Lendcor is a leading provider of personal and developmental credit products, with significant growth ambitions based on simple to understand and efficient processes, digital innovation, strong partnerships and data driven decisions and analytics. The Lendcor systems environment is dynamic and intricate, with the loan management system at the core and integration points into web and mobile origination platforms, credit bureaus, payment providers, digital communication platforms and financial systems. Digital enablement and data driven decision making are key drivers of the future systems roadmap.

The role as a systems analyst will be to implement, maintain, and support systems across multiple technologies and platforms, in order to meet the business needs of the organization and scale as the organization grows.

The systems analyst role is a hands-on role with a strong data focus, and the need for accuracy, logic and an ability to communicate complex ideas to others. The role reports to the Head of IT.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS
• Maintaining and upgrading existing systems as required
• Designing new computer systems and frameworks
• Troubleshooting technical issues
• Collaborating with business analysts, project leads, data analysts and IT teams to resolve issues, make changes and introduce new functionality, while ensuring solutions are viable and consistent
• Define and coordinate the execution of testing procedures, and develop test cases to serve the overall quality assurance process
• Creating system guidelines and manuals for the organization
• Running training sessions and workshops on system processes
• Developing and implementing maintenance procedures, monitor systems health, gather system statistics, and generating reports on efficiencies and improvement areas
• Risk mitigation planning
• Monitor and audit data quality

PREFERRED SKILLS
• Proven ability to assess business needs and translate them into relevant solutions
• Experience installing, configuring, documenting, testing, and implementing new applications and systems
• System integration best practices
• Working knowledge of a wide variety of programming languages
• Project management skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Meticulous attention to detail
• A logical approach to work
• Problem-solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong understanding and knowledge of the principles and practices associated with database maintenance and administration
• SQL coding