The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, with a network of 192-member National Societies. The overall aim of the IFRC is “to inspire, encourage, facilitate, and promote at all times all forms of humanitarian activities by National Societies with a view to preventing and alleviating human suffering and thereby contributing to the maintenance and promotion of human dignity and peace in the world.” The IFRC works to meet the needs and improve the lives of vulnerable people before, during and after disasters, health emergencies and other crises.

IFRC is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (Movement), together with its member National Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The work of the IFRC is guided by the following fundamental principles: humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality.




IFRC is led by its Secretary General, and has its Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The Headquarters are organized into three main Divisions: (i) National Society Development and Operations Coordination; (ii) Global Relations, Humanitarian Diplomacy and Digitalization; and (iii) Management Policy, Strategy and Corporate Services.

IFRC has five regional offices in Africa, Asia Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and the Americas. IFRC also has country cluster delegation and country delegations throughout the world. Together, the Geneva Headquarters and the field structure (regional, cluster and country) comprise the IFRC Secretariat.

The Finance Analyst is responsible for ensuring a high level of financial control by providing financial management support and advice to minimum four delegations located in the African Region.

Detailed duties are:

Internal Control and Risk Management

• Screening through monthly original supporting documents and field returns from country delegation and feedback if there were any discrepancies or anomalies.
• Carry out field missions to country delegation at least once or twice a year as pre-audit measure to ensure finance functions and controls are in place.
• Review internal controls through the review of monthly financial documents, provide feedback to the country finance and head of delegation on control weaknesses, identify top risks facing a country delegation and support the delegation to address the same.
• Ensure all delegation have signed up to date petty cash policy with clear segregation of duties
• Ensure all delegation have up to date Cash disbursement Memo and segregation of duties on system access and bank signatories.
• Support country delegation in conducting risk assessments.
• Advice country delegation on how to conduct control and self-assessment
• Advice country heads and finance managers on financial controls
• Review high risk transactions especially in areas touching on procurement and identify any areas of concern
• Detect and highlight any suspicion of fraud and escalate to the Head of finance

Financial Reporting

• Preparing the cash request analysis, reviewing the project management status report, and highlighting issues to follow up.
• Reviewing the cash requests from cluster and country delegation including preparing the cash request analysis and ensuring adequacy of documents attached before onward transmission to Geneva
• Perform control checks on monthly reports for cluster and country delegation before monthly closure is done
• Being the go-between person between Geneva and field offices in Africa on all finance related matters – all issues from the field touching on finance must be dealt with by the finance analyst before onward processing to Geneva
• Coordinate the annual budgeting process for cluster and country offices before final consolidation and submission to Geneva. This includes coordinating the quarterly revisions before approval by the Secretary General (SG).
• Validate operating budgets Disaster response emergency fund (DREF, Emergency Appeal, Pledge, Staff) before submission to donors and/or Geneva including uploading budgets in the system.
• Reviewing of administrative services invoices before submission to Geneva (GVA) and eventually to partners.
• Reviewing the project management status report and highlighting issues to follow up.
• Monthly validation of donor and appeal financial reports for accuracy and compliance before submission to donors.

Audit and Compliance

• Ensure opening and maintaining the codes in APPLE by regular updating of project information and linking of codes.
• Being the contact person for all audits e.g. KPMG audits, SIDA audits, ECHO audits, coordinating the audits, submission of documents and answering any audit queries raised.
• Conducting budget-holder training on financial management, financial reporting, compliance, controls, KPI monitoring.
• Review compliance to IFRC policies e.g. finance, contract, procurement, consultancy policies. Highlight areas of non-compliance and advise country and cluster offices on the same including advising on action plans to address issues raised.
• Share with internal and external auditors’ monthly controls feedback on a request basis and assist in identifying any control issues that need follow up.

Financial Management

• Ensure funds are transferred to delegation on time by communicating with Geneva Treasury.
• Validating the accuracy of information on budget and PEAR ceiling before loading into the system.
• Validating various agreements, contracts, MoU and staff request as per the contract matrix and authorisation procedure.
• Support cluster and country finance teams to ensure proper financial management systems are in place.
• Conduct financial analysis to support senior management in decision making e.g. analysis of financial impact of restructuring process and salary reviews.
• Advisory role to operations staff and budget holders on finance matters.

National Society Development

• Support in Working with Project Partner capacity review assessment and move as many national societies as possible from working advance to funds transfer modality.
• Follow up to ensure Funds transfer society reporting are done in timely manner and completion of spot check report by country team.
• Support country team on national society Costing policy guidelines.
• Follow up with country team on supporting the National Society(ies) in meeting constitutional financial accountability obligations, including timely submission of Statutory Contributions, filing of audited financial statements; and filing of Certified Declarations of Income.
• Work closely with operational team in contribution towards Red Ready approach.

Monitoring

• Monitor monthly closing of each country delegation by reviewing the balance sheets, checking the exception reports and validating the financial information
• Monitoring the KPIs reflected on monthly financial report and following up with country finance staff to ensure adequate action is taken to minimise the risk or exposure. If needed message will be escalated to project manager and head of delegation.
• Monitoring and follow up of audit recommendations for the cluster and country delegation under management.
• Clean and close dormancy balance sheet items including working advance, pledge, project and appeals.
• Conducting monitoring visits to Cluster and Country delegation.

