BMGF Finance Manager Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs

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BMGF Finance Manager Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs.

BMGF Ethiopia looking for “Finance Manager”.

Applicants with a Bachelo’s Degree may apply on or before 08th May, 2024.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a merging of the William H. Gates Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation, is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates.

The BMGF has published a job vacancy announcement on 29th April, 2024 for qualified Ethiopians to fill in the vacant post of Finance Manager to be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

BMGF Job Vacancy 2024

What you’ll Do:

Lead annual budgeting and financial planning processes, including partnering with Program Officers and the Strategy, Planning, and Management teams to translate business strategy into mid and long-range forecasts to produce detailed, dynamic 4-year budgets, as well as risk assessments and scenario modeling.
Lead analysis and provide program leadership with strategic and financial information to support budget management, forecasting, and effective financial prioritization and decision-making through the foundation’s financial and strategic processes.
Provide support, financial analysis, and business advice to program teams on a set of diverse and complex grants, driven by factors such as grant structure, organizational effectiveness of the partners, and more.
Proactively support organizational assessments/due diligence of key grantees/partners, and partner with Program Officers to develop appropriate mitigating strategies to manage financial and organizational risks of partners and grants.
Cultivate and manage key functional relationships and partnerships with internal collaborators.
Lead forecast and portfolio allocation management for assigned PSTs, including the monitoring of actuals and forecasts to budget, with risk assessment and producing variance analysis.
Create dynamic financial planning tools that support decision-making and communication with program leadership.
Perform financial and risk analysis to support grant-making and management.
Partner with programmatic teams to manage grant and contract spending.
Identify operational and financial risks of executing against annual budgets and broader planning horizons.
Lead financial analysis including creating dynamic financial plans, dashboards, and grants to streamline organizational capacity and discussing with finance leadership.
Assess business plans and perform financial sustainability analysis of organizations and specific projects. Advise program teams on risk mitigation actions including grants to strengthen the organizational capacity of partners.
Assess financial and organizational health of grantee organizations through financial statements review and discussions with counter-level partners and other finance staff.
Drive data analyses to generate new insights on the grant portfolio, leading to improved allocation of resources.
Structure grants to optimize cash disbursements in consideration of operational risks.
Leverage tools and reports to plan and monitor workflow, forecast, and payout performance.
Participate in cross-foundation efforts to develop tools and standard methodologies in support of effective grant-making, pipeline management, and operational excellence.
Participate in complex transactions and special projects for teams with significant financial analysis components.
Other duties as assigned.

Position in Organization:

Job title: Finance Manager
Locations: Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: B020263
Deadline: 08th May, 2024

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree with 7 years of financial planning experience, or equivalent years of relevant experience.
Strong analytical competence, especially in financial modeling, and grant structuring.
Technical and complex financial knowledge.
Knowledge of risk management and organizational due diligence.
Robust analytical, quantitative, and modeling skills for a broad variety of transaction types.
Strong written and verbal communication skills that are appropriately right-sized to relevant audiences.
Communicates complex financial concepts to partners with a diverse set of backgrounds, including leadership, program staff, grantees, and other foundation operational resources.
Strong synthesizing skills and ability to absorb and quickly distill significant amounts of information.
Ability to read and analyze financial statements.
Highest level of integrity and leadership by example, helping to set the tone for the organization and demonstrate an affinity for creating and enabling an inclusive culture.
International finance experience/exposure preferred.
French speaker preferred.