Financial Planning and Reporting Specialist

Job description
Report to
This position will primarily report to and work with the Finance Director based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Responsibilities
The Financial Planning and Reporting Specialist’s responsibilities include, but will not be limited to:
Function: Reporting & Analysis

Prepare monthly budget monitoring reports for project actuals and forecasts; including explanation of variances.
Prepare monthly & quarterly financial reports for region and department heads.
Support regional and functional leaders with timely information and value-added analysis.
Prepare organization wide reporting, including Global dashboards, and Board of Directors reports, in collaboration with Finance Director and Accounting Manager.

Function: Budgeting & Forecasting

Create tools for bottom-up budgeting and budget roll-up.
Assist in creating the annual budget, and quarterly forecast updates.
Provides support to regional leaders and project managers on budgeting and analysis.
Works with regional teams to maintain forecast of revenue and cost based on project and staffing pipelines.

Function: Finance Systems

Manage the time and expense reporting software Replicon
Assist in establishment of policies and guidelines for project tracking and reporting, in order to ensure accurate and value-added variance reporting against project budgets

Function: Other

Support Accounting team in preparing monthly, quarterly and annual reporting
Prepare regional and project cash forecasts
Act as backup for other finance functions
Support other global financial and related tasks as and when required

-Nutrition (Ref.2018/064)