Procurement

• Highlight any procurement control gaps or anomalies noted
• Assist regional logistics unit in flagging procurements above CHF 50,000 in the region

Staff Management

• Monitor finance staff in cluster and countries to ensure tasks and functions are completed within acceptable levels of quality and compliance and escalate any issues identified to the Head of finance.
• Provide technical advice in the recruitment and training finance staff to ensure tasks and functions are completed in a timely and efficient manner.
• Provide technical appraisal on country finance staff performance.
• Training new and old staff on financial & administrative procedures and policies.
• Provide continuous guidance, advice, and support to finance and administration staff in cluster and country delegation.
• Briefing in coming country heads on financial matters, including debriefing.
• Act for the Regional Head of finance and administration in her/his absence.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Commerce, or any other relevant fields
• Full professional accountancy qualification (CPA (K), ACCA, ACA etc.
• 7 years’ experience in financial management, accounting and audit and risks management.
• Previous experience working for the Federation and/or National Society is an asset
• Experience in managing and developing financial teams
• Practical knowledge of computers (Windows, spreadsheets, word processing, e-mail, Accounting and Financial software such as Sage, QuickBooks, etc.)
• Experience in training financial and non-financial staff on financial matters
• Experience in writing narrative and financial reports.
• Fluently spoken and written English and French

How to apply

This position is open to nationals of Sierra Leone, DR Congo, Niger or Kenya and will be located in one of these countries. The position is a local national position and will be hired through a national contract as per the labour laws of the country. Qualified candidates are requested to apply through the link below on or before October 5, 2022.

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DAI is recruiting to fill the following positions:

1.) Deputy Chief of Party
2.) Director of Finance and Operations
3.) Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor
4.) Chief of Party

Organization and Values

DAI is a global development company with corporate offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, EU, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Palestine and project operations worldwide. We tackle fundamental social and economic development problems caused by inefficient markets, ineffective governance, and instability. DAI works on the frontlines of global development. Transforming ideas into action—action into impact. We are committed to shaping a more liveable world.

DAI upholds the highest ethical standards. We are committed to the prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment as well as other ethical breaches. All our positions are therefore subject to stringent vetting and reference checks.




DAI is currently seeking a Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) / Senior Technical Advisor for an anticipated five-year USAID-funded Strengthening Integrated Health Services Activity (SIHSA) in Sierra Leone. The Deputy Chief of Party/ Senior Technical Advisor will work closely with and report to the COP to provide technical oversight for the activity. The DCOP will directly oversee the three result components of the activity. In the absence of the COP, s/he is expected to be the direct link with the AOR. This position will be located in Freetown, Sierra Leone but could travel extensively among the provinces and is contingent upon donor approval and funding.

SIHSA’s Objectives Are

The Sierra Leone Strengthening Integrated Health Services Activity (SIHSA) aims to contribute to the Government of Sierra Leone’s overarching goal of improving the health of adolescents, pregnant and postpartum women, and children under five years old.

• Improve the quality of family planning; maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health; and malaria services sustainably.
• Promote the adoption of crucial health behaviors.
• Strengthening the stewardship and governance of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (at central- and district- levels) so that is better prepared to plan, budget, allocate resources, and monitor health programs.

See job details and how to apply below.

1.) Deputy Chief of Party

 

Key Roles And Responsibilities

• In coordination with the COP and working collaboratively with the team, provide technical leadership for the activity’s results and cross-cutting elements.
• Supervise technical leadership for the three results components and cross-cutting elements of the activity. Manage long- and short-term technical assistance (STTA), including the development of their scopes of work (SOWs) and ensuring the final reports are accurate, well-written, and meet expectations.
• Lead development of the activity’s annual work plans, annual and quarterly reports, and other requests that may come from USAID or DAI, reviewing all aspects of the program and progress towards delivering program outputs and outcomes. Ensure submission of quality timely deliverables.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance for overall program planning, technical and operational approaches (including adaptive management), monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and feedback loops required for program delivery and success.
• Provide overall coordination of the capacity strengthening of public and private sector institutions at the national and provincial levels to strengthen and expand access to and utilization of quality FP/MNCH services across the public and private sectors.
• Build and strengthen relationships between and among DAI, USAID, other donors, policy makers, key program stakeholders, technical and implementing partners, national and local FP/MNCH networks disseminating accomplishments and key lessons learned.
• Manage all key risks related to the program, including compliance with USAID rules and regulations and DAI policies.
• Keep the COP regularly informed on all activity matters, and assist the COP in meeting various technical, governmental, DAI, and USAID deliverables as requested.
• With COP, technical team, and M&E team, communicate the activity’s successes, best practices, and lessons learned.
• Ensure all actions and interventions adhere to USAID and DAI technical guidance and align with global best practices, including the training of staff as required.
• In the absence of the COP, represent the program with USAID, Government of Sierra Leone, donors, partners, and other key stakeholders supporting similar interventions.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant discipline.
• At least 10 years of demonstrated experience in successfully advising on the management of FP/MNCH programs in developing countries. Prior experience as Deputy COP or Senior Technical Advisor is ideal.
• Proven track record of building teams and fostering collaboration in order to achieve goals, meet milestones, and produce high quality written qualitative, quantitative, and narrative deliverables.
• Demonstrated effective personnel management, coordination, and decision-making skills, with an ability to be accountable for all aspects of the activity.
• Experience in successfully establishing and managing collaborative relationships and partnerships with government counterparts at national and provincial levels, other implementers, donors, and other stakeholders, including the private sector.
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills to fulfill the diverse technical managerial requirements of the program description.
• Strong working familiarity with USAID regulations and policies.
• Experience in Sierra Leone preferred.
• Ability to travel (as COVID-19 situation allows).

