FP&A Analyst (12-month FTC)

Ready to take your finance career to the next level? An exciting 12-month opportunity has opened up for a talented FP&A Analyst to join our dynamic team in the UK! If you’re passionate about turning data into strategic insights and want to make a real impact in a fast-paced environment, this could be the perfect role for you.

About us 

Mukuru is one of the largest money transfer providers in Africa and a leading Next Gen Financial Services Platform that offers affordable and reliable financial services to the emerging consumer. The foundation of the business was built by providing the continent’s migrant diaspora with safe, convenient international money transfers. 

From this base Mukuru has grown a wide range of products and services that take their cue from their 10 million customers’ needs and aspirations for greater financial security and a better life. To this end, Mukuru continues to build a highly robust and resilient physical & digital financial payments infrastructure across Africa that unlocks new value-added services for their loyal customers. This includes cash transfers, Mukuru Funeral Cover, Mukuru Card (and digital wallet), Micro-Loans and a growing range of payments solutions. 

As a fintech provider, Mukuru has underpinned its successful customer engagement strategy with the ability to ‘speak the language’ of its users and gain grassroots understanding of the unique pain points customers face in each market. Mukuru further leverages its ecosystem, through its EPP product, to enable charitable organisations to distribute aid to individuals across its core markets, in a transparent, reliable, and cost-effective way.

Duties and Responsibilities (Includes but are not limited to):

• Financial reporting: Play a key role in the production and improvement of critical reporting packs, including board and investor decks, weekly trading updates, and management documents.
• Financial planning: Continuously improve group budget and reforecast models, ensuring robust planning across P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and key KPIs as the business grows.
• Process improvement: Work closely with the Finance team and senior stakeholders to identify areas to improve efficiency in the business’ reporting and planning processes
• Understanding business drivers: Develop a deep understanding of Mukuru’s operating model to ensure forecasting tools capture key value drivers and evolve with the business.
• Generating insights:Provide budget holders with performance analysis and reporting to support decision making
• Identifying business-critical issues: Ensure key risks and opportunities are identified early and escalated to drive timely management action.
• Leveraging data: Partner with BI teams to ensure financial dashboards and reports provide a clear, data-driven view of business performance.
• Supporting strategic projects: Provide ad-hoc financial analysis and scenario modelling for key business initiatives.

Key Requirements:

• Strong financial modelling capabilities, consistently able to deliver high-quality, accurate and KPI-driven models to forecast and track business performance.
• Highly resilient with an ability to manage workload and competing priorities.
• Qualified accountant preferred, but not essential, (CIMA or ACA preferred) with an exceptional academic profile and demonstrable experience of modelling and forecasting.
• Strong analytical skills and an ability to distil key messages and make recommendations from complex data.
• Experience of partnering with BI teams and using large data sets to create insights and recommendations preferred.
  
• Relevant industry experience from a customer and technology focussed business preferred, but not essential.
• Broad exposure to the finance function with experience of analysing balance sheet, P&L, and cash flow.
• Experience of working across multiple international markets and currencies.
• Able to build and maintain productive cross-functional relationships.

I am sure you are reading this job description and meet majority of the criteria BUT you may also still not be 100% comfortable in applying. We believe that there is a place for everyone under the Mukuru sun and we want YOU to contribute to our diverse tapestry of talent. So come on, take a leap of faith, and send your application if you meet majority of our requirements. Remember to include a snippet of how you will bring value and help us build a future of success that will help us determine where and how you may best be suited” Maybe you are just the future Mukurian we need!!

Should you be appointed in a remote/work from home role at Mukuru, it is your responsibility to ensure that you have uninterrupted internet connectivity and a ‘work-like’ environment at your home location, in order to deliver your best in terms of performance, productivity and service to our customers.
If you do not receive any response after two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.

NB: ALL STAFF APPOINTMENTS WILL BE MADE WITH DUE CONSIDERATION OF THE COMPANY’S DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PLANS