Financial Planning and Reporting Specialist at IDinsight

Job description

Report to

This position will primarily report to and work with the Finance Director based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Responsibilities

The Financial Planning and Reporting Specialist’s responsibilities include, but will not be limited to:

Function: Reporting & Analysis

• Prepare monthly budget monitoring reports for project actuals and forecasts; including explanation of variances.
• Prepare monthly & quarterly financial reports for region and department heads.
• Support regional and functional leaders with timely information and value-added analysis.
• Prepare organization wide reporting, including Global dashboards, and Board of Directors reports, in collaboration with Finance Director and Accounting Manager.

Function: Budgeting & Forecasting

• Create tools for bottom-up budgeting and budget roll-up.
• Assist in creating the annual budget, and quarterly forecast updates.
• Provides support to regional leaders and project managers on budgeting and analysis.
• Works with regional teams to maintain forecast of revenue and cost based on project and staffing pipelines.

Function: Finance Systems

• Manage the time and expense reporting software Replicon
• Assist in establishment of policies and guidelines for project tracking and reporting, in order to ensure accurate and value-added variance reporting against project budgets

Function: Other

• Support Accounting team in preparing monthly, quarterly and annual reporting
• Prepare regional and project cash forecasts
• Act as backup for other finance functions
• Support other global financial and related tasks as and when required

-Nutrition (Ref.2018/064)