One Acre Fund Finance Analyst

Organization Description

Most of the world's poor are farmers, representing the largest and most uniform group of poor people in the world, yet they are badly under-served. One Acre Fund is a fast-growing NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. Instead of giving handouts, One Acre invests in farmers to generate a permanent gain in farm income. We provide farmers with a "market bundle" that includes education, finance, seed and fertilizer, and market access. Our program is proven impactful – every year, we weigh thousands of harvests and record more than 100% average gain in farm income per acre. We have laser-like focus on generating better lives for the people that we serve.

We are growing quickly. In seven years, we have grown to serve 135,000 farm families with more than 1,400 full-time field staff. In three more years, we will at least triple in size, while adding several new countries. Our approach has won widespread validation, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green and Skoll Foundations, and the global Financial Times/ IFC award for "basic needs financing" in 2010 and 2011. Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Description

Rapid organization growth translates into great career opportunities for our staff. We invest heavily in careers – we want to use this role to develop our next finance team leaders.

Your primary objective will be to support the finance team through analysis and reporting in order to help us shape our strategy and achieve financial sustainability. You will serve in a career-track position that combines financial analysis with non-profit accounting. We are seeking exceptional professionals with a long-term career interest in international development. As part of a rapidly growing organization, you will be a key member of a small team responsible for understanding our financial results and using those results to make strategic decisions. This role will report to the Finance Director.

Specific tasks will include:

- Sustainability Analysis. Take ownership of a variety of management reports that show the financial sustainability of One Acre Fund operations, and then present these reports to the Finance Director and each of the Country Directors in order to shape the strategic direction of the organization.

- Monthly books closing. Support the finance team with books closing each month; assist with monthly reconciliations of cash, receivables, inventory, etc.

- Standardize Reports. Work with the finance team and the IT team to create a set of standard reports that come out the accounting, payroll and client management systems.

- Financial Dashboard. Create a dashboard of financial results for a variety of stakeholders; dashboards could include margin analysis, staffing costs, repayment trajectories, etc.

- Grant reporting. Work with our largest donors and create the financial reports they require in order to facilitate the release of necessary funding.

Qualifications

We are looking for truly extraordinary candidates that will help take our organization to the next levels of impact and scale. This is a competitive posting for a career-track role with minimum initial commitment of two years. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:

• Confident with numbers; general familiarity with accounting and financial analysis.
• Leadership experience at work, or outside of work.
• Top-performing undergraduate background (include GPA and test scores on your resume).
• Experience in finance, accounting, or other technical profession. Examples include professional work experience a financial analyst, experience in data analysis (statistics, engineering, etc).
• English required; French highly desirable.
• Computer skills: highly competent in Excel (required) and Access/SQL (preferred).
• Ability to cook/ laugh/ extraordinary patience – all desirable

Location: This job will be located in Rural Kenya for at least the first 2-4 months; after this initial period, Western Kenya or Nairobi is preferred, but other locations will be considered.

Preferred Start Date: Flexible

Compensation: Modest starting salary + significant benefits. This is a career-track role with meaningful salary increases and long-term placement with One Acre Fund for high performers.

Benefits: Health cover, immunizations, flight, room and board.

Career development: One Acre Fund will make significant ongoing investments in your career development through real-time mentoring, quarterly career reviews, and opportunity for increasing responsibilities that will challenge you and help you grow.

Sponsor International Candidates: Yes

To Apply

Email cover letter and resume to jobs@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: Finance Analyst Search + name of the site that referred you)