Senior Portfolio Finance Analyst at Management Sciences For Health - MSH

Ref Id: R684

• The Senior Portfolio Finance Analyst provides technical support and builds finance staff capacity globally to deliver high quality, effective, and efficient Financial Planning and Analysis services (“FP&A”) for MSH projects. 
• S/he supports project billing, revenue recognition, budgeting and financial reporting efforts.

Manage Billing, Revenue Recognition, and Profit and Loss figures for assigned project portfolio:

• Develop and submit accurate and timely monthly invoices to project donors.
• Accurately recognize project revenue on a monthly basis
• Support the project in the management of budgeted profit and loss figures
• Assist the projects in understanding and monitoring corporate budget targets

Support the timely delivery of high-quality budgets, financial reports and financial analyses for assigned project portfolio:

• Review budgets, pipelines, internal and external financial reports drafted by country finance managers. Perform integrity, math, and compliance checks prior to submission.
• Ensure needed data and reports are available to appropriate staff in-country
• Provide support to country office in financial analysis activities
• Backfill finance manager capacity in-country offices with short and long-term gaps in skillset
• Support country teams to respond to audit queries
• Directly perform all the tasks mentioned above for projects that do not have a dedicated finance manager as assigned.

Develop, train and build Country Offices’ Finance Managers capacity:

• Actively participate in onboarding and capacity building of Financial Manager in country office
• Assist country offices’ financial managers to troubleshoot and respond to donor and project management queries as needed.

Support corporate monitoring and oversight activities:

• Test and ensure that standards, job-aids and other tools for promoting sound financial management practices are complete to meet needs of country offices financial managers
• Monitor projects and countries financial performance and compliance with MSH standards
• Support the projects in developing their annual corporate budgets

Required Minimum Education

• Required: Bachelor’s Degree
• Preferred: Master’s Degree

Required Minimum Experience:

• 4+ years of experience in international nonprofit project financial management or related experience is required with a BA. Experience with complex financial planning and analysis required.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with aspects of federal cost reimbursement practices, such as the Federal Acquisitions Regulations (FAR) and USAID regulations desirable. Prior work experience with non-USG, foundations and other donors also desirable. Experience building capacity/ training diverse groups both in a classroom and online highly desirable. Experience with collaboration tools like Google Docs desirable.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong software skills including extensive experience with databases, pivot tables, spreadsheets, word processing tools and other Microsoft Office applications is essential
• Fluent written and spoken English is required; working knowledge of French is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with accounting software, particularly QuickBooks and Deltek Costpoint is highly desirable.
• Teaching or training delivery skills are desirable
• Experience in successfully navigating a culturally diverse environment.
• Very good interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.

Competencies:

• Manage work with shifting priorities  
• Manage and coordinate a variety of activities simultaneously
• Work in a team-oriented environment while driving for result
• Creative problem solving

Physical Demands:    

• Ability to travel internationally as needed (up to 30% time). Office environment including keyboard use, pulling drawers, lifting papers <10 lbs.