DAI is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer with a commitment to diversity. DAI does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, parental status, veteran status, or other non-merit factor.

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2.) Director of Finance and Operations

 

Key Roles And Responsibilities

Program Management

• Design and implement program management systems, policies, and tools for effective and efficient operations for activity implementation.
• Coordinate with technical leadership and manage program operations to ensure an integrated vision and successful achievement of program objectives.
• Identify risks related to program implementation and suggest appropriate program adjustments.
• Work with local partners and grantees to build capacity and ensure they are successfully achieving their SOWs.
• Oversee implementation and maintenance of IT systems.
• Manage the annual performance assessment and staff talent development process.
• Support the COP to produce high quality deliverables and meet client reporting deadlines.
• Identify short term operational consulting requirements and draft SOWs as needed.
• Serve as principal liaison with DAI home office project management team and security focal point.
• Coordinate closely with program staff and Provincial Coordinators to ensure technical activities are implemented in accordance with finance and procurement protocols, as well as that financial transactions and banking systems are coordinated.

Procurement Management

• Establish systems and policies for local procurement to promote expediency, accountability, and transparency while minimizing risk.
• Manage and oversee procurement efforts for the program including selection and negotiation with vendors, and management of subcontractors on the activity in compliance with USAID and procurement regulations.
• Ensure that procurement is at all times conducted in accordance with USAID regulations and DAI policies and documented clearly and accurately.

Financial Management

• Create and maintain financial reporting and tracking systems, provide financial performance updates on activities. Guide the administrative team on annual work planning, and ensure submission of quality operational plans, budgets, and reports.
• Maintain, regularly update, and ensure that the budget and audit projections, expenditure, tracking and reporting are in accordance with DAI and USAID requirements, procedures, and practices for compliance and audits.
• Contribute to project pipeline analysis, providing input into the quarterly review process and budget realignments.
• Provide oversight for grants management and sub-agreements in accordance with USAID and DAI policies and regulations, ensuring grantees achieve agreed outcomes in support of the activity objectives.
• Direct and monitor the management of cash and other assets to ensure integrity and efficiency in the use of financial resources.
• Ensure compliance with USAID, local laws, and DAI policies and regulations at all times.
• Establish and implement a sound internal control system to ensure all the reliable, timely and accurate financial data.
• Conduct regular internal audit of financial transactions, make recommendations and implement follow up actions.
• Supervise finance, operations, and administrative personnel to ensure efficient and effective management of the program, ensuring alignment with DAI’s Diversity, Equity, Engagement, and Inclusive culture.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Finance, or Accounting.
• At least six years’ experience managing finances for large donor-funded NGO programs.
• Knowledge of USAID policies and business practices and with direct experience managing the finances and administration of a USAID-funded project is preferred.
• Experience in Sierra Leone is highly preferred.
• Excellent financial management skills and knowledge of latest project management tools and computer applications such as Microsoft Office and Quickbooks.
• Extensive experience with project financial management, including financial controls, accounting, and audit, as well as reporting on accruals, pipeline, and expense validation and reimbursement to service providers.
• Demonstrated effective personnel management, including staff based across multiple locations.
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver under tight deadlines on a continual basis.
• Superior interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

DAI is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer with a commitment to diversity. DAI does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, parental status, veteran status, or other non-merit factor.

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3.) Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor

 

Key Roles And Responsibilities

• Develop MEL systems and plan in consultation with the Chief of Party (COP) and technical leads, ensuring compliance with activity needs and USAID requirements.
• Create and implement data collection tools, surveys, and guides to ensure accurate and compliant data collection.
• Develop and oversee quality assurance processes for project deliverables.
• Continually monitor MEL capacity gaps and advise on strategies to address them.
• Review the progress of the M&E framework to ensure effective implementation of the activity.
• Update the annual AMELP, including theory of change, performance monitoring, indicators for each result with baseline and targets, and tools for collecting feedback from key stakeholders and program participants to improve implementation.
• Work with the COP, technical team, and M&E team to periodically review performance data in the context of the activity work plan and integrate recommendations to ensure adaptive management and assure that the activity is advancing in its metrics for the sustainability of successful interventions introduced with program support.
• Supervise and mentor M&E officers, including remote, field-based staff, to meet program needs and deliverables.
• Serve as a central point for data requests during review missions (e.g. baselines, assessments, annual reviews).
• Responsible for monthly, quarterly, annual, and final progress reporting.
• With the support of the Chief of Party, guide collaboration, learning, and adaptation and ensure the project continually uses evidence-based learning to inform implementation and adaptation. Facilitate regular external learning forums and knowledge sharing through multiple channels.
• Lead the design and implementation of baseline, mid-term, and end-line assessments and coordinate effectively with USAID identified evaluators as needed.
• Apply qualitative and quantitative methods to gather and analyze data from partner activity reporting and program participants, providing mentorship as needed and ensuring compliance with ethical research and personal identifiable information guidelines.
• Other duties as assigned by the Chief of Party.

Qualifications

• At least a Master’s degree in a relevant discipline.
• At least 10 years of demonstrated experience in monitoring and evaluation of large-scale development programs.
• Prior experience in a senior M&E position, preferably for a USAID- or other donor-funded health program; experience managing multisectoral health programs preferred.
• Prior experience managing a rigorous M&E system, including a strong focus on gender, is necessary.
• Knowledge of data collection protocols to ensure accurate data collection and verification is essential, as well as an ability to identify data trends and communicate this information to allow for changes in program implementation.
• Familiarity with USAID ADS 201 including reporting requirements and systems.
• Superior verbal and written communication skills to manage project communications and disseminate project information are required.
• Prior experience leading and building the capacity of M&E officers, including remote, field-based staff, to meet program needs and deliverables is desired.
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative research methods, statistical analysis, and data analysis software.

