Financial Reporting Specialist

About One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to two-thirds of Africa's farmers, we provide high-quality farm supplies, tree seedlings, accessible credit, modern agronomic training, and a wide range of other agricultural services. On average, this model enables any farmer to increase their income and assets on supported land by more than 35 percent, while permanently improving their resilience. This is all made possible by our team of 9,000+ full-time staff, drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. To learn more, please see our Why Work Here blog post.

About the Role

We are seeking for the Financial Reporting Specialist with 3+years of experience in Accounting and Financial Reporting roles to perform the quality of Financial Reporting and bests collaborations with the team and external Auditors.

Responsibilities

External Financial Reporting

• Review country-level trial balances and supporting schedules to assess the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of accounting classifications, identify and resolve discrepancies, and report gaps.
• Prepare draft financial statements, including notes and supporting disclosures, in accordance with the applicable reporting framework.
• Support country audit readiness activities, including preparing audit schedules and required supporting documents based on auditors' requests.
• Coordinate responses to audit requests, ensuring information provided is complete, accurate and timely.
• Track audit progress, outstanding requests, findings and agreed actions through to closure.
• Monitor and report financial reporting and audit KPIs, identifying opportunities to improve timeliness, quality and efficiency of the audits

Process Improvement and Team support

• Review assigned monthly, quarterly and year-end close reconciliations and analysis as allocated
• Support accounting projects aimed at process improvements.
• Support in the preparation and improvement of the accounting-related policies, controls, and processes where required.
• Support statutory, donor, tax, internal and global audits as required.
• Identify opportunities to improve timeliness, quality and efficiency in accounting and reporting.

Coordinate stakeholders

• Act as the primary Finance coordination point for external auditors during assigned audits.
• Coordinate with various teams working on process improvements, with a goal of
• improving the Financial data quality.
• Manage communications and provide support to the various process owners to make sure that audit-related queries are well addressed with quality and on time.
• Work closely with Accountants and other stakeholders to ensure timely book closes with accuracy and completeness.

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

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

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