Job Overview
Location
Rwanda/ Mauritius/Remote
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Finance
Date Posted
May 6, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • The Financial Analyst - FP&A role at ALU Education Inc. is critical to building the Financial Performance & Reporting team from the ground up, transforming financial data into strategic insights that guide institutional decision-making across Rwanda, Mauritius, and remote operations.
- • Day to day, the analyst will own the monthly COGS reporting cycle, maintain overhead trackers across departments, prepare audit-ready schedules for month-end and year-end close, support budgeting and forecasting with cost-focused modeling, produce cost performance sections for management accounts, and track CAPEX against approved budgets while ensuring data integrity in NetSuite.
- • The team is small, high-impact, and mission-driven, operating within ALU’s innovative higher education model that emphasizes student agency, real-world skills, and transformative learning experiences across Africa and beyond, backed by a world-class faculty and staff committed to safeguarding and educational excellence.
- • In this role, the analyst will develop deep expertise in management accounting, financial systems (NetSuite, Google Sheets, SQL, Salesforce), and cross-functional financial control, while helping to build scalable processes and standards that will define ALU’s financial performance management for years to come.
🎯 Requirements
- • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
- • 3–5 years of experience in overhead tracking, cost variance analysis, and supporting schedule preparation
- • Strong proficiency in Google Sheets and/or Excel, including advanced formulas, pivot tables, and structured financial models
- • Experience working with ERP systems (NetSuite experience is a strong advantage)
- • Solid understanding of management accounting principles: accruals, prepayments, fixed assets, cost allocation
- • Detail-oriented with a disciplined approach to reconciliation and schedule accuracy
- • Clear written communication: able to present cost findings in plain language for management
🏖️ Benefits
- • Opportunity to build and shape the Financial Performance & Reporting function from the ground up in a high-impact, mission-driven organization
- • Work within an innovative higher education model that empowers students to declare missions, not majors, and drive real-world impact across Africa
- • Collaborate with a world-class faculty and staff in a culture that values first-principles thinking, creativity, and student-led learning
- • Gain hands-on experience with NetSuite, Google Suite, SQL, and Salesforce in a real-world financial operations environment
- • Develop expertise in cost analysis, budgeting, forecasting, audit support, and financial reporting within an international development and education context
- • Role based in Rwanda, Mauritius, or fully remote, offering flexibility and exposure to a pan-African institution
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About ALU Education Inc.
ALU Education Inc. is a California-based, accredited university that delivers competency-based undergraduate and graduate programs in business and law through an online, project-driven platform. The institution emphasizes peer leadership, real-world impact projects, and self-paced learning with regional accreditation from the WASC Senior College and University Commission, aiming to expand access to affordable higher education across Africa and beyond.
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