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