The Finance Analyst is responsible for the financial health of our operations in the Ghana cluster, while being based in Abidjan Office. This role involves overseeing financial planning, financial analysis, and reporting, managing financial risks, and financial modelling and reviewing of client deals and business cases. The Finance Analyst will report to the WCA Head of Finance, to support Ghana and WCA overall business priorities.
Key Responsibilities:
Financial Management:
- Oversee the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial reporting process for the Ghana cluster P&L as well as overall WCA operating expenses.
- Manage the budgeting and forecasting process for the Ghana cluster revenue as well as overall WCA operating expenses.
- Implement strategies to prevent and resolve bad debts.
- Provide basic support in the areas of revenue management and investment decision.
- Participate in continuous improvement activities to meet or exceed internal customers’ expectations.
Revenue Analytics and Business Partnering:
- Lead the analysis of key business drivers for strategic planning, annual budgeting, and quarterly forecasting for the Ghana cluster revenue as well as overall WCA operating expenses.
- Actively engage in the modelling and review of client deals, ensuring accuracy and alignment with the company's financial goals and strategies.
- Conduct Finance review of incentive contracts.
Compliance and Governance:
- Ensure deals and approval-to-spend requests are captured, recorded, summarized, and reported in compliance with policies and procedures.
- Ensure data integrity and consistency of information as well as organized documentation of all financial assumptions, results and data sources used.
- Provide guidance to business partners on their approved budgets and forecasts, and their commitment to budget/forecast on a continuous basis.
Relationship Management:
- Partner with business and regional teams to ensure alignment on financial performance and the drivers of forecasts and results.
- Demonstrate strong sense of urgency when preparing and evaluating multiple incentive deals and proactively align priorities with Ghana Cluster Head on a weekly basis.
- Build and maintain relationships with finance business partners in WCA and CEMEA Hub, to ensure they are aware of the latest deals’ timelines and risks/opportunities.
Critical Success Factors in The Role:
The What:
- Deliver financial excellence and drive business growth in the Ghana cluster as well as in overall WCA operating expenses management.
- Ensure alignment on financial performance and the drivers of forecasts and results.
- Maintain compliance with policies and procedures and reporting requirements.
The How:
- Enable each other to success: Work and win together with business stakeholders as partners and be a role model in removing barriers to getting work done.
- Deliver quickly and seamlessly: Plan carefully and execute successfully, to make it easier to get things done.
- Listen and learn from business stakeholders: Gain profound insights into her/his stakeholders’ needs to help them accomplish their objectives.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.