• 1. Strategic Business Partnering • Serve as the key finance liaison to the Commercial teams. • Translate commercial strategies into measurable financial outcomes and KPIs. • Support go-to-market decisions with robust financial analysis and scenario modelling. • Provide insight on channel productivity, pricing, campaigns, and incentive schemes. • Ensure accurate and timely reporting to enable the regular review of the functional strategy, roadmap and performance to ensure its alignment with the changing dynamics of the internal and external ecosystem. • 2. Financial Planning & Analysis • Lead the commercial input into the annual budget, forecasts, and strategic planning cycles. • Monitor and analyse revenue trends, commercial expenses, customer metrics, and margin drivers. • Generate insights and performance commentary for monthly and quarterly business reviews. • Prepare and analyse operational reports to management on a monthly, quarterly, annually relating to progress made within the operation and in accordance with the measurement metrics set by the organisation. • 3. Decision Support & Investment Appraisal • Evaluate business cases for marketing campaigns, promotions, pricing changes, and new products. Review financial viability of proposals and assess business impacts for special commercial projects • Conduct ROI assessments and post-implementation reviews. • Guide prioritisation of commercial initiatives based on impact and feasibility. • 4. Revenue and Cost Optimisation • Identify opportunities for revenue enhancement and cost efficiency. • Partner with the commercial teams to align investments with performance outcomes. • 5. Governance and Controls • Ensure commercial initiatives are compliant with financial policies and ROI thresholds. • Champion data integrity and reporting consistency across Commercial finance metrics. • Manage and resolve escalations that have impact on critical path of service delivery. • Escalate issues that will result in significant time, scope, employee/client or cost impact if not resolved. • Manage and provide solutions to issues that require formal resolution.

• Education: • Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics or related field. • Professional qualification (e.g. ACCA, CPA, CFA) is an added advantage. • MBA or Master’s degree in a related discipline is desirable. • Experience: • Minimum 5–7 years’ experience in FP&A, commercial finance, or business partnering roles. • Prior exposure to telecom, fintech, mobile money, or fast-moving digital businesses is highly desirable. • Experience working cross-functionally with commercial, product and marketing teams. • Experience in similar leadership role with a global/ multi-site organization, ERP (Oracle), MS Office (Word, Excel, power point and Outlook), GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards). • Experience in continuous improvement through the implementation of best practices (Finance). • Experience in Finance leading practices and trends. • Competencies • Strong financial modelling, forecasting, and data interpretation skills. • Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and financial reporting systems (Oracle preferred). • Solid understanding of commercial levers. • Complexity and ambiguity within the workplace • Conflict management • IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) • Influencing others • Information processing • Agility and Problem solving • Risk management • Telecommunications/ Mobile Money industry • Fosters innovation and inquisitiveness • Behavioral Attributes • Strong business acumen with a growth mindset. • Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills. • Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment. • Proactive, collaborative, and solution oriented. • Accountable. • Agile. • Communicate effectively. • Culturally aware and adaptable • Get it done. • Innovative • Inquisitive • Success Metrics • Accuracy and relevance of commercial financial forecasts and commentary. • Commercial ROI of campaigns and initiatives. • Stakeholder satisfaction and engagement with Finance as a business partner. • Delivery of revenue enhancement or cost optimisation opportunities. • NB: Presentation of false academic documents and certification will lead to criminal prosecution. Any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification. Should you not hear from us within fourteen (14) days from the closing date of this advertisement, you may consider your application to be unsuccessful.