Data Analyst at Musoni

Role Summary

The successful candidate for this role will play a critical role in enabling Musoni Microfinance to better understand our clients’ financial needs and behaviors by converting data into insights that inform innovative, commercially viable solutions. As the Data Analyst you will be responsible for providing a full range of BI/analytics services from data curation to reporting and deep data analysis and insights to our business teams to help them make better data-driven decisions – from planning/forecasting, to operations and strategy. Beside developing models, you will be responsible for their documentation and the explanation of the results to peers and senior management. The individual should be passionate about transforming data for better business leverage and competitive differentiation and solving business problems.

Responsibilities

• Conduct end-to-end analysis that includes data gathering and requirements specification, analysis and presentations.
• Analyze customer behavior and derive customer insights from a variety of data sources to inform business strategy.
• Develop, iterate, and evaluate models for credit scorecards.
• Build and interpret package and pricing experiments for our various financial products.
• Analyze Musoni’s historical and current performance in the form of multi-dimensional reports and real time dashboards.
• Break down financial, operational and customer data into various segments to do a detailed analysis and get an in-depth business insight.
• Identify opportunities to develop forecasts, statistical models, and data-driven analyses to help the management in making data driven business decisions.
• Collaborate with IT to maintain reporting environments and design new data warehousing strategies to meet business analytical needs.
• Identify and reconcile various data integrity and consistency issues: investigate, document, and where possible, address differences, across operating and financial data sources for key measures.
• Assist with implementation of data quality improvement processes and initiatives.<
• Help maintain the integrity and security of the database(s).<

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in credit scorecard development and implementation, CRM analytics, Risk analytics or Big data credit scoring.
• Advanced degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, etc.)
• 3+ years’ experience with managing full implementation lifecycle for delivery of BI and analytics solutions using data integration (ETL) and visualization tools (such as Power Bi, Tableau etc.) and working with statistical packages (R, SAS, Stata, MATLAB, etc.)
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to design algorithms, which may include data cleaning, data mining, data clustering and pattern recognition methodologies.
• Experience in analytics presentation such as Dashboards.
• Understanding of data protection principles are desired.
• Experience in cloud-based solutions are an asset.