Program Business Analytics Manager at Africa Management Solutions Limited (AMSOL)

About the Job:

• The incumbent must possess problem-solving and analytical skills, along with a strong knowledge of current industry practices, such as different measured profitability approaches. You should understand and use new information for present and future problem-solving and decision-making. The ability to work with other managers and intelligence professionals is vital. Further, you must be able to convey information in a clear and effective manner.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and lead a team of business analysts to facilitate internal and external business insights.
• Provide data analytics support to drive Program decisions.
• Identifying business problems and developing analytic techniques to provide solutions to internal and external teams.
• Draw on strong business and statistical knowledge to organize research or development projects, including identification of relevant data points, data extraction and transformation, data model building, and visualizations.
• Lead the Program’s BA team to build the skills, processes and collaboration with other teams necessary to improve solution delivery speed and improve end-user satisfaction.
• Expert guidance – Understand underlying business challenges and communicate accurate data insights that enable confident, effective decision making.
•  Manage reporting on a variety of areas, driven by data. The “report/dashboard” expert of the company.
• Develop an advanced understanding of industry trends, metrics, and KPI benchmarks.
• Drive analytics tooling discussion in collaboration with the Global Business Intelligence manager to ensure we have the right technology to meet client and project team needs.
• Using data visualization and other data-gathering methods to either provide internal strategic direction or guide decisions for other teams.
•  Prepare data gathering and reporting solutions as change processes are implemented.
•  Supervise a team of analysts across a wide range of projects.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BA in Business preferred or Statistics/finance/analytics
•  Minimum of 3 years working in BI/BA roles.
• Team management experience.
•  Experience in a rapid change, rapid growth environment preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

•  Excellent communication and interpersonal skills combined with an executive presence
•  Self-motivated to learn new concepts and participate in new projects
• Strong organizational and analytical skills.
•  Demonstrated leadership experience; the ability to develop and coach a team
•  Ability to collect, combine and analyze information under challenging conditions
•  Strong attention to detail
• Strong management and mentoring skills