Data Analyst - Operations

Summary

Kuda is a money app for Africans on a mission to make financial services accessible, affordable and rewarding for every African on the planet.
We’re a tribe of passionate and diverse people who dreamed of building an inclusive money app that Africans would love so it’s only right that we ended up with the name ‘Kuda’ which means ‘love’ in Shona, a language spoken in the southern part of Africa.
We’re giving Africans around the world a better alternative to traditional finance by delivering money transfers, smart budgeting and instant access to credit through digital devices.

We’ve raised over $90 million from some of the world's most respected institutional investors, and we’re rolling out our game-changing services globally from our offices in Nigeria, South Africa, and the UK.

Requirements

Role Overview:
This is a BI Analyst role dedicated to operational reporting and analytics. We’re looking for a passionate BI Analyst that can apply their data Illustrative and reporting skills to translate complex information into meaningful insights. Excelling in critical thinking, ensuring all data problems are solved.

You must be able to transform data, gain understanding and use that insight to dig deeper and present a straightforward data story. Must be conformable, communicating findings and insight across multiple business levels.

If you are passionate about data and applying yourself to business challenges excites you, we would love to hear from you.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain business intelligence solutions to elevate and showcase data-to-decision across the entire business
• Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to define how best to measure, monitor and understand customer behavior and product performance
• Develop compelling information visualizations and dashboards
• Deliver strategic initiatives to improve the quality and timeliness of data insights
• Deliver continuous optimizations strategies that continuously re-invent data products and insights
• Analyze business processes and analytical requirements that assist with decision-making processes

Requirements:

• 3+ Years of experience in a Business Intelligence and/or Data Analyst role, with a focus on analyzing and understanding business operations
• Strong knowledge and proven experience using SQL
• Strong knowledge of and experience with tools like Looker, QlikView, Tableau or PowerBI
• Prior experience in designing and implementing performance metrics to track business or product KPIs
• A fundamental in identifying patterns or regions in products or behaviors that indicate opportunities for business process improvement
• Excellent analytical and forecasting ability
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Understand current data protection and privacy laws, e.g., GDPR
• A degree in the information technology field (e.g., Statistics, Economics, Math, Science, Engineering)

Advantageous:

• Previous experience as an operation analyst
• Familiar with methods for budget forecast, capacity forecast, funnel analysis
• Experience working in AWS, Google Cloud or Azure
• Using dbt Cloud to perform data modelling.
• Experience using BigQuery data capabilities
• Good understanding of the software development process and best practices

Benefits

Why join Kuda?

At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:

• Pension
• Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
• Group life insurance
• Health insurance
• L&D training
• We are advocates of work-life balance and offer a 3 day per week remote working option

Kuda is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Kuda is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent.

We don’t regard colour, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.