Corporate Finance & Treasury Analyst

The Corporate Finance & Treasury Analyst is a dual-mandate role supporting the Corporate Finance Manager through a mix of analytical, deadline-driven tasks (financial modeling, covenant compliance, investor/lender reporting) and fixed operational routines (managing d.light's funding structures and daily/weekly/monthly group liquidity). Designed for an analytically strong, highly organized professional, the position offers exposure to structured and off-balance-sheet finance, debt capital markets, and multi-market treasury management, requiring comfort with both project-based analysis and strict calendar obligations.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Stream A — Corporate Finance
• Financial Modelling & Analysis
• Develop and maintain robust financial models to support fundraising, strategic planning and investment decisions.
• Conduct macroeconomic research and maintain up-to-date financial model assumptions.
• Perform scenario analysis, sensitivity testing and stress testing to assess financial risks and opportunities.
• Prepare financial forecasts and valuation models for strategic initiatives.
• Build and maintain the medium- and long-term liquidity and funding plan.
• Track actual business outcomes against strategic objectives, highlighting adverse deviations for timely corrective action.
• Covenant Compliance & Lender Reporting
• Calculate, track and forecast financial covenant compliance across all facilities.
• Prepare compliance certificates and other reporting deliverables required under funding agreements.
• Prepare regular reports, presentations and dashboards for lenders, investors and financial partners.
• Ensure compliance with financial reporting
• Stream B — Treasury Operations
• Receivable Finance & SPV Operations
• Manage the monthly sale of new receivables into the receivable financing SPVs across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria and Zambia to unlock cash receipts in a timely fashion.
• Ensure daily cash sweeps to the SPVs are executed in compliance with the related agreements and maintain the supporting compliance evidence.
• Support receivable eligibility testing and proactively work to maximize the advance rate against eligible receivables.
• Liquidity Framework & Cash Discipline
• Consolidate OpCo cash submissions into the group rolling cash flow forecast, challenge the inputs, and explain variance against forecast.
• Maintain cash generation and cash conversion KPI reporting by country and channel, making cash flow drivers visible to OpCo finance leads and management teams as well as the Group ExCo.
• Produce the weekly liquidity flash reports, liquidity governance pack and supporting cash dashboards to country financial controllers and management teams.
• Continuously monitor minimum cash thresholds and escalation triggers and immediately escalate projected shortfalls.
• Debt, FX & Banking Administration
• Maintain the group debt register, including facility terms, drawdown schedules, pricing and repayment calendars.
• Calculate and schedule interest and principal payments, and ensure timely settlement of all debt service obligations.
• Monitor foreign exchange exposures and execute currency conversions and hedging instruments strictly within the Board-approved hedging mandate, maintaining complete hedge documentation.
• Administer bank accounts, mandates, signatories, KYC documentation and banking platform access across the group.
• Monitor counterparty exposure against approved limits and bank charges against agreed tariffs.
• Qualifications &

Requirements

• arising from funding agreements.
• Fundraising & Investor Support
• Support the execution of debt and equity fundraising activities.
• Prepare investor presentations, investment memorandums and due diligence materials.
• Maintain the data room and coordinate responses to investor and lender information requests.
• Model the impact of proposed facility terms, pricing and structures on the group’s capital structure, cash flows and covenant headroom.
• Bachelors Degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business Administration or a related field.
• CFA/CPA/ACCA/CA or equivalent qualification is mandatory.
• A treasury qualification (ACT CertT/AMCT, CTP or equivalent) is a strong added advantage.
• 5 - 8 years of
• arising from funding agreements.
• Support the execution of debt and equity fundraising activities.
• Prepare investor presentations, investment memorandums and due diligence materials.
• Maintain the data room and coordinate responses to investor and lender information requests.
• Model the impact of proposed facility terms, pricing and structures on the group’s capital structure, cash flows and covenant headroom.
• Manage the monthly sale of new receivables into the receivable financing SPVs across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria and Zambia to unlock cash receipts in a timely fashion.
• Ensure daily cash sweeps to the SPVs are executed in compliance with the related agreements and maintain the supporting compliance evidence.
• Support receivable eligibility testing and proactively work to maximize the advance rate against eligible receivables.
• Consolidate OpCo cash submissions into the group rolling cash flow forecast, challenge the inputs, and explain variance against forecast.
• Maintain cash generation and cash conversion KPI reporting by country and channel, making cash flow drivers visible to OpCo finance leads and management teams as well as the Group ExCo.
• Produce the weekly liquidity flash reports, liquidity governance pack and supporting cash dashboards to country financial controllers and management teams.
• Continuously monitor minimum cash thresholds and escalation triggers and immediately escalate projected shortfalls.
• Maintain the group debt register, including facility terms, drawdown schedules, pricing and repayment calendars.
• Calculate and schedule interest and principal payments, and ensure timely settlement of all debt service obligations.
• Monitor foreign exchange exposures and execute currency conversions and hedging instruments strictly within the Board-approved hedging mandate, maintaining complete hedge documentation.
• Administer bank accounts, mandates, signatories, KYC documentation and banking platform access across the group.
• Monitor counterparty exposure against approved limits and bank charges against agreed tariffs.
• Financial modelling
• Valuation
• Corporate finance principles
• Banking platforms operation
• Treasury transactions execution
• Multi-currency management
• Structured finance
• Securitization
• Receivables financing
• Lender covenant reporting
• Emerging markets

Experience

• spanning both corporate finance analysis and treasury or finance operations. Candidates with depth in only one of the two streams are unlikely to succeed in this role.
• Strong
• in financial modelling, valuation and corporate finance principles.
• Hands-on
• operating banking platforms and executing settlement and treasury transactions in a controlled and automated environment.
• working across multiple currencies, entities and banking jurisdictions.
• Exposure to structured, securitization or receivables financing structures, and to lender covenant reporting, is strongly preferred.
• in emerging markets, and familiarity with mobile money and local currency control regimes, is an advantage.
• Mobile money familiarity
• Local currency control regimes familiarity
• Bachelors Degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business Administration or a related field.
• CFA/CPA/ACCA/CA or equivalent qualification is mandatory.
• A treasury qualification (ACT CertT/AMCT, CTP or equivalent) is a strong added advantage.
• bachelor degree
• 12
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Benefits

• Competitive Remuneration
• Medical Cover
• Pension Scheme
• Develop and maintain robust financial models to support fundraising, strategic planning and investment decisions.
• Conduct macroeconomic research and maintain up-to-date financial model assumptions.
• Perform scenario analysis, sensitivity testing and stress testing to assess financial risks and opportunities.
• Prepare financial forecasts and valuation models for strategic initiatives.
• Build and maintain the medium- and long-term liquidity and funding plan.
• Track actual business outcomes against strategic objectives, highlighting adverse deviations for timely corrective action.
• Calculate, track and forecast financial covenant compliance across all facilities.
• Prepare compliance certificates and other reporting deliverables required under funding agreements.
• Prepare regular reports, presentations and dashboards for lenders, investors and financial partners.
• Ensure compliance with financial reporting