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Job Title: Senior Business Analyst
Organisation: SHONA
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
SHONA grows East African Good Businesses. A Good Business is a viable business that positively benefits society by creating and balancing value for all its stakeholders, including customers, employees, owners, value chain partners and the communities in which it is based. By 2030, our goal is to build a community of at least 1,000 Good Businesses positively benefitting at least 35 million people.
Job Summary: As a Senior Business Analyst, your role will involve working with the program team to lead the recruitment and selection of some of the female-driven businesses and support some of the female-driven businesses to benefit from the initiative. We are looking for up to three Senior Business Analysts to support this initiative.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Recruitment and Selection: Support the recruitment and selection of female driven businesses.
- Business Diagnostics: Lead the review of business models and other data sets of the selected businesses including market segmentation, positioning, competitor analysis, industry trends, etc to assess business health and identify operational and strategic gaps and growth opportunities and draft reports with recommendations for improvement.
- Financial Analysis: Analyze business financials, strategies and operational systems and design excel dashboards and scorecards that provide visibility into KPIs, effectiveness of current strategies and key business trends or drivers.
- Financial Modeling: Build financial models and analyze pricing models, unit economics and capitalization tables to support the decision analysis on potential participants in the program and future investments into SMEs.
- Industry Research and Analysis: Research and conduct sectoral and industry analysis,and develop insights to support acceptance of businesses into our programs and investment decisions into businesses. This will also involve validating our selection criteria to ensure relevant data points are tracked from the beginning of the program.
- Reporting and Analysis: Collect and analyze financial and operational data sets from program SMEs to develop and deliver/present reports identifying positive and negative trends, notable risks, opportunities for revenue growth and propose actionable recommendations for improvement to management teams.
- Business Planning: Support management teams to develop and implement strong business plans by scrutinizing strategic directions, including market segmentation, positioning, competitor analysis, industry trends, etc
- Curriculum Quality Assurance: Ensuring the design and execution of the curriculum is aligned with and meeting the needs of the businesses in their respective market contexts. Account Management and entrepreneur engagement: As part of your role, you are expected to lead account management, working closely with assigned businesses and entrepreneurs to ensure key deliverables are met and the businesses benefit from the initiative. This may include travel to the location of the businesses.
- Doing whatever it takes to support project teams and the businesses we work with: We are a small entrepreneurial team that steps up when there is work to be done. At times, you’ll be expected to work outside of just your role to contribute to our team’s overall efforts.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree majoring in business, finance, accounting or economics preferred
- At least five years experience in banking, accounting, management consulting and investment Advisory
- Highly numerical and analytical i.e you are very comfortable with numbers and able to analyze
- large sets of qualitative and quantitative data
- Highly proficient with excel, MS Word and MS Powerpoint. Proficiency with Power PBI is an added advantage.
- You have experience stepping into ambiguous and disorganized situations and bringing structure.
- You have experience building financial models, cap tables and conducting quantitative and qualitative financial analysis.
- You have experience in developing business plans, building and managing dashboards and analyzing data from diverse sources.
- You have strong communication skills i.e ability to write and present investment memoranda in both written and oral communication
- You have experience working on teams with diverse cultures.
- You are able to quickly build rapport and maintain strong relationships with teams, entrepreneurs, partners and investors
- You are able to coach and support entrepreneurs to finding their own solutions to challenges
- You have the ability to strategically think and interact with management teams to prepare, understand and present analytical reports
How to Apply:
All candidates should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 26th April 2024
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