OFFICER, FINANCE
Overview
The Finance team collaborates with country and group leadership to ensure financial sustainability and advance our mission. We provide strategic insights on raising capital, deliver actionable feedback on financial performance, and prioritize the efficient use of resources across territories and the organization.
As a rapidly scaling multi-unit enterprise, we build world-class financial infrastructure, including designing systems, policies, and procedures to support high-volume transactions and distributed operations. Our centralized team specializes in Accounting, Accounts Payable, Payroll, Treasury, and Financial Planning & Analysis, providing shared services to enable consistent operational success.
Finance Operations
Our Finance Operations team supports financial leadership by managing accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, treasury, payroll, compliance, and asset management processes. We ensure consistent operational excellence, empowering stakeholders with clear financial data and performance insights.
We partner with external stakeholders, including donors and auditors, leading all financial reporting efforts. By prioritizing process integrity and operational innovation, we drive improvements that align with and support the organization’s strategic goals.
About the Role
As an Officer, Finance your main role will be to oversee the day-to-day financial operations of the organization, ensure compliance with financial regulations, and provide accurate and timely financial reports to support informed decision-making.
What You Will Do
Accounting and Financial Management
- Assist in handling daily accounting operations, including accounts payable, receivable, payroll, and general ledger maintenance.
- Support monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closings.
- Maintain accurate records of financial transactions with proper documentation.
- Monitor cash flow, cost control measures, and financial performance, providing actionable insights to management.
- Assist in the preparation and analysis of budgets, forecasts, and variance reports.
Compliance and Tax Management
- Ensure compliance with local tax laws and regulations, including filing statutory returns (NSSF, SHIF, PAYE, AHY VAT, WHT) within deadlines.
- Collaborate with external auditors and tax consultants during audits and assessments.
- Manage payroll statutory and other deductions, ensuring timely filing of returns and payments.
Reporting and Analysis
- Drive financial period closures and prepare financial statements, reconciliations, and management notes in collaboration with the Finance Shared Service.
- Develop and maintain financial dashboards, trackers, and reports for management use.
- Prepare unit-level profit and loss accounts and support business strategy with financial insights.
Operational Support
- Ensure accurate revenue capture and adherence to IFRS standards.
- Coordinate quarterly stock-taking, inventory reconciliation, and variance investigation.
- Maintain and report on academy repairs, budgets, and actual spending.
- Assist with updating pupil accounts, addressing anomalies, and resolving account issues promptly.
Asset and Lease Management
- Compile and manage fixed asset listings for insurance purposes, ensuring timely communication of additions and deletions.
- Collaborate with the legal team to ensure timely renewal of leases and sharing of relevant data.
Team Collaboration and Leadership
- Work closely with senior management to align financial operations with strategic goals.
- Act as a subject matter expert, addressing accounting issues raised by the Finance Shared Service.
- Assist the Finance Director in managing audits, budgets, and financial strategies.
What You Should Have
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
- CPA-K certification or equivalent, with an excellent academic record.
- Minimum of 2 years experience in accounting, with expertise in financial analysis.
- Solid understanding of local tax laws and statutory requirements.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Dynamics (Navision) and Microsoft Office, with advanced Excel skills (mandatory).
- Experience in working with teams and working in multicultural, multi-country environments.
- Prior experience in audit and preparation of management reports is an advantage.
You’re also
- A detailed doer – You have a track record of getting things done. You’re organized and responsive. You take ownership of every idea you touch and execute it to a fine level of detail, setting targets, engaging others, and doing whatever it takes to get the job done. You can multi-task dozens of such projects at once and never lose sight of the details. Likely, you have some experience in a start-up or other rapid-growth company.
- A networking mastermind – You excel at meeting new people and turning them into advocates. You communicate in a clear, conscientious, and effective way in both written and oral speech. You can influence strangers in the course of a single conversation. Allies and colleagues will go to bat for your ideas. You have an existing network from prior experience in the country, preferably in the regulatory, education, or business sectors.
- A creative problem-solver – Growing any business from scratch comes with massive and constant challenges. On top of that, Bridge works in often fragile, sometimes volatile low-resource communities and with complex government systems. You need to be flexible and ready to get everything done effectively, quickly, and affordably with the materials at hand.
- A relentless advocate – The children we serve and teachers we empower never leave your mind. You know them, get them, have shared a meal with them (or would be happy to in the future). You would never shrink back from shaking a parent’s hand or picking up a crying child, no matter what the person was wearing or looked like. Every decision you make considers their benefit, experience, and value.
- A malleable learner – You believe you can always do better. You welcome constructive criticism and provide it freely to others. You know you only get better tomorrow when others point out where you’ve missed things or failed today.
- A data-driven decision-maker – When making decisions, you don’t rely on your intuition alone. You collect data, you analyze it and make decisions with clear justifications.
A curious investigator – You ask why a lot. You don’t just take what you see and accept it. You wonder why it is that way, and are aware that the world we see is created by human choices and actions – and it could be different. You wonder, and see the world as wonderful even when you want to change a part of it that is unjust.
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