Job For Data Analyst - Procurement Performance & Reporting In A Multinational Manufacturing Company

Machineyard.com.ng - Our client, a multinational manufacturing company in Nigeria is recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:     Job Title: Data Analyst - Procurement Performance & Reporting Location: Lagos Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for Change management of SAP process
• Support and drive the spend management, reporting, and forecasting tools for Procurement within the local country.
• Support to Procurement Team in the area of IT tool use – e-procurement and contract review tools
• Management of Performance dashboard on Microsoft Power-BI
• Support the proper implementation and use of master data locally, including vendor, material, and service masters..
• Business Process mapping for all P2P process.
• Support Procurement in setting up and validating benefit calculation.

• The role will provide analytical support to Line of Report to drive local procurement improvements to processes, tools, and systems in support of category strategy execution, improved efficiency, and standardization.
• Provide support to its line of report on Procurement reporting and performance management in coordination with Global and Zone leadership.
• Assemble and analyse business ERP data as well as Macro, Industry and market specific data into information, and avail to management in a timely fashion for strategic, tactical and operational requirements.
• Ensure timely preparation and consolidation of performance tracking and reporting tools, Monthly & Quarterly Performance Reviews, investigation of exceptions and working with the team to design and implement corrective action plans.
• Ensure periodic generation and review of exception reports and implementation of other internal control actions for management control purposes.
• Support Performance Management, and Group Analytics with appropriate tools and capabilities to drive spend and transaction transparency

• Google Drive use and management as a collaborative tools
• Highly effective time management, planning and organization skills; ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities and drive tasks to completion in a fixed time-frame and in a pressured environment.
• Strong written and oral communication skills; ability to communicate effectively (including technical and operational) and with all functions.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and build relationships across multiple functions
• Ability to deal with ambiguities, conflicts and adversarial relationships
• Experience and knowledge of SAP (Preferred, other ERP system experience considered)
• Demonstrated ability in analysis and interpretation of data including database management and solution design.
• Degree in Engineering, Statistics, Commerce, Finance or numerate skills
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a busy commercial/ business environment – P2P Exposure an added advantage
• Highly developed analytical skills
• Excellent understanding and application of management information systems
• Experience with Enterprise Resource Applications – SAP ERP (Qlikview, BW, BO) and Microsoft PowerBI
• Excellent working knowledge of MS Excel and specifically spreadsheet design.
• Use of google collaborative platform for document management – Drive, Sheets, PPT etc
• SAP ERP Systems knowledge is a compulsory requirment