Read the full job description here: kutt.to/ACFinanceApply
Reports to: Fractional CFO
Manages: No direct reports
Location: Remote (U.S. Eastern Time preferred, Central Time possible)
Type: Full-time
Title & level: Manager or Senior Manager
Compensation: $90,000-$109,999 (depending on qualifications)
Benefits: Generous leave, health insurance, & retirement package, remote work facilitation
Start date: January 2027, earlier preferred
Company Description African Collaborative invests exclusively in African-led organizations, providing the critical, multi-year capital needed to help them create purposeful, locally rooted change. Since launching in 2020, our small but mighty team of 12, spread across the U.S. and five African countries, has committed $12.3M+ in unrestricted, multi-year funding to 45 organizations across 15 Sub-Saharan African countries, and been featured in outlets such as the New York Times and The Guardian. Having launched our 2030 strategy, we are now in an exciting phase of growth, driving towards $50M+ in catalytic resources to African innovators by 2030.
Learn more at www.africancollab.org.
The Opportunity As part of African Collaborative’s growth journey, we are bringing our finance function in-house.
The Finance
Team will consist of a fractional CFO - who sets financial strategy and represents AC on the highest-level financial matters - and the Finance & Accounting Manager who will own all of the organization’s day-to-day finance work. As the Finance & Accounting Manager, you will manage everything from grant disbursements to vendor invoices to the accounting backbone that keeps AC’s finances accurate and audit-ready, and you’ll ultimately be responsible for building a finance function that is centered around our mission and key stakeholders.
This role is critical to African Collaborative’s success; you’ll be responsible for moving $4M+ in grants per year to over 45 African-led organizations, and helping us develop the finance processes and systems to scale our partnerships and support more grantees each year.
This is a hybrid role by design, with an estimated 60-70% being financial management and analysis and 30-40% being accounting & transaction management; we are looking for someone excited by this duality. As budget and transaction volume grows, we see the potential to add an accounting staff to the team allowing you to spend more time on the analysis and strategic thinking underlying our finance function.
Key Responsibilities
This role spans General Ledger & Financial Reporting, Budgeting, Strategic Support, Grant Disbursements & Program Finance, Accounts Payable & Vendor Management, and Team Compensation & Operations Support. Read the full job description here: kutt.to/ACFinanceApply.
What You’ll Bring
At least 7-8 years’ progressive experience in a finance and accounting field with strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP reporting requirements.
Track record as a Finance Business Partner: You have provided thought partnership to senior leadership on budgets, financial systems and decisions. You bring a deeply relational approach that fosters alignment across departments, curiosity to ask the right questions and an analytical mind to add insight to numbers.
Advanced QuickBooks Online skills with ability to run full cycle bookkeeping and accurate and timely close out processes (incl. posting of expenses and revenues, journal entries, monthly reconciliations, optimizing chart of accounts, etc).
Advanced proficiency in Excel (lookups, SUMIFS, pivot tables, etc) and experience building clear, decision-ready financial models.
Experience with Financial Reporting (including periodic management reports in cash and accrual basis, budget variance analysis, revenue breakdowns by grant type, etc). You are known to turn financial reports into meaningful insights for non-finance audiences, highlighting trends, explanations and strategic questions linked to program goals and plans.
Experience facilitating annual budgeting processes that involve multiple departments, and leading insightful budget tracking exercises that support proactive reallocation towards goal-aligned spending along the year.
Experience managing audits, with a strong track record of leading the process as the main contact person, responding to audit queries and coordinating executive involvement.
Experience developing financial policies and procedures that are mission and team centric, and flexibly serve varying realities; with a knack for ensuring buy-in and efficient roll-out during execution.
Experience in a nonprofit context with an understanding of managing donor funding and/or grantmaking context are an added advantage.
Great customer service skills and a desire to make finance processes seamless (and enjoyable!) for the AC team and our grantee partners.
Comfort operating with real independence in a remote team early on - this role will often be the only full-time finance staff member, working alongside a part-time CFO.
A demonstrated ownership mentality with a track record of anticipating issues and taking initiative to address them.
Comfort with a wide range of tech platforms and tools, including spend-management tools (like Ramp or comparable), payroll systems (like Gusto or comparable), Drive/cloud, etc.
Demonstrated personal attributes:
Agility and Flexibility: You have worked in small and growing organizations where realities were changing often and things were still being defined. You are open-minded to change, avoid rigidity, adapt with intention, and embrace ambiguity as part of growth.
Human-Centered approach: You are relational, lead with empathy, care, and a deep appreciation for diverse perspectives and lived experiences.
Mission-Aligned: You are committed to shifting power to African social impact leaders and transforming philanthropic systems to shift resources to the frontlines of impact. You are excited to build a finance function that centers and serves this mission.
How to Apply
Apply via the application survey (kutt.to/ACFinanceApply) and upload a tailored CV (PDF, max 3 pages).
Questions? Email ac@edgeperformance.co.ke.
Applications are shortlisted on a rolling basis, so apply early.
This recruitment is run in collaboration with edge, and all communication will come only from @edgeperformance.co.ke and @africancollab.org addresses.