Finance Business Partner

About Andela:

At Andela, we know brilliance is evenly distributed around the world, but opportunity is not. For over 10 years, Andela has connected its customers with top global, remote technical talent from over 135 countries with the majority residing in emerging markets like Africa and Latin America.

As one of the world’s largest talent marketplaces, Andela gives companies greater flexibility to quickly deploy qualified technologists. With talent highly skilled in advanced technologies to support Application Development, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud & DevOps, Data Engineering, and much more, customers experience 33% faster project delivery. The company’s exclusive AI-powered platform, Andela Talent Cloud, is the industry’s only unified platform managing the complete global talent lifecycle and enables customers to fill individual roles or engage fully managed teams up to 66% faster.

Andela is on the precipice of two breakout industry transformations: one in staffing/hiring/assessment and the other in software development, both accelerated by generative AI.

Are you an exceptional, hungry individual interested in scaling businesses through transformation and growth? Join us and change the world.

About the Role:

The FP&A function at Andela is being built from the ground up, and this Manager role is one of its foundational hires. Reporting to the Senior Director of FP&A, you will be the operational core of the finance team, owning the day-to-day planning, storytelling, and insights generation.

This role is for you if you have a strong ownership mentality, growth mindset, and take pride in operational excellence. You enjoy running reliable planning cycles that inform decision making, maintaining models that earn business trust, hold a high bar for accuracy, and producing storytelling that surfaces the right insights at the right time. You will be a key partner to G&A functional leaders.

Exceptional Leadership:

As a member of the Finance team, you’ll serve as a role model for the rest of the company. Think about the feedback your peers typically give you – if it usually sounds like the below, we want to hear from you.

• Low ego, low drama, servant leader:You share credit, take blame. You like being wrong because it means someone else had an even better idea.

• One team mentality: You break silos across teams. You put the company and mission first above your team alone.

• Great listener, hungry for feedback: You’re always seeking to improve – our product, our business, yourself. You solicit diverse opinions and deeply listen.

• Owner, not renter: You see a problem, you fix it or find someone who will. The buck stops with you.

• Player-coach: You fly high (create strategy) AND low (know the details that matter). You roll up your sleeves and get scrappy. You do this without micromanaging, empowering your team while actively engaging in important details.

• Business problem solver. You’re not just a functional expert; you consistently get praise for approaching your function through the lens of solving business problems.

What you will do:

Planning and Forecasting

• Run Andela's core planning cycles end-to-end. Own the operational execution of the annual budget, rolling forecast, and long-range plan

• Maintain and evolve the corporate financial model. Be the owner of Andela's consolidated P&L, headcount, and cash flow model

• Build and run scenario and sensitivity analyses. Support the Senior Director in evaluating strategic tradeoffs and capital allocation decisions by building driver-based scenario models

Reporting and Storytelling:

• Own the monthly financial reporting cadence. Produce the monthly revenue flash, consolidated P&L reporting, and variance analysis

• Support board-ready reporting. Build the underlying analysis and data that feed board presentations, monthly financial updates, and QBRs

Business Partnering:

• Serve as the dedicated finance partner to G&A functions. Own the finance relationship with People/HR, Legal, and Finance (supporting annual budget development, headcount planning, monthly actuals review, and cost management decisions)

• Support GTM and Product business cases. Partner with the Senior Director on business case development and unit economics analysis for growth initiatives, pricing decisions, and expansion opportunities

• Elevate cross-functional finance support. Transform the finance function to be strategic, helping business partners understand their financials to connect day-to-day decisions to overall company OKR’s

Infrastructure and Process

• Build scalable FP&A infrastructure. Own the development and improvement of core FP&A processes, reporting frameworks, and planning workflows. As a foundational hire, you will have significant leverage to shape how the function operates

• Drive data integrity across finance systems. Partner with Accounting and Finance to ensure actuals, forecasts, and plan data are consistent and reconciled across tools. Identify gaps in data quality and drive resolution.

Qualifications:

• Experience: 5–8 years of progressive FP&A or strategic finance experience; prior background in investment banking, high-growth FP&A, or management consulting is a plus. CPA or MBA highly preferred

• Industry fit: SaaS, marketplace, or high-growth tech company strongly preferred; hands-on experience with recurring-revenue or subscription business models a significant advantage

• Financial modelling: significant experience in financial modeling and strategic business planning. Expert-level Excel and/or Google Sheets; ability to build driver-based 3-statement and headcount models from scratch; strong scenario and sensitivity modeling skills.

• Storytelling and reporting: Proven ability to distill complex financial data into clean, executive-ready narratives; strong PowerPoint/Google Slides skills

• Business partnering: Track record as a cross-functional finance partner; consultative approach with strong relationship-building instincts

• Operational excellence: High attention to detail and a strong ownership mindset; ability to work in a fast paced environment and manage multiple workstreams/deadlines without dropping the ball; process-builder mindset

Nice to have:

• Exposure to talent marketplace, staffing, or professional services business models

• Using AI to improve financial operations

• Strong understanding of SQL/Python, with the ability to write complex queries, perform data extraction and manipulation, and maintain data integrity