Vacancy for a Business Analyst

Quanteq Technology Services Ltd, a leading ICT Consulting firm in Africa with its headquarters located in Abuja, Nigeria, is seeking to fill the position of a Business Analyst within its organization. Listed below is the job description of the desired Business Analyst


Job Title : Business Analyst
Objective: To devise and design business process requirements for all IT-related business, financial, and operations systems critical to core organizational functions.
Reports to: Business Consulting Practice Manager

Responsibilities
Strategy & Planning
•Chart existing business processes in order to define current business activities for the development of procedures and models.
•Meet with decision makers, systems owners, and end users to define business, financial, and operations requirements and systems goals.
•Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.
•Prototype new procedures for the purpose of enhancing business processes, operations, and information process flow.
•Prepare and deliver reports, recommendations, or alternatives for improving processes in operating systems across the organization.
•Perform cost-benefit and return on investment (ROI) analyses for proposed changes to aid management in making implementation decisions.
•Identify and establish scope and parameters of process analysis in order to define impact, outcome criteria, and measure-taking actions.

Acquisition & Deployment
•Collaborate in the planning, design, development, and deployment of new applications, and enhancements to existing applications.
•Assist in conducting research on software and hardware products to justify recommendations and to support purchasing efforts.

Operational Management
•Develop, standardize, and maintain new or improved processes based on findings and analysis.
•Communicate process changes, enhancements, and modifications – verbally or through written documentation – to management, peers, staff, and other employees so that issues and solutions are understood.
•Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to system programmers.

Working Relationships
•Inter practice working relationship- work closely with software development teams etc.

Key Tasks
•Conduct extensive researches and analyze data in support of business functions, process knowledge, and systems requirements
•Proactively generate and compile reports based on his or her findings, complete with recommended improvements to – or new requirements for – business processes and operational procedures.
•Submit daily time sheets, weekly reports, action plans
•Excellent understanding of Quanteq’s goals and objectives

Core Skills
•This individual will apply proven communication, analytical, interviewing and problem-solving skills to help maximize the benefit of IT system investments and to assist in implementing new computer systems.
•He / She should possess excellent writing and presentation skills.
•He / She should have good grasp of Business Processes, Business Domain Knowledge, and Application functionality.
•He / She should demonstrate proficiency in the use of Microsoft office tools: word, excel, power point, visio, project

Educational Qualification
A university degree in computer science or a degree in Information Systems with a minimum of a second class upper division.

Certifications

• CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional)
• BPAC (Business Process Analysis Certification
• BPMC (Business Process Management Certification)
• ICCP (Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals)

Experience
Minimum of two (2) years consulting experience

Salary
Negotiable


Applicants should kindly submit a copy of their CV to [email protected]