Job Purpose:
- The Finance Manager is responsible for the financial health of
our operations in the Eastern Africa cluster, while being based in Nairobi
Office. This role involves overseeing financial planning, financial
analysis, and reporting, managing financial risks, and financial modelling
and reviewing of client deals and business cases. The Finance Manager will
report to the SSA Head of Finance, to support Eastern Africa and SSA
overall business priorities.
Key Responsibilities:
Financial Management:
- Oversee the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial
reporting process for the Eastern Africa cluster.
- Manage the budgeting and forecasting process for the Eastern
Africa cluster.
- Implement strategies to prevent and resolve bad debts.
- Provide in-depth support in the areas of revenue management
and investment decision.
- Participate in continuous improvement activities to meet or
exceed internal customers’ expectations.
Revenue Analytics and Business Partnering:
- Lead the analysis of key business drivers for strategic
planning, annual budgeting, and quarterly forecasting for the Eastern
Africa cluster.
- Actively engage in the modelling and review of client deals,
ensuring accuracy and alignment with the company’s financial goals and
strategies.
- Identify and analyze potential opportunities and risks in
client deals, providing actionable insights for decision-making.
Compliance and Governance:
- Ensure deals and approval-to-spend requests are captured,
recorded, summarized, and reported in compliance with policies and
procedures.
- Ensure data integrity and consistency of information as well
as organized documentation of all financial assumptions, results and data
sources used.
- Provide advisory and guidance to business partners on deals
structuring, of their approved budgets and forecasts, and their commitment
to budget/forecast on a continuous basis.
Relationship Management:
- Partner with business and regional teams to ensure alignment
on financial performance and the drivers of forecasts and results.
- Demonstrate strong sense of urgency when preparing and
evaluating multiple incentive deals, and proactively align priorities with
Eastern Africa Cluster Head on a weekly basis.
- Build and maintain relationships with finance business
partners in SSA and CEMEA Hub, to ensure they are aware of the latest
deals’ timelines, risks/opportunities, and how we plan to quickly mitigate
or leverage them respectively.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors
Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree
(e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD
Preferred Qualifications:
- 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or
4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g.
Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
Leadership:
- 7-10 years of work experience in multinational business
environment and a bachelor’s degree or 5 years of work experience with an
Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters, MBA).
- Past experience in one of the following industries is highly
desirable: Payment Technology, Consulting, FMCG, or Telecom.
- Proactive, high-energy, and motivated team player.
- Strong communication skills and creates deep relationships
across the business and communicates effectively with executive
management.
- Ability to work well under pressure and manage multiple
priorities.
- Able to work cross-functionally, geographically, and with
virtual teams while promoting a culture of openness, trust, and
flexibility.
Technical:
- Degree in Accounting or professional accounting qualification
(ACA, ACCA, CPA or equivalent) is preferred.
- Strong FP&A skills: Experience in forecasting based on
trends, historical data, current market conditions, and strategic plans.
Proficient in developing and managing revenue budgets. Proven ability to
analyze financial data and succinctly summarize for non-Finance audience.
Experienced in working with financial models.
- Expertise in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint required and
experience in Power BI is desirable. IBM Cognos TM1 and Hyperion
experience would be an advantage. Conceptual knowledge of financial
databases is beneficial.
Business:
- Financial/commercial analysis/FP&A experience from within
a large, multi-national, publicly traded corporation.
- Outstanding analytical and quantitative skills, able to
resolve tough business problems with well-structured analyses.
- Must be detail-oriented and possess good prioritization skills
to ensure relevancy, accuracy, and quality of output.
How To Apply