screening interview with one of the members of the Talent Acquisition team - 30 minutes.
• Assignment to be done at home.
• Technical Interview with Shashi Agarwal (Analytics Lead) - 60 minutes.
• Interview with the key stakeholders - 60 minutes.