Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis At Acceso

Supervisor: Chief Financial Officer
Location: Colombia
Start Date: ASAP
Contract: Full-Time Employee
Travel: 15%

About Acceso:
Acceso (www.acceso.org) is a social enterprise that is revolutionizing food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean to put smallholder farmers first. Acceso’s mission is to create fundamental and lasting positive economic change in the lives of rural smallholder farming families. Our entrepreneurial model provides smallholder farmers with a sustainable way to participate in formalized markets, enabling them to work themselves out of poverty with dignity and to prosper. Acceso currently operates a portfolio of three social businesses in Colombia, Haiti, and El Salvador and an agtech tool (Extensio) founded in Mexico. Across our agribusinesses, we have impacted more than 26,000 smallholder farmers and farm workers, generating more than $60m in farmer income to date.

About this role:
We are seeking a Manager to join our growing Finance team and support the measurement and analyzation of financial performance, build financial forecast models, and support the CFO in other financial and data analysis and reporting tasks. This position will report directly to the CFO.

Key responsibilities:

• Financial Reporting
  • Create monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated financial reports – gather information from multiple country finance teams, conduct spot checks on country financials, consolidate reports, and provide variance analyses.
  • Support the CFO in managing the debt portfolio – this includes managing deadlines and reports to be submitted to lenders, tracking interest accruals, maintaining the loan tracking database, and other ad hoc support related to debt facilities.
  • Support the CFO and controller in the annual budgeting process – create and provide templates, consolidate information gathered from teams, create dashboards and other visual support for analysis.
  • Support the CFO in preparing presentations, meeting content, and analysis for Board Meetings.
• Data Analysis and Forecasting
  • Assist CFO in improving and updating the company’s long-term financial forecast.
  • Conduct analyses on prospective debt funding opportunities.
  • Compile and present gross margin analysis and offer feedback on possible cost-savings.
  • Provide support in analyzing the farmer lending portfolio and optimizing its financial and social impacts for both the organization and the farmers.
  • Conduct analyses on financial effects of business decisions such as: adding a new products and expanding to new geographies.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree, Master’s preferred.
• Minimum 5+ years’ experience.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Passion and commitment to social impact and improving the lives of smallholder farmers.
• Can-do attitude with an adaptive work style. You thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Ability and discipline to work remotely with a multi-national team.
• Detail-oriented and meticulously organized.
• Collaborative team player.
• Ability to travel up to 15% of the time to Acceso’s markets in LATAM and the Caribbean.
• Working fluency in English and Spanish.

Compensation
Compensation will be commensurate with experience, and the annual salary range for this hire is $24,000 – $34,000.