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Finance, Operations and Logistics Officer

Job ID: 95530
  • Addis Ababa
  • Casablanca
  • Johannesburg
  • Lagos
  • Nairobi
+ 4 More


Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges—the kind that bring together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day? If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place.

Your Impact

You will be playing an active role in two main aspects, financial and operations management, providing support to UK senior finance manger and program manager.  
Your financial management duties will include developing annual budget preparation and analysis, liaising with wider Africa office finance colleagues to prepare monthly financial analysis, call down budget preparation and invoicing preparation.
Your operations management duties will include developing call down proposals, managing templates, liaising with consortium and firm teams, program compliance, facilitating team onboarding, supporting consortium administration, preparation of documents and briefing for the client and document and file management.
You may also be responsible for presenting results to internal stakeholders including leadership and implementing recommendations with wider program management team members.
You’ll have the opportunity to gain new skills and build on the strengths you bring to the program. You will receive frequent coaching and mentoring from colleagues within and outside the program management team. This will be a 24-month contract.

Your Growth

You’ll work in our Africa offices as part of a distinctive high impact program that sits within our Social, Healthcare and Public Entities (SHaPE) practice. The program focuses on work with international companies (investors and buyers) to build a significant pipeline of investments to ‘kick-start’ manufacturing in Africa.
There is engagement with African governments to support the attraction and retention of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in key manufacturing sectors and raise the political profile of manufacturing FDI in Africa. In this role, you will also provide flexible technical assistance to increase investment in manufacturing, tailored to individual country needs.

Your qualifications and skills

  • University degree and excellent academic record required; advanced degree preferred
  • Numeracy and financial literacy
  • Advanced Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word skills
  • Highly detail orientated
  • Excellent communications skills in English, written and verbal (e.g., ability to synthesize and convey complex information clearly and compellingly)
  • Self-starter, but with an ability to work as a close team 
  • Ability to work remotely with colleagues across multiple locations
  • A passion for administration, including financial processes
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Job Skill Group - N/A
Job Skill Code - PDES - Project-Dedicated ESP
Function - Firm Administration
Industry - Public Sector
Post to LinkedIn - Yes
Posted to LinkedIn Date - Tue Aug 15 00:00:00 GMT 2023
LinkedIn Posting City - Nairobi
LinkedIn Posting State/Province -
LinkedIn Posting Country - Kenya
LinkedIn Job Title - Finance, Operations and Logistics Officer
LinkedIn Function - Analyst;Finance
LinkedIn Industry - Management Consulting
LinkedIn Seniority Level - Associate