Group Head, Business Analytics at Interswitch

Job Description

• To enable effective decision making based on insights delivered to the business. Build, manage and steer a team of data analysts, data scientists and data engineers.
• Plan, direct and coordinate the delivery of analytics services/data products to the business. Cocreate value with other business lines and service teams within the business to drive profitability and improve customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Achieve Level 5 Data Maturity Score by defining, planning, and implementing roadmap to close the identified gaps
• Participate in business analysis activities to gather insight requirements
• Translate the requirements into specifications that will be used to analysis the specified data
• Work with the business lines and service team to source for and acquire data where required.
• Effectively plan tasks across multiple projects simultaneously with different requirements, needs, and priorities.
• Mentor team member and provide leadership and vision to the team
• Work with Data & Analytics Excellence to achieve compliance with the stipulated best practices and standard regarding data analytics.
• Provide support as required to assist the business in applying the generated insights.
• Ensure proper configuration management and change controls are implemented as regards acquired data and working documents used for analysis and generating actionable insights.
• Provide technical assistance to team members.
• Provide insights that will improve Purepay’s products, services, marketing, and customer experience.
• Provide training and assistance to users for ad hoc reports.
• Design and implement best practices, guidelines, and repeatable processes as it relates to job functions.

Requirements

• Academic Qualification(s): Good First Degree in Computer Engineering / Science / Statistics / related field.
• Professional Qualification(s): Relevant Certifications in analytics tools such as Tableau, Power Bi and any data engineering/science tools is an added advantage.
• Professional knowledge of state-of-the art tools and methodologies.
• Proven leadership skills in managing a team.
• Experience (Number of relevant years): Minimum of 10 years in an Analytics role inclusive of 5 years in related roles for data driven purpose such as business analysis, operations reporting, statistics, project management reporting, etc and at least 3 years in a Managerial position.