Commercial Analyst at a Renewable Energy Company

We are a pan-African electricity company specializing in the generation of solar energy, with a focus on medium-scale solar systems (20 kWp to 2 MWp). Unlike many other international solar companies, we have built a strong local team of engineers and technicians offering a fully integrated solution from design, to installation and maintenance. Company is headquartered in Lagos Nigeria with a branch office in Accra Ghana.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Commercial Analyst

Location: Lagos

Department: Commercial Finance

Reports to: Group CFO

Key Responsibilities

Budget and Forecasting Process:

• Work with the CFO to deliver:
• A forecasting and budget framework including timetable, templates and tools, RACI
• Relevant and regularly updated Parameters & Assumptions
• Outputs, including Board presentations
• Work with Heads of Department to deliver:
• Timely submissions
• Consistent and coherent forecast/budget inputs/outputs
• Includes monthly/bi-weekly cash flow forecasting, annual budgets, 5-year plan and periodic reforecasting.

Management Reporting, working with the CFO to design, coordinate, deliver and continually develop:

• Board reporting
• Monthly Senior Management Reporting
• Key KPIs and Operational Reporting
• Departmental Reporting
• Performance Analysis, work with the CFO to design and deliver:
• Profitability analysis
• Variance analysis
• Support, with the CEO and CFO, the fundraising process through the provision of financial and business modeling and preparation of deal analysis and due diligence materials
• Work with Business Development to ensure the “Four eyes” principle on cost sheets and help develop the cost sheets
• Support the CFO in the development of information flows and key processes of internal control and decision-support as requested
• Other Ad hoc roles in support of better visibility, insight and decision-making within the business.

Experience and Skills Required

• Bachelor's Degree and/or equivalent experience in Business / Operations Management, Engineering, Computer Science or other quantitatively inclined course of study
• A minimum of 2 to 3 years of professional experience in roles such as business/operations/financial analyst, business manager, or project consultant
• Proven business analysis skills including proficiency in excel and other MS office applications, writing business plans from scratch without assistance, basic financial modelling, and drafting of proposals and presentations to senior management
• Comfortable fulfilling designated role within a team environment while applying self-directed work activity
• Must be able to work effectively with all levels of employees, including top, middle and supervisory levels of management.
• Requires advanced verbal and written communications skills in English, in addition to effective interpersonal skills.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, with changing priorities and demands
• Attention to detail to ensure data accuracy critical to building stakeholder credibility.
• Must have the capacity to multi-task and be organized to manage multiple deadlines from multiple people on a daily basis
• Demonstrated experience documenting use cases and functional requirements
• Ability to present complex concepts in a clear and straight forward manner
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Strong presentation skills

Will suit a candidate who is:

• Well-organized and able to organize others, not task by task, but process by process. This is about empowerment not micromanagement
• Persistent, but Courteous
• Charming, but Firm
• Curious, Unafraid, but knows when to ask for help
• Numerate, and also able to write clearly and present well
• Good at taking responsibility for delivering a project on time (and actually doing it!)
• Strong communication skills with a gift for explaining the “Why” of things, not only the “What”
• Able to multi-task and identify priorities in a fast-moving environment

Additional Information

• This is a great training role with a lot of exposure to different areas of the business and the senior management team.
• Our picture for this candidate is someone who is not a “traditional” accountant (or even an accountant at all).
• This is an analytical role and requires multi-tasking, a high level of curiosity, and a desire to really bottom out issues and figure out how to reflect and resolve them through a mixture of numerical and human solutions.
• The role works mainly with non-accountants and requires good communications skills, enthusiasm, patience with others, and impatience with inefficiency and delay.
• This person is a “smart doer”, who engages when and where needed to help good decisions be made and effective actions executed in replicable and impartial ways.
• As this role requires a wide understanding and involvement with the business, the person must be genuinely interested in helping us bring solar power to West Africa.
• As no 2 days will be the same, the person must be ready to put their strong organizational and technical skills to work in a fast-moving business.
• Someone who wants to grow and be challenged in a friendly, successful environment that demands your best - and rewards you with seeing your impact in real time every day.

Application Closing Date

30th October, 2019.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should send their updated CV (in MS-Word or Adobe PDF format only) to: Kehinde@saphiredegrees.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.