About Jumia:
Jumia believes that technology has the potential to transform everyday life in Africa for the better. Jumia was built to help consumers access millions of goods and services conveniently and at the best prices while opening up a new way for sellers to reach consumers and grow their businesses.
Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 2019, Jumia is the leading e-commerce company in Africa, operating in 11 countries. The Jumia platform consists of a marketplace, which connects sellers with consumers, a logistics service, which enables the shipment and delivery of packages from sellers to consumers, and a payment service, JumiaPay, which offers a safe and easy solution to facilitate online payment transactions. The company offers goods across a broad range of categories, such as phones and electronics, home appliances, fast-moving consumer goods, fashion and beauty.
We are looking for an insightful, detail-oriented analyst to work with our internal departments and management team as they collect and review data and use findings to optimize processes and develop stronger, more effective business strategies. An ideal candidate will take responsibility for managing our master data set, developing reports, and troubleshooting data issues. To do well in this role you need a very fine eye for detail, experience as a data analyst, and a deep understanding of the popular data analysis tools and databases. The analyst will use creativity and technical skills to locate data sources, mine, visualize, interprete, forecast, validate, protect, and store data, identify trends, patterns, and anomalies, and use findings to develop strategies to reduce costs, improve processes and practices, and increase efficiency, quality, security, and consistency. The analyst will also create reports and presentations and summarize complex information.
Daily Routines:
- Collecting and analyzing raw data to identify trends, patterns, anomalies, and other helpful
- Managing master data, including creation, updates, and deletion.
- Using data to develop and optimize strategies and processes, increase profits, efficiency, quality,
- or security, and reduce costs.
- Provide quality assurance of imported data, working with quality assurance analysts if
- Commissioning and decommissioning of data sets.
- Working with internal departments to collect data and develop and implement strategies.
- Identifying and validating new data sources.
- Creating reports and presentations to summarize findings and influence company decisions.
- Working with the management team to establish project objectives, budgets, and timelines,
- monitor progress, and evaluate performance.
- Implementing policies and procedures that keep company data and information secure as it is
- collected, analyzed, stored, and discarded.
- Troubleshooting the reporting database environment and reports.
- Reviewing and improving analytics processes, methods, and tools to increase efficiency,
- accuracy, and security.
- Providing technical expertise in data storage structures, data mining, and data cleansing.
Skills Required:
- BSc in Computer science, mathematics, or other related fields. Certifications, or other
- distinctions related to data analysis are a plus.
- Minimum of 4 years work experience as a data analyst or in a related field.
- Ability to work with stakeholders to assess potential risks.
- Proficiency with Power BI, SQL, Tableu, Jira, MS Office and other analytics software. Mastery of
- certain programming languages may be required.
- High-level experience in methodologies and processes for managing large-scale databases.
- Ability to recognize patterns and trends in large data sets and use numerical information to
- develop business strategies.
- Ability to translate business requirements into non-technical, lay terms.
- Strong math, organization, critical thinking, and problem solving skills.
- Exceptional presentation, research, and verbal and written communication.
- Ability to summarize and explain complex information to other.
What We Offer:
- A unique experience in an entrepreneurial yet structured environment.
- The opportunity to significantly impact the African e-commerce sector.
- The chance to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team.
- Unparalleled personal and professional growth, aligning with our long-term objective to nurture
- the next generation of leaders.
We Offer:
- A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
- A unique opportunity of having strong impact in building the African e-commerce sector
- The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team
- An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer term objective is to train the next generation of leaders
