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# FP&A Analyst / Associate at Sand Tech Holdings Limited

- **Company:** Sand Tech Holdings Limited
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-02
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/sandtechholdingslimited/jobs/5018963101

## Job description

FP & A Analyst / Associate

Are you an analytical finance professional who enjoys turning complex data into clear business decisions? Join Sand and help shape the financial planning, performance insights and commercial decisions behind a global company using AI to solve humanity’s most pressing challenges.

## About Sand

[Sand](https://www.sandtech.com/) is a global Physical AI company using data and AI to make critical industries work better. We partner with governments, cities and enterprises to improve how essential systems operate across healthcare, water, energy, telecommunications and infrastructure.

Our work delivers proven real-world impact. We have built AI systems that help manage London’s water supply, supported telecom network planning across hundreds of cities, and developed digital healthcare platforms serving tens of millions of people. From intelligent command centers to AI-powered infrastructure platforms, we help organizations sense, analyze and act in complex environments.

Our people are ambitious, curious and relentlessly practical. Our teams work alongside clients in the field, solving hard problems and deploying solutions that last. With colleagues across Africa, Europe, the UK and the US, we operate across the full stack - from research and engineering to deployment and capability building.

Our mission is simple: to harness AI to solve humanity’s most pressing challenges.

## Role Summary

Sand is seeking an FP&A Analyst / Associate to serve as the analytical engine of our Finance team. Working closely with the Head of FP&A and CFO, you will help build and maintain financial plans, track performance against budgets, and deliver the insights management and investors need to understand the business and make informed decisions.

You will also partner with commercial teams on pricing, margins and profitability, translating financial analysis into practical recommendations that support sustainable growth.

This is a high-exposure role for someone who combines strong financial modelling skills with curiosity, commercial judgment and attention to detail. Your work will directly inform senior leadership decisions, and you will have the opportunity to improve how Sand plans, measures performance and allocates resources.

Specific Responsibilities

Budgeting, Forecasting and Performance Tracking

- Support the development, maintenance and improvement of annual budgets, rolling forecasts and long-range financial models.
- Track actual performance against budgets and forecasts, explain key variances, and flag risks and opportunities early.
- Prepare timely, decision-ready analysis for the Head of FP&A and CFO, including scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis.
- Update financial plans as business priorities, assumptions and operating conditions change.

KPIs and Management Reporting

- Own the definition, calculation and tracking of key performance metrics used internally and required by investors.
- Support the preparation of monthly management reports, board materials and investor reporting packs.
- Ensure financial models, reports and underlying systems contain accurate, consistent and reliable data.
- Translate financial and operating results into clear insights on business performance and its key drivers.

Commercial Partnering

- Support commercial teams with pricing, margin and profitability analysis across customers, products, segments and individual deals.
- Evaluate the financial impact of pricing changes, discounts and new commercial proposals.
- Develop clear recommendations that help non-finance stakeholders understand trade-offs and make informed decisions.

Process Improvement and Strategic Analysis

- Streamline and automate recurring reporting, budgeting and forecasting processes.
- Improve the structure, flexibility and usability of financial models and reporting tools.
- Support ad hoc strategic analysis, including business cases, fundraising support, and M&A or investment evaluations.

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Skill Requirements - Essential

- 3–5 years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, corporate development or investment banking.
- Strong financial modelling expertise, including the ability to build clear, flexible and well-structured models from scratch and review existing models for accuracy.
- A degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering or a related quantitative field.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to identify business trends, understand performance drivers and spot inconsistencies in financial data.
- A curious and creative approach to problem-solving, with the ability to challenge assumptions and explore alternative scenarios.
- Clear written, verbal and presentation skills, including the ability to explain complex analysis simply to senior leaders and non-finance stakeholders.
- The ability to work effectively with finance and commercial teams while managing competing priorities.
- High ownership, strong attention to detail and a proactive approach to delivering accurate work in a fast-moving environment.

