Finance Analyst (Location Agnostic) at MFS Africa

Description

MFS Africa is the leading digital payments platform in Africa, enabling low-cost payments across the continent. The company works in close partnership with mobile network operators and financial institutions to bring simple and relevant payment services to African consumers and businesses. MFS Africa connects over 320 million mobile money users across Africa through its platform, which enables cross-border payment for mobile money networks, banks, money transfer operators, and large corporates.

As a fintech company, we strive towards elegance and simplicity in everything we do. Our mission is to make borders matter less, and our values are to simplify, care, and be revolutionary. We pride ourselves on world-class operations and a distributed team. Our offices include Abidjan, Accra, Johannesburg, Kampala, Lagos, London, Nairobi, and Port-Louis, and many employees work remotely from locations where we do not have offices. We are regulated by the FSC in Mauritius, BoG in Ghana, BoT in Tanzania, and FCA in the UK.

The MFS Africa team has doubled in the past year and continues to grow rapidly. Our people are talented, curious, and the reason our company does exceptional things. Excellence in nurturing our people and their passions is foundational to our success as a business.

The Role

We are recruiting a Finance Analyst to join the Finance team and be responsible for conducting monthly and ad-hoc analysis on financial data, in support of the Finance Team and wider organizational strategy. The scope of the analysis spans the entire organization, inclusive of 10 different operating companies and working on reports for Finance, Executive Committee, External Audit and External Investors.

The Financial Analyst will work closely with the Financial Controller and financial accountants to ensure that our financial data is correct and relevant insights are extracted from the same.

We are seeking candidates with at least 2 years experience in accounting / finance. The successful candidate should possess exceptional communication skills, high EQ, strong organization skills, and be comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

This position is location agnostic, with the current team based in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa.

Requirements

You will be a good fit if you have / are:

• Strong analytical and problems solving skills

• Passionate about solving problems and enjoy finding novel ways to solve unique challenges

• Comfortable working with large amounts of data

• Can work autonomously in a highly demanding and often ambiguous environment that is constantly evolving

• Demonstrated organization and time management skills

• Ability to communicate effectively to both internal and external stakeholders at all levels

• Highly numerate and detail oriented

• Self-driven individual with a high degree of resilience

• Results and Team oriented

• Ability to multi-task and deliver under pressure

• Strong critical thinking, research, and analytical abilities

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist with month-end financial reporting by company and on a consolidated company basis

• Investigate company trends to ensure correct data and draw insights

• Liaise with finance team and other relevant stakeholders, particularly toward the goal of constant and consistent automation of regular reporting and streamlining of processes

• Pull together ad-hoc analysis for management decision-making, investor information, external reviews, and investment

• Tracking and reporting on key performance metrics

• Supporting and guiding the company values as well as overarching team and company strategy

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or another relevant field

• At least 2 years’ experience in accounting/finance

• Experience working remotely and/or in a globally distributed team

• Proficient in MS Office Suite, and in particular, have excellent Excel skills

• Familiar with accounting and financial statements

Benefits

• We are the cutting edge of fintech in Africa

• Ranked by Fast Company as Second Most Innovative Company in Africa

• Attractive package including flexible benefits and competitive remuneration

• Diverse, inclusive, gender-balanced company culture representing >28 nationalities and speaking >20 languages

• Massive growth potential

• We operate a flexible remote working and unlimited leave policy

• We solve relevant problems for Africa and the world to create access for the millions of users who also believe in what we do