Financial Advisory
One Acre Fund supplies smallholder farmers with the financing and training they need to grow their way out of hunger and poverty. Instead of giving handouts, we invest in farmers to generate a permanent gain in farm income. We supply a complete service bundle of seeds and fertilizer, financing, training, and market facilitation— and we deliver these services within walking distance of over 600,000 rural farmers we serve.
The Finance Advisory Services (FAS)
team – akin to a country CFOs – leads our strategic finance strategy and
provides an analytical perspective on all major decisions (enrollment, pricing,
incentives, org-structure, etc). This consulting team provides concise,
actionable advice around how to best achieve the country’s scale and impact
goals in the most financially efficient way. The FAS goal is complete financial
sustainability.
Supply Chain
One Acre Fund supplies smallholder farmers with the financing and training they need to grow their way out of hunger and poverty. Instead of giving handouts, we invest in farmers to generate a permanent gain in farm income. We supply a complete service bundle of seeds and fertilizer, financing, training, and market facilitation— and we deliver these services within walking distance of over 600,000 rural farmers we serve.
We are seeking a candidate to lead
financial decisions for our Kenya program, and be based in Kakamega, Kenya.
As a young organization, we will rely
on your recommendations and thorough analysis. Thus, we are seeking an
exceptional professional with 3+ years of work experience. The position offers
pathways into country executive team positions or regional management.
Responsibilities
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Financial Consulting for Country
Leadership. Shape strategy on all major operational decisions by analyzing them
under a financial light. Work with country leadership to increase revenue,
decrease cost / farmer, and mitigate financial risks.
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Develop the Financial Models for Key
Decisions. Support the various teams in evolving the way we do financial
analytics. For example:
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Work with field operations to
identify profitable districts and decrease incentives
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Work with logistics to decrease the
cost per farmer
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Work with human resources to develop
a lean staffing structure
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Work with our innovations team to
lead our pricing strategy
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Lead our Long-Term Planning. Own our
annual 5-year strategy document, with major emphasize on a realistic 5-year
financial model that pushes the organization towards higher sustainability,
more farmers, and greater impact. Lead the annual budgeting process to build
budgets for each department and country. Accurately forecast our financials,
one year out, so that our executive teams can make well-informed decisions.
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Hold Our Teams Accountable to Our
Long-Term Plans. Work with department heads and country directors to stay on
budget and mitigate risks. FAS is responsible for keeping the country on
financial target. Provide monthly reports on our results alongside thorough
analysis and recommendations for improved efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and
product pricing.
·
Country Finance point of contact. Act
as the main country representative and project manage a variety of finance-related
projects by working to connect our Accounting, and Treasury teams with country
teams.
·
Mentor Staff and Project
Manage.Recruit, manage and develop a key deputy to assist you. Project manage
complex projects related to finance across the country.
Note: This role does not manage the payment, accounting,
or treasury functions which operate independently. This role uses the advice
and data from these teams to influence executive decisions.
Career Growth And Development
We have a strong culture of constant
learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins
with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular
feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months and set
aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the
opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term
career.
Qualifications
We are looking for truly
extraordinary candidates that will help take our organization to the next levels
of impact and scale. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly
encouraged to apply:
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3+ years work experiences. Examples
include a demanding professional work experience in a finance function (e.g.
SME management consulting, an entrepreneurial role, working as a business or
finance analyst).
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Strong financial modeling expertise
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Independent and entrepreneurial drive
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Confidence with numbers and providing
quick, insightful analyses of the stories behind the numbers.
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Ability to clearly communicate in a
logical and structured way to an audience with widely varying levels of
expertise and interests.
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Ability and drive to work
independently, while effectively prioritizing potentially conflicting demands
from various teams.
·
Outstanding interpersonal skills,
including both verbal and written communications.
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Demonstrated leadership experience at
work, or outside of work
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Strong educational background.
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A willingness to commit to living in
rural areas of East Africa for at least two years – this is a long-term,
career-track position with potential to grow into a management role.
Language: English required. Swahili a plus.
How to Apply
Supply Chain
One Acre Fund supplies
smallholder farmers with the financing and training they need to grow their way
out of hunger and poverty. Instead of giving handouts, we invest in farmers to
generate a permanent gain in farm income. We supply a complete service bundle
of seeds and fertilizer, financing, training, and market facilitation— and we
deliver these services within walking distance of over 600,000 rural farmers we
serve.
Job Description
One Acre Fund empowers farmers to
grow their way out of hunger by delivering only the highest quality
agricultural inputs & life improving products on time every season. It’s
the Global Sourcing team’s job to make those inputs readily available at the
right price and quality when farmers need them.
