Finance Analyst - Abuja

Role Purpose

• At an unprecedented time of change globally, the British Council seeks an experienced Finance Analyst to support the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) specialism within the Finance Function in Nigeria.
  
• The role will support the Financial Planning and Analysis Lead in providing professional guidance in Financial Planning and Analysis, supporting country Business Development Managers and programme / operational delivery managers, and providing assurance on the underlying business financial performance.
  
• The post holder will support the analyses and interpretation of short-term and long-term financial and operational plans through management information reporting, analysis and review of financial trends, and impact assessment to support and enable informed business decisions.
  

Essential Requirements

• Qualified Accountant: ACA, ACCA
  
• Bachelor's Degree.
  

Role Specific Knowledge and Experience:

• Minimum of 4 years post-qualification experience with proven experience in similar role
  
• Proven experience in data analysis and visualisation in line with best practice (practical knowledge of Microsoft Power BI required)
  
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
  
• ERP systems experience (transaction level and reporting
  
• Delivery of results within a complex international structure and reporting to tight deadlines.                  
  
• Working in virtual teams.
  
• Able to relay complex financial information in an easy-to-understand way to support non-financial managers to deliver against financial performance indicators.
  

Desirable:

• Experience working with a Big 4 audit firm
  
• Master’s Degree
  
• CFA, CGMA, CIMA.
  
• Experience in the use of a wide range of analytics, planning, reporting, and visualisation tools/applications
  
• Experience using SAP
  
• Experience delivering and supporting the implementation of stringent FP&A requirements to multi-disciplinary internal staff and external partners.
  
• Direct experience of applying FP&A procedures within complex and high-risk operating environments to meet challenging contractual standards.
  
• Demonstrable experience of thinking creatively to design / redesign business processes to make measurable step-change efficiency gains in collaboration with relevant manager/team lead.
  

Travel:

• Some travel may be required but is not expected to be significant.
  

Language Requirements: 

• Strong written and oral English communication skills.
  

Role Purpose

• At an unprecedented time of change globally, the British Council seeks an experienced Finance Analyst to support the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) specialism within the Finance Function in Nigeria.
  
• The role will support the Financial Planning and Analysis Lead in providing professional guidance in Financial Planning and Analysis, supporting country Business Development Managers and programme / operational delivery managers, and providing assurance on the underlying business financial performance.
  
• The post holder will support the analyses and interpretation of short-term and long-term financial and operational plans through management information reporting, analysis and review of financial trends, and impact assessment to support and enable informed business decisions.
  

Essential Requirements

• Qualified Accountant: ACA, ACCA
  
• Bachelor's Degree.
  

Role Specific Knowledge and Experience:

• Minimum of 4 years post-qualification experience with proven experience in similar role
  
• Proven experience in data analysis and visualisation in line with best practice (practical knowledge of Microsoft Power BI required)
  
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
  
• ERP systems experience (transaction level and reporting
  
• Delivery of results within a complex international structure and reporting to tight deadlines.                  
  
• Working in virtual teams.
  
• Able to relay complex financial information in an easy-to-understand way to support non-financial managers to deliver against financial performance indicators.
  

Desirable:

• Experience working with a Big 4 audit firm
  
• Master’s Degree
  
• CFA, CGMA, CIMA.
  
• Experience in the use of a wide range of analytics, planning, reporting, and visualisation tools/applications
  
• Experience using SAP
  
• Experience delivering and supporting the implementation of stringent FP&A requirements to multi-disciplinary internal staff and external partners.
  
• Direct experience of applying FP&A procedures within complex and high-risk operating environments to meet challenging contractual standards.
  
• Demonstrable experience of thinking creatively to design / redesign business processes to make measurable step-change efficiency gains in collaboration with relevant manager/team lead.
  

Travel:

• Some travel may be required but is not expected to be significant.
  

Language Requirements: 

• Strong written and oral English communication skills.
  

Main Accountabilities

Main Accountabilities but not limited to the following:

Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting:

• Support the planning process for Nigeria operations, challenging submissions and identifying synergies and ensuring delivery to deadlines.
  
• Provide clear summaries of Nigeria operations planning / forecasting information.
  
• Support FP&A Lead in the planning and rolling re-forecasting processes to ensure that information obtained from these processes is complete and reliable.
  
• Ensure plan and forecast data by the businesses are in line with approved guidelines and assumptions.
  
• Support the FP&A Lead in developing reporting procedures and templates for regional and local use.
  

Management Reporting:

• Provide clear, accurate and timely information on business performance against targets according to the reporting timetable and as otherwise directed.
  
• Manage Nigeria operations management reporting for consolidation at Regional level for SBU leads and Executive Board.
  

Business Performance Management:

• Participate in the reviews of financial performance with FP&A Lead and business leads by providing scenario analysis and financial support to forward planning decisions.
  
• Monitor cost allocation accuracy.
  
• Assist individual managers in solving data hygiene / SAP issues.
  
• Deliver outputs within corporate and regional timelines as requested by FP&A Lead.
  

Financial Analysis:

• Advise on specific business / operational financial issues around efficiency, product and business trends and KPIs.
  
• Ad hoc analysis as requested for business insights (internal and external) leveraging relevant tools and applications to produce complete, timely, and accurate results.
  
• Support preparation of financial papers (ratios, economic indices, subsidiaries budget performance, product analysis, trends and insights, etc.) for the Board of the subsidiaries, and other internal stakeholders.
  
• Proactive value-adding analysis for insight and business decisions.
  
• Development of tools to aid efficiency of data analysis and reporting.
  
• Spool and analyse internal and external data to improve financial performance.
  

Regional and Functional Team Working:

• Coach and support individuals and teams.
  
• Ensure capacity building for members of the team.