A Kenyan Job Market

A Kenyan Jobs Market

Monday 17 February 2014

Procter & Gamble/African Leadership Academy vacancies

Procter & Gamble/African Leadership Academy vacancies

About Procter & GambleP&G serves approximately 4.6 billion people around the world with its brands. The Company has one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Pampers®, Tide®, Ariel®, Always®, Whisper®, Pantene®, Mach3®, Bounty®, Dawn®, Fairy®, Gain®, Charmin®, Downy®, Lenor®, Iams®, Crest®, Oral-B®, Duracell®, Olay®, Head & Shoulders®, Wella®, Gillette®, Braun®, Fusion®, Ace®, Febreze®, Ambi Pur®, SK-II®, and Vicks®. The P&G community includes operations in approximately 75 countries worldwide. Please visit Us.experiencePG.com for the latest news and in-depth information about a career at P&G! 

****This internship opportunity is strictly for African Leadership Academy Alumni students.******

The objective of the Internship program is to offer our work, our people, our values, and our culture. We believe there is no better way to learn about these things than to participate in them first hand. And that's just what you'll do as a P&G Intern where you will take on real projects that are vital to the growth of our business with a presentation of your final project to the department senior manager.


An internship at P&G will give you:
Rewarding & Challenging Work from Day 1- You'll hit the job running with challenging projects that allow you to improve peoples’ lives in small but always meaningful ways every day, while rapidly growing your skills.The Best Training and Career Development- You will have the support of Company experts, balanced with business unit & functional training courses to ensure your successful on-boarding.Opportunity to earn a Full Time Offer- We value our intern program as it is our key pipeline to full time employment. Each year between 70-80% of our interns receive full-time offers so it is extremely important to us that you have a positive experience. You are the future of our company!Opportunities to Socialize & Network- From events organized for people from your immediate area of the business to Corporate-wide activities, you'll get to know other interns, full-time employees and senior management.

Requisition Number: CEE00001268


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PwC Senior Manager(Direct Tax_ Corporate Tax) vacancy

PwC Senior Manager / Manager (Direct Tax_ Corporate Tax)

The Company
PwC helps organisations and individuals create the value they’re looking for. We’re a network of firms in 157 countries with more than 184,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services.
PwC is the leading provider of tax services worldwide. We understand your business and economic environment and we combine this with specialist tax knowledge. We can help you navigate complexity to:
·Achieve business objectives by reducing tax risks and meeting your compliance obligations and
·Improve business and operating efficiency through tax efficiency and understand and manage the total tax contribution your business makes to governments.

Our services include:
·International tax services
·Transfer pricing
·Mergers and acquisitions
·Indirect taxes (including VAT, Customs and Excise)
·Human Resource Services (including International Assignee Services)
·Tax Management and Accounting Services (including Corporate Tax Compliance, Accounting, Payroll and related services, as well as Tax Function Effectiveness)




Roles & Responsibilities;
This role requires you to develop specialised tax expertise in at least one or more areas (Direct Tax – Corporate Tax) and act as a key resource on complex tax technical matters.
·Contribute to the development of new methodologies or approaches to address emerging tax issues for our clients.
·Show a good understanding of tax or legal legislation and develop insightful solutions to complex client issues.
·Demonstrate experience in strategic tax planning, restructuring and complex tax authority enquiries, business development initiatives on target clients and development of new market opportunities locally and internationally.
·Assist clients by identifying issues they may not recognise and recommend solutions tailored to their strategic and commercial objectives whilst considering the regulatory environment
·Manage existing client portfolios and maintain sound client relationships
·Identify new opportunities within existing clients
·Leverages on internal and external networks to enhance firm’s connectivity, performance and profitability opportunities
·Ensure compliance with risk management procedures on own and team assignments.
.Ensure that financial targets of self and team are achieved
.Provide coaching on an ongoing basis;
·Provide performance feedback on assignments and input to appraisals for other junior staff;
·Ensure that the working environment contributes to improving staff morale and increasing productivity,
·Provide in writing technical opinions or reports on for clients ;
·Conduct technical training - internal and to clients as and when required;
·Keep up to date with changes in legislation relevant to specific tax areas




Requirements
Skills & Competencies;
·Bachelor’s Degree from a recognized university,
·You will have an accounting, legal or tax qualification
·Over six years of relevant experience at a managerial level together with good technical tax knowledge in tax specialisms and tax advisory work.
·Excellent analytical skills and commercial expertise are required for you to succeed in this role.
·You must also demonstrate the ability to communicate with impact, have excellent business development and negotiation skills.
·You will have good leadership skills, be an effective team player, excellent management skills and good project management skills.




Additional Information
This role will give you many opportunities for growth and provide you with extra ordinary experiences. If you are keen on growing your career and to get more details on these roles, visit us at www.pwc.com/ke/careers

Deadline: Closing date: 28 February 2014

Communications (Public Relations) Manager vacancy

Communications (Public Relations) Manager vacancy
Job description
JOB PURPOSE:
To support business expansion in South East Africa by ensuring that all regulatory processes are adhered to as per below responsibilities. This includes stewardship on regulatory matters and assisting in reaching the SEA target of no miss on regulatory outages

JOB SCOPE:
The primary purpose of the role is to ensure fast market access of P&G products by providing regulatory support. The objective is to ensure all brands are registered and Plants licensed as a by project requirement.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Ensures fast market access for P&G products in SEA markets:
· Ensures availability of standards and regulations and their correct interpretation. Monitors and informs P&G on development of new regulations/ standards.
· Proactively informs P&G on emerging regulatory issues with product import.
· Registration of all new brands with the required authority in each country.
· Triggers the renewal of licensing and registration process of P&G products 2 months before expiration by informing Regulatory Managers to kick-start the process.
· Updates regulatory assessment worksheet and provides weekly updates to P&G.
· Prepares documentation needed for product registration by liaising with R&D.
· Play a key role in simplifying current regulatory processes.
· Liaise with regulatory consultants and Distributor ER managers to source required information and manage registrations.
Qualifications
Summary of Job Requirements:

  • Minimum education of bachelor’s degree.
  • Strong skills in leadership, and excellent in communication.
  • Good command of the English & local language
  • Be willing to face a new challenge every day.

    Requisition Number: COM00000028



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