Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund supplies 1 million smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms vastly more productive. Our 8,000+ team is drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. With operations across six core countries in Africa, we make farmers more prosperous by providing quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural training to improve harvests. On average, our farmers harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund.
About the Young Professionals Program
One Acre Fund’s Young Professionals Program offers high-performing African graduates meaningful internships and training opportunities at a high-performing, mission-driven organization. Our internships are paid and all interns can expect to receive substantive work assignments working on high-impact projects that support One Acre Fund's operations.
When joining, interns will participate in an onboarding program and receive training on how to design and execute projects. Over the period of your internship, you will get the opportunity to work with like-minded individuals and receive learning opportunities to build strong foundations for your future career.
About the Role
One Acre Fund is seeking candidates for an internship in our Kigali office. One Acre Fund relies on grant funding to support our operational deficit, but also takes on debt to finance working capital needs. You will support the Investor Relations team at One Acre Fund, which manages our debt needs, identifies and grows relationships with lenders, and does several cash flow modeling to inform borrowing decisions. The Investor Relations (IR) team is based in NY, USA and Kigali, Rwanda. You will report directly to the Kigali-based Investor Relations Senior Specialist, and interact with the US-based team members remotely.
- Loan Compliance and Reporting: You will help prepare our quarterly lender report, including the analyses of One Acre Fund's performance against budget. You will also assist the Investor Relations team with other loan compliance tasks (monitoring questionnaires, interest payments)
- Lender Relationship Management Support and Due Diligence: You will prepare materials for lenders to support due diligence and proposals submissions. Materials will include financial information and summaries of One Acre Fund's operations.
- Analytical Special Projects: You will support data analysis and financial modeling projects
- Good understanding of finance and accounting; some exposure to financial statement analysis.
- Top-performing undergraduate background in Finance, Accounting and Business Management
- Knowledge of data analysis using Excel and complex formulas (e.g: Index, Match, SUMIFS, Lookups)
- Strong skills on information both by email, memos, and verbally; Ability to consolidate information in a clear way to help lenders understand One Acre Fund’s operations.
- Language requirement: English
