ROLE PROFILE: Senior Analyst: Treasury

About Cellulant

Cellulant is a leading Pan African payments technology company that provides locally relevant and alternative payment methods for global, regional and local merchants.

We provide a single API payments platform - Tingg - that enables businesses to collect payments online and offline while allowing anyone to pay from their mobile money, local and international cards or directly from their bank.

Our Story

Founded in 2003, Cellulant has more than 18 years of experience in providing locally-relevant payment solutions for businesses and their consumers.

Our evolution from a digital content business to mobile banking and now to payments has allowed us to build strong relationships and partnerships. We’ve taken our years of experience and assets acquired over the years to provide a payments platform in the continent that focuses on driving merchant business and digital payments for local, regional and global merchants in the continent, and digitizing both online and offline payments.

Through the years, the Cellulant team has learned, adapted and leveraged their experiences to pivot the business to become the leading payments provider in the continent. We have over 400 staff members, are physically present in 18 countries and we provide our services in 35 countries across Africa. .

Read more about us, our group leadership team and our country champions.

Our Mission:

Our Vision:

To create opportunities that accelerate economic growth for all of Africa.

To enable seamless payments across Africa for businesses, banks and consumers.

At Cellulant, we are not all that hung up on titles, but we know that it is important to one’s career and personal growth.

The title for this roles is:

Senior Analyst: Treasury

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The role is located in:

Cellulant supports hybrid and remote working options.


Nairobi, Kenya.

This particular area at Cellulant is led by:

Reports to: Acting: Group Head Treasury

Your key relationship and stakeholders across the business are:

Key Relationships and Stakeholders:

Treasury, Finance, Sales

Here is a short description of the role and some high-level requirements:


The role will involve supporting settlements, treasury management and treasury reporting

Your core responsibilities in this role will include the following:

We strive to keep things simple yet connected, so expect to be stretched and challenged to work outside of your comfort zone and core tasks from time to time.


  • Ensuring that the settlement amount due to customers are accurate and uploaded in the bank
  • Ensuring that the auto settlements are duly processed accurately and update is done on the settlement tracker
  • Ensuring that the group cash position is updated and accurate
  • Ensuring that the intermarket position is accurately updated and shared with accounting team for booking
  • Ensuring that the FX tracker is accurately updated for all the markets
  • Involvement in cash planning and forecasting
  • Involvement in implementation of treasury management system
  • Liasing with the accounts managers to ensure all settlement issues are addressed across the group
  • Ensuring that the liquidation from alternative payment methods and Aggregators is done across the group

To be successful in this role, it will be to your advantage to have some of the following knowledge and experience:


Must have experience:

  • At least 5 years experience in treasury department
  • Previous experience in Payments/Settlements/Back Office Role
  • Knowledge of different payment types

  • High competency of Outlook, Microsoft Office & Excel
  • Ability to prioritize and manage time efficiently

Experience that will count in your favor:

  • Knowledge on fintech operations
  • Banking experience

Nice to have experience:

  • Experience in TMS implementation

  • We are intent on creating opportunities for all of Africa and we do so with passion, focus and intellect; therefore the following qualifications, skills and personal attributes will be highly advantageous

Qualification:

  • Bcom , Economics or applicable business related course with a GPA of 2.1 (Second class upper )
  • CTP qualification added advantage

Skills:

  • Strong team player with the ability to also work independently
  • An ability to work in a fast moving, pressured environment keeping focus on deadlines and tasks
  • Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively to a wide variety of audiences
  • Act with integrity and confidentiality
  • Planning skills
  • Analytical skills

Personal attributes:

  • Attention to details
  • Self drive
  • A problem solver with good judgment
  • A good and clear communicator who has confidence