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Mukuru Commercial Finance Analyst in London, United Kingdom
At Mukuru, we're dedicated to transforming financial services and empowering individuals worldwide. We're thrilled to present an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Finance Analyst to join our dynamic team in the UK.
We are looking for a forward thinking, entrepreneurially minded individual, with a passion for understanding customers. If you enjoy applying your analytical skills, growth mindset and financial acumen in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, then this is the role for you. Join Mukuru to help us make better decisions and accelerate the growth of the business.
As a Commercial Finance Analyst, you'll play a vital role in our finance department, contributing to strategic decision-making and driving business growth.
What you will be doing
Supporting business growth: Partnering with senior leaders to develop plans, track performance, and course correct as needed.
Generating insights: Use financial analysis to gain insights into our customers and make actionable recommendations for senior leaders.
Strategic planning: Build long-term forecasts for new products and initiatives, helping to prioritise items on the strategic roadmap.
Supporting resource allocation: Analyse performance, facilitate honest evaluations of return on investment, and optimise capital allocation.
Understanding business fundamentals: Perform analysis to deepen understanding of the business' unit economics to support commercial decision making.
Identify business critical issues: Ensure that risks and opportunities are identified quickly and escalated to ensure that management attention is focussed appropriately.
Leveraging our data: Partner with BI teams to ensure our management documents and dashboards use meaningful financial metrics and KPIs to give a clear view of business performance.
Support strategic projects: Assist with ad-hoc financial analysis and scenario modelling for key business stakeholders.
Developing the finance team: Share knowledge, learnings, and best practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
What you can bring
Strong analytical skills: You have an eye for detail, can break down complex data sets, highlight key insights, and make solid recommendations.
Great at financial modelling: You can consistently create high-quality, accurate models that help forecast and track business performance.
Effective communicator: You can explain complex financial info and other key performance indicators to senior stakeholders in a clear and simple way.
Relationship builder: You have strong partnering skills and can influence senior stakeholders. You can build and maintain effective cross functional relationships.
Highly resilient: Energetic and entrepreneurial, you can juggle multiple tasks and priorities without getting overwhelmed.
Strategic understanding: You get business strategy and can clearly explain the important financial messages that underpin it.
Comfortable with uncertainty: You can handle ambiguity and simplify complex problems.
Industry experience: Experience of a multi-national customer and technology-focused business would be beneficial
Finance function exposure: You have experience of working in a finance function.
Passionate about what you do: You're enthusiastic about the Mukuru mission and its impact in Africa and around the world.
Qualified accountant: CIMA or ACA preferred (but not essential).
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. Take a leap of faith and submit your application if you meet the majority of our requirements. 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