Commitment: Full-time, 40 hr/week, 9:00am-5:00pm; immediate start
Location: Boston, MA
Compensation: Salary commensurate with experience; reimbursement of travel expenses
Reports to: Director of Budgeting and Reporting
About Last Mile Health
Founded by survivors of Liberia’s civil war, Last Mile Health (LMH) is committed to saving lives in the world’s most remote villages. Working in remote jungle communities cut off from even basic life-saving health services, LMH is building a health system that reaches everyone—by bringing health care to villagers’ doorsteps. LMH trains community members to be health practitioners for their villages and connects them with rural health clinics to offer every person access to the care they deserve. These Frontline Health Workers are able to prevent, diagnose, and treat the top ten most life-threatening health conditions.
The unprecedented Ebola outbreak in Liberia has demonstrated that weak, inequitable health systems leave everyone vulnerable. To address this access gap, the Liberian government has conceived an ambitious ten-year effort to deploy community-based health practitioners in every village across Liberia. Last Mile Health is undergoing a major expansion of its team and operations to support the Liberian government in this effort to design, launch, and sustain a national program for remote health access.
Position Summary:
Reporting to the Director of Budgeting & Reporting (DBR) and an integral part of the Budgeting & Reporting team, the Budget and Financial Analyst is responsible for monitoring, analyzing, and reporting on key financial and performance metrics for the organization and provides technical support to DBR in developing and maintaining budget and forecast models for both internal and external audiences.
Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain budgets, forecasts, and models
- Monitor budget performance for all LMH business units, and prepare variance reports for review by DBR and management detailing expenses by category, highlighting potential problem areas or opportunities, and make recommendations for changes to forecasted amounts
- Review monthly financial statements for accuracy and provide feedback to accounting staff on necessary corrections
- Provide advice and technical assistance with cost analysis, fiscal allocation, and budget preparation
- Coordinate the preparation of the monthly close with accounting staff
- Design and review financial reports including dashboards, management, and assists with any other monthly and ad-hoc reporting as needed
- Track restricted funds received and expensed on a monthly basis, and maintain a comprehensive restricted funds schedule in accordance with internal and audit requirements.
- Assists in developing the annual budget and forecasts throughout the fiscal year
- Assist staff with budget questions and issues.
- Provides support as needed for audit and yearly close
Qualifications:
- Education: Degree in Accounting/ Finance/Economics. Graduate degree a plus.
- Experience: 3+ years of experience and growing responsibility in accounting, financial analysis, financial consulting, or management. Experience in the non-profit sector a plus
- Finance: Knowledge of general finance principles, including forecasting, variance analysis and financial statement analysis. Demonstrated ability to understand financial statements and operations, to partner with financial staff, and to translate financial information for managerial action
- Accounting: Understanding of GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) , familiarity with non-profit accounting a plus
- Budgeting: Demonstrated familiarity with budgeting techniques, variance analysis and allocation methodologies as well as budget preparation and automated financial reporting
- Grants: Knowledge of grant accounting, reporting and budgeting
- Computer Skills: Proficient in Excel; knowledge of QuickBooks a plus. Comfortable and competent in working with spreadsheets and using technology to improve productivity and effectiveness.
- Communication: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, effectively communicate to financial and non-financial professionals, to write clearly and concisely and to present financial data
- Quality: Demonstrates a commitment to accuracy and thoroughness; seeks to promote and improve the quality of work products and customer service to LMH’s business units
- Problem Solving: Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; gathers and analyzes information skillfully; works well in group problem solving situations. Including the ability to manage and control complex issues simultaneously, track multiple schedules, and prioritize issues
- Keen attention to detail
- Commitment to health and social justice
- Comfort working with a casual but high-performing team
- Willingness and ability to travel to LMH’s sites abroad
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