Finance Transformation and Strategy, Senior job at One Acre Fund
Website :
597 Days Ago
Linkedid Twitter Share on facebook

Vacancy title:
Finance Transformation and Strategy, Senior

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Financial Services , Category: Accounting & Finance ]

Jobs at:

One Acre Fund

Deadline of this Job:
Wednesday, June 21 2023 

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi, East Africa

Summary
Date Posted:Wednesday, June 21 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

Similar Jobs in Kenya
Learn more about One Acre Fund
One Acre Fund jobs in Kenya

JOB DETAILS:
Finance Transformation and Strategy, Senior Associate

About the Role

The Finance Transformation and Strategy Senior Associate will work directly with the Head of Financial Advisory Services (FAS) to lead different strategic projects and process improvement initiatives that are critical for the Finance division. You will identify and advance opportunities to optimize processes and system automation initiatives. You will gain insight into the broader finance departments and major organization-wide change projects.

Responsibilities
Project Management and Process Improvement
Lead high-priority projects: directly implement and lead key projects aimed at setting up a scalable and efficient team. You will be working with staff across the Finance Team as you take the lead on such projects, reporting progress back to the Head of FAS and engaging him when necessary. Sample projects include:
• Create financial models for new business opportunities that emphasize paths toward profitability, process effectiveness, and balance sheet health
• Prepare robust scenario plans that inform short-to medium-term decisions that align with the organization’s objectives, and finance strategy.
Lead process improvement initiatives: assess existing process flows and initiatives to improve team throughput, define the target state, prepare an implementation roadmap and drive team work prioritization. Sample projects include:
• Identifying integration opportunities for relevant data, mainly getting us to a roadmap to move to an extended planning and analysis (xP&A) to improve speed of decision making and reduce overall time spent by the team in collating, reconciling and transforming data.
• On an ongoing basis, identify areas of improvement; research best practices and offer guidance and recommendations for changes and potential solutions.
Financial Management:
• Perform preliminary financial reviews for multiple deliverables such as models from program teams, budget roll ups, board packs, etc.
• Represent Finance to program teams and drive a variety of finance-related projects by working to connect FP&A, Accounting, and Treasury teams with program teams.
Staff Management: you will oversee the professional development and high-quality project work of one Analyst.

Qualifications
Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:
• 6+ years of experience in consulting, finance, or financial analysis.
• Solid understanding of using advanced formulas in Excel
• Logical thinker & comfort with analysis. We are looking for someone who is a structured thinker and can use quantitative analysis to create insights and inform recommendations.
• Strong executive-level communication skills -- the ability to quickly identify what matters and communicate that clearly and concisely to senior stakeholders.
• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree
• Language: English

Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 72

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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


All Jobs

QUICK ALERT SUBSCRIPTION

Job Info
Job Category: Accounting/ Finance jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Wednesday, June 21 2023
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 24-03-2023
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 24-03-2023
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 24-03-2065
Apply Now
Notification Board

Join a Focused Community on job search to uncover both advertised and non-advertised jobs that you may not be aware of. A jobs WhatsApp Group Community can ensure that you know the opportunities happening around you and a jobs Facebook Group Community provides an opportunity to discuss with employers who need to fill urgent position. Click the links to join. You can view previously sent Email Alerts here incase you missed them and Subscribe so that you never miss out.

Caution: Never Pay Money in a Recruitment Process.

Some smart scams can trick you into paying for Psychometric Tests.