Airtel Money: Financial Planning & Analysis
Job Description
Why Airtel Africa?
At Airtel Africa, we act with passion, energy, and a can-do attitude. Innovation with an entrepreneurial spirit drive us. If you like “ordinary”, then we are not for you.
We champion diversity. We anticipate, adapt, and deliver solutions that enrich the lives of communities we serve. we roll up our sleeves to win with our customers.
By choosing Airtel, you choose to be part of a winning team. All this in addition to a brilliant opportunity to build a career in your field of expertise, across our different operating companies in Africa.
Airtel Africa is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and remain fully committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Responsibilities
Price Analysis/Decision Support
- Ensure that all business cases are properly validated within the set timelines.
- Assist project owners in economically evaluating the business benefits of all new projects.
- Manage and track post project implementation to ensure returns as anticipated during project formulation are achieved.
Preparation of periodic (Daily, Monthly & Quarterly) reports to enable management to evaluate performance and take appropriate action
- Monthly review and reporting on key business metrics (volumes, revenues and customers) as captured by the Management Analysis and Performance pack (MAPA).
- Preparation of monthly performance reports for presentation to Management.
- Fulfill part of the firm’s legal/regulatory obligations in providing updated information as required by regulatory/state – mandated statistical bodies.
- Provide quarterly country updates (macro-economic, political and industry updates) for purposes of planning by the Central team.
- Benchmark performance against competition and other relevant performance benchmarks.
Trend and Variance Analysis
- Providing monthly commentaries with input from the various departments on activities undertaken and their impact on revenue and costs to enhance management decision making capacity.
- Monitoring performance against budget, ensuring that variances are explained and corrective action taken.
Product/Segment profitability analysis
- Assist in preparation of monthly revenue bucket P&L analysis.
- In-depth analysis of key drivers of price/cost and volume for each revenue bucket.
- Perform distribution margins analysis.
- Agent/AMB/Kiosk sites performance analysis
Investment analysis
- Assist in improving commercial awareness of the financial impact of their investment and budgetary decisions on the financial performance of the business e.g. cash flows, return on investment etc.
- Ensure ROI for all asset categories is properly defined and enhanced to drive returns for capital investments.
- Prepare monthly profitability/ Asset quality analysis reports to provide more analysis of the business revenue, cost centers and investments.
- Ensure that all Opex and Capex spend requests are within budget and if not, appropriate overrides have been sought.
- Understand causes of variances against plan and propose remedial actions.
Qualifications
Educational Qualifications & Functional Skills
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with a proven track record specializing in senior FP&A positions.
- Graduate degree in relevant field.
- Strong analytical and functional skills (i.e. Business Analysis, Commercial Analysis, Marketing Analysis or Financial Analysis).
Relevant Experience
- Over 7 years’ relevant experience within a multinational finance function
- Relevant experience in Telecom and FinTech industry is desirable
- Experience working within a growing business
- Has worked with financial reporting and/or FP&A tools such as Oracle
How to Apply:
Job type Full-time Job, To submit your application, please follow the link provided below.