Skill Requirements - Preferable

- CFA, ACA/CA or a comparable professional qualification.

Work Environment

This is a remote role involving regular collaboration with colleagues across multiple countries and time zones. The successful candidate will be self-driven, comfortable working independently, and proactive in communicating through virtual collaboration tools and video conferencing.

At Sand, you will be encouraged to continually develop your capabilities and pursue learning opportunities and relevant certifications that support your professional growth.

## About Sand Tech Holdings Limited

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sand Tech Holdings Limited builds an AI operating system (SandOS) for managing and optimizing critical infrastructure across water, energy, telecom, healthcare, and government.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Kigali, Rwanda
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (LinkedIn shows active status, but no founding year)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Critical infrastructure management, Physical AI, Industrial software
- **Target customers**: B2B / Enterprise (government utilities, telecom operators, energy companies, healthcare systems)
- **Mission statement**: Build the intelligence layer for the infrastructure billions depend on – water, energy, health, connectivity, cities – making them safer, more reliable, and more accessible.

## Products & Services
- **SandOS**: A unified real-time control layer (SaaS/platform) that combines data, scientific models, and operational intelligence to sense, analyze, and act across complex physical systems. Deployed across water networks, energy grids, telecom networks, healthcare systems, and government operations.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not publicly available; reported to be operating in 18+ countries with zero mission-critical failures.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Trusted by organizations including Southern Company, Thames Water, Telkomsel, MTN, Severn Trent, True (listed on sandtech.com). No investor names publicly disclosed.
- **Growth Signals**: 384 employees (LinkedIn, 2026), presence in 38 countries, rapid deployment at scale in weeks. However, LinkedIn shows -14.7% yearly headcount growth (-79 people), suggesting recent restructuring or contraction.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Physical AI category**: Defines a new category combining data, scientific models, and operational intelligence for critical infrastructure – distinct from generic analytics or IoT platforms.
- **Proven reliability**: Zero mission-critical failures across 18+ countries; case studies cite ~£7M outage saved and 31,000 km of telecom network under unified visibility.
- **Deep domain expertise**: Teams span engineering, research, field operations, and domain experts who work directly with clients in water, energy, telecom, and healthcare.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Expanding SandOS across more geographies and sectors (healthcare, disaster recovery, utilities); building a distributed, field-deployed workforce; investing in AI research (reinforcement learning, network optimization, consequence modeling).
- **Direction**: Continue to scale as the “control layer for society’s most important infrastructure” while maintaining rapid deployment and mission-critical reliability.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “distributed by default” – remote-first with hybrid options where needed. Emphasizes “adventurers” – people willing to go where the problem is, operate in unfamiliar systems and cultures, and find meaning in challenging work.
- **Remote/Hybrid policy**: Most positions remote and globally distributed; some roles require on-site presence depending on project needs. Visa sponsorship handled case-by-case.
- **Notable perks**: Competitive compensation reviewed regularly; health cover designed for distributed/field-based teams; flexible time off; setup & wellbeing stipend; time, budget, and mentorship for continuous learning.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong computer science foundation expected; hiring process includes a role-specific assignment (the most important step); values “no false trade-offs” between technical depth and visible impact.
- **Team diversity**: 384 employees across 38 countries; talent sourced from programs like ExploreAI, ALX Africa, Andela; departments include engineering, research, field operations, product, GTM.

## Sources
1. [sandtech.com](https://www.sandtech.com/) – Company overview, product description, case studies, client logos
2. [LinkedIn – Sand Technologies](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sandtechinc) – Employee count, headcount growth, locations, talent sources
3. [Greenhouse – Sand Tech Holdings Limited](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sandtechholdingslimited) – Current job openings (31 roles)
4. [careers.sandtech.com](https://careers.sandtech.com/faqs/) – FAQs on remote work, hiring process, benefits, visa sponsorship

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