Finance Analyst at Welcome2Africa International

Welcome2Africa International is a trade and investment facilitation company with a special focus on Nigeria’s Agricultural and Maritime Sector. We support investors, multinationals, and key stakeholders within and outside Africa to advance their trade and investment goals, by providing an array of services and programs. Our mission is to become a center of excellence for the facilitation and deployment of investments and trade on the African continent.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Finance Analyst

Location: Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• The finance department assumes responsibility for managing and reporting the organization’s finances. It is committed to continuous improvements in the way it organizes the financial and accounting affairs, including the preparation and presentation of appropriate accounts and the dissemination of financial information to executives.
• The primary function of this position is to provide support for the ongoing accounting functions that include preparing reconciliations, payment processing and maintenance of accounts receivable spreadsheets.

Job Description

• Overall responsibility and key contact for the strategic planning, implementation, managing and running of all the finance activities of a company, including business planning, budgeting, forecasting, risk and governance as well as negotiations
• Advising on long and short-term business and financial planning
• Provide commercial insight and leadership across the business in order to exceed business plan targets
• Provide analytical, forecasting, reporting, Everything relating to cash flow, financial planning, and taxation issues.
• Produce reports, which include key metrics, financial results, and variance reporting, weekly, monthly and as when requested
• Identify and implement opportunities for financial improvement across the organization
• Analyze financial data and create/propose financial modelsfor decision support
• Guide theprocess by developing, establishing and enforcing policies and procedures
• Provide analysis of trends and forecasts and recommend actions for optimization
• Perform market research, data mining, business intelligence, to help the company make informed decision, including pricing, bonus, etc
• Engaging and follow up with debtors and creditors
• Support Fund-raising for the organisation and propose suggestions and recommendations
• Guide revenue generation based on historical and market information
• Analysing investment opportunities for W2A to consider.

Job Requirements

• Post-secondary qualification in Finance, Economics, or Accounting.
• 2 - 4 years of relevant work experience
• Experience using Quick Books, Tableau, Power BI and Zoho Expense would be considered an asset.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Suite (Excel, PowerPoint);
• Strong sense of urgency to complete tasks.
• High attention to detail.
• Make appropriate informed decisions, regarding priorities and available time
• Resourceful, can-do attitude
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment
• High degree of professionalism in dealing with diverse groups of people.

What We Offer

• We are conscious of how our work and decisions impact other humans and the environment. Welcome2Africa has consideration for the wellbeing and happiness of team. We believe in working in enabling environments that allows employees to live a meaningful, fulfilled life.

Therefore, we offer our staff:

• Competitive Salary
• Performance Bonus
• 24 days annual leave
• Opportunity to work with a talented and dynamic team
• Company retreats
• Career opportunities to grow.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: hr@welcome2africaint.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.

Note: Applications with residents outside of Abuja will automatically be deleted, only qualified candidates in Abuja are encouraged to apply.