• Application Deadline: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT
• Position: Financial Planning & Analysis Manager


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND , MBA/MSc/MA


• Experience 3 - 5 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit 
  

Job Profile

• Provision of business partnering and financial analysis, information and insights which enable the various departments of Kyosk Digital Services to make appropriate business decisions.


• Act as the strategic finance Business Partner for operations and commercial teams. Perform a variety of controlling, consulting and administrative tasks to support Kyosk Digital Services Kenya operations and its satellites.

Key Responsibilities

Business Analysis:

Performance Measurement:

• Make sure that all deadlines are respected working closely with Reporting and Accounting team and interlocking with operations and commercial teams w.r.t the close process and requirements.


• Production and reconciliation of key month end reports regarding Volumes, Revenues, Profit, Variance Analysis and P&L by region, by warehouse, by category, by product, by sku, by sales agent, by duka etc


• Provision of reliable figures and in-depth knowledge of the relevant business metrics.  Analysis ranges from top-level review to detailed research


• Prepare ad hoc reports to analyse any variances against targets e.g., volume and mix analysis


• Own the periodic (weekly, monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual as well as ad hoc) business review needs i.e., prepare and generate reports, templates, slides etc required for business review to track performance against KPIs.


• Prepare and distribute key business reports and analyses (Revenues): daily, weekly, monthly, YTD, quarterly, bi-annual, annual against targets.

Budget / Forecasts:

• Engage with management in the top-down budget and forecast setting process and cascading agreed targets to inform bottom-up budgeting and forecasting with the operational teams.


• Coordinate the bottom-up budgeting and forecasting process and provision of information to the commercial and operations departments as and when it is needed

Business Partnering:

• Support the country finance manager, general manager and operations and commercial teams with finance need


• Perform ad hoc and structure analysis on a variety of business projects/initiatives

Ad hoc Tasks:

• Best Practices: Collect and share best practices on Business Partnering


• Support Missions: Identifies weaknesses and organize relevant support missions to Kyosk Digital services satellite operations, to help remediate any potential issues across country.


• Value Adding Projects: review of cost to serve, value chain and pricing analysis, establishment of key performance indicators.Being the interface between commercial and operations w.r.t business planning and financial analysis.


• Regular meetings with senior finance colleagues in Accounting and reporting and support them with all financial issues they might face.


• Regular contact with the Kyosk Management to provide them with business analysis insight and help them in monitoring the business internal growth and follow up performance indicators on a monthly basis


• Any other duties within the finance team as assigned by the Country Finance Manager.

Qualifications

• Formal education, professional qualifications or accreditations from industry bodies.


• Must be a Graduate from Accounting / Business / Engineering or equivalent school.


• Prefarably Qualified professional (ACA, CIMA or equivalent) 


• Postgraduate Degree in Finance.


• Excellent spreadsheet skills.


• Working Experience of ERP


• Previous knowledge of Management Reporting Tools


• Advanced knowledge of Business Intelligence Tools e.g., Power BI, Tableau etc


• Advanced knowledge of excel analysis and data modelling skills e.g., Power Query, Power Pivot


• Advanced knowledge of data wrangling/cleansing tools - ETL (Extract Transform Load) techniques such as Get and Tranform in ms excel.


• Additional knowledge of MySQL would be an advantage but not a requirement.

Experience / Preferred Background:

• 3-5 years in a leading Audit Consulting Firm or 3-5 years as a financial analyst (in a multinational company).


• Multiple assignments in major industrial companies or experience in the FMCG sector


•  5 years (or more)  in business planning and analysis.

Competencies:

• Business Acumen


• Analytical Thinking


• Effective Decision Making


• Project Management


• Communication Skills


• Teamwork and Team Management


• People Development skills


• Customer Orientation


• Driving For Results


• Out of the box thinking / Innovative