DAI is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer with a commitment to diversity. DAI does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, parental status, veteran status, or other non-merit factor.

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4.) Chief of Party

 

The COP will be responsible for providing strategy, technical leadership and overall management direction for the program. This position will be responsible for project inputs, program strategy, external representation and coordination with project counterparts, USAID, the Government of Sierra Leone, and other donors within the sector, and other programs as necessary. The COP is ultimately responsible for compliance with the agreement results and the oversight of program activities which will meet the stated objectives of the program. The COP will have demonstrated ability to work in complex environments and manage diverse and substantial teams to deliver impact.

• Lead the accurate and quality implementation of the program and its agreed workplans, ensuring the program is flexible, responsive, innovative and adaptive to change.
• Work closely with the team to provide technical direction, review all aspects of the program and progress towards delivering program outputs and outcomes, as well as financial (monitoring and forecasting), risk, and USAID satisfaction.
• In coordination with the team, develop effective relationships with key stakeholders including Government of Sierra Leone officials at the national and provincial levels.
• Lead overall program planning, putting in place team structures, technical and operational approaches, infrastructure, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and feedback loops required for program delivery and success and submission of quality timely deliverables. Oversee the timely submission of all agreed deliverables to USAID.
• Manage, lead, and oversee all long- and short-term staff, and partners in achieving program results, ensuring alignment with DAI’s Diversity, Equity, Engagement, and Inclusive culture.
• Provide overall coordination of the capacity strengthening of public and private sector institutions at the national and provincial levels to strengthen and expand access to and utilization of quality FP/MNCH services across the public and private sectors.
• Build and strengthen relationships between and among DAI, USAID, other donors, policy makers, key program stakeholders, technical and implementing partners, national and local FP/MNCH networks disseminating accomplishments and key lessons learned.
• Ensure that efficient systems to support all aspects of the program (including sub-grant management, financial, capacity building, performance monitoring and reporting) are in place and support the effective use of project resources in compliance with USAID rules and regulations and DAI policies.
• Identify and effectively manage all key risks related to the program, including compliance with USAID rules and regulations, local laws, and DAI policies.
• Represent the project with USAID, Government of Sierra Leone, donors, partners, and other key stakeholders supporting similar interventions.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of master’s degree in a relevant discipline.
• At least 10 years of demonstrated experience in managing progressively complex health programs. Prior experience as COP or Deputy COP is ideal.
• Experience implementing complex and multi-faceted projects is required, with demonstrated skill in organizing resources and establishing priorities.
• Proven strategic vision, leadership qualities, depth and breadth of technical expertise and experience to fulfil the diverse technical managerial requirements of the program description.
• Prior experience delivering large-scale family planning (FP) and maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) services) and/or health systems strengthening (HSS) projects of similar or related nature, size, and complexity.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and written and oral presentation skills to fulfil the diverse technical managerial requirements of the program description.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills and a proven track record of interacting with other projects, high-level host country governments and international agencies.
• Proven track record of working effectively with government counterparts at various levels, preferably, within the context of Sierra Leone.
• Demonstrated effective personnel management, including large interdisciplinary teams, coordination, creativity and willingness to innovate, and decision-making skills along with an ability to troubleshoot.
• Strong working familiarity with USAID regulations and policies.

DAI is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer with a commitment to diversity. DAI does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, parental status, veteran status, or other non-merit factor.

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PowerGen Renewable Energy is recruiting to fill the following positions:

1.) People Operations Admin Associate
2.) Financial Accountant

 

See job details and how to apply below.

 

1.) People Operations Admin Associate

 

As the People Operations & Administration Associate, you will play a critical role in the Sierra Leone Business Unit. Reporting directly to the Sierra Leone Business Unit (SLBU) Country Manager, you will own various work streams to ensure they are delivered in line with company-wide standardization and innovation.

PowerGen is driven by our excellent people, processes and our company culture of dominating complexity and achieving profitability. You will work directly with the SLBU Country Manager and VP of People Operations and work closely with every other function.




What You’ll Make Happen

You will work directly with the SLBU Country Manager and VP of People Operations on all POPS-related workstreams including but not limited to:

