Closing: Feb 28, 2023
This position has expiredPublished: Feb 9, 2023 (2 months ago)
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Experience Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field (MBA or CPA preferred).
- 8+ years of progressive finance experience leading a finance team at a high-growth organization of annual turnover >$5m
- Exceptional quantitative skills and commercial judgment -- ability to synthesize operational performance into scenario analyses, and create actionable recommendations
- Entrepreneurial spirit - must thrive in a fast-paced, results driven, rapidly changing environment, and effectively manage competing priorities
- Flexibility, resourcefulness, and comfort with ambiguity; ability to embrace change and build structure into a less defined work environment
- Strong prior financial modeling experience, with prior experience developing complex financial forecasts, risk analytics, valuation, financing, or corporate finance models
- Excellent interpersonal skills - excellent at communication, building relationships and working across all levels of the company
- Motivated to contribute to the organization’s growth and culture beyond the immediate bounds of the role, including for example engaging in staff development activities, culture initiatives, roundtables, etc.
- Experience of working in organizations who have entities which operate according to US GAAP; experience of managing finances at a 501(c)(3); and experience in managing finances for organizations in receipt of funds from major donors including USAID, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Prior experience in the SaaS or healthcare financing space an advantage but not prerequisite
- While much of our team is based in East Africa, this role has the potential to be fully remote for the right person.
Why You Should Join Us
- On a roll: Doubling year over year with new funding partnerships soon to be announced and recent expansion into Uganda, Nigeria, and Ethiopia
- Great team: Founded, managed and backed by successful veterans of Stanford School of Medicine, Google, Lions Head Investment Bank,, I&M Bank. We have technologists, clinicians, and economists working side by side to solve difficult problems.
- Great funders: We’re backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID Development Innovation Ventures, CIFF, WHO FIND, and Pfizer to pay for healthcare on behalf of patients, with others to be announced soon.
- Huge market: Disrupting a massive, growing $50+ billion market for healthcare payments for low-income patients, with a focus on paying for health outcomes to ensure patients get better.
- Great customers: Create incentives that ensure our nurses, pharmacists, and clinicians provide excellent care and pay them when this happens.
- Impact: A fun and exciting start-up culture that empowers its people to make a huge impact.
Benefits
- We’re a small, friendly team that values open communication and mentorship, and we provide benefits including health insurance and 401(k) / pension.
Responsibilities
Experience Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field (MBA or CPA preferred).
- 8+ years of progressive finance experience leading a finance team at a high-growth organization of annual turnover >$5m
- Exceptional quantitative skills and commercial judgment -- ability to synthesize operational performance into scenario analyses, and create actionable recommendations
- Entrepreneurial spirit - must thrive in a fast-paced, results driven, rapidly changing environment, and effectively manage competing priorities
- Flexibility, resourcefulness, and comfort with ambiguity; ability to embrace change and build structure into a less defined work environment
- Strong prior financial modeling experience, with prior experience developing complex financial forecasts, risk analytics, valuation, financing, or corporate finance models
- Excellent interpersonal skills - excellent at communication, building relationships and working across all levels of the company
- Motivated to contribute to the organization’s growth and culture beyond the immediate bounds of the role, including for example engaging in staff development activities, culture initiatives, roundtables, etc.
- Experience of working in organizations who have entities which operate according to US GAAP; experience of managing finances at a 501(c)(3); and experience in managing finances for organizations in receipt of funds from major donors including USAID, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Prior experience in the SaaS or healthcare financing space an advantage but not prerequisite
- While much of our team is based in East Africa, this role has the potential to be fully remote for the right person.
Why You Should Join Us
- On a roll: Doubling year over year with new funding partnerships soon to be announced and recent expansion into Uganda, Nigeria, and Ethiopia
- Great team: Founded, managed and backed by successful veterans of Stanford School of Medicine, Google, Lions Head Investment Bank,, I&M Bank. We have technologists, clinicians, and economists working side by side to solve difficult problems.
- Great funders: We’re backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID Development Innovation Ventures, CIFF, WHO FIND, and Pfizer to pay for healthcare on behalf of patients, with others to be announced soon.
- Huge market: Disrupting a massive, growing $50+ billion market for healthcare payments for low-income patients, with a focus on paying for health outcomes to ensure patients get better.
- Great customers: Create incentives that ensure our nurses, pharmacists, and clinicians provide excellent care and pay them when this happens.
- Impact: A fun and exciting start-up culture that empowers its people to make a huge impact.
Benefits
- We’re a small, friendly team that values open communication and mentorship, and we provide benefits including health insurance and 401(k) / pension.
- As Global Head of Finance at Maisha Meds, you will be responsible for:
Operational Finances:
- Overseeing the entirety of Maisha Meds’s financial function, supporting growth and expansion, minimizing financial risks, and providing data and analytics to support strategic decision-making
- Lead financial planning for the organization, and work with individual business unit and country heads to support their planning capacity
- Work with CEO and Head of People on headcount and compensation budgeting and strategies
- Oversee day-to-day finance functions including revenue recognition, accounts receivable, collections, accounts payable and financial reporting, including regulatory compliance; build next generation systems that automate day-to-day accounting functions and can scale with our pharmacy and patient growth
- Coordinate general bookkeeping activities, preparation of tax submissions across US and African entities, preparation of accounts for external audit and review
- Manage a small team of finance professionals within the organization, and work to build their skills and capacity to ready the team for future growth
Risk Management:
- Developing appropriate FX hedging strategies to minimize currency exposure risk
- Developing reserves policy and investment strategy to build financial resilience
- Overseeing all matters pertaining to financial regulatory compliance, including liaising with tax and revenue authorities; auditors; and other relevant external parties as required
Strategic Finance & Decision Support:
- Lead preparation of organizational financial forecasts, models, finance updates for the Board and Executive team
- Support the CSO on ad hoc strategic finance projects including developing financial models and materials for roadshows/marketing and investor presentations
- Support the CSO to refine long-range financial models including revenues, margins, capital and liquidity needs, which can be used for both internal and external communications on the organization’s finances
- Lead ad hoc financial analysis projects as required from time to time by Executive team or business unit heads
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