Business Reporting Engineer Job in Kenya

Cellulant is a mobile commerce company. 

It operates Africa’s number one mobile commerce network and aims to connect 100 million customers to its mobile commerce ecosystem. 

Cellulant was founded in 2003 and has currently operations in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, 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 of our corporate customers, including e.g. 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 do that by providing services like mobile banking, mobile payments, music, information services and other mobile related services.

To be able to meet these aggressive growth expectations we need to grow our dynamic team.
 
We are recruiting a highly motivated Implementation Engineers keen to utilize their existing skills and develop new ones that will enable them to add to the success of the organization as well as their own

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 Reporting Engineer
 
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
 
Reporting & analysis
  • 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
  • Share the data extracted with the revenue assurance coordinator and where required to, help in analysis of company’s performance
  • Perform statistical analysis, data mining, extensive visualization and graphing
  • Prepare a monthly consolidated report that assimilates varied data and ensure it is shared with the relevant recipients of the report.
  • Maintain a data bank of all monthly reports on Workspace and ensure this is secure and accessible at all times
  • Be the liaison between the business intelligence team, technology teams and support teams on reporting questions
  • Assist in extraction of useful insights from the Quality of Service reports on a monthly basis for use in the monthly BI Dashboard
  • Perform any additional work that may be allocated, by the Head of BI and CBSS.
Data Integrity
  • Perform data validation and ad hoc queries
  • Continuous audit of data queries/ and data bases to ensure data integrity and quality.
  • Assist in ensuring data is accurate as it has an implication on revenues earned by the company
  • Tracking technical revenue assurance queries raised
  • Perform any additional work that may be allocated, by the Head of BI and CBSS.
Warehousing
  • Assist the business in development and implementation of a business intelligence reporting tool.
  • Together with the technical team, is the point-person to ensure the development of a data warehousing tool that shall have all the relevant data for the company
  • Assist in all aspects of warehousing that touch on BI, providing guidance to the head of BI on technical issues surrounding the development of the warehouse.
  • Perform any additional work that may be allocated, by the Head of BI and CBSS.
Required competencies
  • A first degree in Computer Science or Information Systems
  • Advanced Excel knowledge
  • Experience in programming or software development.
  • Experience in managing / working with databases
  • Ability to use MySQL / PHP
Required skills
  • Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
  • Ability to understand and work with multiple business data models and interpret data based on business operational functions.
  • Advanced knowledge and experience in the development and usage of relational databases.
  • The ability to balance between data needs and requirements for action
  • 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.
  • Ability to independently coordinate multiple assignments.
  • Ability to work under pressure
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 9th July 2013. 


Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.