• Hiring & Onboarding
• Drive the fulfilment of the approved SLBU Hiring Plan
• Lead the onboarding experience for all new hires to ensure they are set for success
• Manage administrative side of onboarding including documentation, benefits admin, liaising with finance and payroll, data entry for Zoho People, etc.
• Constant improvement to our candidate experience, sharing feedback and learnings that will impact the process across the company
• Performance Management
• Support & rollout of KPIs
• Support in the performance review process
• Take an active role in improvement plans and objectives that align with the Business Unit KPIs and Roadmap
• Learning & Development
• Liaise with managers and POPS to reduce the skill gap in SLBU through L&D plans
• Employee Experience & Culture
• Drive culture with constant improvement aligned with Values and Mantras and POPs initiatives
• Support in obtaining 100% participation in employee surveys
• Work with POPS on continuous improvement through the EX Action Plan
• HSE, Compliance, Grievance & Disciplinary
• Support initiatives as needed, including serving on the SLBU HSE team
• Understand Sierra Leone employment law to ensure company compliance
• Follow the Grievance Procedure and liaise with the Country Manager and VP of People Operations when any grievances arise
• Notify VP People Operations of any potential disciplinary issues and support as needed
• POPS Technology & Working Tools
• Serve as SLBU Champion for Zoho People usage, engagement & maintenance of POPS tools such as HRIS, ATS and Google Workspace products
• Liaise with POPS on working tools such as laptops, tablets and other required equipment for our team.
• Oversee regular maintenance and caretaking of working tools through utilizing 3rd party organization
• Constantly be on the lookout for process improvement using technology to make our teams more efficient
• Administration & Policy Management
• Support the development of policies and procedures as needed aligning with the Supporting Business Units
• Ensure compliance with the regulation and policy requirements of the organization’s standards across the board.
• Use problem-solving techniques to improve activities and communication across functions
• Coordinate the engagement and management of suitable providers for office management services like catering (if available), transportation, accommodation
• Ensure availability of critical office support consumables e.g. Communication availability for Data and Voice across the BU operational areas, office cleaning materials etc
• Coordinate all Facility management for PowerGen Freetown office and operational locations. Compiling work reports and ensuring payments to off-payroll workers
• Provide end-to-end feedback to Statutory employees with regards to related deductions from Salary e.g. Registration and update on Pension
• Ensure Feedback to employees on PAYE deductions and payment and provide guidance to employees (in conjunction with Finance)
• Support with processing Travel documentation as required. This role will also be actively involved in proffering cost optimization initiatives for all PowerGen Journey
• management e.g. Accommodation, provision of Vehicles and Flight arrangements
• Liaise with legal and other external contractors as needed
• Support in processing NDAs, MOUs, and other partnership agreements
• Address office and operational Hub admin needs and employee requests
• Oversee and review all deliverables are aligned with the PowerGen brand

What You Will Bring

• A bachelor’s degree in a business-related field
• One year of experience as an HR Generalist
• Fluency in English.
• An understanding of Sierra Leonean labour laws and culture
• A team-oriented work ethic

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Deadline: 19th October 2022

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2.) Financial Accountant

 

Purpose / Overview

The Financial Accountant is responsible for the processing of accounting transactions, preparation of reconciliation and supporting schedules that provide confidence that the Kenya balance sheet is the accurate and collaborative improvement of inefficient finance and business system team process improvement.

The Finance team will ensure that we use our technical competence to help PowerGen achieve its vision of becoming the leading renewable energy utility in Africa profitably.

We do this by processing transactions within the agreed due dates, maintaining up-to-date reconciliations and schedules, we review our balance sheet accounts every month to ensure it is accurate, achieving unqualified audit opinions and continually improving our processes to make them more efficient so that we spend less time processing transactions and more time on analysis and growth opportunities. We continuously review and improve our internal controls i.e our mechanisms and procedures to ensure Powergen is operating effectively and efficiently, has reliable financial reporting and is compliant with company policies, government laws and regulations.

Key Activities

• Accounting, Reporting & Auditing:
• Maintain in conjunction with the Finance Manager the Monthly cash flow forecast file for the
• company to ensure that cash is available for operations for at least 12 months
• Ensure that strong internal controls exist and are followed over the company’s Cash,
• Inventory and Fixed assets. Internal controls include but are not limited to verifying the month-end cash counts, reviewing monthly account reconciliations for balance sheet accounts, verifying the reconciliation between physical Inventory and ERP inventory values and ensuring the Fixed asset register is accurate
• Produce monthly financial reports and interpret financial information for the Finance Manager while recommending further courses of action
• Recognition of Revenue generated from electricity sales and other sources in accordance with IFRS
• Monthly reconciliation of Bank accounts and general ledgers
• Maintaining Fixed assets register ensuring that assets are properly recognized and depreciation calculated appropriately
• Support the Finance Manager in preparing the Annual budget for the company
• Tax & Regulatory Compliance
• Verify that tax filings VAT, PAYE, Withholding Taxes, NASSIT calculations, and corporate income tax are accurate and are filed before the statutory due dates
• Ensure tax compliance with the relevant regulators and become an expert in local tax law to ensure optimal planning
• Serve as lead liaison with NRA
• Analysis and Process Improvement
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
• Collaborate on working groups and committees as requested
• Conduct reviews and evaluations for cost-reduction opportunities

Competencies

• Working capital management
• Grant Reporting
• Financial statement analysis
• External audit management
• Cashflow management & forecasting
• Balance sheet reconciliation
• Cost accounting
• Tax & regulatory knowledge

Required Skills And Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting with Honors
• Two years of experience
• Completed part two of Chartered Finance Accounting
• Fluency in English.
• An understanding of Sierra Leonean tax laws and statutory requirements
• A fast learner

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Deadline: 19th October 2022

Job Title: Director of Admin and Finance

Project: PMI Impact Malaria

Based in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Reports to the Country Representative

 

 

Who We Are

Population Services International (PSI) is the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization. We are a diverse group of over 5,000 entrepreneurial development professionals located in over 40 countries committed to making it easier for all people to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire. PSI is using it’s global presence and 50+ years of experience to help reimagine healthcare. We are working to shape market systems, shift policy and funding, and strengthen global capacity to better support consumer empowered healthcare.

 

Join us!

We are looking for a Director of Finance and Administration to provide overall technical and management leadership, guidance and oversight of the organization’s operations, finance, grants, and contract’s portfolio. She/ he will be the custodian of financial, accounting, IT, branch operations, supply chain, grants, and contracts process to ensure PSI Sierra Leone is compliant with donor and PSI global finance, budget, procurement, grants, and compliance standards and that the processes enable PSI Sierra Leone achieves its strategic priorities. In addition, to strong technical knowledge and experience, the Director of Finance and Administration will be a key leader within the organization whose leadership style should reflect high Emotional Intelligence (EI) and their ability to lead while nurturing talent. The Director of Finance and Operations will be working closely with the Country Representative and Chief of Party for the Impact Malaria Project.




