Job Title: Technical Assistant
Client: Oakwood Green Africa
Industry: Financial Services
Location: Ghana
Job Purpose/summary
As the Technical Assistant, your role will be to enhance the efficiency of the executive office by connecting to the organizational projects (internal and external), manage critical business information, manage calendars to ensure meetings are effective through prompt material inputs and as well as ensuring action initiatives are implemented.
Key Functions/Responsibilities
- Participate in conducting in-depth financial analyses to assist management in evaluating the profitability of investment decisions, income streams as well as the potential for cost efficiencies.
- Collaborate with financial planning and forecasting processes that support the formulation of robust business strategies and operational plans by the group leadership,
- Design and apply financial models and frameworks to interpret and simulate the validity of investment decisions
- Develop valuation metrics for financial and strategic analysis of business and operational performance data for the Group and Subsidiaries.
- Evaluate business fundamentals, industry trends (local and global), market performance, and strategic opportunities to enable the group to meet its short-, medium- and long-term goals and objectives
- Conducting research & analyses of operational effectiveness, processes, stakeholders, etc across the group & subsidiary entities.
- Providing analysis of the impact of macro and micro-economic trends on the group’s corporate and regional strategies, drawing from available internal and external sources
- Providing strategic views on key issues for the group, reflecting latest understanding of global economic trends and development thinking,
- Researching global jurisdictions, key markets, competitors and emerging trends to scope new business opportunities
- Assist in researching global jurisdictions, key markets, competitors and emerging trends to scope new business opportunities
- Support the identification of growth opportunities and requisite partnerships/acquisition targets
- Take minutes of meetings and action item initiatives during (internal/external) meetings and sessions.
- Supporting the executive decision-making processes.
- Managing information flow in a timely and accurate manner
- Support with performing financial valuations and due diligence of potential opportunities.
- Identifying growth opportunities and requisite partnerships/acquisition targets, and performing financial valuations and due diligence of potential opportunities
- Provide analysis to assist with understanding key business drivers that influence the overall performance of the organization at the local and global levels.
- Evaluate business fundamentals, industry trends (local and global), market performance and strategic opportunities to enable the Organization meet its short-, medium- and long-term goals and objectives.
- Developing and overseeing initiatives that build corporate capabilities e.g., environmental scanning, industry benchmarking, and functional planning.
- Support the development of business cases to articulate the value/ROI of such opportunities.
- Maintain various records and documents for company executive(s)
- Identifying growth opportunities and requisite partnerships/acquisition targets, and performing financial valuations and due diligence of potential opportunities
- Ability to prepare deal memos, IMs, teasers, and other relevant corporate finance documentations.
- Developing business cases to articulate the value/ROI of such opportunities.
- Creating financial models to evaluate such opportunities
- Presenting recommendations, analyses, proposals, etc. to senior and executive management
- Perform ad hoc analysis projects and prepare presentations for the Chief Executive Officer
- Contribute to the development of corporate publications, e.g., Annual Report, Yearly Market Review, Board papers, etc.
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure project requirement are provided timely.
- Contribute to the design and development of Board Meetings across the group and sub entities and sessions information packs, reports metrics and other requested information.
- Establish and maintain relationships with external third parties- consultants, research partners, etc.
- Liaise with Executive office members to ensure the CEO’s schedules are efficiently managed.
Qualifications & Experience
Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Economics, or Business Administration is required.
- A Master’s degree in Economics, Business Administration or a relevant field is an added / critical advantage
- 10+ years of proven professional and hands-on experience in consulting, financial services, financial institutions or across the financial services space in either public or private corporate organizations.
- Knowledge of appropriate software including MS Office suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, etc.) and other Project related software (JIRA, Asana, etc).
Desired:
- Relevant Certification related to financial services e.g. (CFA, ACCA.)
- Demonstrated prior “hands-on” operational experience managing and delivering complex projects.
- Strong research, reports design and reporting management