Financial Planning Analyst
Moniepoint · Group FP&A team
- Financial Analyst
- Remote · Nigeria
- 4–6 years
At a glance
About the company
Moniepoint describes itself as Africa's all-in-one financial platform, with payments, banking, credit and business tools. About 20 million businesses and individuals use it every month. It is Nigeria's largest merchant acquirer, and its subsidiaries process over $250 billion in digital payments a year.
Description
You support the Head of Group FP&A and act as the finance analyst for smaller subsidiaries. You will:
- Update the group consolidation model each month and reconcile actual results to the forecast
- Explain variances against the budget and the last forecast, in writing
- Give forecasting, budgeting and reporting help to subsidiaries with no FP&A staff of their own
- Prepare Board and management packs to a fixed monthly or quarterly timetable
- Help run the yearly budget: templates, collecting unit figures, consolidating them and writing commentary
- Track KPIs and unit economics across your companies, and answer one-off requests from the CFO and leaders
Qualifications & Skills
Must have 4
- 4–6 years in FP&A, financial analysis or a similar corporate finance role
- Advanced Excel and financial modelling
- Experience with figures across several entities or currencies
- ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CPA (part or fully qualified), or an equally strong analytical background
Nice to have 3
- Worked in banking, fintech or another regulated business
- Prepared or supported Board-level reporting
- Comfortable working directly with subsidiary teams with little supervision
How to stand out for this job
Written by our team from the employer's post. Work through it in order, then apply.
1What they actually want
Our plain-words read of this job. It explains the job, not the employer's own words.
This job keeps Moniepoint's group numbers in order. Each month you update the model that combines every company in the group, check actual results against forecast, and explain any gap. That model feeds the Board and management packs, which go out on a fixed timetable. Some smaller subsidiaries have no finance analyst, so you also become their go-to person for budgets, forecasts and reports. That is why your week moves between group work and their questions.
Moniepoint wants someone who keeps the model clean when the data is messy, and who asks the subsidiary team rather than guessing. Because the deadlines are fixed, they need a person who delivers without being chased. The best way to stand out is to show a model you built across several entities or currencies, and a variance commentary you wrote. If you have prepared Board packs or worked in a bank or fintech, put that near the top of your CV.
2Words to use in your CV
Use the words that are true for you. The dark ones matter most for this job.
- FP&A
- consolidation model
- variance analysis
- forecasting
- budgeting
- Board pack
- management reporting
- multi-entity
- multi-currency
- KPIs
- unit economics
- financial modelling
- Excel
- ACA / ACCA / CIMA
4Tailor your portfolio
Make a copy of your portfolio for this job and lead with these three projects. Give the problem, the data, the tools and the result as a number.
- 01
A consolidation model
An Excel model that combines three made-up companies in two currencies, with a clear exchange-rate tab.
- 02
A variance bridge
Budget against actual for one quarter, with a chart and three lines explaining the biggest gaps.
- 03
A one-page Board pack
KPIs and unit economics for a small fintech, laid out so a director can read it in two minutes.
3Tailor your CV
- Headline“Financial Planning Analyst | FP&A, Consolidation, Variance Analysis”
- SummaryOpen with your years in FP&A, the entities you covered and your qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CPA).
- OrderPut monthly forecasting, consolidation and Board reporting first. Move bookkeeping or audit duties lower.
- Show multi-entity workSay how many entities or currencies your model covered.
- Show you meet deadlinesMention a pack or budget you delivered on a fixed date, cycle after cycle.
BeforePrepared monthly variance reports.
AfterBuilt a 6-entity consolidation model in Excel and wrote the monthly variance commentary, sending the Board pack 3 days earlier.
Example only. Use your own real numbers.
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6Before you apply
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