Senior Analyst: Financial Planning & Analysis

Cellulant is Africa's leading payments company, providing seamless, secure and innovative solutions that empower businesses, banks, and global brands to thrive in a fast changing global economy.

With a presence in over 24 countries and 200+ payment methods across cards, bank transfer and mobile money, our single API payment platform, Tingg, simplifies collections, disbursements, and reconciliations. It processes over 1 million transactions daily for market leaders in various sectors such as airlines, telecoms, e commerce, ride hailing, retail and remittances.

We are seeking a high calibre FP&A professional with strong commercial instincts, analytical depth and ambition to operate at the core of a fast scaling fintech. You will run critical planning, forecasting and performance insight processes while acting as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders across finance, product and commercial teams. This role sits at the centre of that transformation, partnering directly with the CFO and senior leadership to drive performance, insight and value creation across the business. Willingness to travel periodically to Nairobi and other African markets is required.

1. Financial Planning, Forecasting and Analysis
   • Lead budgeting, rolling forecasts and long range planning across the group.
   • Develop driver based financial models to support decision making and scenario analysis.
   • Deliver clear performance reporting with actionable commercial insight.
   • Identify risks, opportunities and value creation levers across markets and products.
2. Performance Insight and Board Reporting
   • Produce monthly executive packs and Board level materials.
   • Translate complex financial data into concise strategic narratives.
   • Track KPIs across revenue, margin, unit economics and cash performance.
3. Commercial Finance and Business Partnering
   • Partner with commercial, product and operations leaders on:
     • Pricing corridors and margin optimisation.
     • Investment cases and expected project ROI.
     • Market entry analysis and strategic initiatives.
   • Support disciplined capital allocation across the portfolio.
4. Fundraising and Strategic Support
   • Assist in capital raising processes, including investor materials, financial models and due diligence.
   • Contribute to strategic planning, M&A evaluation and long term value creation initiatives.
5. AI Enabled Finance and Process Excellence
   • Leverage modern AI and automation tools to improve:
     • Forecast accuracy.
     • Reporting efficiency.
     • Data integrity and insight generation.
   • Champion best in class FP&A tooling and analytical methodologies.

• 4+ years of FP&A, commercial finance or transaction driven finance experience.
• Background in fintech, payments, technology or high growth environments preferred.
• Exposure to Board reporting, forecasting and business partnering strongly desirable.
• Exceptionally strong analytical and financial modelling skills.
• Commercially astute with the ability to connect numbers to strategy.
• Clear communicator capable of influencing senior stakeholders.
• Highly driven, intellectually curious and comfortable operating in ambiguity.
• Motivated to build in a fast growth African fintech context.
• Energised by working directly with executive leadership.
• Passion for using AI and modern tools to transform finance.

This is a rare opportunity to:

• Work directly with a new CFO shaping the future of the finance function.
• Operate at the heart of a pan African fintech growth story.
• Gain exposure to strategy, fundraising and executive decision making early in your career.
• Help build a modern, AI enabled FP&A capability from the ground up.

At Cellulant, we are more than a payments company: we are bridge builders. We believe that by simplifying the way people pay and get paid, we are connecting companies to their ambitions, people to opportunities and Africa to the global economy. Our work goes beyond payments-it's about what people, businesses and communities can do when the movement of money becomes more dependable, seamless and secure.

• Competitive remuneration reflective of experience, skills, impact and the scope of the role.
• Generous personal time off.
• Medical and life insurance benefits (markets permitting).
• Clear career levels and role titles, with well established internal processes.
• Continuous development and growth opportunities in a collaborative environment.