BUSINESS ANALYST IN KENYA

Cellulant is a mobile commerce company. It operates as Africa’s number one mobile commerce network and aims to connect 100 million customers to its mobile commerce ecosystem. Currently, Cellulant has its operations in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana and every year moving into new countries. We are the mobile commerce partner of choice and our goal is to connect all our corporate customers, including the top Pan African banks, various merchants, to the richest mobile commerce ecosystem in Africa, helping them provide better communication, and more services, and more value to their end consumers. We invite you to be part of that growth. We seek to recruit pro-active and self – driven individuals to fill the position below;
BUSINESS ANALYST
The successful candidate is expected to ensure smooth data generation from company and client data base and be the front-line contact for reporting requests.
Key Result Areas 

• Generation of data reports from Cellulant and client Databases for business reporting on a daily basis and ensure these have been reported to the relevant teams.
• Work with internal and external customers to analyze large quantities of data and develop reporting templates and models, as well as perform data validation and ad hoc queries.
• Share the data extracted with the revenue assurance coordinator and help in analysis of company’s performance on a daily basis.
• Perform statistical analysis, data mining, extensive visualization and graphing
• Share the statistics with the head of technology on a daily basis and help in analyzing the performance of all services in terms of uptimes and down times.
• Prepare a monthly consolidated data schedule and ensure it is shared with the relevant recipients of the report.
• Maintain a data bank of all monthly reports and ensure this is secure at all times.

Required Competencies 

• A first degree in Computer Science or Information Systems
• Advanced Excel
• Experience in MySQL
• Experience in programming or software development.
• Experience in computer database

Required Skills 

• Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
• Advanced knowledge and experience in the development and usage of relational databases.
• Ability to work effectively with persons at all levels in the organization, portraying and explaining data in multiple formats
• Ability to be self‐directed, make independent judgments and act assertively
• Ability to develop and analyze complex data sets and understand their significance to the organization
• Be a strong communicator, verbally and in writing, as you will frequently deal with higher levels of management.© PDC Africa “Enhancing Productivity – Stimulating Growth”

Interested candidates are requested to submit their CVs and a convincing cover letter to
pdc.recruitment@gmail.com indicating the job title applied for by 7th March 2013. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted