Financial Analyst - Kenya

Organization Description
One Acre Fund is a start-up initiative in Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi which works with persistently hungry farm families. Instead of giving handouts to families, One Acre invests in farm families to generate a permanent gain in farm income. Our "investment bundle" includes education, financing, inputs, and export market access. Our program is designed to be usable by the extreme poor, and generates a lasting, 100%+ gain in farm income.

We have been operating since January 2006, and we currently serve 30,000 farm families (120,000 children). Our target is to change the lives of 50,000 families (200,000 children) within 18 more months, scaling at a 50-100% annual growth rate thereafter. One Acre Fund is one of the most externally-validated social start-ups of 2006, winning grants from the highly competitive Echoing Green, Draper Richards and Skoll Foundations, and first place wins at the Stanford and Yale social venture competitions. Website: www.oneacrefund.org

Job Description
We are seeking exceptional professionals with 2-4 years work experience, and a long-term career interest in international development. They will serve in a career-track position that combines financial analysis with management experience in Africa. As a young organization, we are ready to hand over large responsibility for specific, well-defined strategic initiatives as well as day-to-day management of our financial systems and team-members; the initiatives will be focused on improving financial sustainability while the day-to-day management will include financial reporting and analysis along with the management of local finance teams.

Typical tasks will include:
- New model configuration analysis. One Acre Fund is currently experimenting with several different program configurations; the Financial Analyst would be responsible for producing a financial model with forecasted sustainability for each of the configurations.
- Budget v Actual Analysis. The Financial Analyst will provide reports on district, country and organization wide budget performances. The reports will include line-item analysis, as well as a set of cost-cutting action items.
- Project implementation. This role goes well beyond analysis of financials. The financial analysis will result in changes to our organization – and the financial analyst will be responsible for implementing a broad variety of key initiatives that either boost revenue or reduce cost.
- Finance Team Management. The Finance Analyst will be responsible for managing a subset of the bookkeepers and the finance team in Kenya; duties include training and professional development along with weekly check-ins and data quality controls.
Additional Qualifications:
Qualifications
We are looking for somebody truly extraordinary for the Finance Analyst role. This is not a stint in Africa – this is an extremely competitive posting for a career-track role. Only 3% of applicants make it to a phone screen. Therefore, please do NOT respond unless you fit these criteria:

• Strong work experiences, preferably in a financial, accounting or analyst role. Examples include a high-level professional work experience as a financial analyst, or experience managing large nonprofit budgets.
• Confidence with numbers.
• Leadership experience at work, or outside of work.
• Top-performing undergraduate background (include GPA and test scores on your resume), with focus on economics, finance or accounting preferred.
• A willingness to commit to living in rural areas of East Africa for at least two years – this is a long-term, career-track position that will be based in developing nations for the foreseeable future.
• The ideal candidate will have at least one year demonstrated experience working in the developing world, although this is not a strict requirement.
• Nice to have: French; English is required.
• Ability to cook/ laugh/ extraordinary patience – all desirable.

Preferred Start Date: January 2011
Compensation: Starts very modest. However, this is a career-track role eventually paying a real and livable salary for a long-term placement in developing nations.
Benefits: Health cover, immunizations, flight, room and board. 2 annual home flights provided – home trips include some speaking and fundraising duties
Career development: Quarterly management consulting-style career reviews, and significant investment in career development. Your manager will invest significant time in your career development.

How to Apply:
To Apply
Email cover letter and resume (please include last name in filename of these documents) to careers@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: Finance Analyst Search + name of the site that referred you)

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