Senior Manager, FP&A

About Penda Health

Founded in 2012, Penda Health is committed to delivering high-quality, trustworthy, and patient-centred healthcare to Kenyan families. With 19 medical centres located in neighbourhoods across Kenya—and a growing virtual care platform, Pigia Penda—we make quality healthcare accessible, affordable, and convenient.

At Penda, patients come first. We listen closely to patient feedback, invest in tech-enabled systems to improve care delivery, and work with trusted partners to build healthcare solutions for the future. Our licensed, caring, and friendly medical teams are dedicated to getting patients back on their feet as quickly as possible, without overpaying.

We’re also proud to be a great place to work—bringing together passionate local and international professionals who go above and beyond every day to serve individuals, families, and communities. If you believe healthcare should be human, reliable, and accessible, you’ll feel at home at Penda Health.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis, to provide analytical and strategic support across Penda Health’s finance function, driving the translation of financial data into actionable insight.

The role ensures that leadership, investors, and the Board have clear visibility into performance trends, financial health, and key business drivers. Through robust financial modelling, scenario analysis, and variance tracking, the FP&A Analyst connects daily operations to long-term financial strategy, enabling smarter, faster, and more confident decision-making.

Reporting to the Head of Finance, this role partners closely with accounting, operations, and senior leadership to strengthen Penda’s financial planning, forecasting, and reporting systems. The FP&A Analyst plays a critical role in building and maintaining performance dashboards, supporting annual and rolling budgets, preparing investor and Board materials, and ensuring data integrity across all financial processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Modelling and Forecasting

  • Maintain and continuously refine Penda’s financial models that support short-, medium-, and long-term planning.

  • Ensure all models are fully linked, error-checked, and capable of flexing key assumptions (e.g., growth rates, pricing, headcount, and cost structure).

  • Produce monthly rolling forecasts that anticipate performance trends and inform management actions. Reconciles forecasts to actuals with clear commentary explaining deviations.

  • Run scenario simulations on growth, funding, cost containment, and margin levers to assess potential outcomes under different assumptions, and present clear visual and narrative summaries to guide trade-off decisions.

  • Incorporate new branch openings, capex plans, financing rounds, and structural shifts into the financial models as they occur, collaborating with various departments to validate model inputs and timings to ensure they align with real-world data and strategic direction.

  • Maintain detailed documentation for every model assumption, input source, and calculation logic.

  • Perform regular stress tests (liquidity crunch, revenue dips, delayed expansion) to assess financial resilience. Communicate results in clear, actionable terms for risk management and strategy alignment.

  • Translate model outputs into compelling insights and recommendations for management action, and build concise visuals (charts, ratios, scenarios) for leadership and investor decks.

• Budgeting and Performance Tracking

  • Support the Head of Finance in the full budgeting cycle by collaborating with department leads to translate operational plans into detailed financial projections.

  • Support the preparation and organisation of key financial data, including departmental and individual Medical Centre P&Ls, CAPEX projections, and other relevant inputs, to enable efficient cross-departmental planning and informed decision-making.

  • Translate approved budgets into reporting templates, including the MA (Management Accounting) framework, and ensure ongoing alignment of actuals to budget.

  • Ensure all budget inputs are accurate, timely, and aligned with strategic priorities.

  • Facilitate bi-annual budget reviews to incorporate emerging business realities and operational shifts.

  • Build and Institutionalize systems and routines that surface structural opportunities to improve margin efficiency through data-driven analysis of key levers such as labour productivity, cost utilisation, and resource allocation.

  • Translate insights into actionable initiatives that enhance operational performance and long-term financial resilience.

• Investor and Board Reporting

  • Prepare monthly, quarterly and ad hoc investor and Board decks that synthesise Penda’s financial and operational performance into a clear, visually engaging narrative.

  • Ensure investor and Board materials maintain the highest data accuracy and internal consistency. Collaborate with accounting, operations, and HR teams to cross-verify figures before publication.

  • Develop and maintain dynamic dashboards for leadership and the Board to track financial health, growth metrics, and operational efficiency in real time.

  • Support leadership with deep-dive analyses that explore emerging trends, investment opportunities, or financial risks.

  • Translate data into clear recommendations supported by robust financial modelling.

  • Provide succinct, high-impact commentary linking numbers to strategy, operational performance, and future outlook.

  • Support cross-departmentally with external financial reporting requirements, including donor/grant reporting, investor updates, and lender compliance packages.

• Systems, Processes, and Analytical Discipline

  • Maintain data integrity between accounting (Xero), Power BI, and FP&A models.

  • Partner with accounting to ensure month-end close data is structured for analysis.

  • Streamlines workflows within forecasting, budgeting, and performance reporting to reduce reporting lag and improve accuracy.

  • Collaborates with Accounting to ensure alignment between budget reporting and Actuals reporting structures, maintaining consistency across the organisation’s reporting architecture.

  • Introduce new analytical tools and performance benchmarks to enhance FP&A maturity.

  • Conduct periodic reviews of forecasting accuracy, data systems, and model reliability.

  • Ensure FP&A practices align with internal financial controls, data privacy standards, and audit readiness.

  • Supports group-level audit outcomes by validating Mauritius and Kenya entity financial linkages, ensuring consolidation accuracy across the group.

  • Provides analytical validation and variance commentary to support group audit reviews and investor reporting.

• Culture & Collaboration

  • Lead and model Penda’s culture of accountability, integrity, and continuous improvement

  • Follow through on commitments and flag issues early to maintain trust and reliability.

  • Ensure cross-functional collaboration by translating financial implications into an operational context for other teams.

  • Represent the finance team in cross-departmental initiatives and embody Penda’s values in leadership and execution.

  • Serve as a thought partner to the Head of Finance and contribute to big-picture discussions on company strategy, investments, and resource allocation.

  • Actively seek feedback and apply it to improve deliverables, teamwork, and self-awareness.

  • Maintain open and effective communication channels within the finance team and with other departments, ensuring that important information is shared promptly.

  • Be part of the Penda story and show that by actively helping other parts of Penda

Key Qualifications, Skills & Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related analytical field.

• CPA (K), ACCA, CFA Level II, or equivalent professional qualification required.

• Minimum 6 years of progressive finance experience, with at least 2 years in FP&A, financial modelling, or strategic finance roles.

• Experience supporting executive or Board-level decision-making and leading cross-functional financial planning cycles strongly preferred.

• Proven ability to bridge strategic insight and operational execution.

• Ability to move fluently between model-building, forecasting, and real-world business decision support.

• Strong command of financial analysis, forecasting, and variance reporting, ideally within multi-site, service, or healthcare-oriented organisations.

• Experience with investor or board reporting, including preparation of high-quality decks and performance commentary.

• Ability to simplify complex analysis for non-finance audiences and influence decision-making through clarity.

• Hands-on familiarity with ERP systems, Xero, Power BI, and advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills

• Demonstrated strength in financial modelling, scenario analysis, and data-driven insight generation.

• Comfortable analysing large datasets and translating results into actionable recommendations for leadership.

• Strong grasp of budgeting and performance tracking frameworks; able to identify trends and propose improvements in real time.

• Highly organised and detail-oriented, with a bias toward execution and continuous improvement.

• Comfortable working independently while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.