Budget & Financial Analysis Officer, Nairobi, Kenya

Brief Description

Reporting to the Business Support Manager and working closely with the Chief Accountant, the job holder will play a major role in implementing effective and value adding ABC budgeting, assisting the creation of business plans, models, analytical and reporting systems and tools that provide scheduled and on demand information, trends and business reports and ratios that help to plan and interpret business results and decision impacts on a continuous basis.

Description

Position Title: Budget & Financial Analysis Officer, Nairobi, Kenya

About Bridge International Academies

Bridge International Academies was conceived in 2007 out of the belief that giving every child access to a high quality education would have the greatest impact on reducing poverty worldwide.

With that guiding insight, Bridge International developed a strategy that would enable it to launch a large-scale network of high-quality, ultra low-cost, for-profit primary schools.

Operating a network of schools supported by a strong central headquarters gives Bridge International the scale, experience, and capacity to invest in systems of management, support, training, and innovation that allows individual schools to dramatically increase their effectiveness.

Using this model, Bridge International is able to profitably deliver high-quality education for $4 per child per month. This ensures that its academies will continue to successfully serve its communities as long as parents value the educational service provided.

The first Bridge International Academy launched successfully in Kenya in 2009 and 60 academies will be operating in Kenya in January 2012. Through rapid and strategic expansion, Bridge International will provide a quality education to over a million students in the coming years.

About this position

This is a key role within the finance department and working very closely with all heads of department. The finance department vision is to always be a valued business partner providing high quality and timely financial services.

Reporting to the Business Support Manager and working closely with the Chief Accountant, the job holder will play a major role in implementing effective and value adding ABC budgeting, assisting the creation of business plans, models, analytical and reporting systems and tools that provide scheduled and on demand information, trends and business reports and ratios that help to plan and interpret business results and decision impacts on a continuous basis.

Working closely with finance and business team leaders, the individual should be a hands on player and a quick learner

Key Areas of Responsibilities:

• Development of templates and tailor made reports and analysis within the Navision Budget framework and account schedules and dimensions in line with standard and non routine demands of the finance and non finance team leaders
• Analyse business activities in all departments and develop activity tracking and planning templates to serve as inputs for the budgeting and forecasting process
• Collect appropriate finance and non finance data and prepare budgets and forecasts for review and approval.
• Create rolling forecasts of profit and loss, balance sheet and cashflow items every month for use in day to day decisions and review of financial performance
• Input budget and forecast data into the Navision budget module
• Supervise the budgeting data delivery time table to meet tight deadlines and assure quality of information
• Create complex but value adding graphs and ratios that help interpretation of trends for decision planning and review
• Build appropriate tools to ensure quick feedback to operations department even with high growth of business projects and activities
• Initiate, train staff and implement ABC budgeting systems and budgetary control and reporting across the business
• Analyze costs and revenue drivers and support business leaders in their day to day decisions
• Train managers on budget and forecasting processes and tools
• Champion continuous improvement projects in a structured way and seek opportunities to increase efficiency of the budgeting, forecasting and reporting tools
• Assist the Business Support manager and Chief Accountant on a day to day basis

About you

• Qualified accountant with ACCA/ CIMA or CPA, business degree from a reputable university and excellent academic and professional record
• Minimum of 3 years work experience in a manufacturing, supply chain or other environments that has provided excellent skills in building and managing enduring and value adding budgeting and forecasting systems with ability to communicate and work with non finance managers and staff in a rapidly growing company
• Experience of financial reporting and consolidation in a complex multinational organization, or of the internal or statutory audit of such organizations
• Experience of working with medium to high exposure of business analysis, communication and support for large and fast growing profit oriented organizations.
• High integrity, IT literacy and excellent attention to detail
• People skills and superior presentation abilities is a major requirement
• Excellent awareness of current technical accounting and reporting requirements and the ability to apply these requirements in a pragmatic and commercial manner
• Ability to plan and manage own workload and coach/mentor team members in order to harmonize work flows and meet tight deadlines
• Excellent spreadsheet skills and proficiency with Microsoft Dynamics (Navision) version 2009
• Ability to use initiative and creative thinking to anticipate issues and develop common sense and practical solutions
• Proactive and self motivated with excellent communication skills
• Confident and flexible team player with great ability to work closely with non finance team members within a multicultural environment
• A “finisher” with the genuine drive and commitment to produce the highest quality work and to deliver technical expertise at all times
• Passionate about children and education in Africa.
  

In order to be considered for this position all candidates must register and upload their CV’s on our website at www.bridgeinternationalacademies.com

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted