Who we are
Moniepoint is an all-in-one financial services platform for emerging markets and the second-fastest growing company in Africa. Since 2019, Moniepoint’s technology has powered over 3 million people, offering personal and business banking, payment, credit and business management tools to help them succeed. Moniepoint processed $182 billion in 2023 and currently processes the majority of the POS transactions in Nigeria.
About the role
Corporate Finance Analyst
Location: Hybrid (Lagos)
We have an exciting opportunity for a highly organized and self-motivated Corporate Finance Analyst Analyst to join our Corporate Finance team at Moniepoint as a valued partner to provide analytical and decision support to our business units and corporate entities! This person will quickly develop a deep understanding of our business and be proficient at using data to drive insightful decision-making across the organization and work closely with business leaders to support high-quality decision-making for specific business units.
What you’ll get to do
1. Provides support in designing, developing, and maintaining:
- High-quality, accurate, and timely reporting (monthly, forecast, and budget reporting for monthly and quarterly updates)articulating the impact to the business
- Monthly OPEX and working capital analysis and reports for business units
- KPIs to measure and optimize the business.
- Project management – support the production of financial models, review of assumptions, and managing internal stakeholders
2. Planning and analysis, including:
- Perform quantitative analysis of operational and financial data to aid strategic decisions by digging deep into complex (and sometimes mundane) business problems
- Support Corporate Finance Manager in the creation of high-quality management information in a timely manner for the business unit level and corporate entity level
- Build, update, and monitor financial databases and dashboards for different parts of the business by organizing and analyzing a wide range of data sources
- Monitor and analyze key drivers of the business (e.g. customer acquisition, conversion and retention trends, unit economics, product penetration, sales productivity)
- Track and review any unexpected business, operational, and financial outcomes with a mindset to solve these issues
3. Collaborate and serve as a proactive business partner for business units and corporate entities by:
- Developing an understanding of Moniepoint’s products, strategy, and processes to aid in the monitoring of critical KPIs
- Maintaining highly effective relationships with the finance controllers, as well as ensuring a collaborative relationship with the product and operational teams.
To succeed in this role, we think you should have
- Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, Engineering etc. (plus good to have or working towards relevant professional qualifications - CFA, CPA, ACCA, etc.)
- 4+ years of relevant experience in analytical roles - such as FP&A, strategic/corporate finance, strategy and operations, investment banking, venture capital, and/or management consulting in a multinational environment.
- A first principles thinker who keenly analyses information with a view of simplifying and solving complex problems.
- Excellent to advanced proficiency in Excel, SQL and/or data visualization tools
- Good level of business and commercial acumen.
- Excellent communicator (written and verbal) and relationship builder; hands-on and self-driven, not in need of a high level of oversight and supervision.
- Experience in preparing professional reports and presentations.
- Project management skills.
- Proactive, goal-oriented and collaborative.
