Job Title: Senior Financial Associate
Description: Mobius Motors designs, manufactures and sells
highly durable, highly affordable vehicles for Africa’s mass market.
We are seeking to hire an exceptional mid-career professional interested in a truly unique entrepreneurial opportunity to create impact on a global scale.
Reporting to the Finance Director,
the successful candidate will be responsible for providing support in financial
systems development and customer financing partnerships as defined but not
limited to the following responsibilities:
Financial Systems
- Support financial planning activities,
including development of annual financial forecasts, quarterly budget
reforecasts and monthly budget versus actuals.
- Assist in creating and maintaining business
planning tools including the corporate financial model.
- Determine and evaluate financial and operating
metrics of the company and provide strategic insights, hypotheses, and
supported conclusions based on robust analysis.
- Prepare supporting financial materials for
future Board of Directors meetings.
- Provide financial analysis and support as
required for investor communications.
- Provide day-to-day analytical support for
critical operating decisions and efficiency studies.
- Assess and manage financial risks that may
affect the business.
- Support the management of both overhead
budgets and production costs to maximise product profitability.
- Analyse business cases and provide financial
support for all future product changes.
- Monitor and interpret cash flows and predict
future trends.
- Develop external relationships with
appropriate finance contacts, e.g. auditors, lawyers, bankers and
statutory organisations such as Kenya Revenue Authority.
- Keep abreast of changes in financial reporting
standards and ensure full compliance with general financial reporting
requirements, including financial audits in both Kenya and UK.
- Conduct reviews and evaluations for cost
reduction opportunities in all areas of the company.
Customer Financing
- Liaise with local banks, international MFIs
and internal sales team to develop a deep understanding of loan/credit
products available to customers in Kenya and East Africa.
- Identify key partner lending institutions that
may offer financing to our customers to purchase Mobius vehicles and
determine the financial and non-financial terms of such an engagement.
- Facilitate the negotiation of attractive
end-to-end partnership agreements with select finance institutions and
Mobius leadership.
- Maintain strong relationship with partner
financing institutions and work with sales team to ensure potential and
current customers have ready access to the appropriate finance channels.
Qualifications: An ideal candidate should be empathetic,
passionate, curious, articulate and entrepreneurial with a natural skill to
engage with people at a deep level.
They should be rigorous, pragmatic
and on-the-ground solution focussed – not overly academic.
Required
- Bachelors Degree (minimum) in Finance,
Business, Economics, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science or similar
quantitative subject
- 3.4 GPA or higher from a top university
worldwide
- 2-3 years experience in financial planning and
analysis for top tier companies
- Professional training and qualification as a
CPA, ACCA or CISA
- The highest level of integrity and
accountability
- Excellent oral and written communication
skills
- Ability to work independently and think
creatively with a proven track record of execution
- Exceptional leadership and clear sense of
direction
- Extreme patience and a good sense of humour
- Excellent interpersonal skills to build strong
rapport with others
- Excellent business acumen, organisational and
strategic agility
- Exceptional attention to detail and high
quality deliverable outputs
- Ability to analyse and solve complex problems
- Ability to grasp complex concepts and systems
quickly, and express them in simple ways
- Ability to multi-task in a fast paced
environment and to remain graceful under pressure
- Ability to take ownership and accountability
of project timeline and results
- Proficiency in Excel, Project, Power Point and
Word
- High sense of drive and urgency in achieving
our vision
- Ability to adapt to a dynamic working
environment and work within a diverse team
- A start-up personality; entrepreneurial,
ambitious, independent, systematic attention to detail, structured
thinker, goal-oriented, flexible and able to deal well with setbacks
Desired
- Masters degree (or higher) in Business
Administration (MBA), Finance, Business, Economics, Mathematics, Physics,
Computer Science or similar quantitative subject
- 4+ years’ experience in financial planning and
analysis for top tier companies
- Passion for the automotive industry and social
enterprise in Africa
- Fluency in Kiswahili (the national language of
Kenya)
How to Apply
Interested applicants who meet the criteria should click on the link below:
http://www.mobiusmotors.com/join-us/application.php
We are an equal opportunity employer