Business Analyst
About the role
AXIAN Digibank & Fintech is looking to hire a Business Analyst in Dar es Salaam to turn data into business insights, build dashboards and analytical models, and support planning and forecasting. Responsibilities: - Translate strategic objectives into data-driven insights and analytical frameworks, ensuring alignment between business goals and operational performance. - Monitor business performance and market trends through data analysis, identifying patterns, risks and opportunities to support decision making. - Support planning and forecasting processes by providing accurate, data-backed inputs and performance tracking across departments. - Standardize and enhance reporting processes by developing scalable dashboards, structured datasets and automated reports. - Consolidate, clean and validate data from multiple sources to ensure accuracy, consistency and reliability for analysis. - Develop and maintain analytical models to support scenario analysis, business performance evaluation and growth initiatives. - Track key performance indicators (KPIs) and cost drivers, identifying inefficiencies and opportunities for optimization. - Build a strong understanding of business drivers, including customer behavior, revenue streams, operational performance and unit economics. - Communicate insights effectively through clear data visualization and storytelling, enabling stakeholders to make informed decisions. How to apply: Apply via the AXIAN Group careers portal (Job Reference: req4858): https://axian-group.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/4858?c=axian-group
Key requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, IT or any relevant quantitative discipline.
- 1 to 3 years' hands-on experience in data/BI analysis with demonstrable output (dashboards, automated pipelines, analytical models).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex datasets into actionable business insights.
- Advanced proficiency in data analysis and visualization tools (e.g. Excel, SQL, Power BI, Metabase), with experience designing and maintaining interactive dashboards.
- Solid experience writing and optimizing SQL queries to extract, transform and validate data from multiple sources.
- Experience in automating data workflows and reporting processes (e.g. Power Query, Python or similar tools).
- Strong understanding of business and operational metrics and their linkage to financial outcomes (revenue, margins, cost-to-serve).
- Proven ability to support commercial and growth analysis, including cohort analysis, channel performance, retention trends and ROI modeling.
- Experience implementing and maintaining data quality controls, including validation checks and anomaly detection.
- Fluency in English.
- SQL
- Power BI