4G Capital (4th Generation Capital) is Africa's fastest fintech providing ethical credit services to those who require it most. We provide rapidly accessible and affordable unsecured loans with strict affordability criteria to prevent unmanageable debt.
The Role
The Senior Business Analyst will work in the Product department and will collaborate cross-functionally with a number of independent teams. The role requires understanding of the needs/goals of various stakeholders and work backwards to develop products and use metrics to measure their success. This role involves conducting company and market analysis, analyzing company product lines, market category, and customer segmentation. The job holder will also assist in the development of quality metrics and reports to assist the business segments.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Support in maintaining the data integrity and ongoing quality control of the Reviewing and analysing products and collating it into management information in a timely fashion for strategic and operational decision making.
- Providing support in modelling of projects and financial appraisals of investments projects and new products and services to drive key investments decisions.
- Communicating technical insight from analytics and modelling to line manager and senior executives in a business-oriented and pragmatic way.
- Providing support for continuous business process reviews, risk identifications and control design as well as compliance monitoring through exception reports.
- Monitoring various business information trends and providing reports to facilitate decision making.
- Monitoring and analysing infrastructure for ongoing collection and management of qualitative customer data.
- Synthesising primary research insights with secondary and behavioural data for richer customer intelligence, insights and recommendations for experience improvements and product refinement in line with market needs.
- Developing a robust, iterative product planning and forecasting model with key KPI inputs and P&L, B/S, and cash outputs.
- Continually improving the entire product planning process and financial model in terms of accuracy and efficiency as well as relevancy of insights to the senior management team.
- Ensuring that the business has the needed accurate Product Systems as well as efficient links/accounts between Accounting/Actuals and Planning.
- Prepare strategic and financial well-written, documented, and concise power-point presentations for line and senior management, board, investors, and prospective investors, including presentations on business performance, KPI’s, business strategy, product strategic investments, recommendations, etc. as needed.
- Supporting key business decision-making and strategic initiatives through ad hoc analyses and the building meaningful product models.
- Demonstrating success by using storytelling, data visualization and communication skills to bring the voice of the customer to life across the organisation and ensure that insights enable decision making for the design towards delivering compelling customer value propositions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree (Computer Science, Finance, Economics, or a related field preferred)
- MBA strongly preferred (B.A. /B.S. required).
- 5 years + of Product Management or Data Analysis role
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills and an ability to share previous excel iterative budgeting and forecast models and PowerPoint presentations
- Ability to communicate comfortably, confidently, and credibly to share your point of view and expertise.
- Ability to work in a dynamic environment and comfortable collaborating with various teams.
- Demonstrating understanding of product reporting and accounting.
- Proven self-starter and independent problem-solving ability with sense to understand implications of work and probe more deeply when presented with inconsistent or interesting findings.
- Proven ability to manage projects from beginning to completion with a 'can-do' attitude and a proven ability to manage and meet all deadlines.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified? Go to 4G Capital Application Portal to apply via docs.google.com.
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