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Strategic Finance Analyst

M-KOPA
Full time
Apply by 22 January 2021

Job description

JOB PURPOSE

Reporting to the Head of Strategic Finance this role is responsible for enabling and improving strategic and financial decision-making across the company. The role holder maintains the company’s operating models, analyze deals and capital allocation decisions, and think a lot about strategy. The role holder uses data to analyze key trends and drive strategic decision-making. On any given business decision, they have an opinion on what the right answer is, and they support their opinion with data and analysis.

KEY JOB FUNCTIONS (Main activities undertaken by the jobholder and reflective of the most important features of the job) 

- Responsible for the day-to-day management of M-KOPA's long-range financial model, including but not limited to;

  • Ensure that it is updated quickly and accurately on a monthly basis to reflect an updated rolling forecast across the 3 financial statements and key operating metrics. This includes both updating the model with actuals and updating it with the latest forecast inputs, including the annual budget forecasts. This will require significant cross-functional collaboration to gather inputs from across the business.
  • Conduct analyses comparing forecasts vs. actuals to understand the key drivers of deviations from forecasts.
  • Modify the model as required to add additional countries, products, etc. to the forecast.
  • Update the model formulas and structure to ensure it is accurate and to enable additional scenario modeling, more or less granular scenario inputs, a faster update of actuals, changes in accounting policies, etc.

- Conduct regular margin analysis across M-KOPA's product portfolio.

- Support on an as-needed basis on other ad hoc strategic finance analysis.

EXPERIENCE/ SKILLS & COMPETENCIES/ LICENCES & CERTIFICATIONS/ EDUCATION REQUIRED (Minimum level of experience, skills and competencies, licences & certifications and education required to perform effectively in the role) 

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or other relevant fields.
  • 3-6 years of relevant experience with financial modeling (e.g. investment banking, strategic consulting).
  • Excellent proficiency in Excel. While not required, experience with SQL and Tableau is a plus.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Consistent track record of success and career progression.

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About M-KOPA

At M-KOPA, our aim is to increase access to life-improving technologies at huge scale. We do this through an innovative credit model – pay-as-you-go asset financing – of which M-KOPA was an early global pioneer. With offices in Nairobi, Kampala, Lagos, and London, M-KOPA serves over 1 million low-income households in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since its commercial launch in 2012, M-KOPA has made its name in off-grid solar power, providing customers with solar panels and solar-powered lights, televisions, radios, fridges, and more – this is often our customers' first access to electricity.

M-KOPA's affordable credit model can also be applied to assets beyond off-grid solar power, and in 2019, we began providing credit for smartphones, which enables our customers to move from feature phones to smartphones and improve their connectivity, communication, and information access. Today, smartphone financing is a rapidly growing business line – with enormous opportunities for innovation and increasing our customer impact. 

M-KOPA currently employs over 1,000 full-time staff across its operating countries. We value progress, innovation, pragmatism, collaboration, and – most of all – our customers. We have been well recognised for our pioneering business model and scale.

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