Management/Gestion, Finance, Comptabilité et Commerce
Spécialité
Comptabilité
Date publication
28 Mai 2020
Date limite
28 Juin 2020
Pays
Haiti
Ville
Port-au-Prince
Zone
Airport Plaza
Durée
Three-month consultant contract with possible extension
Introduction
About Acceso
Acceso (www.acceso.org) is a pioneering social business builder that brings entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty. Acceso builds, invests start-up capital into, manages, and scales social agribusinesses that improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and fishers and their communities by increasing agricultural productivity, creating job opportunities, and facilitating long-term linkages to high value markets. Acceso currently manages a portfolio of high-impact agribusinesses in Colombia, Haiti, and El Salvador with plans for replicating its model across Latin America and the Caribbean.
Launched in 2014, Acceso Haiti has supported over 7,400 farmers through trainings, credit packages, seedling distribution and purchase commitments at fair market prices, generating over $4.38m in farmer income. Through these efforts, Acceso Haiti has aggregated, tested, and delivered over 1,300 MT of peanuts to dozens of buyers, and served as a critical, value-creating intermediary between smallholder farmers, domestic and international buyers, and numerous organizations in Haiti.
Fonctions
I. Position Description
The Consultant, Financial Reporting & Systems will support deployment of new financial and data management systems, streamline reporting procedures and content, support financial planning and complete ongoing financial and operational performance analysis and audits for Acceso’s agribusiness in Haiti, Acceso Haiti. The Consultant, Financial Reporting & Systems will work directly with Acceso agribusiness managers, finance teams and operations teams and report to the Associate Director, Agribusiness.
II. Essential Job Functions & Responsibilities
The duties listed below are intended as illustrations of the types of duties that may be performed. The omission of specific duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to this position.
Systems deployment
- Support deployment of new financial and data management systems;
- Analyze operations and financial procedures and make recommendations for improvements;
- Support migration of summary data from current systems to new systems;
- Support and troubleshoot data input sources;
- Improve operations reporting and accounting efficiency and transparency;
- Integrate annual, monthly and weekly targets into accounting and data systems;
- Develop and train business teams on dashboards and other performance visualization tools.
Reporting
- Support development and use of weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting packages against targets;
- Support implementation of new reporting procedures and packages;
- Streamline data migration and mapping from financial and data management systems to reporting packages;
- Assess accounting teams and make recommendations to assure all local tax and other required reporting is completed on time.
Financial analysis
- Analyze operational and financial performance;
- Make targeted and data-driven recommendations to improve efficiency, reduce costs and increase sales and impact;
- Make revisions to financial procedures based on analysis and adjust reporting to incorporate new focus areas;
- Audit operations to ensure accuracy of reports and system data and make recommendations for improvements.
Qualifications Requises
III. Education, Work Experience & Languages
- Minimum of seven (7) years of experience in financial planning and analysis, accounting and/or systems deployment;
- A Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or economics (Master’s degree preferred);
- Experience working in audit or financial consulting;
- Strong entrepreneurial spirit and business sense;
- Self-starter and driven problem solver;
- Passion and commitment to social impact and improving the lives of poor farmers;
- Advanced user of MS Office Suite applications;
- Experience with NetSuite, Adaptive Insights and/or FarmForce or other ERPs, databases and dashboarding tools;
- Oral and written fluency in English, French and Haitian Creole.
Conditions de travail
Location: Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Contract: Three-month consultant contract with possible extension
Travel: 25% local travel