Graduate Business Analyst At SHONA

Graduate Business Analyst

Uganda * Full-time

SHONA

Role Summary
We are looking to add up to 5 Graduate Business Analysts to our Analyst program supporting our work
across SHONA, joining either the SHONA Capital team or the SHONA Group team.
As a Graduate Business Analyst, you will support critical elements of the Good Business and/or investment
evaluation process and will support our Senior Analysts to scrutinize SME business plans, conduct industry
and market analysis, conduct financial analysis, develop financial models, write investment memorandums
and support selected businesses through their growth journey with SHONA. This role would give you the
opportunity to acquire practical skills in strategy, finance and investment with a focus on private debt,
venture capital and private equity.
You will leverage our extensive institutional expertise, accumulated over a decade of supporting
businesses across multiple markets. You will also benefit from our collective team experience of over 40
years in finance, accounting, banking, and venture capital. Beyond the internship, this role provides
avenues for professional growth, potentially leading to more permanent roles within SHONA Group.

Category: Business and Economics Total Positions: 01 Location: Uganda Full-time Salary: not mentioned Posted 4 months ago

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Recruitment and Selection: Support the identification of the right businesses to support and
partner with across programs, services and subsidiaries.
2. Business Diagnostics: Support the review of business models and other data sets of the selected
businesses including market segmentation, positioning, competitor analysis, industry trends,
practice of agroecology, regenerative agriculture or circular agribusiness etc to assess business
health and identify operational and strategic gaps and growth opportunities and draft reports with
recommendations for improvement.

3. Financial Analysis: Support the analysis of business financials, strategies and operational systems
and the design of excel dashboards and scorecards that provide visibility into KPIs, effectiveness of
current strategies and key business trends or drivers.
4. Financial Modeling: Support the building of financial models and analyzing of pricing models, unit
economics and capitalization tables to support the decision analysis on potential participants in the
program and future investments into SMEs.
5. Industry Research and Analysis: Support the research and conducting of sectoral and industry
analysis,and develop insights to support acceptance of businesses into our programs and investment
decisions into businesses. This will also involve validating our selection criteria to ensure relevant
data points are tracked from the beginning of the program.
6. Reporting and Analysis: Support the collection and analyzing of financial and operational data sets
from program SMEs to develop and deliver/present reports identifying positive and negative trends,
notable risks, opportunities for revenue growth and propose actionable recommendations for
improvement to management teams.
7. Business Planning: Support management teams to develop and implement strong business plans by
scrutinizing strategic directions, including market segmentation, positioning, competitor analysis,
industry trends, etc
8. Entrepreneur database maintenance. Coordinate and maintain the entrepreneur information on a
shared drive to ensure the smooth running of the project, and SHONA’s business development
activities.
9. Doing whatever it takes to support project teams and the businesses we work with: We are a
small entrepreneurial team that steps up when there is work to be done. At times, you’ll be
expected to work outside of just your role to contribute to our team’s overall efforts.

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QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

Education/Work Experience
● First or Second Class Upper Bachelor’s degree majoring in finance, commerce, actuarial science,
statistics, quantitative economics or related fields preferred.
Skills + Capabilities
● Highly numerical and analytical i.e you are very comfortable with numbers
● Strong communication skills i.e both written and oral communication
● Basic knowledge of Ms excel, MS Word and MS Powerpoint.

Deadline: 09/03/2026

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