Financial Analyst – West and Central Africa
About the Organization:
Population Services International (PSI) is a leading non-profit social marketing organization. Its mission is to measurably improve the health of poor and vulnerable people in the developing world by influencing their behavior, principally through social marketing of family planning and health products and services, and health communications.
About the Job:
PSI is looking for a Financial Analyst supporting the West and Central Africa region. S/he will be a key member of the program management team. S/he will be responsible for providing finance and accounting support services to domestic and overseas program staff.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Budgets:
- Monitor country program and regional performance against annual budget and donor budgets (burn rate, etc);
- Provide assistance in developing program and regional roll up of annual budget, including program and regional analysis.
- Billing:
- Monitor accounts receivable for the region including local donor bills receivables;
- Coordinate responses to donor questions regarding PSI financial reports.
- Field Financial Information:
- Monitor the suspense balance at a program and project level;
- In tandem with accounting department, coordinate with country program to ensure project related suspense items are corrected in a timely manner.
- Audit:
- Assist country programs with their country program audits requests (donor, project, inventory, external audits) as needed;
- Support the country program and coordinate PSI resources to address audit recommendations (internal, external, donor, etc) as requested.
- Capacity Building:
- Assist with capacity building and addressing country-specific needs through assessments, development of tools and short term technical assistance visits, as needed.
- Inventory:
- Assist program managers in monitoring inventory levels, inventory pipeline, and commodity forecasting at regional and program levels.
- Reporting & analysis:
- Conduct analysis of regional financial status and trends, including periodic review of regional budget and target, program balance sheets, donor funding trends, obligation analysis, etc.;
- Develop financial management dashboards (burn rates, PI monitoring etc.).
- Liaison:
- Serve as main liaison on financial issues between WCA regional department, accounting department and field offices;
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- BA in Finance or equivalent experience, MBA/MS Accounting preferred;
- More than 3 years professional work experience;
- Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment;
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills and ability to multitask;
- Experience with accounting software;
- Excellent spreadsheet skills;
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communications skills;
- Excellent organizational capabilities;
- Proficiency in French required.
Closing Date: 07 Dec 2012
How to Apply:
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