Summary
Date Posted: Monday, August 21 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
MFS Africa is the leading digital payments platform in Africa, enabling low-cost payments across the continent. The company works in close partnership with mobile network operators and financial institutions to bring simple and relevant payment services to African consumers and businesses. MFS Africa connects over 400 million mobile money users across Africa through its platform, which enables cross-border payment for mobile money networks, banks, money transfer operators, and large corporates.

As a fintech company, we strive towards elegance and simplicity in everything we do. Our mission is to make borders matter less, and our values are to simplify, care, and be revolutionary. We pride ourselves on world-class operations and a distributed team. Our offices include Abidjan, Accra, Johannesburg, Kampala, Lagos, London, Nairobi, and Port-Louis, and many employees work remotely from locations where we do not have offices. We are regulated in Mauritius, Ghana, Tanzania, and the United Kingdom.

The MFS Africa team has doubled in the past year and continues to grow rapidly. Our people are talented, curious, and the reason our company does exceptional things. Excellence in nurturing our people and their passions is foundational to our success as a business.

The Role
We are recruiting an experienced BI Developer to work within the BI and Analytics product team. The BI and Analytics product team are responsible for enabling management decision making via insights from our data.

This role is for an experienced BI Developer who excels at turning raw data into information and insight, leading to optimal business decisions. You will be responsible for the delivery of BI apps, data modeling and data analysis along specific business cases. You will build the reports and tools to foster a data orientated culture.

We are seeking candidates with 5+ years’ experience in BI development and BI tools. The successful candidate must possess exceptional communication skills, solid technical skills, creative problem-solving skills and demonstrate exceptional attention to detail and analytical rigor.

The role is location agnostic however, preference will be given to candidates based where we have office locations, i.e Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Ghana & Nigeria.

Key Responsibilities
BI Delivery and Analysis (70 %)
• Report and apps development in Qlik Sense and NPrinting,
• Support the growth of BI tool and usage, manage users and reload reliability.
• Deliver reports to internal and external stakeholders and track accuracy and reliability of reports.
• Troubleshooting the reporting environment and reports.
• Democratizing access to data and promoting BI apps.

Exploratory Data Analysis (20%)
• Analyze trends and build specific business cases to impact business decisions.
• Support the cross-function data analyst with relevant insights, deliver and communicate analysis to top management.
• Validate and test datasets.

Data mapping and process (10%)
• Define metrics that are independent, holistic, accurate, encourage the right behaviours, and that are aligned with company strategy and objectives.
• Understand and identify the data generated through company operations and activities and where/how that data is stored and how they can be mapped to KPIs.
• Standardize and simplify data model.

Qualifications and experience
• 5+ years’ experience in BI development.
• 3 years university degree with a proven background in math, science, finance, engineering, or statistics and deep business insight and financial sense are required; advanced degrees and/or MBA are a plus.
• High-level experience in methodologies and processes for managing large-scale databases.
• Experience in engaging with individuals at executive levels.
• Be willing to learn and do whatever is needed to help us accomplish our goals.

Technology skills
• BI and Analytics: Qlik Sense and at least one other BI and Analytics tools
• Big Data and Cloud: GCP (Big Query, Cloud storage, Cloud Dataflow), AWS (Redshift, S3, Glue)
• Languages: SQL, Python
• Databases: MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL or equivalent

Why Work for us
• We have a very diverse work environment with over 28+ nationalities represented and continually strive to build a culture of caring and execution.
• We operate a flexible remote working policy.
• We offer a competitive salary package and bonuses.
• We prioritize the overall well-being of our staff through various initiatives aimed at ensuring they reach their full potential in a supportive environment.
• We work at the very cutting edge of fintech in Africa.
• We solve relevant problems for Africa and the world in hope of continuing to make an impact on the millions, if not billions, of users who also believe in what we do.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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