Job Title: Junior Financial Analyst
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full time
Role Overview
We are looking for a Junior Financial Analyst (based in Lagos) to support the Group Financial Controller (based in Cape Town) by analyzing financial data focusing on SaaS and other operating costs relative to the customer base and revenue, assisting with budgeting, and contributing to the financial reporting processes.
Key Responsibilities
Reporting to and working closely with the Group Financial Controller, where your main areas of focus would be maintaining the SaaS management system and all related reporting. There will be benchmarking of various operating costs and preparing common size P&Ls.
SaaS Management: Working in the SaaS management tool to maintain, update ad and remove licenses. Work with the SaaS owners to prepare renewal packs. Extract and manipulate data from the platform to draw out key insights. Working with IS Admin to ensure all employees’ emails are in sync.
Posting and expensing/amortizing of SaaS costs: working with the AP clerk and financial accountant to ensure that prepaid SaaS costs are correctly recorded and amortized according to usage.
SaaS cost management and budgeting: Analyzing the cost on a monthly basis identifying cost drivers and building this into the annual budget and forecast.
Operating cost review: decomposing the entire indirect cost base (excluding workforce planning) to facilitate actual to budget variance analysis. This will form the basis for bottom up budgeting with the department owners.
Benchmarking of costs: Using common sized P&L and market information to perform cost comparisons across the group.
Monthly reporting: Preparing monthly reporting packs at department level for actual vs budget analysis.
GL management: Ensuring that departmental reporting is up to date and that costs are correctly allocated.
Work Independently: as the role is based in Lagos, the individual will report into Group Financial Controller (based in Cape Town) with the dotted line reporting into local Management.
Requirements
Bachelors of Accounting and or Finance
1 – 3 years Financial Services or regulated business.
Intermediate to advanced excel/google sheets proficiency.
Familiar with IFRS
Working with teams across various geographic jurisdictions
Strong interpersonal and business partnering skills
Excellent written and verbal communication
Knowledge of the SaaS landscape would be advantageous.
Expectations – Key skills and competencies:
Skills:
Organisation
Prioritisation
Time management
Communication
Problem-solving
Creative thinking.
Competencies (Behaviours):
Relationship building
Resilience
Collaboration
Innovative
Adaptability
Attention to Detail
A self-starting approach
Accountability.
Benefits
At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:
A great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team
Career development & growth
Access to world-class L&D
We are advocates of work-life balance and offer a 3 day per week remote working option
Competitive annual leave
Competitive pension
Perkbox
Life assurance
We are advocates of work-life balance and offer a 3 day per week remote working option
and more…
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Note
Kuda are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Kuda is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent.
We don’t regard colour, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status.
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