Finance Manager at Pula
The Manager Finance will play a critical role in overseeing
financial operations, planning, reporting, and risk management at Pula.
Reporting to the Head of Finance, the role is responsible for ensuring robust
financial controls, optimizing financial operations, and supporting strategic
decision-making. The Manager Finance will lead budgeting, financial
forecasting, compliance, and team management while driving efficiency and
scalability within Pula’s financial systems. This position is integral to maintaining
financial integrity, mitigating risks, and supporting Pula’s mission of
expanding agricultural insurance solutions across global markets.
Key Responsibilities
- Budgeting
& Financial Planning: Preparation, supervision, and tracking
of capital and operational budgets as well as financial analysis,
forecasting and modelling
- Financial
reporting – Responsible for preparing and presenting performance
briefs and audited financials in compliance with donor, investor, and
cross-jurisdictional regulatory requirements across Africa and Asia.
- Finance
Operations: Oversee the finance processes including improving our
controls from procurement to payables processes
- Finance
Risk Management: including currency risk management, credit risk
management, liquidity risk management, and operational development
and implementation of the investment policy
- Financial
systems infrastructure: Initiation and implementation of internal
procedures and controls, including purchasing, payments to suppliers,
payroll and expenditure
- Receivables
management: Supervise collection of company debt and maintenance
of debt accounts
- Lead
and develop a high-performing finance team, fostering growth,
accountability, and collaboration.
- Monitor
the banking activities of the organization
- Ensure
adequate cash flow to meet the organization’s needs including cash flow
management, forecasting, and planning
- Monitor
and control expenditures and budgets
- Monitor
and analyze monthly operational results against periods and budget issue
reports to management
- Oversee
Compliance with the Income Tax Act, VAT ACT, and other statutory
deductions across Africa and other regulations when making payments
to employees and suppliers of goods and other services across
- Develop
new and review existing finance / accounting policies and procedures and
ensure any gaps are sealed
Who you are
- Bachelor’s
degree in business, finance, or a related field. MBA preferred.
- Professional
certification such as Certified Public Accountant ( CPA)
- At
least 10 years of work experience with 2 years experience in Management
with specific experience in the Insurance/ Reinsurance sector
preferred.
- Strong
knowledge in corporate financial planning, risk management &
investment strategies
- Strong
knowledge of accounting principles, including IFRS standards (especially
IFRS 17 & IFRS 9), financial regulations & tax regulations
- Strong
analytical skills to interpret large volumes of data, detect anomalies and
assess risks.
- Experience
with financial systems in data-driven organizations; proficiency with Sage
ERP, Excel, and digital reporting tools.
- Excellent
communication, interpersonal & interpersonal skills.
- Experience
working across Africa (and preferably other emerging markets such as Asia
or Latin America) is an added advantage.
- Comfortable
working in a fast-paced, dynamic, and multicultural environment.
- Strong
bias toward ownership, continuous improvement, and hands-on
problem-solving
Project Manager, Partnerships & Consulting at Pula
A detailed job description and roles &
responsibilities for the position is as follows:
Project planning and execution (35%)
- Lead
the planning, scheduling and implementation of Pula’s grant-funded
projects.
- Define
project scope, goals, deliverables, tasks and resource requirements.
- Develop
full-scale project plans, including task sequences and
interdependencies.
- Track
project deliverables and performance of teams using appropriate tools e.g.
Gantt charts, task lists, workflow management software.
- Keep
relevant staff informed about upcoming deadlines, milestones and
deliverables.
- Proactively
discuss project prioritization, business drivers, and potential or actual
risks with the Partnerships team and senior management.
- Host
project meetings and drive task completion to meet delivery timelines with
project teams (Tech, Sales, Actuarial, Operations), including progress
tracking, risk management, initiating changes to the original scope of
work and reviewing checkpoints or milestones.
Reporting and budget management (35%)
- Oversee
invoicing, accounting, financial reporting, paperwork, grant records and
other administrative functions to ensure successful execution of the grant
process.
- Monitor
and report on progress to external stakeholders (donors, partners).
- Author
or contribute to project reports (evaluations, assessments, mapping
exercises).
- Assure
quality and compliance in deliverables by editing/proofreading.
- Provide
information/training to staff on grant deliverables and reporting
requirements.
Stakeholder management (30%)
- Coordinate
with other departments to gather data and support them in producing
analysis that may need to be part of the progress, interim or end line
reports.
- Work
with Pula department heads and team leads to ensure that projects align
with and contribute to the company’s strategy and goals
- Manage
stakeholder relations, including donors and private/public sector
partners
- Plan
and lead regular meetings with donors and other stakeholders to discuss
progress
- Identify
and manage project risks, issues and remediation and ensure these are
communicated and coordinated with the donors.
- Hire
and manage external consultants as needed to execute to specific project
deliverables.
The right applicant would have the following skillset:
- At
least 5 years experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects in
social enterprise, NGO, UN or similar organization.
- Skills
and experience in working with diverse set of stakeholders and building
strong relationships with philanthropic partners.
- Strong
collaborative skills, ability to work with multi cultural and multi
disciplinary teams to deliver to our clients.
- Strong
quantitative and data analytics skills, as well as report writing and
presentation skills.
- You
have the ability to translate complex and challenging concepts into
detailed action plans.
- Exceptional
work ethic and integrity: the ability to self-manage assigned
tasks/deliverables.
- Ability
to prioritize work, meet inflexible deadlines and produce timely, high
quality results.
- Bachelor’s
degree with an outstanding academic record.
- You
are comfortable with GSuite applications (Google Sheets, Google Docs,
G-Slides, etc.).
- You
are comfortable and willing to travel (20% of the time) to customer sites
across Africa.