Finance Strategy Associate at SunCulture Kenya Ltd

About the role

• SunCulture is seeking a Finance Strategy Associate who will primarily work with our Finance team and external stakeholders to support the Company’s fundraising and financial strategy during our ambitious growth phase. You will get first-hand experience in what it takes to scale a company in an emerging market environment. You’ll grow your financial, strategic, and operational skills by supporting executive decision-making and key strategic finance projects, relationships and workstreams.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Analysis

• Build, maintain and use financial models for use at Group and Company level for budgeting, business planning and capital raising uses
• Build, maintain and use other tools such as short-term cash flow forecasts, unit economics & pricing analysis, elasticity of demand studies
• In conjunction with the Financial Planning & Analysis (“FP&A”) team, undertake deep dive analysis into key components of unit economics such as credit loss and after sales
• Collaborate with the FP&A and Business Intelligence (“BI”) team on data shaping, analytics and developing forecasting models (e.g. leveraging IoT, payment and other data sources to support strategic decision-making and provide insights to customers and external stakeholders, or utilising FP&A software solutions).

Capital Raising

• Collaborate with the CFO in updating and executing the financing strategy
• Coordinate and track capital raising initiatives including equity / debt / grant / technical assistance capital raising processes
• Manage the development of key capital raise components such as financial model, investment memorandum, data rooms, market studies,DD workstreams and collaboration with external advisors
• Lead and manage related financing workstreams such as FX risk management

Business Development

• Provide finance support to business development initiatives regarding existing product pricing, new product offerings (e.g. carbon revenues, insurance, warranty extension, refurbished sales, customer portal/marketplace platform), and new markets (e.g. formation of subsidiaries in new markets) to develop the business case for these initiatives, set pricing and raise capital.

Reporting

• Prepare, in conjunction with the FP&A Manager, stakeholder reports relating to the company's financial, operation and impact performance (Board, shareholders, lenders, grant providers, partners)

Other

• Collaborate with CFO in corporate governance (board management), and risk management activities

Does this sound like you?

• Four years experience in Financial Modelling / Financial Analysis / Capital Raising either from corporate finance, private equity, venture company, or in-house corporate
• CFA Candidate (or qualified), Accountancy qualification or MBA preferred 
• Strong financial analysis skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Has commitment to high-quality work product 
• Ability to manage multiple work streams at one time 
• Ability to think creatively and to be comfortable at ambiguity
• Ability to professionally interact with a wide range of individuals

The Finance Strategy Associate will be overseen by the Chief Finance Officer and working closely with the Financial Planning & Analysis Manager and the Head of Finance & Accounting, but will be required to build relationships with individuals in each part of the business.