Data Analyst Lead - Finance

Kuda is a money app for Africans on a mission to make financial services accessible, affordable and rewarding for every African on the planet.
We’re a tribe of passionate and diverse people who dreamed of building an inclusive money app that Africans would love so it’s only right that we ended up with the name ‘Kuda’ which means ‘love’ in Shona, a language spoken in the southern part of Africa.
We’re giving Africans around the world a better alternative to traditional finance by delivering money transfers, smart budgeting and instant access to credit through digital devices. We’ve raised over $90 million from some of the world's most respected institutional investors, and we’re rolling out our game-changing services globally from our offices in Nigeria, South Africa, and the UK.

Role Overview
This is a critical, high-impact role within the Group Finance department. You will be the go-to person for all matters related to transactional data, working across all business departments to develop a deep understanding of our data structure.

The core focus of this role is to ensure Group Finance has access to up-to-date, accurate dashboards and KPIs. You will be responsible for maintaining our central KPI database, reviewing definitions, and driving the business towards a single source of truth for all financial and operational metrics. You will also support the team with ad-hoc business intelligence analytics to drive strategic decisions.

Responsibilities

1. Data Quality & Integrity

• Perform end-to-end reconciliation of transactional data across all key systems (e.g., core banking platform [Nerve], ERP [D365/Xero], and management accounts) to ensure 100% data completeness and accuracy.
• Validate that product transaction flows and volumes match financial records.
• Support the migration of transactional data from our legacy systems onto ERP and legacy accounting systems.
• Provide critical support to the Finance team during audits, conducting ad-hoc analysis on revenue recognition, historical manual adjustments, and other data requests.
• Drive data consistency by identifying, explaining, and eliminating manual adjustments, ensuring all processes are automated and auditable.
• Govern our BI environment by decommissioning unused reports (e.g., in Looker) to establish and maintain a single source of truth for all reporting.

2. KPI Database & Dashboard Management

• Own, maintain, and enhance the central Finance KPI database, establishing it as the single source of truth for Finance, Growth, Product, and other departments.
• Consolidate existing reports (e.g., Ops Report, Performance Report) into the central KPI database to streamline reporting.
• Prepare and automate dynamic dashboards for the visual representation of Management Accounts.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive data dictionary, documenting all KPI definitions and making them accessible to the entire organization.
• Automate month-end and month-to-date (MTD) KPI updates for all key metrics.
• Collaborate with finance leadership to design and build MTD Budget vs. Actuals dashboards for periodic, real-time reporting to the Executive Committee (ExCo).

3. Ad-Hoc BI Analysis

• Serve as the primary point of contact for ad-hoc analysis and data requests from Finance and other departments, investigating trends and answering key business questions.
• Work collaboratively with Finance, Growth, and Product teams to investigate and report on trends in key financial metrics.
• Support the Growth team by providing finance-related data points required to develop an accurate marketing attribution model.
• Analyze and present financial metrics in response to queries from town halls or other leadership forums.

4. Business Development & Finance Operations Support

• Partner with the Finance and Product teams to ensure any new revenue stream or product is correctly integrated from a transactional data perspective and can be accurately reported in legacy accounting systems and ERP.
• Play a key role in the month-end closing process, ensuring all transaction-level revenue and metrics are accurate and reconciled.
• Help define, build, and visualize the company's revenue model within our BI tools.
• Contribute to business development and expansion-related calls as the data expert, when required.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.
• 5+ years of experience in a Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, or Financial Analysis role.
• Experience in fintech, banking, or a high-growth digital/tech company is strongly preferred.
• Expert-level SQL skills for data extraction, manipulation, and complex analysis are essential.
• Advanced proficiency in BI and visualization tools (e.g., Looker, Power BI, Tableau) with a proven track record of building impactful dashboards.
• Strong understanding of financial principles, accounting, revenue recognition, FX, and management accounts.
• Experience with ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite, Xero) and data warehouses/cubes.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills with meticulous attention to detail.
• A proactive, self-starting attitude with the ability to take initiative and manage multiple projects independently.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex data concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Why join Kuda?

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

👴Pension

📈Career Development & growth

😁Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays

🎁Competitive paid time off (Parental, Moving day, Birthday, Study leave etc)

💯Group life insurance

💖Medical insurance

🎁Well-fare package (Wedding, Compassionate and etc)

✅ Perkbox

🏃‍♀️Goalr - employee wellness app

🥇Award winning L&D training

💒 We are advocates of work-life balance, working in a hybrid in office schedule

Kuda is 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. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.