Budget & Financial Analysis Officer Job in Nairobi Kenya - Bridge International Academies

Budget & Financial Analysis Officer

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 leadersAnalyse business activities in all departments and develop activity tracking and planning templates to serve as inputs for the budgeting and forecasting processCollect 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 performanceInput budget and forecast data into the Navision budget moduleSupervise the budgeting data delivery time table to meet tight deadlines and assure quality of informationCreate complex but value adding graphs and ratios that help interpretation of trends for decision planning and reviewBuild appropriate tools to ensure quick feedback to operations department even with high growth of business projects and activitiesInitiate, train staff and implement ABC budgeting systems and budgetary control and reporting across the businessAnalyze costs and revenue drivers and support business leaders in their day to day decisionsTrain managers on budget and forecasting processes and toolsChampion 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 basisQualified accountant with ACCA/ CIMA or CPA, business degree from a reputable university and excellent academic and professional recordMinimum 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 companyExperience of financial reporting and consolidation in a complex multinational organization, or of the internal or statutory audit of such organizationsExperience 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 detailPeople skills and superior presentation abilities is a major requirementExcellent awareness of current technical accounting and reporting requirements and the ability to apply these requirements in a pragmatic and commercial mannerAbility to plan and manage own workload and coach/mentor team members in order to harmonize work flows and meet tight deadlinesExcellent spreadsheet skills and proficiency with Microsoft Dynamics (Navision) version 2009Ability to use initiative and creative thinking to anticipate issues and develop common sense and practical solutionsProactive and self motivated with excellent communication skillsConfident and flexible team player with great ability to work closely with non finance team members within a multicultural environmentA “finisher” with the genuine drive and commitment to produce the highest quality work and to deliver technical expertise at all timesPassionate about children and education in Africa.