Enko Education is a fast-growing network of African international schools, increasing access to the world’s best universities for learners across Africa. We offer an inclusive education, of outstanding quality, so that learners can access the world’s best universities and successful careers.

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Director of Finance Operations & Business Efficiency

Job Type

Hybrid

Qualification

BA/BSc/HND

Experience

Location

Nairobi

Job Field

Finance / Accounting / Audit

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy & "Finance 2028" Roadmap: Define and lead a 3-year transformation plan to align our financial organization, systems, and talent with the group’s massive growth ambitions.

Network Finance Oversight: Lead the finance operations of our school network, standardizing processes across all regions to ensure that every school operates with the same level of rigour and transparency.

Industrialization & Shared Services: Design and launch a Finance Shared Service Center to centralize accounting operations, driving significant EBITDA gains and freeing up local school teams to focus on business partnering.

Tech-Stack & Business Efficiency: Act as the strategic lead for Finance systems, harmonizing our software ecosystem to ensure 100% digital workflows and total data consistency between operations and accounting.

Operational Control & "Laser" Diagnostic: Implement automated consistency checks to move the group from manual verification to high-level supervision, identifying "root cause" anomalies in real-time across the baseline.

Leadership & Team Transformation: Mentor a diverse, pan-African team. You will shift their culture from "data-entry" mindsets to proactive "Business Partners" who challenge and influence school leadership, ensuring that every financial decision at the school level is a catalyst for performance.

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for a hybrid leader: a visionary who understands the future of finance, an expert in multi-country operations, and a mentor capable of elevating the standards of a pan-African team.

Your profile in 5 points:

Senior Financial Expertise: Deep experience in multi-country/multi-currency consolidation and financial reporting within complex, fast-paced environments.

Inspirational & Assertive Leader: You possess natural authority and the emotional intelligence to manage diverse, multi-country teams. You don’t just delegate; you build high-performing teams by coaching your managers and setting a clear, exciting vision.

Tech-Champion: You have a natural affinity for technology. You know how to architect a SaaS ecosystem to ensure data flows seamlessly from the schools to the group P&L.

Diagnostic Genius: You possess a "sixth sense" for numbers—you can spot a weak link in a process or a financial statement in minutes and propose a structural solution.

Operational Grit: The ability to shift instantly from board-level strategy to "hands-on" field execution, ensuring that group-wide standards are perfectly executed at the local school level.

• Define and lead a 3-year transformation plan to align our financial organization, systems, and talent with the group’s massive growth ambitions.
• Lead the finance operations of our school network, standardizing processes across all regions to ensure that every school operates with the same level of rigour and transparency.
• Design and launch a Finance Shared Service Center to centralize accounting operations, driving significant EBITDA gains and freeing up local school teams to focus on business partnering.
• Act as the strategic lead for Finance systems, harmonizing our software ecosystem to ensure 100% digital workflows and total data consistency between operations and accounting.
• Implement automated consistency checks to move the group from manual verification to high-level supervision, identifying "root cause" anomalies in real-time across the baseline.
• Mentor a diverse, pan-African team. You will shift their culture from "data-entry" mindsets to proactive "Business Partners" who challenge and influence school leadership, ensuring that every financial decision at the school level is a catalyst for performance.

• Senior Financial Expertise
• Multi-country/multi-currency consolidation and financial reporting
• Inspirational & Assertive Leadership
• Emotional intelligence
• Team building and coaching
• Technology affinity
• SaaS ecosystem architecture
• Data flow harmonization
• Diagnostic skills
• Process improvement
• Operational execution

• BA/BSc/HND
• Deep experience in multi-country/multi-currency consolidation and financial reporting within complex, fast-paced environments.
• Natural authority and emotional intelligence to manage diverse, multi-country teams.
• Ability to architect a SaaS ecosystem.
• Ability to spot weak links in processes or financial statements and propose structural solutions.
• Ability to shift instantly from board-level strategy to "hands-on" field execution.