Sound like you? Read on.

Your contribution

 

Strategic Leadership And Oversight Role

 

• Provide direction and strategic leadership to the organization’s finance, IT, supply chain, branch operations, grants, and contracts portfolio to ensure that operational processes efficiently support program teams.
• Ensure that the finance, IT, supply chain, grants and contracts systems and process align with PSI Sierra Leone’s Strategic Plan and priorities.
• Ensure that PSI Sierra Leone policies and procedures align with PSI Global Services Finance, Procurement, Grants and Contracts policies, procedures, and requirements, and proactively identify and manage any potential conflicts to ensure compliance with the necessary regulations.
• Design and maintain internal systems that ensure accurate and timely reporting on financial performance of the organization.
• Consistently demonstrate a leadership style that reflects high emotional intelligence, nurtures talent, and reinforces the right tone at the top of the organization.
• Promote and demonstrate an ethical environment, in line with PSI’s values of honesty and acting with integrity.
• Supervise and provide leadership to PSI Sierra Leone’s Finance, IT, Supply Chain, Branch Operations and Sub-Awards teams.

 

 

Financial Reporting And Policies:

• Establish and/or refine and disseminate policies, systems and practices for effective management, procurement, disbursement, and accounting for all financial resources in line with PSI Global accounting policies, funder requirements and local law where required.
• Work closely with the finance team to prepare submission of monthly financial packages to PSI/W and to ensure complete, accurate and timely recording and reporting of transactions.
• Coordinate with Programs and co-lead monthly review and analysis of financial reports and reconciliations with attention to how resources can be better allocated to achieve program objectives, Budgeting, Financial Analysis and Donor compliance.

 

 

Budgeting, Financial Analysis, Compliance:

• Lead the annual operating budgeting process.
• Validate monthly common cost analysis and update cost ratios to ensure each donor bears the correct proportion of common costs in line with PSI’s global policy, as applicable.
• Manage the common direct cost budget to ensure efficient and effective use of donor funds to support common direct costs, when necessary.
• Develop, track and review PSI Sierra Leone consolidated budget and departmental budgets in consultation with budget holders and finance team and conduct detailed activity status review and give input to DC and budget holders.
• Prepare and track donor budgets. Prepare modifications and Activity realignments as necessary.
• Monitor performance and efficiency of on-going Donor projects by analyzing country/project monthly spend rates and highlighting possible problem areas.

 

 

Technical Support, Audits And Legal:

• Support preparation and successful conclusion of internal and external auditing activities.
• Ensure that the PSI Sierra Leone team responds to audit requests on a timely basis, and provides clear, complete, and accurate information to auditors.
• Review management comments for audit reports and ensure appropriate action is taken to correct audit findings.
• In collaboration with PSI Legal Counsel, minimize legal risk to the organization and engage any legal issues confronting the organization.
• Review and test controls to ensure PSI Sierra Leone systems are compliant with PSI Global Services Finance, Grants and Contracts policies, donor requirements, as well as Sierra Leone’s laws.
• Ensure prompt preparation and submission of statutory returns, donor reports and tax compliance.

 

 

Operational Management And Administration:

• Ensure branch operations, IT, procurement, warehouse, and fleet management activities are delivered efficiently.
• Coordinate with Head of Operations to establish and support suitable accounting, IT, Fleet Management and general administrative systems and personnel in all PSI Sierra Leone field offices.
• Work with Head of Supply Chain to ensure that PSI Sierra Leone’s procurement system is adequately updated in line with PSI Global Procurement Manual and changing funder guidelines.
• Ensure adherence to PSI Global Responsibilities Matrix on Approval limits for Procurement of Goods and Services.
• Conduct quarterly oversight and supervision visits to field offices to review the quality of business operations systems and activities and provide support, when necessary.

 

 

Sub-Award And Sub-Contractor Management:

• Lead the development and negotiation of sub-award agreements, workplans and budgets
• Coordinate monthly reporting process from sub-awardees and joint programmatic and financial reports reviews, ensuring that costs are in line with the progress on delivery and implementation and that budget variances explanations are provided.
• Conduct regular sub-award visits / evaluations to verify adherence to contract terms and gauge internal control systems to obtain confidence in the reports submitted to PSI Sierra Leone.
• Design and implement a proactive, rigorous, risk-based and effective sub-awardee monitoring system and approach.
• Contribute to designing the capacity building plan for sub-awardees in financial management, internal control systems, budgeting and forecasting, technical programs implementation and coordinate the provision of trainings when needed
• Lead sub-award closeout in accordance with PSI Sierra Leone policies and procedures.

 

 

What are we looking for?

The candidate we hire will embody PSI’s corporate values:

Collaboration: You can work independently but thrive within a team.

Trust: You trust that your manager and team will have your back and care deeply about gaining that same trust from your teammates

Pragmatism: You dive in and maintain momentum even when things are ambiguous, and you do not let perfect get in the way of good enough.

Honesty: You are not afraid to speak up and speak your mind.

Measurement: You set clear and challenging goals and hold yourself accountable to driving measurable results.

Commitment: You are independent and a free thinker, but you’re ready to buy in to the direction of the team and commit to its success.

