Associate, Business Intelligence Job at Babban Gona Farmer Services Nigeria Limited

Full Time
Lagos
Posted 1 year ago
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Babban Gona Farmer Services Nigeria Limited

Babban Gona Agricultural Franchise is a financially sustainable, high impact and highly scalable social enterprise, which is part-owned by the farmers it serves. Babban Gona is an innovative model designed to serve the bottom of the pyramid and transform agriculture into a job-creation engine. Through this agricultural franchise, Babban Gona offers a suite of services to smallholder farmers, helping them to overcome the challenges of fragmentation and low economies of scale.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Associate, Business Intelligence

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Industry: Technology

Key Responsibilities

Work with key stakeholders and team members to identify strategic and tactical business needs, and align appropriate data driven solutions to them.
Develop scalable and recurring processes and reporting to support the organizational business needs.
Analyze and document functional processes and controls ensuring gaps and deficiencies are inventoried.
Partner with required team members to design and build targeted dashboards, reports, and data extracts.
Support and/or lead communication with subject matter experts across multiple departments and levels of leadership to define BI requirements and strategy.
Support the administration of business intelligence applications including software maintenance, new user setup, and best practices of site management before, during, and after releases.
Generate summaries and dashboards which represent operational data in brief and intelligible format suitable for the target audience.
Trail industry yardstick, trends and benchmarks, and convey such information to executive leaders.
Define, develop and optimize curated datasets and schemas with standardized metrics and definitions across the company.
Work closely with technical partners on designing and developing robust data structures and highly reliable data pipelines.
Perform ad hoc analysis, insight requests, and data extractions to resolve critical business issues.
Support data analysis, market intelligence and competitive intelligence of all sales and pipeline activity.
Undertake data collection, preprocessing and analysis to discover trends and patterns.
Lead cross-functional projects using advanced data modelling and analysis techniques to discover insights that will guide strategic decisions and uncover optimization opportunities.
Build, develop and maintain data models, reporting systems, data automation systems, dashboards and performance metrics support that support key business decisions.
Oversee the design and delivery of reports and insights that analyze business functions and key operations and performance metrics.
Manage and optimize processes for data intake, validation, mining and engineering as well as modelling, visualization and communication deliverables.
Examine, interpret and report results of analytical initiatives to stakeholders in leadership, technology, sales, operations and product teams.
Oversee the data/report requests process: tracking requests submitted, prioritization, approval, etc.
Develop and implement quality controls and departmental standards to ensure quality standards, organizational expectations, and regulatory requirements.
Organize and drive successful completion of data insight initiatives through effective management of analyst and data employees and effective collaboration with stakeholders.
Communicate results and business impacts of insight initiatives to stakeholders within and outside of Babban Gona.
Other responsibilities and tasks required to support organizational goals and objectives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in a calculation intensive field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, etc.
3 – 5 years of related experience in a Business Intelligence or Data Analytics role
Experience using data analytics tools such as Power BI and/or Tableau
Experience with languages such as Python, SQL, etc.
Experience using Microsoft Office packages including Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Access
Adequate grasp of business and economic principles (macroeconomics, microeconomics, etc.)
Demonstrated ability to interpret data to derive business insights
Working knowledge of data mining principles: predictive analytics, mapping, collecting data from multiple data systems on premises and cloud-based data sources.
Understanding of and experience using analytical concepts and statistical techniques: hypothesis development, designing tests/experiments, analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and developing actionable recommendations for business units.
Experience working with and creating databases and dashboards using all relevant data to inform decisions.
Experience using analytics techniques to contribute to company growth efforts, increasing revenue and other key business outcomes.

Other Requirements:

Strong quantitative and analytical skills with business knowledge and excellence in planning and execution
Strong problem solving, good judgment, strategic and multidimensional thinker
Strong ability to plan and manage numerous processes, people and projects simultaneously.
Excellent communication, collaboration and delegation skills.
Ability to work independently or collectively to develop ideas and lead or contribute to initiatives that will support the attainment of revenue and/or attainment of market share
Proven ability to leverage technology to translate business requirements
Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, owns deliverables end to end, and partners with other teams to achieve goals.

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