Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, January 23 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Your Mission
SHONA is currently implementing a portfolio of projects under our AgriFood Founders Program, supporting entrepreneurs who are building Agroecological Enterprises or Regenerative Agriculture businesses or Circular Agribusinesses that are contributing to a sustainable food system in East Africa.

We are looking to strengthen our team with Senior Business Analysts whose role will range from leading the identification of the right enterprises and leading our support to these enterprises to help them grow.

We are looking to add up to three Senior Business Analysts to our team.

Key Responsibilities
• Recruitment and Selection: Support the identification of the right businesses to partner with.
• Business Diagnostics: Lead the review of business models and other data sets of the selected businesses including market segmentation, positioning, competitor analysis, industry trends, practice of agroecology, regenerative agriculture or circular agribusiness etc to assess business health and identify operational and strategic gaps and growth opportunities and draft reports with recommendations for improvement.
• Financial Analysis: Analyze business financials, strategies and operational systems and design excel dashboards and scorecards that provide visibility into KPIs, effectiveness of current strategies and key business trends or drivers.
• Financial Modeling: Build financial models and analyze pricing models, unit economics and capitalization tables to support the decision analysis on potential participants in the program and future investments into SMEs.
• Industry Research and Analysis: Research and conduct sectoral and industry analysis,and develop insights to support acceptance of businesses into our programs and investment decisions into businesses. This will also involve validating our selection criteria to ensure relevant data points are tracked from the beginning of the program.
• Reporting and Analysis: Collect and analyze financial and operational data sets from program SMEs to develop and deliver/present reports identifying positive and negative trends, notable risks, opportunities for revenue growth and propose actionable recommendations for improvement to management teams.
• Business Planning: Support management teams to develop and implement strong business plans by scrutinizing strategic directions, including market segmentation, positioning, competitor analysis, industry trends, etc
• Curriculum Quality Assurance: Ensuring the design and execution of the curriculum is aligned with and meeting the needs of the businesses in their respective market contexts.
• Account Management and entrepreneur engagement: As part of your role, you are expected to lead account management, working closely with assigned businesses and entrepreneurs to ensure key deliverables are met and the businesses benefit from the initiative. This may include travel to the location of the businesses.
• Impact Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning. Maintain an up to date project impact data dashboard. You are expected to update it regularly to support project performance as per the results’ framework. You will do this by regularly gathering and accurately analysing entrepreneur data (qualitative and quantitative) related to revenue, profitability, investment, value chain activities and their transition to Agroecology.
• Entrepreneurial Stories of change are an integral part of this data being gathered.
• Entrepreneur database maintenance. Coordinate and maintain the entrepreneur information on a shared drive to ensure the smooth running of the project, and SHONA’s business development activities.
• Doing whatever it takes to support project teams and the businesses we work with: We are a small entrepreneurial team that steps up when there is work to be done. At times, you'll be expected to work outside of just your role to contribute to our team's overall efforts.

Qualifications
Education/Work Experience
● Bachelor's degree majoring in business, finance, accounting or economics preferred
● At least 5 years experience in banking, accounting, management consulting and investment advisory
● Experience working with Agribusinesses

Skills + Capabilities
● Highly numerical and analytical i.e you are very comfortable with numbers and able to analyze large sets of qualitative and quantitative data
● Highly proficient with excel, MS Word and MS Powerpoint. Proficiency with Power PBI is an added advantage.
● You have experience stepping into ambiguous and disorganized situations and bringing structure.
● You have experience building financial models, cap tables and conducting quantitative and qualitative financial analysis.
● You have experience in developing business plans, building and managing dashboards and analyzing data from diverse sources.
● You have strong communication skills i.e ability to write and present investment memoranda in both written and oral communication
● You have experience working on teams with diverse cultures.
● You are able to quickly build rapport and maintain strong relationships with teams, entrepreneurs, partners and investors
● You are able to coach and support entrepreneurs to finding their own solutions to challenges
● You have the ability to strategically think and interact with management teams to prepare, understand and present analytical reports

SHONA Foundational Skills
These are core foundational skills that apply to all members of our team.
● Independence/Self Starter - Ability to assess and initiate things independently. Ability to manage a growing task/project without much guidance or structure. A person who is sufficiently motivated or ambitious to work on their own initiative without needing direction. Shows Initiative and is proactive in taking action.
● Business Acumen - Ability to understand how a business operates and makes money, and to proactively anticipate, navigate and leverage trends impacting the business.
● Proven at accomplishing results - Diligent executor, result driven and methodical in their execution.
● Team collaborator - Ability to work as a team to achieve the common goal.
● Life-long learner - Has a growth mindset, is curious and demonstrates a commitment to continued learning and development
● Intellectual curiosity - The desire to want to know more, to poke around in blind spots and new areas, to make connections between different challenges and opportunities to cross-pollinate ideas.
● Resilience and perseverance - The ability to thrive in a variety of circumstances.
● High emotional intelligence - Self-aware, self-regulated, strong interpersonal skills, curious about people and empathetic.
● Relationship building - Ability to quickly build rapport and engagement with people, including listening and clear communication.
● Analytical skills - Ability to collect, gather, visualize and analyze information in detail and see a problem or situation from different points of view. Analytical skills allow you to solve complex problems by making decisions in the most effective way.
● Project management - Ability to plan, execute, coordinate - leading to completion of the work of a team, achieving specific goals and meet specific success criteria in the required timeframe
● Technology Savvy - Ability to use a computer and online tools to support effective delivery of SHONA work, including but not limited to Google Drive, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint and Email.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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