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Sr. Project Finance Officer

BURN Manufacturing
Full time
Apply by 16 August 2020

Job description

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Facilitate timely, accurate month-end closing, cash requests and cash reconciliations
  • Maintain control over the project filing systems to ensure complete and organized accounting files, especially with regard to original procurement documents and project personnel salary files
  • Employ financial oversight and control mechanisms and procedures to ensure that all program expenses are in accordance with each donor financial policies, procedures and rules and regulations
  • Review and provide support for the financial aspects of contract execution
  • Develop and periodically update Project Policies and Procedures guidelines for procurement, accounting and budgeting
  • Ensure the smooth implementation of project accounting activities, including (but not limited to): timely and accurate bank reconciliations, invoicing, monitoring of expenditure levels against budget and funding obligations, financial projections and submission of monthly financial reports
  • Provide the field finance teams with information and guidance on program financial performance
  • Regularly prepare and present financial reports, analysis, and recommendations concerning relevant financial issues
  • Review partner spending in relation to budgets, and develop monthly budget pipelines for CNFA and partner expenditures
  • Verify accuracy and compliance of expenses and expense reporting
  • Provide assistance with internal or external audit requirements
  • Identify and recommend improvements that could streamline implementation processes in the areas of accounting, finance and budgeting
  • Promote compliance with relevant Donor regulations, policies and procedures
  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Economics or Finance field
  • 3+ years of experience backstopping Donor Funded programs
  • Proficiency in Excel software required
  • A high degree of integrity, accountability, energy and flexibility
  • Excellent organizational skills and ability to work in fast-paced environment
  • Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously

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About BURN Manufacturing

Vision

Impacting lives and forests through efficient cooking appliances.

Corporate Overview

BURN Manufacturing designs, produces, and distributes Africa’s best-selling, fuel efficient biomass, electric, hybrid and liquid fuel cooking appliances. Not only do our products save money, fuel, and natural resources, but they also dramatically reduce harmful indoor smoke emissions which can cause significant health problems, even death.

With more than 1.2Millon+ stoves sold since commencing manufacturing operations in 2013, BURN has established itself as Africa’s most trusted cookstove brand thanks to our unwavering commitment to innovative research and design, manufacturing excellence, and customer care.

BURN is now the only vertically integrated modern cookstove company in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our solar-powered facility currently has a capacity of 45,000 stoves per month. We are proud to employ 400 team members throughout Kenya and East Africa, and support a workforce which is 50 percent female, thus empowering women in roles traditionally considered to be “for men only.”

Among our national and global honors, we have received the 2018 Bloomberg New Energy Pioneers Award for being among the world’s leaders in clean energy solutions, the 2018 Swiss Energy and Climate Summit Award for our pitch on the impact of clean-burning stoves, and the 2015 Ashden Green Energy International Award for empowering women with new economic opportunities.

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