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Senior Finance Manager
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND , MBA/MSc/MA
- Experience8 years
- LocationNairobi
- Job FieldFinance / Accounting / Audit 
- Your primary focus will be on driving healthy, sustainable economic performance (cell contribution) for the office focusing on the key levers that drive cell performance eg client utilization, pricing, investments, import/export mix, CSP HC growth, leverage and OPEX management. You will work with office leadership to develop a multi-year playbook for each office that supports and enables each office to achieve its full potential.
- You will also help stabilize Finance reporting and operations post SAP transition working closely with the regional FP&A team to establish performance reporting & insights that support leadership with decision making eg reporting on key economic levers, highlighting and monitoring working capital risks impacting office performance, investments (and leakage) levels, costs, activity levels, forward looking indicators.
- Additionally, you’ll drive the annual planning process. This includes reviewing pricing, activity levels to ensure recruiting targets are reasonable and tie back to planned utilization, that investment and leakage levels are planned and contained and that we optimize costs. You will also need to track progress against plan and take any corrective actions throughout the year as needed.
- You’ll also provide counsel and advice to a wide group of stakeholders on matters with financial implications. You’ll safeguard the firm through evolving and deploying controls which deliver effective stewardship.
Your qualifications and skills
- University degree, with post degree qualifications.
- More than 8 years financial/administrative management experience, ideally in a professional services firm, blue-chip corporate or equivalent McKinsey consulting experience.
- Knowledge of core finance and accounting principles with specific finance and/or management qualifications eg. CA, CPA, MBA.
- Broad business acumen, with ability to develop strong collaborative relationships with senior executives/leaders.
- Excellent problem solving, analytic and project management skills.
- Outstanding communication, influencing and negotiation skills.
- Strong leader and people developer and able to interface with people at all levels.
- Collaborative, integrative working style, rapid to adapt to a changing and ambiguous environment
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