Associate, Financial Planning & Analysis at Babban Gona Farmer Services Nigeria Limited

Babban Gona Agricultural Franchise is a financially sustainable, high impact and highly scalable social enterprise, which is part-owned by the farmers it serves. Babban Gona is an innovative model designed to serve the bottom of the pyramid and transform agriculture into a job-creation engine. Through this agricultural franchise, Babban Gona offers a suite of services to smallholder farmers, helping them to overcome the challenges of fragmentation and low economies of scale.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Associate, Financial Planning & Analysis

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Key Responsibilities

• Determine which of the company’s products or product lines generate the largest portion of its net profit.
• Identify which products have the highest profit margin (and which have the lowest).
• Assist in preparing of internal reports for executive leadership and supporting their decision-making.
• Create, update, and maintain financial models and detailed forecasts of the company’s future operations.
• Compare historical results against budgets and forecasts and perform variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward.
• Assist in high-level decision-making in areas such as policy and strategy.
• Work closely with the accounting team to ensure accurate financial records on a day-to-day basis.
• Assist in the preparation of monthly rolling estimates to ensure that performance is in line with the target for the year.
• Analyse past results, perform variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvements.
• Assist in the preparation and management of cost center reports to track the actual cost against budget.
• Create and update dashboard/business intelligence reporting.
• Create presentations that provide insightful analysis, identify required action items, and effectively frame decisions to be made.
• Ensures ad hoc analysis and related management and financial reports are completed in an accurate and timely manner.
• Provide support to business partners like commercial and operation teams ensuring.
• Carry out other responsibilities assigned by the Financial Planning & Analysis Manager.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, etc.
• Understanding of Nigeria's banking operations, treasury and loan processing.
• 4-6 years experience in accounting and business finance. 2 years out of the 6 years should be in Financial Planning and Analysis.
• Experience in the use of Microsoft suites such as Excel, PowerPoint etc.
• Professional qualifications, ACCA/ACA or in the final stage of the qualifications.
• Other certifications such as FMVA, AFA etc. will be added advantage.

Experience in the use of Odoo will be an added advantage. Essential Skills include:

• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• Communication & Collaboration
• Financial Analysis
• Financial Modeling
• Problem Solving
• Report Preparation
• Variance Analysis.

Travel:

• Role may require occasional travel to Northern Nigeria.
• Role may also require additional travel to partner sites across the globe.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health Insurance
• Pension
• Performance Bonus
• Annual paid vacation
• Group Life Insurance.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.