About Us:
Network International is the largest Financial Technology company in Middle East and Africa. Payments is our core business where we provide services in more than 50 countries – UAE, Jordan, South Africa, Egypt are some of our key markets. Apart from payments, we provide services on Data and Insights, Lending, Insurance, Risk Solutions, etc. Our core customers are businesses at every scale and segment, though recently we are growing in direct to consumer card segment as well.
Our EVP:
At Network International, we always stay ahead. . In the fast-paced world of financial services, we thrive on innovation, agility, and purposeful collaboration. We invest first in our people, empowering you to make bold decisions, learn fast, and grow your expertise alongside industry leaders. Here, solving complex problems means more than using cutting-edge technology; it’s about creating meaningful value for our customers, together. We foster a culture where trust, accountability, and achievement go hand in hand—because success isn’t just a goal; it’s how we work, every day, as one team.
About The Role:
The role supports OPS Africa by coordinating inputs from regional commercial teams and key support functions into accurate, executive-ready materials for planning, market development, performance reporting, and strategic initiatives, while using AI, automation, dashboards, and structured analysis to improve quality, reduce manual effort, and accelerate insight generation.
ResponsibilitiesKey Responsibilities:
- Business Planning:
- Reporting for management forums.
- Run a review of receivables aging with support of the account managers.
- Timely and quality submissions for quarterly risk audits.
- Responsible for annual Net Promoter Score surveys.
- Reporting of individual sales performance.
- Weekly reporting of sales activities in each region.
- Create and update process documents
- Market Development:
- Create and update comprehensive industry, competitor and customer models including, but not limited to, market share, growth projections and trends, and market forces.
- Perform analysis of key industry trends; the general social economic and political environment; legal and regulatory issues; customers; current and potential competitors.
- Provide market and competitive insights through presentations and reports to the team to support strategic and tactical decision-making and for use in presentations by the team’s leaders.
- Supply the market and competitive intelligence component of strategic planning, and proactively make recommendations to the team concerning key intelligence items that require further consideration.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of data sources, evaluating their credibility and potential utility, and leverages them for the team.
- Maintain an in-depth knowledge of designated markets and trends through reading reports, market research, data manipulation and financial modeling and analysis.
- Develop and maintain relationships with key internal stakeholders to identify emerging needs and business challenges.
- Collaborate with the team to enhance their use of strategic analysis and market and competitor intelligence.
Key Requirements:
Qualifications:
- Education: Graduate in business, statistics, economics, finance or related field
- Experience: Minimum of 4 years of experience, with at least 2 years in payments industry (preferably in Africa)
- Strong understanding of payments industry basics, data gathering and analysis, basic strategy frameworks
- Intermediate knowledge of MS PowerPoint and Excel, with aptitude to become an expert
- Proven track record of process improvement and analyzing industry information to deliver insights
Skills and Competencies:
- Fluency in written and spoken English is essential. Fluency in Arabic and/or French will be highly valued
- Excellent communication skills combined with the ability to successfully move between addressing major strategic challenges and very tactical initiatives
- Strong project management and organizational skills: Coordination experience that facilitates the successful delivery against a complex agenda of tasks, in a matrix structure, successfully navigating around different functions
- Analytical and data-driven decision-making capabilities: An ability to analyze and make sense of large amounts of information
- High degree of independent judgement, with an ability to handle confidential and sensitive information
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to manage change and drive continuous improvement.
Working Conditions:
- Primarily office-based
- Fast-paced and dynamic work environment.
Skills Required
- Graduate in business, statistics, economics, finance or related field
- Minimum of 4 years of experience
- At least 2 years in the payments industry (preferably in Africa)
- Strong understanding of payments industry basics, data gathering and analysis, basic strategy frameworks
- Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel with aptitude to become an expert
- Proven track record of process improvement and analyzing industry information to deliver insights
- Fluency in written and spoken English
- Fluency in Arabic and/or French
- Strong project management and organizational skills; coordination in a matrix structure
- Analytical and data-driven decision-making capabilities; ability to analyze large amounts of information
- High degree of independent judgement and ability to handle confidential information
- Strategic thinking, problem-solving, ability to manage change and drive continuous improvement
What We Do
At NI, we Engineer Ambitiously. We celebrate creative problem solving. And we take our customer relationships to heart. We believe in the power and potential of making connections—between people, ideas, and technology. In fact, connection is central to everything we do. We constantly challenge ourselves to find those connections because that’s what creates a path forward. This means bringing the right people together to build solutions that make a difference. It means combining fresh perspectives with new technologies to turn your vision into reality. For more than four decades, we’ve set the standard in automated test and automated measurement systems. We’re proud to partner with the talented engineers and enterprises using our systems to solve the world’s most pressing technology challenges and build better businesses. From data and automation to research and validation, our tailored, software-connected approach is rooted in helping you engineer what’s next. As your trusted partner, we’re committed to helping you set your goals higher and reach them sooner. We’re here for you, for each other, and for the next generation of innovators who think bigger, aim higher, and go faster. Let’s Engineer Ambitiously.
