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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.
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:
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
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