Senior Financial Reporting Associate At Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

About the Role

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Senior Financial Reporting Associate to develop and provide financial information and analysis for use at various levels and by various groups of stakeholders, across the entire organisation. This role will be offered on permanent basis, subject to availability of funding and is open to the following locations: Nairobi, Kenya and Maputo, Mozambique.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Financial Systems & Analysis, they will support the organisation’s financial management and governance by: delivering regular written reports and analysis to deadlines; supporting and implementing our regular financial reporting and forecasting processes, including staff allocations; monitoring financial performance and our processes for providing financial reports, making recommendations as appropriate; and responding to ad hoc requests for financial analysis and reports.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Prepare recurring financial reports for review and interpretation by Finance managers. This includes the monthly Consolidated Management Accounts and associated financial analyses, and quarterly summaries of financial forecasts.
• Monitor, track and report on KPIs that measure the organisation’s financial performance and efficiency of its processes. Provide data related to these for inclusion in GAIN’s Performance Management Framework.
• Execute the monthly expenditure review process, including creating an analysis of direct programme expenditure, publishing this to stakeholders for review and commentary, monitoring progress to completion, collating completed outputs from approvers, and sharing the summary with senior managers as directed.
• Serve as the focal point for the quarterly forecast process, communicating deadlines and timetables, fielding queries and requests for ad hoc reports, and ensuring adherence to the accounting timetable.
• Prepare reports to assist in validating and presenting the consolidated forecast, conducting initial variance analysis and identifying any needed corrections or areas of follow-up.
• Serve as the focal point for staff funding considerations and liaise with HR, other members of Finance, country teams and the Development Office, participating in the development of plans for staff funding in the immediate, medium, and long-term.

About you

The ideal candidate should have experience in Financial planning and Analysis demonstrating excellence in budgeting, forecasting and reporting. Experience in workforce/headcount budgeting(staff costs experience) is required for the proper undertaking of required duties. The position holder should be able to create an analysis of direct programme expenditure, publishing this to stakeholders for review and commentary, monitoring progress to completion, collating completed outputs from approvers, and sharing the summary with senior managers

Multi-country support experience is highly preferred as the position holder will engage with stakeholders across GAIN. In addition to this, you should be pro active to find solutions and innovative in your approach to work.

About our Offer

The starting gross salary on offer for this role is as below depending on the location of the successful candidate.

• Kenya: KES 3,125,820- KES 3,576,108 gross/annum.
• Mozambique: USD 30,972 – USD 35,412 gross/annum

GAIN has a fair and competitive salary structure that allows for annual progression subject to good performance. In addition, GAIN offers a total of 37 days holiday per year (including annual leave, public holidays and additional office closure days), an attractive pension scheme and competitive insurance cover including health, travel and life assurance. We are committed to the health of our staff, especially in these challenging times, and have developed a programme of wellbeing that includes flexible and hybrid working, additional leave allowances, wellbeing days, mindfulness coaching and access to independent and confidential counselling.

GAIN also has a strong commitment to professional development. We will support you to grow in your career through both formal and informal training, and are committed to providing opportunities through internal recruitment, secondments, and promotion. All of this is delivered in a supportive and collaborative environment.

About GAIN

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the United Nations in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Due to COVID19, conflict in Ukraine and climate change, malnutrition and hunger have worsened significantly since 2019, reversing a decade of progress. There is growing recognition that our food systems need to change if we are to reverse these trends.

GAIN’s Strategy aims to transform food systems to make healthier diets from sustainable food systems accessible to all people and especially those whose are most vulnerable to shocks. By 2027, we aim to improve the access of 1.5 billion people to nutritionally enhanced staple foods, improve the access of 25 million people to healthier diets, and support positive food system change in 10 countries. This is bold and complex, and the only way to achieve this is to work together with partners including governments, businesses, and civil society at the country and global level. These goals, and the ways of achieving them, build on our twenty-year legacy of transforming people’s lives with improved nutrition through concerted action and effective policy change.

Our Working Culture and Environment

We provide a flexible working environment that includes a combination of home and office working opportunities through our global hybrid working policy. This encourages our staff to have a healthy work-life balance and increases staff motivation, enriches employee wellbeing, and improves performance and productivity.

All of our positions are based in one or more of GAIN’s designated offices as stated on our job advertisements. Successful candidates will be based in one of GAIN’s country offices and must have the existing right to live and work within a reasonably commutable distance of the relevant city / cities in which the role is advertised. Please note, that GAIN does not sponsor working visas and relocations.

GAIN reserves the right to withdraw an offer of employment for candidates who are considered to ineligible under the above conditions during or after the recruitment process.

Applicants must have the right to work and be currently based in the advertised country locations, to be eligible to apply for this position.

This advert closes on 15th August 2024. Early applications are encouraged. GAIN reserves the right to close this advert early should we receive suitable candidates ahead of the closing date.

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition is committed to equality of opportunity and creating an inclusive environment where diversity is valued. We are keen to reflect the diversity of our society at every level within our organisation and therefore welcome applications from talented and committed people from all backgrounds, representing the diverse societies we operate in.