 

 

The basics:

• Bachelor’s degree or Advanced degree in related field in Finance, Accounting
• Professional qualifications like ACCA, CIMA, CPA preferred.
• At least 7 years post qualifications experience in general management, financial management and experience with donor-funded projects at a senior management level required.
• At least 1 year of supervisory experience preferred
• Working knowledge of integrated, accrual-basis accounting systems such as QuickBooks Enterprise, Lawson, or another ERP. Advanced computer skills, with strong Office 365 skills preferred
• Have demonstrated grants management experience and in-depth understanding of current donor rules and regulations. Experience working with USAID, DfID, KfW and other international donors.
• At least 3 years of experience living or working in a developing country and working experience in challenging environments in Africa will be an added advantage preferred
• High level of written and verbal communication skills. Written and verbal fluency in English required.
• Exceptional quantitative data analysis skills.
• High emotional intelligence, people management and interpersonal skills; High level staff management and leadership skills.
• Ability to work in a diverse cultural environment with multiple stakeholders (including Ministry of Health authorities (MoH), beneficiaries, implementing partners, program staff, donors)
• References will be required
• The successful candidate will be required to pass a background check.

 

 

What will get us excited (personal and management characteristics)?

• Successful candidates will be customer service oriented, exhibit excellent communication and interpersonal skills; have proven problem solving ability; be able to work efficiently and quickly under pressure; be able to prioritize and perform multiple tasks; and have the ability to work with minimal supervision and follow through on assignments. Preference will be given to candidates with demonstrated experience in international health and development issues, and technology innovation.
• Be self-starter, effective team player and demonstrated verifiable result-oriented track record. Act with urgency for continuous improvement and with a bias towards action; promote development of breakthrough solutions; embrace and advocate innovations that improve results; aggressively promotes the need for breakthrough improvements.
• Acting with Long Term Perspective: Take actions today to build a strong foundation for future success, identify and take advantage of emerging opportunities, keep PSI Sierra Leone’s long-term goals in mind when addressing short-term issues and problems.
• Adaptive and flexible in approaches to work, comfortable with changing approach based on the evidence of what works.
• Passionate about learning, documenting, and sharing what does and does not work
• Proven ability to develop routines to manage large workloads and organize work efficiently
• Ability and desire to coach and transfer learning capacity to partners and program staff.

 

 

STATUS

• Exempt

PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status.

 

Interested candidates should submit CV and cover letters indicating the position they are applying for and submit online to the email recruitment@psi-sl.org on/before the 30th September 2022.

 

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you are not contacted five (5) working days after advert closes, that means you were not shortlisted.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

Required Skills & Knowledge

• Knowledge of telecommunication sector: products and services,
• Significant experience in team management,
• Strong interpersonal and business skills,
• Excellent knowledge of the geographical area offers: markets, technical nature of products, target prospects, local economy,
• Master on the operational account,
• Skills in overall management of activities: management, economics, human resources, …
• Control office software packages (PowerPoint, Excel, Word) and IT and Communication tools (NTIC),
• Fluency in English and French.

Qualifications

• MBA Business management in finance,
• And/or university education (5 years) in management and finance,
• And completed at least by a diversified experience of 8 years in a Financial and Accounting position or equivalent.

Office Location / Address:

• 41B&C Freetown Road. Lumley, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Recruiter’s E-mail Address

• recruitment.sierraleone@camusat.com

Save the Children is recruiting to fill the following positions:

1.) Assistant Financial Accountant
2.) Financial Accountant
3.) Senior MEAL Manager

 

See job details and how to apply below.

 

1.) Assistant Financial Accountant

 

The Role: Assistant Financial Accountant

Save the Children is recruiting for an experienced Assistant Financial Accountant that will support the Financial Accountant and Senior Finance Coordinator within the financial operation function that will enable the team to deliver efficient and compliant financial management support to the entire country program.

The Assistant Financial Accountant will primary aim to maintain cash and cheque pads in a secured safe box and replenish as per the policy of the organization. Ensure that disbursements made to partners, suppliers and staffs are initiated by an appropriate source document and authorized and approved by Budget Holders within the Scheme of Delegation. Check and ascertain the accuracy and validity of documents against SCI policies and procedures that expenditures incurred are allowable, allocable and reasonable; ensure all payments are processed as per SCI financial guidelines, regulations and internal financial controls relating to disbursements in an efficient and effective manner.




QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor Degree from recognized University in Accounting or Finance.
• Relevant experience in related field
• Computer literate (i.e. WORD, advanced Excel, Outlook, Internet Explorer, financial systems such as AGRESSO
• Knowledge of local laws of the country
• Developed interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability and willingness to dramatically change work practices and hours, and work with incoming surge teams, in the event of emergencies
• Patient, adaptable, flexible, able to improvise and remain responsive and communicate clearly and effectively under pressure
• Good in English, both verbal and written, preferred
• Commitment to Save the Children values
• Teams, in the event of emergencies
• Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply

 

CONTRACT LENGTH: 12 Months

Closing date: 23rd September, 2022

The Organization

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

 

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

 

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

APPLICATION INFORMATION

Applicants are advised that

Save the Children International does not require any payment or expense during the entire recruitment process and we maintain zero tolerance to dual employment.  Any request in this direction should be immediately

 

Please apply using a cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document. Please also include details of your salary expectations.

• Candidates should know that Save the Children is no longer using slejobopportunity@savethechildren.org for job advert and therefore candidates should apply through the link that will be provided by Careers.sl.
• Applicants should attach a copy of a valid Labour Card to their applications

 

HOW TO APPLY :

APPLY – Assistant Financial Accountant

 

WOMEN ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY

 

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2.) Financial Accountant

 

The Role: Financial Accountant

Save the Children is recruiting for an experienced Financial Accountant that will support the coordination office Finance team with the financial operation function that will enable the team to deliver efficient and compliant financial management support to the entire country program.

