Financial Planning & Analysis Manager at Kyosk Digital Services

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