Service Desk Analyst (Graduate & Exp.) at Interswitch Group

Interswitch is an Africa-focused integrated digital payments and commerce company that facilitates the electronic circulation of money as well as the exchange of value between individuals and organisations on a timely and consistent basis. We started operations in 2002 as a transaction switching and electronic payments processing, and have progressively evolved into an integrated payment services company, building and managing payment infrastructure as well as delivering innovative payment products and transactional services throughout the African continent. At Interswitch, we offer unique career opportunities for individuals capable of playing key roles and adding value in an innovative and fun environment.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Service Desk Analyst

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Purpose

• The Service Desk Analyst role is that of providing L1 support to customer service requests, using the incident management and request fulfilment processes, in line with Service Desk objectives.
• The Service Desk Analyst role is responsible for promoting the values of the group: A.S.K.
  • A – Accuracy
  • S – Speed
  • K – Knowledge

Key Responsibilities
Customer Service Management:

• Resolves customers’ requests within the defined KPI targets.
• Responsible for understanding the customer’s requests to achieve a satisfying outcome.
• Owns an issue until a new owner has been found or the problem has been mitigated or resolved.

Broad Product / Service Understanding:

• Staff must understand how we render the services to the customer to ensure resolution is complete.
• Staff must keep abreast of changes to existing services and processes via the knowledge base platform.

Continual Service Improvement:

• It’s about learning from what has worked and what has not and being opened to ‘smarter’ ways of working.
• Championing specific activities to improve team’s or customer’s processes.
• Making sure that recurring incidents or problems are logged for permanent resolution.

Performance Management:

• It is your responsibility to track your performance daily, weekly and monthly and assess your
• performance in line with your KPI targets.
• It is your responsibility to seek help to improve your performance where required.

Education & Experience
Academic Qualification(s):

• A tertiary qualification (e.g. related to Information Technology) and / or equivalent experience
• Professional Qualification(s):
• ITIL V3 Foundations Certification (achieved)

Experience (Number of relevant years):

• 1-3 years’ experience in customer service delivery within a technology
• Environment, ideally a service desk or trouble-shooter role

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.