Cellulant

Senior Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis

Cellulant

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Cape Town • South Africa

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Lead budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning across the group.
  • Develop driver-based financial models to support decision-making and scenario analysis.
  • Deliver clear performance reporting with actionable commercial insight.
  • Identify risks, opportunities, and value-creation levers across markets and products.
  • Produce monthly executive packs and Board-level materials.
  • Translate complex financial data into concise strategic narratives.
  • Track KPIs across revenue, margin, unit economics, and cash performance.
  • Partner with commercial, product, and operations leaders on pricing corridors and margin optimisation.
  • Assist in capital raising processes including investor materials and financial models.
  • Leverage modern AI and automation tools to improve forecast accuracy, reporting efficiency, and data integrity.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of FP&A, commercial finance, or transaction-driven finance experience.
  • Background in fintech, payments, technology, or high-growth environments preferred.
  • Exposure to Board reporting, forecasting, and business partnering strongly desirable.
  • Exceptionally strong analytical and financial modelling skills.
  • Commercially astute with the ability to connect numbers to strategy.
  • Clear communicator capable of influencing senior stakeholders.
  • Highly driven, intellectually curious, and comfortable operating in ambiguity.
  • Motivated to build in a fast-growth African fintech context.
  • Energised by working directly with executive leadership.
  • Passion for using AI and modern tools to transform finance.
Benefits
  • generous personal time off
  • medical and life insurance benefits (markets permitting)
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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