Financial Analyst (Africa Region) Job at Nature Conservancy

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• Financial Analyst (Africa Region)

Responsibilities:

• Prepares financial reports and analysis for programs that compare budgets to actual results, while recommending corrective action as appropriate.
• Supports and proactively informs leadership team on the overall performance of the program and projects revenue, expenditure, cash and net asset position.
• Supports program managers by monitoring and reporting on the spending rates of restricted and unrestricted funding to ensure proper burn rates are sustained.
• Leads the management of private awards, ensuring compliance with donor financial and other contractual requirements, accurate and timely reporting and timely close out of awards. Serve as the regional primary point of contact for private awards managed by TNC global teams.
• Lead the financial review of programs during quarterly program review meetings. Present program financial performance using Power BI reporting tool, highlight performance from revenue and expenditure perspective, awards spending, identify and discuss areas for attention and action with program managers.
• Supports the Finance Manager, Director of Finance and Operations and partners with Conservation Director on fiscal year budgeting process.
• Develops an annual program budget template that addresses the needs of all stakeholders (Conservation, Finance, Operations and Development), consolidate the program budgets and present analysis of program budgets on Planned expenditure, Revenue and Surplus/Deficit positions for presentation to the budget committee.
• Monitors budgets and lead the mid-year budget review process in order to maintain realistic revenue and expenditure estimates.
• Manage private awards grants out portfolio for grants <$300,000 in collaboration with Finance Specialist and supervises the Finance specialist. Supervise the drafting and review of all private awards grants out, ensure grants out processes and procedures are followed, the right templates are used and where applicable legal reviews are provided.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or related field and 4 years’ related experience or equivalent combination.
• Professional certification such as a CPA or ACCA.
• Experience using accounting and financial reporting systems.
• Experience in manipulating, analyzing, and interpreting data.  Advanced expertise in Microsoft Excel required.
• Experience with complex relational databases. Knowledge of Microsoft’s Power BI application is preferred.
• Experience in full cost budgeting.
• Experience in supporting multiple projects in various locations and/or countries.
• Experience with innovations in financial systems and tools.