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Airtel Nigeria Job Vacancies for Business Analysts

Airtel Nigeria (Airtel Networks Limited), a leading mobile telecommunication services provider in Nigeria and a member of Airtel Africa Group, is committed to providing innovative, exciting, affordable and quality mobile services to Nigerians, giving them the freedom to communicate, rise above their daily challenges and drive economic and social development.
We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below:


Job Position: Business Analyst
Job Location: Nigeria
Job Purpose


    To develop commercial plans, business cases, business valuations and appraisal of investment opportunities in the Telecoms industry in Nigeria.
    Also to develop competitive intelligence reporting of telecoms industry and carry out data collation, market intelligence report and analyze macroeconomic indicators to identify new investment and growth areas for the business.

Duties and Responsibilities
Business valuations & Investment Appraisals:

    Return on Investment analysis for capital expenditures on tangible and non- tangible telecom assets
    Strategic appraisal and valuation of merger and acquisition proposals
    Evaluation of business investment opportunities
    Long term business planning

Decision Support:

    Greenfield projects, risk and strategic projects evaluation
    Evaluate potential new investments and perform qualitative and quantitative analysis
    Review investments and prepare materials and Investment Committee proposals and presentations
    Interacts with other departments to create financial models in order to evaluate investment profitability under a bearable risk level

Market Intelligence and Macroeconomic Analysis:

    Research investment and economic market trends to create sales ideas and educational white papers
    Gathers and analyses relevant financial data and economic information from a variety of sources, using financial modelling tools and techniques
    Promote information flow to capture gathered intelligence from internal and external sources

Commercial appraisal of:

    Enterprise Business – Wholesale leased line, fibre swap and carrier business opportunities
    Data Business – New lines of business within data space
    Mobile Money – New applications of mobile money


Relevant Skill and Experience

    Graduate from any recognized institution
    Professional qualification in Accounting
    MBA finance
    Deep understanding of company/project valuation concepts
    Understanding of investor relations reports
    Proficiency in use of Microsoft Excel, Word & PPT
    Excellent research and data mining
    Strong analytical, computational and communication skills
    High level of commitment
    Attention to detail
    Result oriented
    Good interpersonal skills
    4-6 years in FMCG & Telecoms
    In-depth knowledge of the telecoms industry
    Understanding of Telecom accounting
    Strong data analytical skills
    Experience of BI tools like Hyperion, Cognos etc.
    Advanced Knowledge of SQL script writing and data mining techniques