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  • Posted: Mar 26, 2018
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    One Acre Fund is a nonprofit organization that supplies smallholder farmers in East Africa with asset-based financing and agriculture training services to reduce hunger and poverty.
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    Finance Advisory Specialist

    Job Description

    The Finance Advisory Services (FAS) team is made up of in-country and global analysts that are the trusted advisors to the country and department leadership in the area of financial sustainability. Taking vast amounts of financial intelligence from budgets, spending patterns and project work plans, FAS provides concise, actionable advice around how to allocate resources to best achieve the country’s and department's scale and financial goals.

    To help achieve this, the Financial Analyst will work across functions on budgeting and quantitative analysis to give strategic advice. We are looking for someone with leadership potential and excellent Excel skills. This is a career track role where you will learn valuable skills in finance and accounting as well as develop a management consulting toolkit.

    There are 3 main areas of responsibility for the role:

    • Budget vs Actuals (35%): You will work with department heads on tracking their expenses on monthly basis, support them with understanding their Budget vs Actual (BVA) reports, improve department efficiency and identify cost-cutting initiatives, update 2018 projections, and develop 2019 budget. As this project will involve close work with department leads across the organization, the ability to maintain professional relationships and explain complex terms in simple language is very important.
    • Country financial representative (15%): You will support a small country program with financial analysis and scale modeling, by tracking country BVAs, updating projections and developing the 2019 budget. This project will require Excel skills and financial acumen, quick learning of specific program operations and financials as well independence to own the entire budget process and provide recommendations on strategic financial aspects.
    • Reporting and Analysis (50%): Many projects will require building your own reports and analyzing financial data - actuals, financial metrics, budget, and projections - as well as providing recommendations on process/tools improvement. One example: the analyst will work on projecting FX / COLA rates to be used during the budgeting process. Excellent Excel skills are crucial as well as a talent for data quality control.

    Career Growth and Development

    One Acre Fund invests in building management and leadership skills. Your manager and a global support team will commit significant time in your career development. We provide constant, actionable feedback delivered through mentorship and through regular management consulting-style career reviews. We also have regular one-on-one meetings, where we listen to and discuss career goals, and work collaboratively to craft roles that each person can be passionate about. Because of our rapid growth, we constantly have new high-level roles opening up and opportunities for many functions.

    Qualifications

    We are seeking exceptional professionals with 1 to 3 years of work experience, and a demonstrated long-term passion for development work. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:

    Work Experience: Candidates should have 1-3 years of strong work experiences in data analysis. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced, innovative, results-driven environment. Candidates with management consulting, finance, and strategic planning backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply

    Leadership: We are looking for candidates with demonstrated leadership experience at work, or outside of work. Examples of demonstrated leadership experience include managing a team or initiating a new project.

    Education: Strong undergraduate background at a top East African or international university. Degrees in business, management, economics, statistics, finance or related fields preferred.

    Quantitative skills: Demonstrated comfort learning finance, accounting, and statistics, quantitative analysis

    Excel skills: Strong Excel reporting skills. Excel proficiency will be tested during the interview.

    Communication: Excellent written and oral communication. Able to summarize and synthesize complex models and information.

    Attitude: We are looking for passionate professionals who combine strong leadership skills with good humor, patience, and a humble approach to service to join our growing the family of leaders.

    You should be comfortable with ambiguity and quickly learn new skills and subjects.

    You should feel comfortable working with people of all different backgrounds (particularly non-finance) as well as having meetings on the telephone.

    Well organized: You will receive various information and tasks from various source. You will need to be well organized to make sure you do not lose any information

    Growth: You should be open to feedback, willing to admit mistakes and learn from them

    Other Skills: Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

    Language: English required

    Preferred Start Date

    Flexible, but strong preference for 2nd Quarter of 2018.

    Compensation

    We offer a modest starting salary that affords a high quality of life in our areas of operation. This is a career-track role with performance-based raises and the ability to expand responsibilities over time.

    Benefits

    Housing, transportation, and airtime allowances

    Duration

    • Minimum three year's commitment, full-time job.
    • Please note that we are not able to sponsor a visa for this position.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to One Acre Fund on oneacrefund.org to apply

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