Qualifications
University degree and excellent academic record required; advanced degree preferred
Numeracy and financial literacy
Advanced Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint and Word skills
Highly detail orientated
Writing prose concisely and coherently
Self starting, but with an ability to work as a close team
Ability to work remotely with colleagues across multiple locations
A passion for administration, including financial processes
Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in English
What You’ll Do
You will be playing an active role in two main aspects, financial and operations management, providing support to UK senior finance manger and program manager.
Your financial management duties include developing annual budget preparation and analysis, liaising with wider Africa office finance colleagues to prepare monthly financial analysis, call down budget preparation and invoicing preparation.
Your operations management duties include developing call down proposals, managing templates, liaising with consortium and firm teams, program compliance, facilitating team onboarding, supporting consortium administration, preparation of documents and briefing for the client and document and file management.
You may also be responsible for presenting results to internal stakeholders including leadership and implementing recommendations with wider program management team members.
You’ll have the opportunity to gain new skills and build on the strengths you bring to the program. You will receive frequent coaching and mentoring from colleagues within and outside the program management team. This will be a 24-month contract.
Who You’ll Work With
You’ll work in our Africa offices as part of a distinctive high impact program that sits within our Social sector, Healthcare and Public sector Entities (SHaPE) practice. The program focuses on work with international companies (investors and buyers) to build a significant pipeline of investments to ‘kick-start’ manufacturing in Africa, work with African governments to support the attraction and retention of FDI in key manufacturing sectors and raise the political profile of manufacturing FDI in Africa and provide flexible technical assistance to increase investment in manufacturing, tailored to individual country needs.
Apply via :
www.mckinsey.com
