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IT Business Analyst / Project Manager at Dangote

DangoteLagos, Nigeria Networking and Tech Support
Full Time
The Dangote Group is one of the most diversified business conglomerates in Africa 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. The Group's activities encompass: Cement - Manufacturing / Importing Sugar - Manufacturing & Refining Salt - Refining Flour & Semolina - Milling Pasta - Manufacturing Noodles - Manufacturing Poly Products - Manufacturing Logistics - Port Management and Haulage Real Estate Dangote Foundation Since inception, the Group has experienced phenomenal growth on account of quality of its goods and services, its focus on cost leadership and efficiency of its human capital. Today, Dangote Group is a multi-billion Naira company poised to reach new heights, in every endeavour competing with itself to better the past. The Group's core business focus is to provide local, value added products and services that meet the 'basic needs' of the populace. Through the construction and operation of large scale manufacturing facilities in Nigeria and across Africa, the Group is focused on building local manufacturing capacity to generate employment and provide goods for the people.

Job Summary

The job holder will be responsible for facilitating the delivery of assigned IT projects on time within budget and scope. The person will provide requisite support in defining 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 functional leads (namely: Operations, Sales & Marketing, and Corporate Services) to facilitate the transformation and development of new requirements.
  • Document changes to the design and implementation of assigned projects.
  • Support with the management of ongoing IT projects and BA support requests and administrative needs
  • Support with the creation of training materials and documentation for application users and train new end users on other related applications
  • Facilitate the monitoring of user adoption rates and respond as needed (e.g., additional training sessions, communication, system modifications, etc.)
  • 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.
  • Support with the coordination of project management activities of postmortems/ process evaluation for each project and review recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements
  • Provide weekly status report of assigned projects/ tasks to the Senior Business Analysts.
  • Perform any other duties that may be assigned by the Senior Business Analysts.

Requirements

Education and Work Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree from a reputable University, preferably a degree in Information Technology Management or related discipline or equivalent.
  • 6 years 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 an 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.
  • Strong written, verbal communication, analytical skills, and problem-solving.
  • 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.
  • Ability to present information and respond to questions from colleagues and other stakeholders.

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