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The Senior Finance Officer will support sound management decisions about the organization’s financial sustainability. The role holder will develop institutional and program proposal budgets based on AECF’s strategy and a regularly updated cost structure. The incumbent will conduct a continuous financial sustainability analysis, develop management &board financial reports, and ensure compliance with AECF’sand donor policies and regulations.

This role reports to the Head of Finance.

Key responsibilities:

Financial planning includes preparing institutional and program budgets, cash flow forecasts, and implementing appropriate budgetary controls.
Preparation of timely, accurate, and relevant management and board financial reports and any other management information that may be required occasionally.
Production of annual institutional financial statements.
Develop and regularly update program-specific budget and financial reporting templates for AECF and investees. Ensure institutional and all program audits are conducted on time and audit findings are resolved adequately.
Perform financial forecasting, reporting, and tracing of the relevant metrics.
Analyse financial data and create financial models based on AECF’s focus areas for decision support.
Support the continuous analysis of trends and forecasts, review AECF’s cost structure, and recommend any needed adjustments for optimization.
Monthly review of budget vs expenditure reports for all programs, ensuring that expenditure is within approved budgets and in compliance with donor rules & regulations.
Convene quarterly program financial review meetings and oversee implementation of agreed actions. Support the Head of Finance in strengthening and ensuring adherence to the internal control systems.

Suitable candidates should possess:

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Economics from a recognized university.
Professional qualification in Finance (CPA, ACCA) or related fields is mandatory. Membership to a professional body.
Demonstrable experience of at least (5) years managing the finances of a $20 million international non-profit organization with a mix of funding sources, preferably bilateral donors.
Experience with bilateral donors such as FCDO, GAC and SIDA. Strong proficiency in advanced Excel features.
Ability to communicate clearly and concisely both orally and in writing.
Fluency in English is required, and proficiency in additional languages – French is preferred.

How to apply:

The AECF is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered based on merit without regard to race, sex, colour, national origin, religion, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

AECF does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, meeting, processing, training, or other fees).

If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the relevant criteria for the role, register and apply at https://recruitment.aecfafrica.org . To be considered, your application must be received by 21st May 2024.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Purpose of Role

The Investing in Women Nigeria (IIW-N) programme is a Global Affairs Canada investment programme designed to support women-owned and women-led enterprises and other organizations operating in climate-smart agriculture in Kano State, Nigeria.

The Impact Portfolio Officer will be a key member of the IIW–N delivery team and will be responsible for supporting the ongoing impact measurement, analysis, and insight generation across the IIW-N portfolio of investees and activities. The incumbent will contribute to reporting at the project level, and collaborate with AECF’s impact and knowledge team, feeding data and impact stories into thought leadership, storytelling, and dissemination of learnings.

The role holder will take the lead in analyzing and leveraging the data collected from portfolio companies, updating performance on all impact metrics, and producing analytical insight and knowledge products from IIW-N’s portfolio. Data, evidence, and insights will be used in supporting programme management, future program design, business intelligence, and promoting the voices of the communities and entrepreneurs we support to build the resilience of rural and underserved communities in Kano and across Africa.

Key Responsibilities

Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation.

Develop and own the portfolio monitoring plan of the projects in IIW-N’s portfolio in line with AECF policies and procedures, donors, and partner requirements.
Support the development of investee monitoring plans, targets, and budgets during the process of investee selection and reviewing as needed throughout the project lifecycle.
Coordinate with the programme team and making use of AECF’s digital platform and automated tools, ensure high quality of data (qualitative and quantitative) collection, aggregation and processing, verification, and analysis, in a timely manner.
Provide an evidence-based feedback loop to the programme’s team on an ongoing basis, and contribute to producing, packaging, and disseminating impact and change stories.
Assist in designing, coordinating and conducting project evaluation (mid-term and end-line) and post implementation monitoring surveys.
Support partners in designing and disseminating research studies by providing relevant input.

Reporting and documentation.

Ensure accurate and timely compliance with all reporting requirements, including supporting the preparation of annual AECF impact reports, periodic donor reports, and ongoing ad hoc reports.
Maintain a dashboard to track performance against key impact indicators, providing feedback to all relevant teams on projects’ performance, as and when needed.
Co-develop, with the portfolio Officers, field visit reports, including learning insights.

Learning and sharing.

Contribute to monthly and ongoing insight generation and knowledge creation from analysis of impact data, exchange and interviews with investees and programme partners, and feed into the broader AECF insight and knowledge practice.
Share learning from results measurement and impact analyses with the wider team.
Develop and disseminate monthly short evidenced-based articles, updated project summary briefs, reports, human interest stories, website content etc.
Identify and participate in impact and insight networks.

Suitable candidates should possess:

Minimum 5 years of experience in data science or statistical analysis.
A Bachelors Degree preferably in Statistics, Economics or a related field.
Experience in Kano, Nigeria, focused on SME development, women empowerment or sustainable agriculture.
Curiosity to keep abreast of innovative practices for understanding systemic change, capturing and measuring women empowerment, resilience, adaptation to climate change of vulnerable populations.
Understand the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) standards for private sector-led development in relevant sectors.
Possess superior data analysis and presentation skills, software skills (MS Office) as well as data manipulation and visualisation skills (Airtable, Tableau, Power BI).
Have excellent writing, analytical and communication skills in Hausa and English.
Demonstrate productive drive in working with peers, partners, consultants and others to achieve pre-targeted and measurable business results.

How to Apply;

AECF does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, meeting, processing, training, or any other fees).

If you believe, you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the relevant criteria for the role register and apply on: https://recruitment.aecfafrica.org . To be considered, your application must be received by: 10th May 2024.

For more information, please visit our careers page on www.aecfafrica.org

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.