Job Title: Head, Business Analytics & Automation
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description
- Leads the business analytics & solution development teams and provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members
- Build solutions to address pressing business challenges and further extend the banks automation drive
- Lead the business through all efforts that drive performance and potential by using existent and new data sources
- Design and develop data solutions that support business requirements and enable data-driven decision-making
- Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand data needs and develop solutions
- Ensure that data solutions are well-documented, tested, and deployed in a timely manner
- Keep up to date with the latest trends and technologies in data solution development and recommend new tools and solutions as appropriate
- Lead multiple projects by completing and updating project documentation; managing project scope; adjusting schedules when necessary; determining daily priorities; ensuring efficient and on-time delivery of project tasks and milestones; following proper escalation paths; and managing stakeholder relationships
- Develop and apply analytical algorithms and methods to business problems
- Identify and address operational, financial and technological risks within the bank using data
- Evaluate the performance of project teams withing DAO to ensure that targets and deadlines are met
- Manage customer relationships and expectations by developing a communication process to keep stakeholders up to date on DAO project progress
- Strive to improve the quality of analytics solutions delivered on a consistent basis.
- Define the business questions that need be answered and define appropriate analytics algorithms/models to answer identified questions
- Collaborate with the Head, Artificial Intelligence & Insights to identify and make ready relevant data platforms and solutions for the Bank
- Take initiative in developing training programs for improving the business understanding of the use of data, which improves decision-making across the business.
- Data mining using state-of-the-art methods, tools and techniques
- Extending the bank’s data with third party sources of information when needed
- Supervise the design of new analytics products/platforms and evaluating how these will meet user requirements
- Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytics platforms
- Collaborate with product management and customer experience function to understand the bank’s tactical focus and devise possible solutions
- Perform other duties as may be assigned by the Chief Data & Analytics Officer (CDAO).
Requirements
- Minimum education level – Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Economics, Information Systems, Statistics, Applied Math, Business Administration, or any other related field.
- At least 7 years of experience in software development, data engineering, and data analytics
- Strong aptitude for performing a dual role of providing data solutions and business analysis
- Strong project management, ability to successfully manage multiple tasks at any given point, strong relationship
- building skills & communication skills
- Understanding of Indices, fundamentals and analytical data, returns level data etc
- Solid skills in data mapping, data translation, impact identification, process design, and documentation.
- Familiar with large databases and working knowledge of SQL.
Salary
N12,000,000 Annually.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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Job Features
Job Category | Analyst/ Quality Control |