Head of Finance & Strategy in Lagos

Glovo - We’re a Barcelona-based startup and the fastest-growing delivery player in Europe, Hispanic America and Africa. With food at the core of the business, Glovo delivers any product within your city at any time of day. Our vision and ambition are not only to make everything immediately available in your city but it is also to offer our employees the job of their lives. A job where you'll be challenged and have the most fun working in through tech-enabled experiences.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Finance & Strategy

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time 

Your Mission

• We are one of the fastest growing startups in Europe and the way we want to grow is making every city profitable! 
• To reach this goal, we need a 360, analytical, and results-driven person to take ownership of our Finance & Strategy function in Nigeria At Glovo,  we work hard and we love what we do.
• If you are a problem-solver person with a 100% hands-on attitude, looking for an energizing work environment with big ideas we’d love to have you on our team!

The Journey

• Be the General Manager's right-hand in any strategic and financial decision
• Define jointly with the General Manager the long-term goals of the country
• Set and review quarterly country and department targets based on long-term goals
• Implement current corporate strategy throughout the annual planning cycle both at country and city level
• Work with cross-functional teams (operations, marketing, finance, procurement, and commercial) to ensure a profitable and flawless execution, and to develop profitability analysis for new ideas/businesses
• Study the viability - reports of investments/projects, strategic reorientation, etc
• Lead cross-functional projects to improve profitability
• Analyze business performance and measure KPIs, identifying issues and potential improvement opportunities
• Prepare and present monthly, quarterly, and annual finance and accounting reports and analyses (P&L and BS).
• Work closely with Global Finance Teams (Billing, Treasury, Accounting, etc) to solve any day-to-day issues and ensure 100% satisfaction of Nigeria’s customers, partners, and couriers in any topic related to finance
• Manage treasury function and ensure optimal cash flow
• Coordinate the preparation of Financial Statements
• Lead the relationship with third parties: external auditors, administrations, external consultants,
• Analyze procedures and external audit - Contributing to the continuous improvement of the processes promoting solutions to possible problems detected and reducing manual tasks
• Optimize the fiscal policy of the company: VAT tax knowledge, IIBB Multilateral Agreement
• Report to the General Manager with a dotted line to the African head of Finance & Strategy

Reqirements

• 6-10+ years of work experience in consulting, investment banking, audit, or corporate finance within a leading company providing teams with the necessary data to make the right decisions & leading major projects 
• Strong working knowledge in manipulating and presenting quantitative data (Excel, Google Spreadsheets, etc.), ability to build flexible and comprehensive reporting templates
• Advanced English
• Strong analytical skills, goal-oriented, and teamwork
• Hands-on and autonomous
• Advanced accounting and finance knowledge
• Ability to influence stakeholders in order to help achieve your goals

Application Closing Date
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