Business Analyst, Information Technology at Dangote Group

Dangote Group is one of Nigeria’s most diversified business conglomerates with a hard – earned reputation for excellent business practices and products’ quality with its operational headquarters in the bustling metropolis of Lagos, Nigeria in West Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Business Analyst, Information Technology

Job Code: ITB01
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: DCP – Finance & IT

Job Summary

This position is responsible for facilitating the delivery of assigned projects on time, within budget and scope.
He/ she will facilitate the defining of business requirements and reporting them back to stakeholders.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Document the business requirements and facilitate the communication between stakeholders. to satisfy business needs.
Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
Consolidate information gathered from multiple sources
Provide support to Senior Business Analyst during engagement meetings with Function Leads to facilitate the transformation and development of new requirements.
Document changes to the design and implementation of assigned projects.
Support with the planning, scheduling and monitoring of IT related project timelines, milestones, budget and deliverables using appropriate tools to ensure the delivery of quality outputs on time and within budget
Support with the development and delivery of progress reports, documentation, and presentations to clients (pitches and deliverables), stakeholders and management IT Job Description Document Page 2 of 2 Version 1.0 3.0 Key Duties and Responsibilities
Support with the coordination for project management activities of postmortems/ process evaluation for each project and review recommendations report to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements
Provide weekly status report of assigned projects/ tasks to the Senior Business Analysts.

Education and Work Experience

Bachelor’s Degree from a reputable University, preferably a degree in Information Technology Management or related discipline or equivalent.
2 to 5 years of direct experience in business analysis and project management
Experience using enterprise-wide requirements definition and management systems and methodologies will be an advantage.
Experience with Agile delivery methods and knowledge of all phases of software development including requirements analysis, design, coding, testing (integration, user, and performance), debugging, implementation, and support will be an advantage.
Professional qualifications such as CBAP, PMP or PRINCE2 will be an advantage.

Skills and Behaviours:

Understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements
Ability to apply general organizational knowledge of the business and systems processes in problem analysis is required
Must exhibit confidence and knowledge of emerging industry practices when solving business problems.
Ability to successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously is required
Possess interpersonal and collaborative skills
Possess good analytical, organizational and product management skills
Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to interact professionally with managers, and subject matter experts, as part of a team.
Ability to document and interpret reports, business correspondence, and/or procedure manuals.

Benefits