Reports to: Country Finance Manager

About US:

Promoting Equality in African Schools (PEAS) is an international education not-for-profit organisation with the mission to ‘expand access to sustainably delivered, quality secondary education across Africa.’ Since 2008, PEAS has built and operated high quality low-cost not-for-profit secondary schools in close partnership with government in communities where there is urgent unmet demand for secondary education. We currently run 28 secondary schools in Uganda and 4 in Zambia serving over 15,000 students. PEAS operations and work are founded on four strategic pillars i.e., Access, Quality, Sustainability and System Strengthening.

Job Summary:  The School Finance Specialist (SFS) role exists to ensure sound and effective finance and accounting operations across the PEAS School Network. The SFS is therefore expected to streamline and rationalise PEAS Uganda schools’ financial operations to achieve full capacity return on investment that enhances PEAS aspirations for a successful, exemplar and sustainable actor in the education sector in Uganda. The role holder works closely with the various departmental heads within the organisation to define and implement optimal operational models necessary for the achievement of the highest impact for Access, Quality, Sustainability and System Strengthening in all PEAS schools.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

Essential

• The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting or Commerce
• Five years of experience in a financial management role at either a senior or middle level management level
• Experience leading business planning and analysis in a large school network or in an entity with similar operations
• Experience developing strategies and effectively managing change processes
• Numerate and demonstrable experience of using Microsoft Office applications especially MS Excel and MS PowerPoint
• Ambitious and desires a stretch role that provides an opportunity to get out of their ordinary finance into modelling, analytics, forecasting and developing strategies
• Working well with senior management teams and able to influence, persuade and articulate well with evidence approaches that deliver specific goals
• Basic experience in developing policy framework and
• Tax planning and management experience

Desired

• A visionary and values aligned individual who is excited about transformation and able to influence others
• Qualified Accountant with either CPA or ACCA.

Skills & Personal Attributes:

• A good collaborator, team player and listener
• Self-driven and can work largely with limited or no supervision setting own goal plans to achieve specific assignment