Financial Systems Analyst at Equity Bank Kenya

Description

Financial Business Intelligence and Analytics

• Provide in depth information systems analysis and data mining capability to enable extraction of information and building of analysis and dashboard that will inform financial reporting and decisions.

Financial Information Systems

• Leads from finance perspective development, implementation, and administration of the organization's financial information systems.
• Solve business problems using information technology by identifying potential solutions and assessing them for technical and business suitability
• Researches and document financial record-keeping and reporting requirements and ensures that systems are modified to meet these requirements.
• Establishes best practices for financial systems use and ensures that these practices are used throughout the group.
• Manages financial information systems training
• Proactively identify and propose scalable application features and functionality that improves accounting process and overall user experience.
• Closely work with other Finance and Accounting sections on diligently troubleshooting and resolving systems issues
• Consolidate all system issues that would otherwise have a materials impact on the integrity and accuracy of financial information
• Understand and articulate the operations of all financial information systems ensuring system manuals and training guides are in place.
• Ensuring that any adhoc reports not published or available from the front end are provided to users on a timely basis
• Assist in generation of bulk reports especially during Audit through query running using SQL and other tools provided
• Monitoring of system suspense accounts

Technology budgets and spend

• Drive business growth by optimizing IT spending and investments to align to business strategy.
• Track and report technology investments across business operations, incremental business change, and business innovation.
• Understand and analyze the long-term total cost of ownership of innovation investments
• Identify opportunities for digitization, build a business case for each and define the needed investments and cost savings
• Allocating technology cost to drive value generation and finding equilibrium between bottom-line operational efficiencies and top-line revenue growth.

Job knowledge and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Minimum 3 years in a similar capacity
• Knowledge in computer applications for data mining, data modelling, data visualization and data manipulation languages
• Structured Query Language
• Oracle Database
• Oracle Business Intelligence
• Microsoft Power BI
• Knowledge in Data Warehouse concepts
• Advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge
• Advanced formulas and functions
• Microsoft visual basic for applications
• Ability to analyze, model and interpret data.
• Financial data analysis and reporting

Skills

• Problem solving skills
• Written and verbal communication
• Ability to work in a team
• Presentation skills
• Attention to detail
• Investigative and inquisitive mind