Financial Planning & Analysis Manager at Kyosk Digital Services Limited

Kyosk Digital Services limited is a tech-led platform that connects informal retailers who retail in kiosks and other similar retail outlets directly to fast-moving consumer goods companies (FMCGs) by communicating demand from retail outlets directly to FMCGs and their distributors and managing the delivery of the goods to the kiosks.

Our digital ordering and delivery platform – Kyosk, ensures that these retail outlets get access to stock at competitive prices and have them delivered directly to them. FMCGs find the traditional distribution chain to be inadequate as well, making it expensive for them to serve kiosk-type retail outlets, leading to high incidences of product stock-outs and lost sales opportunities. By providing FMCGs with good data visibility, we solve this major problem of theirs.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time

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

Application Closing Date
28th February, 2023.