Africa Head of Financial Planning and Analysis
Envision Employment Solutions
- New Cairo, Cairo
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Financial Planning and Analysis:
- Consolidate, review and sign off financials, KPIs for the region, markets and countries.
- Ensuring robust financials have been concluded at each monthend, quarterend and yearend with the necessary challenge process to the results, information and expectation.
- Ensure the monthend close schedule and reporting financials in a timely manner.
- Providing commentary for countries, markets and the African region to stakeholders.
- Form guidelines on the budgeting process and communicate timelines to all stakeholders.
- Develop rolling forecasts for the remainder of the year working with the relevant leads.
- Provide visibility during mid-month and end of the month projections for likely results.
- Impact analysis of currency devaluation, hyperinflation on our revenues and expenses.
- Business Finance Partner:
- Monitor trends of key financial metrics and drivers for the business to understand where the business is heading towards and be a guide to the business to help change trajectory.
- Create dashboards to help senior leaders understand the underlying business performance.
- Support presentations for the group operating review and board requirements locally.
- Support business growth and ensuring a strong pipeline and accuracy of forecast from sales.
- Creating business cases for new clients, new products and new features/functionality.
- Reviewing current projects in flight to understand forecast from new clients and cross sell.
- Develop financial models, conduct benchmarking vs competitors, review processes and provide recommendation on how we can improve the business operating model.
- Review investments to ensure benefits stated in business cases are realized.
- Commercial:
- Build costing/pricing models to provide various pricing options and ensuring profitability.
- Prepare profitability analysis by bank, by product, by service and provide insight into actions the business can take to further improve and identify cross sell opportunities.
- Understand key markets and help identify growth areas from existing and new geographies.
- Ensuring all deals have business cases and version control to match each proposals sent.
- Leadership:
- Providing support to all the countries and markets across the Africa business and senior leaders for the region, market leads, country leads and group stakeholders.
- Providing support to the market leads and local country finance leads across the region.
- Ensuring finance business partners across the markets in East, South, West, Francophone are upskilled and support business teams on ground with minimal intervention from Egypt.
- Coaching junior members of the team and training where required to foster future talent and growth of employees to come through the organization.
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting or other relevant subject.
- Accounting Qualification ACA, ACCA, CIMA or similar.
- 10+ years of experience
- Industry experience in payment banking, financial services or technology/software businesses
- Certified/Chartered Accountant or IFRS Diploma
- Financial Skills, Forecasting, Analyzing Information, Financial Planning, Strategy, Corporate Finance
- Proficient in spreadsheets, large data sets, databases, MS Office and financial applications
- Hands on experience with analysis and statistical packages
- Outstanding presentation, reporting skills
- Bonus
- L&D opportunities
- Family Medical insurance
- Employee life insurance
- Transportation