The company opened its first manufacturing facility in Mombasa, Kenya, in 1962, rapidly widening its reach to include further countries in East Africa, and then Southern Africa. In 2003, all operating companies were reversed into the current holding company called Safal Investments Mauritius Limited and conduct its business across Africa as the Safal Grou...

Financial Planning & Forecasting

• Lead the annual budgeting and rolling forecast processes across Group entities.
• Coordinate budget submissions and challenge assumptions to ensure alignment with Group strategy.
• Consolidate and present Group budgets, forecasts, and long-range plans.
• Monitor forecast accuracy and recommend corrective actions.

Management Reporting & Performance Analytics

• Prepare monthly Group management reports with analysis against Budget, Rolling Estimates, Prior Year and Strategic Plans.
• Develop and maintain executive dashboards and KPI scorecards.
• Conduct profitability, margin, working capital, and return-on-investment analyses.
• Provide actionable insights on financial and operational performance trends.

Business Performance Management

• Support quarterly and annual business reviews with management and business unit leadership.
• Identify areas requiring intervention.
• Benchmark entity performance against internal and external metrics.

Risk Management & Governance

• Identify financial and operational risks impacting business performance.
• Monitor compliance with Group financial policies and reporting standards.
• Escalate material financial, operational, and governance concerns to the Group CFO.

Strategic Support

• Support M&A evaluations, capital investment reviews, business cases, and strategic initiatives.
• Conduct scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis.
• Support ExComm and BRM reporting requirements.

Systems & Automation

• Drive reporting automation and process improvements.
• Leverage SAP, BI tools, AI-enabled analytics, and reporting technologies to improve efficiency and quality of insights.

Qualifications required:

• Minimum academic qualification: CPA/ ACCA/ ACA or equivalent
• Qualifications as an added advantage: MBA
• Professional registration: Yes

Experience required:

• General work experience (years): 12 to 15 years
• Post Qualification experience (years): 8-10 Years

Industry: Manufacturing

Key competencies and skills:

Technical Competencies

• Financial Planning & Analysis
• Financial Modelling
• Rolling Forecasting
• Business Performance Management
• Scenario Analysis
• Capital Investment Analysis
• Budgetary Control
• Data Analytics and Visualization
• Business Intelligence Reporting

Leadership Competencies

• Strategic Thinking
• Business Partnering
• Stakeholder Management
• Influencing Skills
• Executive Presentation Skills
• Commercial Acumen
• Change Management

Language requirements: English

Computer literacy:

• Advanced Microsoft Excel, Power BI and PowerPoint skills.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA or equivalent ERP systems.
• Experience with financial planning and consolidation tools.
• Practical use of AI-enabled productivity and analytics tools to enhance reporting, forecasting, and business decision support.

Key Success Measures

• Timeliness and accuracy of monthly reporting.
• Budget and forecast accuracy.
• Quality of decision-support analysis.
• Identification and mitigation of business risks.
• Improvement in reporting automation and efficiency.
• Stakeholder satisfaction and business partnering effectiveness.
• Delivery of strategic finance initiatives.

Personality profile:

The candidate should demonstrate the following qualities

• Interpersonal skills : Team-working, conflict management and influencing/negotiating
• Business skills : Good understanding of the organization’s objectives, operations, market environment and ethical issues
• Leadership and project management skills: Leading others, managing resources and delegating effectively
• Good Communication skills: Written, oral and presentational skills, and communicating effectively with non-finance people
• Problem-solving skills: Taking a critical and methodical approach when problem solving
• Risk management skills: Understanding the sources of risk, and evaluating risks and methods for their control and mitigation

Encourages innovative thinking within the context of professional scepticism

Thinks proactively about the future, applying professional judgement and commercial intelligence and seeks specialist input when needed

Additional/specific work requirements:

• High Integrity Levels
• Financial industry, accounting principles and regulatory guidelines.

• Lead the annual budgeting and rolling forecast processes across Group entities.
• Coordinate budget submissions and challenge assumptions to ensure alignment with Group strategy.
• Consolidate and present Group budgets, forecasts, and long-range plans.
• Monitor forecast accuracy and recommend corrective actions.
• Prepare monthly Group management reports with analysis against Budget, Rolling Estimates, Prior Year and Strategic Plans.
• Develop and maintain executive dashboards and KPI scorecards.
• Conduct profitability, margin, working capital, and return-on-investment analyses.
• Provide actionable insights on financial and operational performance trends.
• Support quarterly and annual business reviews with management and business unit leadership.
• Identify areas requiring intervention.
• Benchmark entity performance against internal and external metrics.
• Identify financial and operational risks impacting business performance.
• Monitor compliance with Group financial policies and reporting standards.
• Escalate material financial, operational, and governance concerns to the Group CFO.
• Support M&A evaluations, capital investment reviews, business cases, and strategic initiatives.
• Conduct scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis.
• Support ExComm and BRM reporting requirements.
• Drive reporting automation and process improvements.
• Leverage SAP, BI tools, AI-enabled analytics, and reporting technologies to improve efficiency and quality of insights.

• Financial Planning & Analysis
• Financial Modelling
• Rolling Forecasting
• Business Performance Management
• Scenario Analysis
• Capital Investment Analysis
• Budgetary Control
• Data Analytics and Visualization
• Business Intelligence Reporting
• Strategic Thinking
• Business Partnering
• Stakeholder Management
• Influencing Skills
• Executive Presentation Skills
• Commercial Acumen
• Change Management
• Advanced Microsoft Excel, Power BI and PowerPoint skills.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA or equivalent ERP systems.
• Experience with financial planning and consolidation tools.
• Practical use of AI-enabled productivity and analytics tools to enhance reporting, forecasting, and business decision support.
• Team-working, conflict management and influencing/negotiating
• Good understanding of the organization’s objectives, operations, market environment and ethical issues
• Leading others, managing resources and delegating effectively
• Written, oral and presentational skills, and communicating effectively with non-finance people
• Taking a critical and methodical approach when problem solving
• Understanding the sources of risk, and evaluating risks and methods for their control and mitigation

• CPA/ ACCA/ ACA or equivalent
• MBA (added advantage)
• Professional registration: Yes