Grants Finance Senior Associate/Manager

The role

You will provide financial leadership across a multi-country portfolio of grants and funding partnerships. You will partner with fundraising, program, and finance teams to manage budgets, forecasting, reporting, and assurance.

What you will do

• Partner with fundraising and program teams to assess funding opportunities and develop budgets.
• Lead financial planning, forecasting, and performance analysis for multi-country grants.
• Challenge assumptions and translate financial analysis into recommendations.
• Oversee grant financial reporting and ensure compliance with donor requirements.
• Monitor financial performance and emerging risks.
• Lead grant audits and assurance processes.
• Strengthen systems, processes, and data used to manage grants.
• Develop efficient approaches to reporting and analysis through automation and business intelligence.
• Act as a financial thought partner to fundraising, program, finance, and leadership teams.
• Manage, coach, and develop 1–2 finance professionals.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant professional experience in FP&A, finance, corporate finance, audit, financial advisory, consulting, or a related field.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field.
• Strong experience in financial planning and analysis, budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and financial controls.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Experience working with financial systems, business intelligence tools, or other data platforms.
• English.

Nice to have

• Professional accounting qualification such as CPA, ACCA, ACA, CA, or an equivalent chartered accountancy qualification
• Master’s degree
• Experience with Salesforce and/or Power BI
• Experience managing, coaching, or developing other professionals
• Experience with grants, donor-funded organizations, or the development sector

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Housing
• Comprehensive benefits

Before you apply

• This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Malawi, Zambia, Burundi, and Nigeria.
• Applications are reviewed and processed on a continuous basis until a hire is made.

About the company

One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. They provide farm supplies, credit, training, and other agricultural services across nine countries.