JOB DESCRIPTION:

Conducting financial analysis to identify trends, risks, and opportunities, as well as developing financial forecasts, budgets, and performance reports.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

Financial reporting, analysis and Decision support

• Perform key performance indicators tracking, reporting and analysis and guide the revenue and cost analysis for the group.
• Assist with the monthly financial reporting and analysis.
• Support the month and year-end accounting close as necessary to meet the monthly close schedule.
• Monitor trends of key financial metrics and drivers for each of the business units.
• Develop dashboards that report new initiatives in the business and provide analysis and insights to the management team that facilitate decision making.
• Customer, product and market profitability analysis,
• Provide relevant market insights that inform business decisions.
• Assist in reviewing departments’ results of analysis and develop rolling forecasts for the remainder of the fiscal year, including headcount, P&L and Cashflow.

Planning and budgeting

• Support the budgeting process across markets, business units & cost centers
• Maintain rolling forecasts for the business.
• Advise on availability of budget for OpEx and CapEx items and budget reallocation options.
• Tracking actual v budget performance and sharing insights on YTD variance and projecting expected actual performance based on current trend.
• Highlight adverse variances for proactive action from management / leadership.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

Must have experience:

• First class financial modeling skills
• Understanding complex business opportunities
• High level of competence in accounting systems/ERP/CRM.

Experience that will count in your favor:

• Payments/Fintech
• African experience across multiple markets

Qualification:

• 4-6 years of experience, ideally in a fintech company
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting or related field is required.
• Certified Public Accountant
• Have a strong background in financial modeling, data analytics or similar domain.
• Have a high standard of integrity.

Skills:

Superior financial modeling, deep accounting knowledge, expert in developing and delivering executive presentations