Food for Education is a not-for-profit organization that works with vulnerable children in the public school system to improve their lives and school performance. Founded in 2012, Food for Education provides subsidized school meals every day to over 15,000 kids with a goal of feeding 1,000,000 kids by 2025.
We are currently recruiting for the following positions:
Financial Accountant - Cluster
Job Type: Contract, Hybrid
Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
Job Field: Finance / Accounting / Audit
About the Role
The Financial Accountant - Cluster plays a critical operational and financial role in financial reporting, managing supply chain costs, inventory integrity, and accounts payable across a designated cluster of kitchens. Reporting to the Finance Manager, this role bridges financial oversight with kitchen operations—ensuring accurate financial reporting, Cost Per Meal (CPM) analysis, strict stock control, timely vendor reconciliations, and compliance with internal policies, GAAP, and IFRS.
Core Responsibilities
Operational Analysis and Business Partnering
Manage day-to-day operations ensuring proper tracking, reconciliation and posting of core ingredients, grocery costs, transport costs, energy costs, kitchen consumables, kitchen utilities, health and safety items, labor costs and any other cost per meal related costs.
Manage Inventory including ensuring proper receipt and transfers, consumption, physical stock take and reconciliation, while ensuring available management tools including Sage and Appsheet are updated timely and accurately.
Compile, analyse, and generate timely, error-free Cost Per Meal (CPM) and core accounting reports for assigned kitchen units.
Conduct bi-weekly CPM / CPC review meetings with respective Kitchen Managers (KMs) to identify variance drivers (e.g., Inventory management, food items costing, groceries invoices, program salary etc) and drive timely corrective actions.
Conduct a weekly check in with the Finance Manager and the Financial Controller on the cluster kitchen Operations.
Provide bi-weekly CPM updates to the Finance leadership and the actions that have been taken to solve variances noted and process improvements undertaken.
Provide monthly financial and operational reports for review including inventory reconciliations and proposed/ approved adjustments and obtain signoff by Finance and operations leadership.
Partner with Operations and HR Business Partners (HRBPs) to review, reconcile, and post program salary inputs for outsourced labour on a bi-weekly basis.
Inventory Oversight & Stock Control
Perform daily reviews of inventory movements, grocery documentation, and grocery invoice posting to Sage ERP.
Conduct period and monthly physical stock take, reconcile sub-ledger to General Ledger (GL) accounts, process necessary inventory adjustments, and perform stock valuations.
Obtain signed-off inventory consumption approvals (via email/AppSheet) from Operations teams, and accurately post consumption into the Sage ERP system.
Formally document and maintain agreed-upon inventory valuation bases (e.g., Weighted Average Cost) between Finance and Operations.
Accounts Payable & Vendor Management
Verify, allocate, and post grocery-related bills and invoices in a timely manner.
Perform routine Accounts Payable (AP) reconciliations and maintain clear follow-ups on vendor payment status to preserve supplier relations.
Manage petty transactions, by ensuring correct and accurate costs categorization, support funds requisition and support documentation of all petty cash payments. Confirm supplementary meal allocations, and maintain complete audit-ready filing systems.
Process Improvement & Financial Controls
Proactively monitor accounting workflows to identify operational inefficiencies, spot errors, and propose cost-saving or process optimization strategies.
Review accounting systems, policies, and procedures; recommend updates and support the implementation of new financial guidelines, GAAP, and IFRS standards.
Compliance, Stakeholder Management & Audit
Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders (Kitchen Managers, HR, Operations, Central Finance) and external vendors.
Lead audit readiness for both internal and external audits by preparing clear, structured documentation that provides evidence of procedures performed, results, and conclusions reached.
Perform other ad-hoc financial and operational duties as assigned.
Food Safety Trainee
Job Type: Contract
Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
Location: Nairobi
Job Field: Environment Health and Safety, Graduate Jobs
Role Overview
The Food Safety Trainee supports the implementation and day-to-day monitoring of food safety programmes within assigned kitchens and schools. Working under the guidance of the Food Safety Associate, the Trainee conducts routine inspections, monitors food safety practices, supports verification activities, and promotes compliance with established food safety standards while developing technical competency.
Routine Food Safety Monitoring
Conduct routine inspections of assigned kitchens and schools to verify compliance with food safety standards.
Monitor compliance with hygiene practices, PPE requirements, housekeeping and sanitation standards.
Identify food safety deviations and promptly report findings to the Food Safety Associate.
Operational Oversight
Routinely monitor receiving activities to verify that incoming food and food-
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