Financial Planning & Analysis Associate at Twiga Foods

Job Details

Twiga is looking for an ambitious, talented financial modelling guru to join our Finance team and advance our Financial Planning and Analysis processes. As our FP&A Associate, you will be joining a dynamic environment with skilled, friendly and dedicated colleagues, whose mission is to structure, analyse and forecast Twiga’s activity and financials. Your role will be to produce reliable and insightful financial data and reports in order to ensure Twiga’s financial health and growth. You will also receive direct exposure to Twiga’s senior management team, executive team and assist in the Company’s fundraising processes

Responsibilities

• Develop high quality, forecast financial models and analyses to monitor firm performance and support strategic initiatives
• Support the building of Company-wide budgets and conduct quarterly reviews in close collaboration with all senior managers across the organisation
• Analyse current and past trends in key performance indicators including all areas of revenue, margin, expenses and capital expenditures
• Implement and work with the Company’s Business Intelligence tool (Power BI) and Business Planning tool (Adaptive Insights) to produce actionable reports and insights
• Support the senior management team and departments heads with in-depth analysis
• Production of quarterly and monthly and financial reports for Twiga’s board of directors, investors and the senior management team
• Perform Ad-Hoc financial modelling and sensitivity analysis
• Formulate strategic recommendations to increase our revenues and optimize our costs, and closely follow checkpoints of our company objectives

Qualifications

Essential

• 3-5 years’ experience in Investment Banking, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Consulting, Corporate Finance, Transaction service or Financial Planning & Analysis
• A Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or other relevant fields
• Elite financial Excel modelling skills including the ability to build fully integrated 3 statement financial models
• High-level command of Excel and knowledge of Financial ERPs & other tools
• IT tools skills, database manipulations skills, ideally data visualisation skills (Power BI)
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and in a rapidly changing environment in order to meet deadlines
• Outstanding analytical skills, agile and hands-on, committed to making an impact
• Highest standards of accuracy and precision; highly organized
• Articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to think creatively, highly driven and self-motivated

Preferred

• MBA qualification
• CFA qualification
• CPA / ACCA qualification