Budget and Programming Associate – Financial Analysis

Job Description

Budget and Programming Associate | World Food Programme

The Tone:
This is a Service Contract, Level 6 (SC-6) role at the World Food Programme, located in Kigali, Rwanda. The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and building pathways to peace through food assistance. This role is crucial for supporting robust financial analysis, optimizing resource utilization, and managing partnerships to ensure effective humanitarian and development assistance reaches millions in need.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Service Contract, Level 6 (SC-6)
• Location: In-person Kigali, Rwanda
• Team: Budget and Programming
• Mission: To support financial analysis, resource optimization, and partnership management for WFP Rwanda’s humanitarian and development programs.
• Tech Stack: Excel (advanced), SAP, other analytical tools

What You’ll Actually Do
• Analyze Financial Performance: Review budget plans, monitor project financial performance, and provide comprehensive analysis on fund and grant balances to optimize resources and support decision-making.
• Manage Partner Finances: Conduct budget reviews for agreements with Cooperating Partners (CPs), monitor their expenditures, review financial reports, and support the timely processing of invoices and payments.
• Enhance Financial Processes: Contribute to the improvement of internal processes, enhancement of corporate systems, and design of tools to facilitate planning, forecasting, and budget management.
• Provide Guidance & Training: Advise and support internal stakeholders and Cooperating Partners on partnership management, budgeting agreements, financial reporting, and the use of WFP’s internal accounting system.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Information Systems, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Project Management, Business Administration, Finance, or another relevant field.
• Experience: At least six (6) years of experience in data management, with hands-on experience identifying, analyzing, and interpreting trends or patterns in complex data sets, including relevant work as a data or business data analyst, and experience providing analytical inputs for budget development.
• Skills: Strong analytical skills with keen attention to detail and data accuracy, excellent communication and writing skills, a proactive attitude with the ability to plan work and prioritize competing activities, ability to work independently, and demonstrated competence in using standard data analysis and visualization software packages like advanced Excel and SAP. Fluency in both oral and written English.
• Bonus: Experience in partnership management and the implementation of humanitarian and/or development programs, including an understanding of major related challenges at field level, and fluency in Kinyarwanda.