Systems Analyst

CornerStone Staffing NG - Our client, a big player in the FMCG Industry, is currently recruiting suitably qualified candidates for immediate employment into the position below:

Job Position: Systems Analyst
Location: Lagos

Job Description

  • This candidate will ensure that systems and business processes incorporate industry standards and best practices; and provide business process and technology support to users.

Responsibilities


  • Responsibility to partner with IT and Business teams on issue resolution, functionality questions, system upgrades and minor system enhancements.
  • Assists in moving projects and tasks through the change management process.
  • Manage and Develop a systems and integration test strategy that accurately meets business use cases.
  • Work with Project Manager to track statuses of testing issues, remediation and re-tests.
  • Responsible for creation and maintenance of accurate project status information that is communicated to the business sponsor(s) on regular scheduled intervals
  • Planning and execution for Systems training and support as needed.
  • Supports the deployment and launch of projects and/or releases.
  • Develop tools to support the business (Excel, Access…) based on users’ requests
  • Work with business sponsor to determine business requirements for new and/or enhanced system requests.
  • Identifies gaps between solution design and application capabilities, determines alternatives and negotiates solutions.
  • Ensures appropriate documentation concerning project deliverables, system support and ITS processes are created, distributed to affected parties, and maintained as necessary.

Job Requirements

  • Experience with data gathering; including the ability to translate large amounts of data into actionable insights
  • Demonstrated strong logical and technical troubleshooting and problem solving skills
  • Demonstrated ability to build relationships with and influence business partners
  • Strong, professional and effective verbal and written communication skills
  • Self-motivated with critical attention to detail and deadlines
  • Ability to adapt well to change in direction and priority in a fast- paced and deadline-oriented environment
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field required
  • 2 – 4 years’ business systems analyst experience in corporate, preferably retail, environment
  • Proven experience in overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software and hardware solutions, systems, or products.
  • Passionate about understanding the data behind the “scenes” and researching the data using SQL.
  • Retail industry knowledge required