Specialist, Business Analysis at IHS Towers | Jobs in Nigeria

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Specialist, Business Analysis

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time
Employee Type: Permanent
Department: Procurement

Job Description

• Create TCO models for Suppliers and IHS and create financial models.
• Develop optimization algorithms for various spending areas.
• Assist in structuring 3rd-party expenditures and spend management strategies.
• Drive spends analytics strategy, including data integrity, reporting, and process alignment.
• Utilize advanced analytics for commodity catalogs, price books and scenario modeling.
• Oversee procurement data solutions and ERP system integrations.
• Collaborate on the creation and implementation of product and service catalogs.
• Conduct value engineering on procurement requests.
• Prepare monthly reports and slide decks.
• Perform financial modeling.
• Review tender scopes for accuracy.
• Sign off awards to ensure that all calculations and capturing was done correctly.
• Review the financial viability of the vendors before award.
• Implement OTP calculations.
• Develop comprehensive catalogues that are electronic and searchable.
• Maintain and update price indexes and catalog databases.
• Standardize and streamline catalog practices.
• Identify opportunities for catalog utilization.
• Integrate catalogues into procure-to-pay processes.
• Analyze and report on catalog-related metrics.
• Create and implement variance reporting tools.
• Review all strategic suppliers’ financial status annually.
• Track and validate negotiated savings.
• Support procurement performance assessment.
• Partner with Finance and business units to incorporate savings into budgets.
• Define overall and category-specific user system requirements.
• Evaluate and recommend system improvements.
• Drive change management and transitions.
• Develop and implement Supply Chain best practices, including KPI measurement and reporting automation.
• Convert business requirements to workable system solutions.
• Manage small- to medium-scale projects.
• Identify process gaps and recommend improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain categories to optimize opportunities.
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Senior Specialist

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Finance, Data science, AI or Value engineering.
• +3 years’ experience in analytics, business analysis, Data Science.
• Advanced proficiency in use of MS Excel, Access, SharePoint, and PowerPoint
• Experience with AX, Power BI, SAP, SQL, Business Objects and Tableau is desirable
• Knowledge of general trade spending, budget planning, forecasting and pricing execution.
• Knowledge and implementation experience with catalogue platforms and price indexes.
• Polygraph and psychometric tests prerequisite