Oct 26, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Finance Manager Jobs in Kenya

About the Role

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking an experienced and proactive Finance Manager to lead on providing essential financial services to the programme operations team in Kenya. This role will be offered on a three (3) year fixed term contract, subject to availability of funding and will be based in Nairobi, Kenya.

The Finance Manager is a key position in the Kenya country office. This position is expected to lead on all aspects of finance and provide essential financial services to the programme operations teams whilst ensuring compliance with global GAIN policies, systems and procedures.

The Finance Manager will report to the Head of Operations and provide essential support to the staff and consultants in maintaining good relationships with external stakeholders.

The post holder will ensure that appropriate financial regulations and controls are always in place for the country office and are in use; compliance with external requirements, such as local laws and regulations and donor, partner, service provider and vendor contractual obligations.

They are responsible for safeguarding GAIN’s interest in these transactions and interactions, providing effective first level stewardship of GAIN’s assets, resources, staff and premises.

Key Responsibilities include:

Ensuring availability of Finance manuals and procedures, their understanding by staff, executive agencies and consultants and their successful implementation.

Supervising the finance section and ensuring financial transactions are recorded in line with GAIN norms and standards.

Supporting the Head of Operations on preparation of programme budgets, analysis of grants and expenditure.

Leading in the development of costings and budgets for new project development with support from the Head of Operations, Country team and the global finance team.

Ensuring preparation and availability of statutory financial records (e.g., income tax return) and tax compliance and compliances relating to foreign grants.

Maintaining a schedule of financial reporting deadlines to donors as part of the donor coordination records in close liaison with project staff.

Liaising with the Head of Operations, project and international finance staff to ensure that financial reporting templates for all grants are set up in accordance with donor requirements.

Compiling financial reports to donors as and when required, based on financial data extracted from Navision.

About You

You should be an experienced and highly organized Finance Manager, ideally with a background working with International NGOs and with good knowledge of managing donor grants (e.g., DFID, USAID, EU, etc.). You should have excellent leadership, communication and problem-solving skills, along with strong computer literacy skills, particularly with the MS Office Suite. Familiarity with Salesforce is desirable.

In addition, you should be a professionally qualified accountant with at least a bachelor’s degree in accounting and experience working with QuickBooks, Navision or a similar accounting software. Business English is required.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Finance Manager Jobs in Kenya

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