About the Delta40 Venture Studio
Delta40 is a VC Fund, Venture Studio, and Ecosystem builder in Africa, growing and investing in innovative ventures led by top Founders that improve livelihoods, jobs, & planetary health.
At Delta40, our 2030 vision is to build a best-in-class VC fund and venture studio in Africa with outsized impact—supporting 1,000 entrepreneurs, investing in 100 ventures, and reaching 100 million lives, creating 250,000 jobs, and catalyzing $1B into the continent’s innovation ecosystem. In just three years, we’ve laid strong foundations—investing in 12 ventures, providing studio support to 12 companies across 30 markets, and engaging over 2,000 ecosystem leaders through our programs. Our portfolio has seen 5.5x follow-on capital, with backing from 20+ shared C-level leaders, 150+ investors, and 20+ corporates—all working together to scale transformative African ventures.
About the Role
We are seeking an FP&A Associate with prior experience as a financial analyst or management consultant at a reputable firm to provide financial planning and analysis support to 7- 10 portfolio companies in the Delta40 Studio. Your role will focus on creating sophisticated financial models, unit economics analysis, conducting budget vs actual analysis, building cashflow projections, and developing business case models that enable our entrepreneurs to make data-driven decisions and successfully raise growth capital. You will be part of a team reporting to our Sr. Venture Support Manager, who, along with our fractional C-Suite resources, assists our ventures with commercial strategy, capital & finance, and strategic advisory.
Core Responsibilities
As the Delta40 Venture Studio is new, this role may change as the needs of the organization change. To begin, this role will have the following responsibilities:
Financial Modeling & Analysis
- Create sophisticated 3-statement, 5-year financial projections for portfolio companies which can be used by entrepreneurs to understand their business and successfully raise Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A rounds
- Build and maintain monthly budget vs actual analysis, identifying variances and providing insights to entrepreneurs
- Develop detailed cashflow models and forecasts to support working capital management and runway planning
- Create business case models for new products, markets, or strategic initiatives
- Calculate and track unit economics across portfolio companies and generate recommendations to improve profitability
- Analyze financial data, create impactful charts and dashboards, and draw out actionable insights
Strategic Support
- Support entrepreneurs to understand their financial models and build internal capacity to replicate similar models in the future
- Assist in the preparation of internal financial reports and presentations for management and board meetings
- Support the Delta40 team ad hoc financial analysis requests including scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and financial benchmarking
Your Profile
You must bring 4-6 years of experience as a financial analyst, FP&A professional, or management consultant at a reputable firm and have a passion for innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa. Ideally, you will also have 1-2 years of experience in a startup, entrepreneurial initiative or intrapreneurial role (side hustles count too!)
Qualifications & Experience
- Excel/Google Sheets "Wizard": previous experience independently creating 3-statement financial projections and complex financial models
- Excellent financial analysis skills: previous experience with budget vs actual analysis, variance reporting, and cashflow forecasting
- Strong data analysis capabilities: previous experience cleaning raw data and creating impactful charts, graphs, and financial dashboards
- Understanding of startup metrics: familiarity with key performance indicators, unit economics, and growth metrics relevant to early-stage ventures
- Critical thinking: ability to draw out key insights from financial data and understand what matters most to the entrepreneur and their business
- Attention to detail: practiced in self-reviewing your own work to correct errors before sharing analysis with portfolio companies
- Work authorization in Kenya: must be a Kenyan national based in or willing to relocate to Nairobi
You must have an interest in:
- Contributing to a vibrant start-up culture
- Supporting entrepreneurs building climate-friendly ventures
- Self-development including being open to feedback and eager to learn and advance your career
Top Skills
What We Do
Our mission at Delta40 is to increase incomes and tackle climate change in Africa by building and investing in inclusive climate innovations. At Delta40, we invest in Africa because 40% of the world will live on this continent by 2100. We invest in energy, agriculture and mobility innovations because they are essential to sustainable growth. We invest in climate innovation because we only have 10 years to act to prevent irreparable damage to Planet Earth. We invest in diverse Founders because they are close to the customer and bring critical ideas, experiences and skills to solving the biggest problems on this important continent. Beyond capital, our venture studio team provides hands on support, shared services and partnerships to our ventures and Founders to increase speed, returns and impact. Together, we aim to deliver life-changing innovations to the last mile across Africa and to build a community of Founders go from idea to scale to exit.
