Business Analyst

About Us

AECF (Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund) is a leading non-profit development organization supporting innovative agribusiness and renewable energy enterprises to reduce rural poverty, promote resilient communities, and create jobs.

We catalyze the private sector by surfacing and commercializing new ideas, business models, and technologies designed to increase agricultural productivity, improve farmer incomes, expand clean energy access, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and improve resilience to the effects of climate change. We finance high-risk businesses that struggle to access commercial funding. We are committed to working in frontier markets, fragile contexts, and high-risk economies where few mainstream financing institutions dare to go.

Over 17 years, we have supported 536 businesses in 27 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, impacted more than 36 million lives, created over 35,000 direct jobs, and leveraged US$840 million in matching funds.

The Role

The Business Analyst will be responsible for the sector’s performance. This includes providing performance and decision-making support for the Agribusiness sector against the set targets and KPIs per the approved program plan for the year.

The role-holder will develop and maintain the sector’s reporting to ensure the achievement of annual performance targets. They will build dashboards and reports at the program level that will facilitate thorough analysis of outcomes to better understand how well we meet our strategic objectives.

The incumbent will guide budget spending and cost monitoring for the different programs and ensure adherence to donor requirements.

The role will report to the Associate Director - Agribusiness.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic:

• Support the Associate Director in program implementation, including developing sector insight to support execution and business envelopment.
• Consolidating and ensuring delivery of the weekly program management dashboard report for the Agriculture Sector.
• Support and review all investment memos and ensure compliance with AECF investment policies and donor requirements.
• Identify key impact realization risks inherent at the program level and work with relevant program teams to correct courses.
• Development of Strategic reviews- Operational review board meeting reports.

Operational:

• Issue weekly and monthly performance reports against targets across all program KPIs, review activity outcomes, and highlight what is required to deliver against lagging KPIs.
• Carry out monthly performance stress-testing of planned disbursements and portfolio construction targets, identifying gaps that need to be fixed. Implement strategies/initiatives to plug these gaps.
• Ensure all audit issues raised that affect program performance have been effected and measures put in place to prevent their re-occurrence.
• Prepare inputs for presentations required for the sector at various forums, management forums, donor reports, etc.
• Operate in a manner that is quick to solve and agile, particularly in response to ad hoc requests and requirements.

Suitable candidates should:

• Possess a bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting/economics or a business-related field.
• Possess professional qualification in CPA/ACCA or Agriculture Value chain analysis.
• Have at least five(5) years of experience in a commercial role and agriculture sector.
• Have a high degree in analytical skills, good knowledge of value chain analysis, process and detail orientation.
• Have good communication and influencing skills and be a team player.
• Be able to work with change and have the ability to set Targets and Monitor performance.