Finance Assistant

Career Directions Limited (CDL)

Job Location:

Nairobi - Kenya

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 17 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Support the Senior Finance Analyst Channel Director & Channel heads in financial reporting and business partnering functions for the MAH channel clusters (East & Southern). To assist in delivery of timely and accurate preparation of all channel cluster financial reporting management reporting budgets and forecasts and procurement process (tracking spend against budgets).

Key Performance Objectives Tasks

Financial Reporting & Analysis

Prepare month end reporting schedules for analysis and maintain accrual schedules.

Adhere to Group reporting deadlines including month end; forecasts; budgets;half-year and year-end.

Review/ prepare schedules and reports for statutory reporting packs for half-yearand year-end reporting periods.

Assist Snr. Financial Analyst in collaborating with Shared Services and auditors to prepare deliver on internal and statutory audits.

Tracking and management of the procurement process and related key stats.

Business Partnering

Participate in maintaining and improving a robust budgeting model (record trendsunderstand drivers correlation sensitivities dependencies)

Prioritize and manage business demands and business partner expectations.

Facilitation of channel cluster budget and forecast planning cycles.

Perform analysis and provide commentary on month-end variances against budgets forecasts and prior years.

Preparation and analysis of monthly rolling forecasts for Group submission

Cash flow management through preparation of 24-month treasury forecasts and tracking that actual outcomes align to forecasts.

Extract combine and summarize data to analyze the financial impact of new initiatives and effectively communicating key findings to senior leadership to influence and support tactical and strategic business decisions.

Developing metrics and reports to provide monitoring for new initiatives.

Proactively partner with business to identify and evaluate opportunities to improve bottom line business performance and ensure that change initiatives are implemented.

Participate in the content payment process and ensure the timeliness and validity of payments

Tracking business & content financial objectives

Provide support for ad hoc analysis and requests pertaining to outlooks and projects

Requirements

. BCom Finance degree or equivalent

CPA with database / Excel proficiency

Experience / Skills

A minimum 3 5 years experience in a Finance/Accountancy role with an emphasis on budgeting and reporting

Detailed commercial and financial acumen balanced with creative flair

Hands-on experience with financial analysis modelling and report building

Sound knowledge of IFRS and Taxation rules

Industry understanding and experience would be advantageous

Strong communication and relationship building skills

Technical Competencies

Advanced Excel skills (Macros pivots and working with advanced and complex formulae)

SAP experience

Financial Modeling

Excellent analytical skills

Ability to present financial data using detailed reports and presentations

Excellent communication presentation skills

Understanding the procurement process

Behavioral Competencies

Speed and accuracy with figures

Effective stakeholder management

Persuading and influence

Excellent interpersonal skills

Proactive and ability to plan ahead

Coaching

Conflict resolution

Attention to detail

Ability to prioritize multiple deadlines

Analytical thinking

Innovative problem solver

Holistic thinking

Structured agile results oriented customer focused

Acts with integrity and fairness and high standards of accountability