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Abuja Lagos |
Posted 3 years ago |
JOB TITLE: Finance Analyst (Financial Planning and Analysis) – Nigeria
JOB LOCATIONS: Abuja / Lagos
Pay band: 6
Contract Type: Locally Engaged
Department: Finance
Duration: Indefinite
JOB DETAILS:
- At an unprecedented time of change globally, the British Council seeks an experienced Finance Analyst to support the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) specialism within the Finance Function in Nigeria.
- The role will support the Financial Planning and Analysis Lead in providing professional guidance in Financial Planning and Analysis, supporting country Business Development Managers and programme / operational delivery managers, and providing assurance on the underlying business financial performance.
- The post holder will support the analyses and interpretation of short-term and long-term financial and operational plans through management information reporting, analysis and review of financial trends, and impact assessment to support and enable informed business decisions.
- This post will be part of the FP&A team in Nigeria reporting to the Financial Planning & Analysis Manager.
Main Opportunities / Challenges for this Role
The role presents great opportunity for us in building a strong, efficient, effective, innovative and value driven financial control services for the British Council.
The role holder will:
- Support in the end to end financial planning and analysis function for Nigeria while ensuring accuracy, completeness and timeliness of reports
- Support financial analysis and reporting for the subsidiaries’ board
- Act as one of the key finance business partners to senior managers and business units across operations in Nigeria.
- Ensure compliance with internal British Council financial planning and analysis reporting standards and any other applicable policies and procedures.
- The finance function has gone through several change programmes, and the post holder will play a key role in sustainability and achieving desired results of the changes and improvement projects, especially those that are related to financial planning and analysis.
- The organisation requires the financial function to have a level of commercial finance acumen as we expand our income generating activities, streamline our portfolio and target more partnership income. As a result, the role holder will contribute in driving income target/performance.
Requirements
Essential:
- Fluency in written and spoken English.
- Qualified accountant – ACA / ACCA – with a minimum of 4 yearspost-qualification experience in similar role.
- Bachelor’s Degree in any field.
- Proven experience in data analysis and visualisation in line with best practice
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- ERP systems experience (transaction level and reporting).
- Delivery of results within a complex international structure and reporting to tight deadlines.
- Working in virtual teams.
- Able to relay complex financial information in an easy-to-understand way to support non-financial managers to deliver against financial performance indicators.
Desirable:
- Masters Degree.
- Experience working with the Big 4 audit firms.
- Experience in the use of a wide range of analytics, planning, reporting, and visualisation tools/applications.
- Experience using SAP.
- Experience delivering and supporting the implementation of stringent FP&A requirements to multi-disciplinary internal staff and external partners.
- Direct experience of applying FP&A procedures within complex and high-risk operating environments to meet challenging contractual standards.
- Demonstrable experience of thinking creatively to design / redesign business processes to make measurable step-change efficiency gains in collaboration with relevant manager/team lead.
Remuneration
N8,106,740 annually
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Note: All applicants should have a pre-existing legal status to live and work in Nigeria.
Deadline: November 12, 2021
Job Features
Job Category | Analyst/ Quality Control |