BI Specialist

**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.

**Role overview**:
We’re looking for a BI Specialist, who is very passionate and can develop and maintain BI solutions.

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.

**Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Develops and maintains BI solutions, including data models, data pipelines, and reporting and analytics tools
- Works closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements and design solutions to meet those needs
- Tests and troubleshoots BI solutions to ensure they are functioning correctly and meeting business needs
- Monitors and optimizes BI solutions to ensure performance and scalability
- Provides technical support and training to end-users of BI solutions
- Stays up-to-date with the latest BI technologies and trends, and makes recommendations for new tools or approaches
- Conducting data quality checks and implementing measures to ensures data accuracy and completeness
- Identifying opportunities for process improvement and optimization based on data insight

**Requirements**:

- 5 Years of experience in a Business Intelligence and/or Data Analyst role, with a focus on analyzing and understanding business problems 
- 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 measures 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)

**Skills**: Looker, dbt (or any other data pipelines tool), bigquery (or SQL)

**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:

- Perkbox
- Leave days
- Medical aid
- Hybrid working environment
- Travel insurance
- Pension fund
- We are advocates of work-life balance and offer a 3 day per week remote working option
- Kuda are 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._