Finance Manager at International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Key Responsibilities

• Hosted organizations:

 Ensure Monthly costing and billing of all services, ensure timely recovery of any debts, and ensure hosting agreements are up to date.

• Regional Offices:

Ensure timely replenishment of cash, ensure adherence to field office operating manual, ensure timely posting of returns from the field offices and Carry out monthly review of payment vouchers. Visit field offices and carry out cash counts from time to time. Provide support and capacity building for field office staff to ensure adherence to ILRI or hosting organization policies. Review filed office manual.

• Support Units Reports:

Prepare and Analyse Monthly Support Units reports and share with budget holders. Organize follow up meetings with budget holders to emphasise on key observations as and when required. Assist support units in budget preparation noting and suggesting areas of cost savings

• Payments and Record Keeping: 

Ensure accurate information is entered in the system, ensure payments to staff and external suppliers are done on time, advances to staff are accounted for in time, VAT applications are made, and prepayments are matched on time and ensure an efficient and secure record keeping system is in place.

• Kapiti:

Prepare monthly management accounts, and annual FS. Assist in preparation of Kapiti budget. Ensure proper accounting controls are in place.

• OCS Implementation:

Ensure a smooth transition and solve any bottlenecks before and after go live, Asset mapping, Report templates using Excellerator, OCS Finance module training, Finance Data migration - verifying balances and 2015 transactions, data mapping, mapping posting strings between SUN and Agresso.

• Actively support implementation of the ERP in the area of responsibility.
• Train the alternate position all aspects of this job to ensure continuity.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Finance or Accounting or its equivalent.
• Full accounting qualifications- CPA (K) or ACCA.
• 5 years’ experience in senior finance role
• Professional certification

Terms of Appointment

These are Nationally Recruited Staff (NRS) position; based at Nairobi, Kenya and open to Kenyan nationals only.

The position is on a 3-year contract, renewable subject to satisfactory performance and availability of funding.

Job Level

This position is job level 3C, ILRI offers a competitive salary and benefits package which includes; pension, medical and other insurances for ILRI’s Nationally Recruited Staff.