Senior Finance Analyst - Africa - CIMMYT
Landscape Alliance · Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
Research Services · 501-1,000 employees
About the role
The role involves providing regional finance oversight, monitoring compliance, and managing financial risks across country offices in Africa. It also includes coordinating audits, preparing financial dashboards, and supporting country finance teams with operational analysis and system guidance.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires a Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, with a professional certification like CPA or ACCA preferred. Candidates must have 7–10 years of progressive experience in finance, audit, compliance, or risk management.
Full description
1. Regional Finance Oversight & Monitoring.
- Support the Regional Finance Manager
in monitoring financial performance, compliance, and control effectiveness across country offices within the region.
- Review financial information, key
performance indicators, and management reports to identify risks, trends, exceptions, and areas requiring management attention.
- Support implementation of regional
finance oversight plans and monitoring activities.
- Assist in evaluating adherence to
institutional finance policies, procedures, Delegation of Authority (DoA), and internal control requirements.
- Support monitoring of country office
implementation of finance initiatives, policy changes, and institutional priorities.
2. Compliance Reviews, Quality Assurance & Risk Management.
- Perform risk-based finance reviews and
compliance monitoring activities across country offices.
- Support reviews of financial
transactions, reconciliations, supporting documentation, and key financial processes.
- Prepare review samples, testing
populations, exception analyses, and working papers to support oversight activities.
- Identify policy deviations, control
weaknesses, compliance risks, and areas requiring corrective action.
- Support regional risk assessments and
monitoring of finance-related risks.
- Assist in strengthening financial
governance, compliance practices, and internal control environments across the region.
3. Audit & Corrective Action Coordination.
- Support coordination of internal
audits, external audits, finance reviews, and compliance assessments affecting country offices within the region.
- Maintain tracking of audit findings,
review observations, risk mitigation activities, and corrective action plans.
- Monitor progress of remediation
activities and follow up with country offices regarding outstanding actions.
- Support reporting of audit
observations, risk trends, and implementation status to Regional Finance Managers and relevant stakeholders.
- Assist in identifying recurring issues
and opportunities for process and control improvements.
4. Financial Analysis, Reporting & Data Quality Monitoring.
- Prepare regional finance dashboards,
scorecards, monitoring reports, and management information.
- Perform financial analysis and trend
reviews to support regional oversight and decision-making.
- Analyze financial data quality,
reporting accuracy, compliance indicators, and operational performance metrics.
- Support development and maintenance of
regional reporting tools, monitoring frameworks, and analytical models.
- Prepare reports, presentations, and
supporting analyses for regional finance reviews and leadership discussions.
5. Country Office Coordination & Stakeholder Support.
- Coordinate information requests,
review activities, follow-up actions, and reporting requirements between country offices, headquarters finance teams, and Regional Finance Managers.
- Support implementation of finance
transformation initiatives, process improvements, and system enhancements across the region.
- Assist in communicating finance
guidance, best practices, and oversight expectations to country finance teams.
- Support regional finance meetings,
workshops, training sessions, and knowledge-sharing activities.
- Build collaborative relationships with
country finance teams and key stakeholders across the region.
- Support country Finance teams in
operational and financial analysis in hosting services, intercompany transactions, and accounts receivable transactions, where applicable.
- First line of support on SOPs and
D365-finance module questions.
- Ad-hoc temporary backstopping for
country Finance team members.
6. Continuous Improvement & Regional Governance Support.
- Support standardization of finance
monitoring, reporting, and review methodologies across country offices.
- Contribute to development of
monitoring tools, review programs, templates, and working paper standards.
- Identify opportunities to improve
efficiency, consistency, transparency, and effectiveness of regional finance oversight activities.
- Support continuous improvement
initiatives aimed at strengthening financial governance, compliance monitoring, and organizational performance.
- Promote a culture of accountability,
compliance, transparency, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting,
Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Audit, or related field.
- Professional accounting or audit
qualification preferred (CPA, ACCA, CA, CIA, CMA, CISA, or equivalent).
- Minimum 7–10 years of progressive
experience in finance, accounting, audit, compliance, internal controls, risk management, or financial analysis.
- Strong understanding of financial
controls, compliance frameworks, risk management, and governance principles.
- Experience supporting audits,
compliance reviews, financial monitoring, or assurance-related activities.
