Career Opportunities at mHealth Kenya - 2 Positions

This position will work closely with the Chief Finance Officer/Business Officer to support all finance activities within the organization.

He/She will be required to shadow the CFO and prepare all necessary documentation for financial transactions as stipulated by USG for funded projects.
The Finance Assistant will also provide administrative support for all operational activities and will support the projects administrator to ensure funds disbursed are properly accounted for prior to submission to the CFO and CEO for sign-off.
 

Key Responsibilities

• Initiate payment instructions and pay program expenditures;
• Manage banking transactions;
• Prepare bi-monthly financial reports;
• Perform periodic bank reconciliations;
• Ensure accurate financial records are maintained in compliance with mHealth Kenya Ltd policies and procedures;
• Prepare monthly field office wire request and budget;
• Enter transactions in QuickBooks;
• Maintain and update accrual information (vacation and severance)
• Maintain tax records and make timely payments;
• Review travel expense reports and other payment requests for approval;
• Track advance payments to ensure clearing of all advances;
• Provide financial guidance to program and administrative staff;
• Assist programs in preparing budgets;
• Perform additional duties as requested.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all M&E activities for mHealth Kenya.
• Maintain and update the M&E system, on an ongoing basis. Generate needed reports to meet donor and other stakeholder requirements.
• Lead implementation of surveys, establish supportive supervision processes, oversee data collection, cleaning and entry procedures as per standard M&E practice at mHealth Kenya and consolidate lessons learned and make suitable recommendations for future program implementation.
• Oversee data collection and monitoring activities at the target regions of the project.
• Ensure program reports are submitted and disseminated in a timely manner, in line with established protocols.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders such as implementing partners, academic institutions, and donors in the area of monitoring and evaluation.
• Provide overall technical guidance and coordination with CDC Project Officer on the implementation of the project monitoring and evaluation system.
• Ensure development and dissemination materials for sharing project related lessons learned and results, in a timely manner and in line with established protocols.
• Manage the design and deployment of potential evaluation activities in coordination with the M&E Officer in Seattle, WA and multi-disciplinary teams.
• Lead design of flexible systems to collect, store and analyze health data from multiple sources.
• Participate in the yearly development of a project work plan, including budgeting.

Required skills

• Demonstrated financial management and accounting skill
• In depth knowledge and experience with USG/USAID financial management, and reporting requirements.
• Working knowledge of US government contracting procedures, regulations, policies is required, including CFR and OMB circulars.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and QuickBooks is required
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Required experience

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, financial management or any other related field
• Part 3 CPA qualification
• Minimum 3 years work experience in project accounting of a USG/USAID funded project is a must

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This position is a dedicated resource for the identification, analysis, communication and documentation of user requirements.

The analyst should possess excellent analytical and data gathering skills.

He/She will work closely with the project stakeholders, the quality assurance specialist and software engineers to ensure requirements are clearly documented and updated as the project matures.

He/She will be responsible to ensure all systems developed are adequately documented and training materials are available to the users both in hard copy and digital versions.
The Business Systems Analyst will work closely with the Technical Director and Chief Operations Officer/Programs Officer to execute his/her duties
 

Key Responsibilities

• Perform gap analysis between current and future state requirements
• Perform analysis, producing documentation as needed.
• Assess scope and determine impacts of scope
• Elicit requirements and develop user stories and business requirements.
• Engaging users and the technology team in order to prioritize system feature requests
• Leverage knowledge and contribute to proper knowledge management within the project
• Provides references for users by writing and maintaining user documentation; and training users
• Act as a key point of contact between end users and technology team.
• Provide insight regarding usability and user experience to guide the development and impact of the products for our customers.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Required skills

• Demonstrated experience with requirements gathering, specification development, and conceptualization of solutions.
• Understands story boarding, use cases, data modelling,
• Must have excellent skills and experience in oral and written communication including analysis, preparation and report presentation.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with an attention to detail
• Experience in the development and implementation of standards, procedures and guidelines to support operational processes
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment, collaborating and sharing ideas
• A willingness to meet new challenges with enthusiasm
• Ability to meet deadlines in fast paced environment
• Experience with electronic health records software is an added advantage
• Experience interacting and working with government officials, preferably within ministries of health and related agencies is an added advantage

Required experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a closely related field
• At least two (2) years of professional experience as a business system analyst with responsibilities that include supporting standards based enterprise wide systems, software development, quality assurance, requirements gathering, and gap analysis.