FINCA

Regional Data Analyst – Africa

Date Listed: Aug 6, 2013
Phone: No Calls Please
Area: Tanzania
Application Deadline: Aug 13, 2013

Position Description:
FINCA International, one of the world's leading microfinance institutions, provides financial services to more than 1,000,000 clients through 23 wholly-owned and operated subsidiaries in Africa, Eurasia, Latin America and the Middle East and South Asia. FINCA is a pioneer in providing microfinance products and services including credit, savings and money transfers to the lowest income entrepreneurs
Under supervision and guidance from the Director of Enterprise Data and the Global Technology Program Manager, the Regional Data Analyst will support the Enterprise Data Team by working within Africa with each country of FINCA operations in the sourcing of data for Enterprise Data Warehouse.  This position involves “hands on” tasks such as data analysis/research for resolution of enterprise data issues, assisting country IS staff with the extraction and transmission of data, development/support of ETL code, development/documentation of data definitions, research/analysis/resolution of data integration/quality issues, and enterprise data business requirements gathering/documentation from each country within the region.
Personnel Specifications:
Knowledge and Education:
Proven knowledge obtained from work experience dealing with enterprise data systems such as an enterprise data warehouse.
Proven knowledge and experience in data analysis, and data quality.
Proficient in Data modeling, SQL, Data Quality methods, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as comfortable with Project management tools.
Job Skills:
Very strong work ethic - a dedicated, hard-working self-starter with initiative and ability to set own priorities.
Excellent communication skills; very high level of written and oral communication skills in English is critical.
The ability to present information and ideas clearly and concisely in English is critical
Excellent and proven technical and system documentation skill in English is critical
Excellent capacity to present and to explain the information, persuade others and promote understanding achieve consensus.
Ability to work and communicate in a multi-culture, diverse environment.
Ability to work both on the detail “hands on” tasks, with attention detail.
Ability to work at an appropriate level of detail, and give attention to detail  with accuracy, with  awareness of deadlines.
Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
Strong research, analytical, problem solving skills and communication skills across all levels of the business.  Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Able to prioritize task to the proper urgency, work as a team member as well as individually.
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
Ability to lead cross functional teams in resolving process concerns and developing new processes.
Proven ability to develop and implement customer service strategies.
Ability to support the process, including defining, developing, documenting and executing multiple related tasks.
Proven ability to balance, prioritize and organize multiple tasks.
Thrives well under pressure and is a creative and diligent problem solver.
Strong commitment to the social mission of FINCA.
Exposure:
7 years of IT data experience, with minimum 10 years of Enterprise Level Data/Business Analysis/Architecture and 5 years of proven leadership.
Work experience dealing with enterprise data systems,  Data Quality, Enterprise Level Data Standards, Integration of business data across an enterprise spanning global boarders.
Work experience in data modeling, SQL, Data Quality methods,  Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.
Global Banking experience
Fluency in English, French - a plus.


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