Regional Finance Business Partner, East Africa

The role

The Regional Finance Business Partner acts as the East Africa Regional Director's right hand for finance matters across Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Uganda. The role provides commercial insight, planning, forecasting, and margin analysis to support profitable growth.

What you will do

• Partner with the Regional Director and leadership team on financial and commercial decisions
• Lead the regional budget and forecast within the Group Finance framework
• Analyse pricing and profitability by customer, product, channel and market
• Build the financial framework for the hub and retail strategy
• Prepare and challenge business cases for new ventures, channels, locations, partnerships and products
• Forecast regional working capital and cash flow
• Turn Group and market actuals into concise regional insight
• Act as the MD's senior Finance interface to coordinate with various finance functions
• Represent East Africa business requirements in SAP, reporting, BI, and planning initiatives

Required qualifications

• Strong commercial-finance and business-partnering experience, ideally multi-country
• Proven capability in financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting, pricing and investment analysis
• Ability to move comfortably between strategy and numbers
• Ability to challenge senior stakeholders constructively
• Ability to explain complex issues simply
• Ability to work effectively in a matrix organization
• Broad finance judgement to frame accounting, tax, treasury and control questions
• Advanced Excel/modelling skills

Nice to have

• Experience with ERP, SAP, BI and financial-planning tools

About the company

LIONPRO is a second-generation, family-owned trading company with over 30 years of experience connecting animal feed, pet food, and aquaculture ingredients with customers globally. The company operates across 4 continents and 50+ countries.