Finance and Strategy Specialist, Nigeria

Paystack’s mission is to accelerate digital payments on the continent of Africa. Over 200K of some of the most renowned businesses in Nigeria, as well as a growing number of merchants in South Africa, Ghana, and Kenya use Paystack’s modern payments gateway. They include the likes of MTN, Burger King, UPS, AXA Mansard Insurance, FilmHouse Cinemas, Smile Communications, Air Peace Airlines, Crocs, Under Armour, Richemont Lifestyle Group (RLG), and many others.

In just over 8 years, our growing team has introduced a steady cadence of innovation within the online payments landscape, such as automated recurring payments, the ability for customers to pay directly from their bank accounts, automated chargebacks, and much more. We’ve been acquired by Stripe and are doubling down on the mission to help build out Africa’s payments infrastructure.

About the Finance and Strategy Specialist role

Finance & Strategy at Paystack is a highly cross-functional team, which supports leadership to drive financial analysis and insights, and execute on key strategic initiatives. Our remit spans across financial planning & analysis; product & pricing strategy; as well as go-to-market engagements.

We look for exceptional people and give them a level of responsibility and exposure that will accelerate their career.

This role will be based in Nigeria. If you like figuring out hard problems from scratch, rolling up your sleeves to execute, and are an amazing and humble teammate, please apply or get in touch!

What you’ll do

We're looking for an F&S Specialist to join our growing team. This individual will help us with the forecasting, budgeting and reporting for various markets accurately and in a timely manner and deliver improvements in our integrated financial systems with with cross functional teams

Responsibilities

• Leverage your financial background to support and influence key strategic and business decisions
• Drive reporting, process and discipline for finance routines to shape and influence decision-making (e.g. budget, forecast, monthly reviews, long-range plans)
• Partner with cross functional teams, such as Key Accounts, to implement approved strategy recommendations
• Build and own models for in-depth analyses, as well as ensure their quality, timeliness, and accuracy
• Drive continuous process improvement, standardisation, simplification and reporting enhancements.

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 5-7 years of relevant experience in strategic finance or FP&A
• A keen analytical eye and experience building integrated models from scratch (in Excel, or other planning applications)
• Experience driving and executing on finance processes (e.g. budget, forecast reviews, negotiations)
• A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners
• A proven ability to be a self starter capable of driving business results without significant supervision
• The ability to maintain high performance under tight timelines and a “roll up your sleevesˮ mindset to get any job done
• The ability to bring structure to ambiguous areas of opportunity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
• Excellent communication and organisational skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to work independently, analyze problems and data sets to make complex investigation decisions
• Strong knowledge of G-Suite tools and MS-Office products and experience working with/analysing large data sets using Metabase.
• Solution-oriented mindset with enthusiasm for establishing best practices Self-disciplined, diligent, proactive and detail oriented

You will also likely have (not required):

• Experience working at a high-growth technology or financial services company.
• Experience supporting Go-to-Market and/or Product Functions.
• Oracle, Tableau or other equivalent application experience.
• Experience in data visualisation and dash-boarding.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• MacBook Pro
• Health Insurance
• Hybrid Working
• Smart, kind colleagues who’re invested in your growth

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