Team Leader, Global Business Services vacancy

Team Leader, Global Business Services vacancy

About this company
The Abraaj Group is a leading private equity investor operating in the growth markets of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia, Turkey and Central Asia. Employing over 300 people, including 140 investment professionals, we have over 25 country offices spread across six regional hubs in Mexico City, Dubai, Istanbul, Mumbai, Nairobi and Singapore. Our local presence across these markets provides us with unmatched expertise, know-how, proprietary transactional access and the ability to grow partner businesses across borders
Job description
The Head of GBS will lead our back office operations. As part of this role he/she will manage the business processing teams that cover Finance and Fund Admin processes. The position will be responsible to manage the local team and interface with key internal stakeholders in terms of performance and service level assurance.

• Ensure consistent delivery of services through the shared services including governance and service management along the defined service level agreements.
  
• Directly supervise the work of the team (15 people) including mentoring, coaching, and providing advice on procedures/work methods.
  
• Provide effective customer service including verbal and written communication such as handling complicated internal customer queries, issues, complaints, and questions.
  
• Set the effective goals aiming for better quality, escalating processes, high speed and efficiency.
  
• Develop detailed work plans, direct project teams, deliver status, meet deadlines, manage to budget, meet or exceed quality standards.
  
• Guide team through problem definition, issue identification and work plan development using problem solving principles and past experience.
  
• Work with virtual teams in different countries, managing cross cultural issues and keeping a good relationship with them.
  
• Lead the team to prepare and provide open cases resolution for good performance in client services.
  

• Manage team resources and provide updates on activities and project progress of the team
  
• Ability to work with different team members in a respectful and inclusive manner
  

Desired Skills and Experience

• +7 years of relevant work experience in Project Management and BPO space with management responsibilities ideally in Sub-Saharan Africa
  
• Bachelor’s degree
  
• Skilled in business process reengineering and ability to expertly comprehend and map process flows
  
• Experienced in Analytics and comprehends KPI’s to insure operations metrics and quality levels meet the SLA’s
  
• Advanced presentation and writing skills to support team members with Training and Operations efforts
  
• Solid troubleshooting skills
  
• Strong organizational and time management skills
  
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
  
• Comprehension of BI tools and Six Sigma/lean practices
  
• Experience/Knowledge of Oracle
  
• Proficient with all Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint
  
• Solid knowledge and hands on practice with Document workflow tools and processes
  

Applicants must send latest resume in PDF format along with the application



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Senior Chief Accountant vacancy

Senior Chief Accountant vacancy

Location: Nairobi.
Industry: Manufacturing
Our client one of the most respected paint manufacturing companies with a well-developed countrywide network of distributors and manufactures of world class paints seeks to recruit a Senior Chief Accountant to fill one position, shared between the two companies who are on the same compound and report to the two Managing Directors of the two companies and shall manage the two Chief Accountants in each organisation.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Supervise and guide the accounts operations to ensure the timely and accurate maintenance of accounts.
  
• Prepare and document monthly profit and loss statements to be presented to the board.
  
• Prepare operational management Accounts in accordance to the processes.
  
• Develop financial data/tools to provide accurate information to the CEO, board and senior management team.
  
• Monitor the management of payroll and payments of suppliers.
  
• Performing accounting for capital projects from initiation to capitalisation as fixed assets.
  
• Analyse actual versus budget cost variances.
  
• Report and account on any new changes in the production process.
  
• Analyse financial reports, cash flow and budget to assist senior management executives in enhancing performance.
  
• Coordinate timely fulfillment of tax returns and various audits
  
• Planning,directing,organising and synchronising the financial functions of the organisation by applying financial/ accounting principles.
  
• Evaluate the organisations fiscal performance and advice on long term financial planning.
  

Business analysis:

• Gather and collect financial data to prepare, recommend and predict future financial and operations analysed adequacy of capital, ability to pay debts and other solvency related issues
  
• Analyse financial information and reports to provide financial recommendation to management for decision making.
  
• Analyse current and past trends in key performance indicators including all areas of revenue, cost of sales, expenses and capital expenditure to increase productivity.
  

Reporting and Budgetary control:

• Prepared Management and treasury reports in accordance to IFRS and IAS
  
• Ensured that the company’s Management accounts and information systems are comprehensive, accurate and up to date.
  
• Liaise with the external Auditors during continuous and end of year audits.
  
• Analyse the departmental expenditure reports and providing feedback to various departments on the performance levels vis-à-vis budget and suggesting corrective and improvement measures
  
• Track, oversee, review and implement corrective action plans geared towards business performance improvement.
  
• Formulate and establish associated Finance KPIs in line with the corporate objectives.
  
• Support the development, implementation and initiatives for continual improvement of business operational performance, rock solid reporting and tightened internal controls.
  

Tax Issues:

• Computed and remitted Taxes and statutory returns
  
• Ensured compliance of all Tax issues and finalized KRA audit issues
  

Sage Pastel version 11 role:

• Troubleshot on issues and confirmed alternative solutions where the stated design needed modification due to technical constraints within the System.
  
• Recommended changes and impact on agreed requirements and design to the appropriate decision making forum for resolution (i.e. In-country Deployment Lead, Finance and Supply Chain Managers).
  
• Reviewdata cleansing activities to ensure that any Finance specific data object issues are resolved.
  
• Support the role mapping exercise and ensuring that the Finance roles are mapped accurately
  
• Review and provide input to the training curriculum for Finance and confirm training requirements for Finance
  

Qualifications and Competences

• Must be a holder of a Degree with Finance or accounting Option from a reputable university
  
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA K)
  
• Computer skills and knowledge of: - MS-Word, Ms-Excel, Ms-Project and Sage Pastel
  
• Knowledge of SAP is an added advantage
  
• Have good presentation skills to be able to present to the board of directors.
  
• A strong commercial sense in order to practically interpret the financial records in terms of revenues and costs.
  
• Five years of accounting experience in middle level management
  

To apply, send your cover letter and CV only with no other attachments toapplications@flexi-personnel.com before 22^nd February, 2014.

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Director of Sales and Marketing vacancy

Director of Sales and Marketing vacancy

About this company
Life at Living Goods
Living Goods is aiming to make disruptive changes, dramatically improving the lives of the poor. We think big, but we operate small and nimble. At Living Goods, you will have the chance to use your creativity and work with your teammates to conceive and test new ideas every day. If you work well in a dynamic, highly collaborative culture, if you set high standards for yourself and your colleagues, if you know how to fail fast and learn fast, if you meet challenges with calm determination and a sense of humor, you will thrive at Living Goods. See www.livinggoods.org/principles 


Job description
Do you want your work to matter? Do you have serious business skills and want to use them to make a difference? Are you just looking for a change, or are you looking for the chance to change millions of lives for the better, including yours? If the answer is yes, read on.
Position Overview
Living Goods empowers micro-entrepreneurs to deliver life-changing products to the doorsteps of the poor. We transform the health and livelihoods of those in most need. We are a pioneering, dynamic and highly impactful social enterprise and are entering a period of exciting expansion. To help achieve our vision of dramatically and sustainably improving the lives of the poor, Living Goods is seeking a Director of Sales and Marketing to create a profitable and highly impactful distribution system across Kenya.
As the Kenya Director of Sales and Marketing you will lead and expand our sales, marketing, recruitment and training teams and rapidly building upon the early success we have had in Kenya.. You will be a key member of Living Goods’ strategic global management team and will also contribute to the success of our established operations in Uganda. This position is based in Nairobi, with significant travel.
Responsibilities

• Lead Living Goods’ Sales and Operations across Kenya.
  
• Build upon existing early-stage operations to create a profitable and highly impactful national distribution system.
  
• Achieve ambitious targets for sales, margin, recruitment and social impact.
  
• Recruit, develop, incentivize and oversee a network of independent direct sales entrepreneurs.
  
• Lead marketing of Living Goods products and the Living Goods business opportunity for individual and group entrepreneurs.
  
• Collaborate closely with the Living Goods Technology group to use mobile apps to drive sales and recruitment, increase and monitor impact, and reduce expenses.
  
• Collaborate closely with the Living Goods Product Development group to offer customers a highly compelling and impactful product range.
  
• Develop a powerful customer and agent financing system.
  
• Launch and oversee new branch outlets across the country.
  
• Share expertise and experience with Living Goods’ Uganda operations and Strategic Partnerships division.
  
• Shape organizational strategy as a core member of the Living Goods global team.
  
• Travel: This position is based in Nairobi with considerable travel time within Kenya and also to Uganda. The successful candidate should expect to travel 30-50% of the month.
  

Desired Skills and Experience
Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in direct sales, multi-level marketing or sales and sales force management, preferably in consumer packaged and low-cost durable goods. Proven track record of driving sales success.
  
• Private sector experience in East African markets is essential, ideally with direct sales, multi-level marketing or FMCG companies.
  
• Proven success in executing a marketing strategy to increase sales volumes.
  
• Significant experience in customer financing and the mobile technology is a big plus.
  
• Successful track record of driving geographically scaled, multi-unit operations.
  
• Experience recruiting, managing and motivating large teams.
  
• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree.
  

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