Financial Associate Job in Kenya

Job Title: Financial Associate

Job Code: FA/MM/140327
 

Number of Positions Open:1

Location: Kenya

Closing Date: Open Until Filled

Summary: Our client designs, manufactures and sells highly functional, highly affordable vehicles as a transportation platform empowering local entrepreneurs to mobilize the developing world. 

They recognize that appropriate transport is a key enabler to socio-economic development in deprived communities across the developing world and aim to unlock this vast potential by designing, manufacturing and selling a new vehicle for Africa, starting in Kenya.

They are looking for exceptional individuals who share their vision and possess the skills and attitude necessary to make a valuable contribution to our work in Africa.

Primary Responsibilities:

They are seeking to hire an exceptional mid-career professional interested in a truly unique entrepreneurial opportunity to create impact on a global scale. 

The successful candidate will be responsible for financial systems development and customer financing partnerships.

Financial Systems

• Support financial planning activities, including development of annual financial forecasts, quarterly budget reforecasts and monthly budget versus actuals.
• Create and maintain business planning tools including the corporate financial model.
• Determine and evaluate financial and operating metrics of the company and provide strategic insights, hypotheses, and supported conclusions based on robust analysis.
• Support preparation of financial materials for future Board of Directors meetings.
• Provide financial analysis and support as required for funder communications.
• Provide day-to-day analytical support for critical operating decisions and efficiency studies.
• Manage both overhead budgets and production costs to maximize product profitability.
• Analyze business cases and provide financial support for all future product changes.
• Support Financial Officer to ensure full compliance with general financial reporting requirements, including financial audits in both Kenya and UK.
• Support Financial Officer to ensure all monies (including cash) are fully accounted and stored securely.

Customer Financing

• Liaise with local banks, international MFIs and internal sales team to develop a deep understanding of loan/credit products available to customers in Kenya and East Africa.
• Identify key partner lending institutions that may offer financing to our customers to purchase Mobius vehicles and determine the financial and non-financial terms of such an engagement.
• Facilitate the negotiation of attractive end-to-end partnership agreements with select finance institutions and Mobius leadership.
• Maintain strong relationship with partner financing institutions and work with sales team to ensure potential and current customers have ready access to the appropriate finance channels.

Skills and Certification:

An ideal candidate should be empathetic, passionate, curious, articulate and entrepreneurial with a natural skill to engage with people at a deep level. 

They should be rigorous, pragmatic and on-the-ground solution focused – not overly academic.

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree (minimum) in Finance, Business, Economics, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science or similar quantitative subject
• 3.4 GPA or higher from a top university worldwide
• 1-2 years’ experience in financial planning and analysis for top tier companies
• The highest level of integrity and accountability
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently and think creatively with a proven track record of execution
• Exceptional leadership and clear sense of direction
• Extreme patience and a good sense of humour
• Excellent interpersonal skills to build strong rapport with others
• Excellent business acumen, organizational and strategic agility
• Ability to lead cross-functionally; coordinating, leading and communicating information clearly
• Exceptional attention to detail and high quality deliverable outputs
• Ability to analyze and solve complex problems
• Ability to grasp complex concepts and systems quickly, and express them in simple ways
• Ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment and to remain graceful under pressure
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and make sense of multiple data sources
• Ability to take ownership and accountability of project timeline and results
• Proficiency in Excel, Project, Power Point and Word
• Excellent problem solving and analytical ability in cross-functional multi-cultural environment; able to define problems, collect relevant data, extract meaning and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to effectively communicate timelines and project progress with both internal and external management teams
• High sense of drive and urgency in achieving our vision
• Ability to adapt to a dynamic working environment and work within a diverse team
• A start-up personality; entrepreneurial, ambitious, independent, systematic attention to detail, structured thinker, goal-oriented, flexible and able to deal well with setbacks

Desired:

• Master’s degree (or higher) in Business Administration (MBA), Finance, Business, Economics, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science or similar quantitative subject
• 3-5 years’ experience in financial planning and analysis for top tier companies
• Passion for the automotive industry and social enterprise in Africa
• Fluency in Kiswahili (the national language of Kenya)

How to Apply:

Interested candidates holding the necessary requirements, good performance and / or references are encouraged to apply with detailed CV’s, inclusive of names and contacts of 3 referees, current telephone number and email address by scrolling down and clicking on: Financial Associate