Budget Officer at KingMakers

Role Overview: 

The Budget Officer will be responsible for Budgeting and Budgetary Control  

What You Will Be Doing:  

• Perform daily, weekly, and monthly variance analysis between budget and actual data
• Analyse historical results, perform variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvements
• Perform market research, data mining, and business intelligence.
• Assist in preparation, operation, and analysis of financial budgets to ensure accomplishment of business financial objectives.
• Contribute to the development of financial models to support business decision making
• Support the delivery of periodic financial audits
• Identify and drive process improvements, including the creation of standard and ad-hoc reports, tools, and excel dashboards
• Support finance operations to ensure compliance with internal processes, and relevant laws and regulations 

What You Need for This Role:  

• Bachelor’s degree in any discipline but preferably in Accounting, Banking or Finance.
• Student membership of ICAN or ACCA or any Professional Accounting body will be an added advantage.
• At least 2 - 3 years’ cognate experience in an Accounting or Finance role.
• Flexibility in thinking and pragmatic problem-solving skills
• Working knowledge of ERP systems
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency in MS productivity tools
• Time and Priority Management Skills

How you do it – Expectations for fulfilling your role:  

As a general rule at KingMakers we want people to be: 

• Customer Focus: We keep the customer at the center of everything we do.  
• Passion & Dedication: We are passionate about what we do, employing only smart, honest, dedicated, and results oriented team players.  
• Openness, Honesty & Directness: We embrace a culture of candor and work together towards the right solution whilst being open, honest, and willing to give and receive feedback, judgment-free. We play the ball, not the person.  
• Innovation & Big Thinking: We think like owners. If we see a problem, we find a solution. We are pragmatic and always strive to do more with less.  
• Speed & Focus: We plan, we strategize, but mostly, we DO. Without doing there is no progress, we can always change direction but only if we start moving. Fast beats slow.  
• Low Ego: The best solutions are achieved when we leave our egos at the door. We always seek opportunities to learn in every situation. No job too small.  
• Fun: On balance, we believe in having fun whilst working. We maintain perspective as best as we can, and together, we celebrate our successes.