The Global Sourcing team is
responsible for effectively sourcing and delivering over $60M worth of inputs
to One Acre Fund’s regional warehouses across 6 countries of operation. This
involves developing a flexible sourcing strategy, navigating a complex &
evolving regulatory environment, and developing tight quality controls to
guarantee inputs make it from supplier to 1AF warehouse at the best possible
price & quality. it’s our job to represent the voices of our clients at the
top of the value chain, bringing them the same purchasing power, state of art
quality control mechanisms, and timely deliveries as a large scale
agribusiness.
The Supply Chain Operations Associate
will design and implement processes, systems, and data-integration tools that
will work at scale. S/he will deliver results on a set of high impact projects
designed to drive increased efficiency and eliminate waste across our supply
chain operations, drive cost savings for farmers, and prepare our systems to
work as One Acre Fund scales to deliver a broader mix of products to more
clients across a larger geography. Success in this role means supporting the
sourcing team to deliver goods more effectively and efficiently, thereby
driving organization-wide sustainability.
The Overarching Goals Of This Role
Are To
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Drive waste out of the value chain
through a set of focused, high-impact projects and process improvements
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Deliver better system and data
integration across the supply chain team from demand planning to purchasing to
inventory management
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Improve controls environment to
prevent and detect over-spend events and fraud
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Work with the Supply Chain Operations
Manager to improve order accuracy to dramatically reduce excess inventory
without risking stock-outs
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Make team key performance indicators
visible to executors and organization leadership to justify investments in
supply chain operations
Responsibilities
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Driving innovation in sourcing
operations to eliminate waste: Work with Supply Chain Manager to drive
innovation across the global sourcing and local procurement teams by executing
strategic projects and thinking creatively. Example projects include:
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Create and execute strategy for
handling excess inventory between seasons
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Invest in data-driven forecasting and
new warehousing and sourcing strategies to minimize excess inventory in
regional warehouses without risking stock-outs during key seasonal deliveries
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Investigate projects that could save
massive amounts of money such as central warehousing to reduce local
warehousing costs
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Design risk mitigation strategies in
partnership with product and policy team to insulate farmers from input
availability issues
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Identifying other methods for
reducing repetition, spend, and manual movements from sourcing processes – may
include collaborating with warehousing, last-mile-distribution, and finance
teams in addition to immediate global sourcing colleagues
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Improve system integration:
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Streamline order processing and
tracking tools to reduce repetition and manual data entry
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Move cash forecasting process into
SAP with support from Global Sourcing Manager
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Design and create PowerBI reports to
give greater data visibility on key performance indicators to sourcing team and
1AF leadership – will also require setting up data inputs for ease of reporting
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Tighten controls environment:
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Update and manage full set of
team-wide SOPs for improved knowledge transfer and new staff onboarding
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Identify and close controls gaps in
sourcing processes with buy-in from team leadership and executors to reduce
possible fraud or over-spend events
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Run fraud prevention trainings
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Report on controls to systems and
organizational leadership
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Capacity building:
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Learn systems and processes across
sourcing units in order to fill mission critical gaps as needed
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Run capacity building workshops and
trainings across the Sourcing team focused on hard skills (i.e. Microsoft
suite, data presentation skills, writing for clarity, etc.)
·
Work with sourcing managers to
evaluate hard-skills gaps on their team required for proper succession planning
and design training courses to help staff across the sourcing team master those
skills
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Identify strong talent pools to
support with recruitment at all job grades
Career Growth and Development
We have a strong culture of constant
learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins
with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular
feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set
aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity
to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.
Qualifications
We are seeking exceptional candidates
with 4-7 years or work experience, top performing academic background, and a
passion for reducing waste across supply chain operations. Prior operations or
consulting experience preferred but not required if the candidate has a track
record of independent problem solving and innovation in a fast growing
organization. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged
to apply:
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Passion for operations, building
scalable and efficient systems and solving problems in a difficult operating
environment
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Work experience in a demanding
professional environment, preferably in positions where frequent
cross-department communication was required
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Experience in an operations,
consulting, manufacturing, or supply chain role preferred
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Track record of independent problem
solving and delivering results
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Strong data and analytical skills;
advanced Excel a plus
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Excellent written and verbal
communication skills
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Experience working in a
multi-cultural workplace
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Creativity and strong problem solving
skills. You don’t take no for an answer and constantly look for alternative
solutions to problems.
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Strong attention to detail – you can
pick out a mistake in a contract from a mile away
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Strong quantitative reasoning skills
– you can QC contracts, POs, and orders effectively without support
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Professional maturity and ability to
stay calm under stress
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A passion for world class customer
service
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Proven ability to set and meet
targets
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Strong work ethic and ability to
handle a demanding, high pressure work environment
·
Strong sense of ethics, honesty, and
integrity
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Leadership experience at work or
outside of work.
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Top-performing academic background
Language: English required, French and Swahili preferred
How to Apply