Job Vacancies at Interswitch Group

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Interswitch is an Africa-focused integrated digital payments and commerce company that facilitates the electronic circulation of money as well as the exchange of value between individuals and organisations on a timely and consistent basis. We started operations in 2002 as a transaction switching and electronic payments processing, and have progressively evolved into an integrated payment services company, building and managing payment infrastructure as well as delivering innovative payment products and transactional services throughout the African continent. At Interswitch, we offer unique career opportunities for individuals capable of playing key roles and adding value in an innovative and fun environment.

We are recruiting to fill the positions below:

 

 

 

Job Title: Senior M & A Analyst

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Purpose

• Provide strategic and financial analysis support to the team and will primarily be measured through the review of their results and ability to work well in a cross-functional team environment.
• The Analyst will develop and execute strategic efforts around M&A, special projects, organic growth opportunities and business development in alignment with the board, GMD and the executive team.

Key Responsibilities

• Work directly with the Head of Ventures, Mergers, and Acquisitions in the development of strategic plans and execution of critical strategic M&A initiatives
• Assist the Head of Ventures, Mergers, and Acquisitions to refine and execute the processes and analytical framework for analysing M&A opportunities
• Assist with identifying, screening, and evaluating potential acquisition candidates, joint venture partners, commercial partnerships, etc., along with developing target pipeline.
• Research and analyse high priority strategic markets, including industry mapping and deep dives into targeted M&A and partnership opportunities
• Partner with and drive cross-functional teams in all phases of M&A execution including diligence, business case creation, financial modelling, and integration
• Partner with the finance team to model organic growth opportunities and create proforma views of strategic opportunities
• Gathering and consolidating large amounts of disparate data to produce actionable insight
• Demonstrate strong verbal and written presentation abilities to communicate complex strategic topics in easy-to-understand ways
• Have, or be able to quickly develop an understanding of Interswitch’s business, practices, systems, and procedures
• Perform ad hoc analyses and financial modelling as needed

Requirements
Academic Qualification(s):

• B.Sc. Finance, Economics or any related field

Experience (Number of relevant years):

• Minimum of 2 - 3years experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, corporate development, or transaction services

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Team Lead, Site Reliability (Applications)

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Purpose

• Manage the team that ensures the availability and reliability of the Core Applications.
• Provide support for the Applications and ensure their optimal performance.
• Implement setup of new Applications in the company’s environment.

Key Responsibilities
Deployment of Applications:

• Support the deployment of Applications on the production environment
• Implement projects involving Setup and deployment of new Applications and enhancement of existing applications

Automation:

• Implement Automations of Activities that are involved in the management of Applications
• Environment Management
• Ensure 24x7 Availability of all Core Applications.
• Carry out Capacity planning to ensure Applications are always available to meet demands
• Create visibility into site health and key performance indicators of the Application Systems
• Ensure up-to date patching and full compliance to security standards of the Application Systems.
• Ensure up-to date documentation on all Core Applications as well as changes made.

Troubleshooting:

• Troubleshoot reported issues, and proactively identify areas in need of optimization
• Working with technical support engineers to resolve critical incidents.
• Create and update clear troubleshooting guides for Applications

Request Fulfilment:

• Implement Requests relevant to the operation and enhancement of the Core Processing Applications

Team Management:

• Co-ordinate the completion of activities within the team
• Customer Escalation management
• Resource Availability management
• Process Management (Creation/Update, Gap Identification/Elimination)
• Carry out Performance Management Reviews with the Team
• Co-ordinate Productivity enhancement activities within the Team

Requirements

• Academic Qualification(s): Good first degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering or other related fields.
• Professional Qualification(s): Service Management Certifications (e.g. ITIL) is an advantage
• Experience (Number of relevant years): Minimum of (4) years relevant experience

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Business Intelligence Analyst

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Purpose

• This role is responsible for ensuring the integrity and speed of reporting data, monitoring ETL jobs, designing cubes, managing the data-warehouses, and drilling insights into data.

Key Responsibilities
Strategic Perspective:

• Collaborates with business users and the internal GST team, Operations team and other BI champions to develop automated solutions to meet rapidly changing market and customer demands

Operations:

• Develop, monitor and maintaining ETL jobs and resolve production issues
• Use ETL tools to load data store(s)/ data warehouse(s)/ data mart(s).
• Create and execute queries for data
• Translate business requirements into specifications that will be used to drive data store/data warehouse/ data mart design and configuration
• Knowledge of Big-data tools such as Spark, Hadoop, NoSQL, Python, R, etc
• Tableau Developer with an expertise to create visualizations that provide business insights.
• Deliver high quality and timely dashboards, reports, visualizations, data models, and self-service reporting capabilities
• Being one of the key builders of our BI Data Marts for supporting the business reporting requirements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the division to understand business drivers, gaps, and issues to create relevant data strategies and BI capabilities
• Transition developed BI systems to the Operations & Support team
• Ensures Data integrity and Optimized speed for data insert/retrieval operations.
• Manipulating/mining data from database tables (TSQL, Oracle, Data Warehouse)
• Research and implement standards to ensure data integrity, efficient coding, data validation, product testing, clear documentation, and maintenance practices
• Troubleshoot production issues; identify root cause and fixes
• Collaborate with other teams to provide end user documentation and training
• Elicit requirements from stakeholders and translate them into specifications for business intelligence solutions and processes. Installs, configures, customises, administers, and supports BI applications software such as MSSQL server and Visual Studio
• Monitors the availability of business intelligence servers, and ensures the smooth running of all services
• Maintains good working relationships with all service providers and vendor to ensure that services received meet expected requirements of contract

Requirements
Academic Qualification(s):

• Minimum of Bachelor's Degree / HND in Computer / System / Electrical / Electronic Engineering Applied Physics / Computer Science or a related discipline

Professional Qualification(s):

• Relevant certification such as ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library), MCSA (Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate) MCSE: Business Intelligence Certification, Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP)

Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply

 

 

 

Job Title: Team Lead, Site Reliability (Switching)

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Purpose

• Carry out Setups and Deployments on the Core Switching Platforms. Support the Core Switching Platforms and ensure their optimal performance.

Key Responsibilities
Deployment of Applications:

• Carry out Deployments on the Transaction Switching Applications (Postilion, Powercard etc)

Automation:

• Implement Automations of Activities that are involved in the management of the Switching Applications

Application Environment Management:

• Ensure 24x7 Availability of all Switching Applications.
• Carry out Capacity planning to ensure Applications are always available to meet increasing demands
• Create visibility into site health and key performance indicators of the Switching Systems
• Ensure up-to date patching and full compliance to security standards of the Switching Systems.
• Ensure up-to date documentation on the Switching Applications as well as changes made

Troubleshooting:

• Troubleshoot reported issues, and proactively identify areas in need of optimization
• Working with technical support engineers to resolve critical incidents.
• Create and update clear troubleshooting guides for the Switching Applications

Request Fulfilment:

• Implement Requests relevant to the operation and enhancement of the Core Switching Applications

Team Management:

• Co-ordinate the completion of activities within the team
• Customer Escalation management
• Resource Availability management
• Process Management (Creation/Update, Gap Identification/Elimination)
• Carry out Performance Management Reviews with the Team
• Co-ordinate Productivity enhancement activities within the Team

Requirements

• Academic Qualification(s): Good first degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering or other related fields.
• Professional Qualification(s): Service Management Certifications (e.g. ITIL) is an advantage
• Experience (Number of relevant years): Minimum (4) years relevant experience

Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply

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