AMREF Finance Manager Jobs in Kenya

Amref Health Africa was founded in 1957 and has since grown to become the largest African-based international health development organisation; currently implementing more than 140 programs, directly reaching more than 12 million people across 35 African countries. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, Amref Health Africa has offices in eight countries in Africa, namely, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, South Sudan, Zambia and Senegal.

Amref’s work in each country responds to local needs and priorities, strengthens existing capacities in communities to have ownership of their health and strengthens the local health systems. An additional eleven advocacy and fundraising offices are located in Europe and North America. Amref has a staff complement of over 1,500.

Amref Health Africa is driven by its vision of ‘Lasting health change in Africa’ and its mission ‘To increase sustainable health access to communities in Africa through solutions in human resources for health, health service delivery, and investments in health’.

About Sema Reproductive Health

Shaping Equitable Market Access for Reproductive Health – SEMA Reproductive Health – is a new, innovative partnership that aims to transform SRH markets so that people everywhere have sustained access to comprehensive, quality, and affordable SRH products. It emerged from a collective reflection by partners that although we have made tremendous improvements in SRH markets, we need to do business differently moving forward.

In particular, we need to support countries to be stewards of their total markets and build a collaborative platform for countries, donors, and other partners to align on priority market problems, jointly problem-solve, and coordinate resources more efficiently to overcome SRH market challenges.

To that end, SEMA has been designed to strengthen countries’ and global partners’ capacities to build healthier, more equitable, and more resilient SRH markets to ensure sustained access to comprehensive, quality and affordable SRH products and services. To do so, SEMA will focus on aligning and strengthening efforts across geographies and private and public sectors through three core focuses:

Proactively monitor SRH market health by aggregating, analyzing, and monitoring market data to develop a holistic, unified view of user demand and current market supply of different SRH markets
across regions and sectors to generate critical insights that can drive strategy and execution

Identify market barriers across geographies and co-design strategic solutions, tapping the unique strengths of existing networks and organizations in-country and globally to align on the most strategic approach

Support countries and global partners to finance and implement interventions including helping governments mobilize domestic funding against the problems, crowding in new players, directly funding market interventions and encouraging coordination of global investments to drive impact.

SEMA was announced in July 2021 alongside the Generation Equality Forum in France, with country
governments from Nigeria, Burkina Faso, and Uganda; financial support from the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MAE); and strategic partnership from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Foreign Commonwealth
Development Office (FCDO), and the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition.

SEMA will operate in a lean coordinating structure backed by in-country focal points. SEMA will implement select functions directly and manage a pool of re-granting or contracted services via implementing partners to leverage and invest in ecosystem partners.

Job Purpose

The Finance Manager will report directly to the SEMA Head of Operations and drive all financial and commercial management activities for SEMA to advance its mission. The portfolio will include activities to support the financial processes and budget management of SEMA ensuring that the initiative’s implementation adheres to the agreed commercial management framework principles agreed with SEMA’s donors and in line with Amref’s compliance framework.

Primary Responsibilities

• Ensure effective project financial management and reporting systems are in place to manage
compliant and efficient project spending against budget.

• Collect, prepare and analyse required reports in a timely manner in order to meet internal and
external deadlines for submission in order to receive payments from SEMA donors.

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Coordinate with the Executive Director and Head of Operations on the oversight of all project
financial processes and transactions, including the disbursements of funds and verification and
approval of financial reports from partners and suppliers.

• Lead the adherence to key financial controls for SEMA, including budgeting, management reporting
and forecasting, procurement policy, travel policy, bank reconciliations, and treasury management, to ensure fully compliant end to end financial management.

• Review sub-budgets and reports prepared by SEMA heads of department and country leads, giving
support and capacity building to teams to build expertise and capability.

• Ensure financial oversight responsibility for SEMA financial transactions:

Process and maintain transactions on Amref ERP

Maintain regular reconciliations of bank and other balance sheet accounts

Monitor foreign exchange fluctuations and track exchange gains and losses

Ensure payments are made in good time to suppliers, partners for invoice payments, etc

Ensure adequate documentation supports transactions.

• Produce reports as required for donors, internal management and other key stakeholders

• Ensure all financial project documentation is managed, filed, and available on Amref’s ERP and SEMA shared drive workspace

• Oversee and ensure adherence to key financial controls for SEMA including budgeting, management
reporting, forecasting, procurement processes, treasury management, etc.

• Ensure all costs incurred by SEMA are coded correctly and in a timely manner into Amref’s ERP

• Ensure all payments via the Amref finance department are paid within the agreed upon internal timelines

• Support banking requirements for SEMA including ensuring compliant per diem payments, compliant payments to suppliers, and other requirements as necessary

• Working with colleagues in Amref to prepare SEMA inter-company payments and reports in Amref
ERP in order to ensure correct and timely payments.

• Oversee SEMA’s financial audits and reviews (both external or internal audits) from time to time

• All other duties as identified and agreed to fulfil SEMA support costs and transactions

Required Qualifications

Education and Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in accounting, business, or a closely related field

• A certified Accountant or Finance professional, such as CPA (K), ACCA, etc.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of seven (7) years of relevant experience designing, implementing, and managing highly effective financial and commercial management processes, preferably in the field of sexual and reproductive health, global health, and/or global development.

• Experience supporting financial and commercial management for comparable programs or organizations working with diverse stakeholders (governments, funders, implementation organizations)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Robust and evidenced knowledge of performance, financial, and budgeting performance processes

• Excellent use of Excel for business analysis

• Proactive and able to think strategically, set priorities and manage concurrent projects, handle
pressure, manage time effectively, exercise independent judgment, and assume responsibility for seeing projects through to timely and successful completion

• Up to date on industry trends in commercial and financial management able to stay ahead of the
latest developments in the industry.

• Deep personal commitment to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including the right to safe abortion for all who need it

• Self-motivated; willing to work independently and as part of a team

• Great communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in a multi-cultural work environment and committed to promoting an inclusive culture where everyone is valued and
belongs

• Eagerness to contribute positively and collaborate effectively in a team working in a start-up environment (i.e., enjoy creating, can be flexible, embrace ambiguity).

• Entrepreneurial and creative.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; AMREF Finance Manager Jobs in Kenya

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