Head of Financial Planning and Analysis

6 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa M-KOPA Full time

**At M-KOPA, We Finance Progress.
The scale and impact of our work is massive. M-KOPA is a fast-growing FinTech company offering millions of underbanked customers across Africa access to life-enhancing products and services. From our roots as the pioneer in pay-as-you-go “PayGo’” solar energy for off-grid homes, we have grown into one of the most advanced connected asset financing platforms in the world, empowering a broad range of customers to achieve progress in their lives.

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The Head of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) will carry significant responsibility for owning and optimizing the short to long-term financial planning and margin analysis to ensure that M-KOPA’s strategy achieves robust financial performance and that the company maintains progress toward its financial targets. The role serves as an operational and analytical partner to several functional areas. They will develop and implement best-in-class financial and operational planning.

The role will report to the CFO.

**NOTE**: While the role is Kenya or South Africa based, it is expected that the person is to travel up to 6 times per year to the other operating countries to visit the markets.

**Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Support senior management in translating financial information into effective commercial strategy.
- Prepare and update the Group’s long-term financial and strategic planning model.
- Provide insights to senior management around financial modeling, forecasts, and profitability.
- Lead annual group budget cycle, including setting a timetable, agreeing on deliverables, and monitoring the provision of budget information from business units.
- Review budget submissions and consolidated P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow schedules, providing challenges where necessary to ensure robust budgets are submitted to the Board for approval.
- Analyse financial and operational results to redirect company strategy and execution. This includes identifying and recommending new revenue, productivity, or cost savings initiatives. Or holding the budget accountable for budget control.
- Manage the Pricing team balancing competitive pricing which delivers desired margins and improved loss rates
- Preparing business cases to support new investment, strategic, and other business decisions.
- Line management responsibilities for assigned staff e.g. finance analysts and pricing team

**Skills Required**:

- Passion for M-KOPA’s social mission and improving the lives of our customers.
- Qualified accountant
- 7 years of relevant work experience
- Good commercial awareness
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret raw data and translate it into clear, concise information
- Ability to explain complex financial data to non-finance individuals
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Problem-solving skills and the ability to think creatively
- Confidence to justify and implement change
- Team leadership

**Preferred Experience Required**:

- Experience living and/or working in Africa
- Experience with digital financial services and/or alternative lendin

M-KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

M-KOPA explicitly prohibits the use of Forced or Child Labour and respects the rights of its employees to agree to terms and conditions of employment voluntarily, without coercion, and freely terminate their employment on appropriate notice. M-KOPA shall ensure that its Employees are of legal working age and shall comply with local laws for youth employment or student work, such as internships or apprenticeships.

M-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’, or any other kind of money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process.

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