Finance Digitization & Analytics Analyst (Africa)

Main Purpose Serve as the embedded business-facing BI, business analysis and automation partner for Finance across the Africa region and GCC. The role owns performance measurement and steady-state automation, translates central digitization initiatives into locally embedded self-service tools, and works directly with regional and country Finance teams to define requirements and solve live business problems.

Responsibilities

• It ensures KPI definitions remain aligned with global standards while providing timely, reliable insight.
• This is a regional build-and-run role focused on BI, analytics and Finance process automation rather than data infrastructure ownership.
• Business Analysis & Requirements Work directly with regional Finance leadership, country teams and functional stakeholders to identify business needs, define requirements and translate them into practical analytics and automation solutions.
• Clarify what is required before development begins, reducing delays caused by incomplete or unclear specifications and iterating quickly as business needs evolve.
• & Steady-State Ownership Take ownership of Finance process automations across Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Controlling, FP&A and other Finance areas once initiatives transition from central digitization into business-as-usual.
• Maintain, troubleshoot and incrementally improve these automations without requiring central digitization involvement for routine changes.
• BI & Dashboarding Build and maintain BI dashboards end-to-end, including design, development, testing and iteration against live business questions rather than static specifications.
• Continuously refine dashboards as reporting and decision-support needs evolve, rather than treating them as one-off deliverables.
• Self-Service Analytics Adoption Drive adoption of self-service analytics tools across Finance and relevant business stakeholders.
• Reduce dependency on manual and ad hoc reporting requests by developing reusable, intuitive and well-governed tools.
• Partnership & Escalation Partner with central digitization teams on data engineering, security and architecture matters.
• Escalate complex technical needs, including data-pipeline issues, architecture decisions and security requirements.
• The role owns regional build-and-run delivery but does not independently build or manage data infrastructure.
• Governance Ensure KPI and data definitions remain aligned with global standards while enabling fast, locally relevant solutions.
• Act as the regional point of contact for Finance data-definition queries and disputes, coordinating resolution with relevant global and regional stakeholders.

Requirements

• Technical Strong hands-on capability in Tableau and/or Sigma, including dashboard development, data modelling, calculated fields and performance optimization.
• Working knowledge of SQL, with the ability to query and shape data directly rather than relying only on prepared extracts.
• Working knowledge of data architecture for informed discussions with central digitization and data-engineering teams; this role does not build pipelines.
• Finance Working knowledge of core Finance processes, including Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Controlling and FP&A, sufficient to assess what a KPI should measure and identify likely sources of data-quality issues.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work effectively between central digitization, regional Finance leadership and country teams.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently while embedded in a business team, rather than operating only through a central delivery queue.

Preferred

• Prior exposure to Finance operations, shared services and/or FP&A environments is preferred.
• & Capabilities Typically 5-7 years of relevant experience in BI, analytics engineering, Finance automation or business analysis, with evidence of dashboards or tools used in operational and management decision-making.
• Exposure to Databricks or a comparable modern data platform is an advantage.
• A bias toward iterative delivery, with the ability to work effectively with ambiguous and evolving requirements.
• Experience in a multi-country or regional matrix organisation is an advantage.
• A relevant qualification in Finance, Accounting, Business, Data Analytics, Information Systems or a related field is preferred.