Your primary objective will be to help assure accurate reporting of both financial and program data in order to help us shape our strategy and achieve financial sustainability. You will serve in a career-track position that combines financial analysis with non-profit accounting. We are seeking exceptional professionals with a long-term career interest in international development. As part of a rapidly growing organization, you will be a key member of a small team responsible for managing our whole accounting system and the controllers who work with it in each country, and providing critical input on One Acre Fund's finance strategies and budgeting. This role will report to the Finance Director.
Typical tasks will include:
- Managing and training controllers. The Associate Controller will be responsible for creating the processes and systems used the by controllers in each country. You will also be responsible for their development through trainings and the creation of tools and procedures.
- Creating and understanding reports. We use financial information as "business intelligence" – helping us move our business steadily towards financial sustainability. The Associate Controller will help create reports from our accounting and client management systems, working with program staff to make our data useful and actionable - guiding OAF towards sustainability is a critical mission within the finance team.
- Closing the books each month. The Associate Controller will manage the books closing process for Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, and the US books, ensuring proper accounting entries, bank reconciliations, and a variety of other quality controls. Closing the books also includes creating a report analyzing our actual financial statements v. our budget.
Career Growth and Development
One Acre Fund invests in building management and leadership skills. We provide constant, actionable feedback delivered through weekly mentorship and through regular career reviews. We also have regular one-on-one meetings, where we listen to and discuss career goals, and work collaboratively to craft roles that each person can be passionate about. Because of our rapid growth, we constantly have new high-level roles opening up and opportunities in many functions and countries. This results in fast career growth for our staff.
Qualifications
We are looking for truly extraordinary candidates with 1 to 5+ years of work experience who will help take our organization to the next levels of impact and scale. This is a competitive posting for a career-track role with minimum initial commitment of 2 years. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:
- Confident with numbers; general familiarity with accounting preferred.
- Leadership experience at work, or outside of work.
- Experience in finance, accounting, or other technical profession. Examples include professional work experience as an accountant or financial analyst, experience in data analysis (statistics, engineering, etc).
- Top-performing academic background (include GPA and test scores on your resume).
- A willingness to commit to living in rural areas of East Africa for at least the first year of the job, with extensive travel to East Africa thereafter. Two year minimum commitment required.
- English required; French desirable.
- Computer skills: highly competent in Excel (required); working knowledge of Access (preferred).
- Ability to cook/ laugh/ extraordinary patience – all desirable
Preferred Start Date Flexible
Compensation
Modest starting salary + significant benefits. This is a career-track role with meaningful salary increases and long-term placement with One Acre Fund for high performers.
Benefits
Health insurance, immunizations, flight, room and board.
Career Development
One Acre Fund will make significant ongoing investments in your career development through real-time mentoring, quarterly career reviews, and opportunity for increasing responsibilities that will challenge you and help you grow.
Sponsor International Candidates
Yes
How to apply
To Apply Email cover letter and resume to jobs@oneacrefund.org (Subject line: Associate Controller Search + name of the site that referred you)