About the Role
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Financial Systems Associate to support our processes for financial planning and reporting, in ensuring that our financial systems are well maintained and maintain their integrity. This role will be offered on a permanent basis, subject to availability of funding and is open to the following locations: Nairobi, Kenya or Maputo, Mozambique.
The Financial Systems Associate will play a major role in the implementation and development of GAIN’s financial systems, in supporting our processes for financial planning and reporting, in ensuring that our financial systems are well maintained and maintain their integrity, and in providing training to colleagues across the organisation in the use of our financial systems.
Key Responsibilities include
Liaise with service providers on assigned projects to ensure they are progressing on schedule and in accordance with set deliverables.
Liaise with managers and staff from IS/IT and other teams to ensure the effective integration of GAIN’s financial data with other business systems, to facilitate planning and reporting, automate data collection, and ensure the integrity of data.
Support the quarterly forecast by preparing templates, consolidating forecast inputs and making available relevant system(s). Assist in troubleshooting forecast queries to finalize forecast.
Support the monthly accounting process by preparing and uploading timesheets and staff costs data to financial systems and sharing reports and data with other members of the Finance team.
Contribute to developing training materials, for example presentation slide decks and online videos.
Participating in training workshops, facilitating the events and leading sessions where required.
Delivering inductions for new staff members.
Test and troubleshoot GAIN’s financial systems to identify and resolve areas for improvement.
About you
The ideal candidate should have a strong IT background in deploying and implementing new systems. Experience with Financial systems highly preferred. The position holder should be able provide end user support and technical troubleshooting of systems at GAIN. This position will be required to ensure the effective integration of GAIN’s financial data with other business systems, to facilitate planning and reporting, automate data collection, and ensure the integrity of data.
This will be a highly interpersonal role expected to work closely with all stakeholders across the organization and thus strong stakeholder engagement skills are required.
Apply via :
www.gainhealth.org