The Financial Accountant role is primary aim to ensure that disbursements made to partners, suppliers and staffs are initiated by an appropriate source document and authorized and approved by Budget Holders within the Scheme of Delegation. The postholder will checks and ascertain the accuracy and validity of documents against SCI policies and procedures that expenditures incurred are allowable, allocable and reasonable; ensure that withholding tax and other statutory deductions are deducted from suppliers; ensure all payments are processed as per SCI financial guidelines, regulations and internal financial controls relating to disbursements in an efficient and effective manner.

 

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Recommended a minimum of 7 years management experience in a corporate or an NGO environment, of which four years at a senior management level within the finance department of a national or international organization
• Bachelor Degree from recognized University in Accounting or Finance; CPA or equivalent degree (CA, ACMA, ACCA) is an advantageous
• Relevant work experience in related field
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Computer literate (i.e. WORD, advanced Excel, Outlook, Internet Explorer, financial systems such as AGRESSO
• Knowledge of local laws of the country developed, interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability and willingness to dramatically change work practices and hours, and work with incoming surge teams, in the event of emergencies
• Patient, adaptable, flexible, able to improvise and remain responsive and communicate clearly and effectively under pressure
• Good in English, both verbal and written, preferred
• Commitment to Save the Children values
• Patient, adaptable, flexible, able to improvise and remain responsive and communicate clearly
• Teams, in the event of emergencies
• Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply

 

CONTRACT LENGTH: 12 Months

Closing date: 29th September, 2022

The Organization

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

 

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

 

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

APPLICATION INFORMATION

Applicants are advised that

Save the Children International does not require any payment or expense during the entire recruitment process and we maintain zero tolerance to dual employment.  Any request in this direction should be immediately

 

Please apply using a cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations for this role.

 

• Candidates should apply through the link that will be provided on Taleo System.

 

HOW TO APPLY:

APPLY – Financial Accountant

 

WOMEN ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY

 

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3.) Senior MEAL Manager

 

THE ROLE: Senior MEAL Manager

 

Save the Children is recruiting a Senior MEAL Managers to be based at the Coordination Office that will provide technical support to the Sierra Leone MEAL Team. This position will closely support the Head of MEAL. This position will work with both the Country Office and the Field Offices to ensure quality MEAL system design and implementation; evaluations and researches; MEAL budgeting; recruitment as well as support proposal writing and log frame development at national level. The post holder will support capacity building of staff and partners and ready to fill in gaps in the MEAL structure at all levels.

The Senior MEAL Manager will work across sector programs to ensure that MEAL is fully integrated into implementation. The post holder will support the Country Office to deliver on MEAL responsibilities to the Region and SCI Global.

The Senior MEAL Manager will support the implementation of accountability procedures including community feedback and response mechanisms for both development and humanitarian programs, Support compliance and assessment of quality benchmark. build capacities of staff and partners in promoting accountability and participation in Country Office s. S/he will support Awards, Finance, PDQ/TAs, Internal controls, Advocacy and Operations to review and implement a compliance strategy towards donor commitments, especially in project start-ups, implementation, documentation, progress reporting and phase-outs. S/he will assume day to day support for MEAL tasks for quality evidence-based programming.

S/he will provide MEAL supportive supervision in on-going project implementation. The Senior MEAL Manager will be highly involved in project and MEAL planning and reviews, provide support on implementation of required MEAL actions, monitoring and evaluation processes ensuring high level of child participation in these processes in operational area. S/he will guide SC and Partner teams in tracking outcome of projects which includes but not limited to documenting success stories/ case studies in line with project activities and expected outcomes. S/he will provide quality assurance for data and information (including progress reports) generated from their Country Office.

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

 

QUALIFICATIONS  

• A degree level in Social Science – Statistics, Economics or equivalent field experience.
• Recommended a minimum of six years management and/or MEAL experience in both emergency and development contexts, preferably with solid experience in more than two of the Save the Children priority sectors: education, protection, rights governance, HIV/AIDs, health and nutrition, and emergencies

 

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Demonstrated strong monitoring and evaluation skills, including planning, participating in and critically reviewing evaluations.
• Proficiency in computer skills, especially ability to work with MS Word, MS Excel, Power Point, data collection/ management and analysis software etc in support of T4D
• Ability to think and analyze issues and data critically
• Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in
• Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner
• Ability to assess capacity gap and provide relevant trainings.
• Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mindsets
• Experience in writing clear assessments and reports
• Excellent communication skills.
• A high level of written and spoken English.
• A high level of qualitative and quantitative data analysis competency
• Good interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching
• Proven capacity to train and coach staff.
• Strong knowledge in Rights based programming.
• Experience working in a handson implementation capacity.
• Ability and willingness to dramatically change work practices and hours, and work with incoming surge teams, in the event of emergencies
• Commitment to the aims and principles of Save the Children.

 

Desirable

• Experience working with SCI on MEAL is highly desirable
• Female applicants are encourage to apply.
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, sensitivity and diplomacy.
• High cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in

difficult circumstances

 

CONTRACT LENGTH: 12 Months

 

Closing Date: 23rd September, 2022

 

The Organization

 

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

 

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

 

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

 

APPLICATION INFORMATION

Applicants are advised that

Save the Children International does not require any payment or expense during the entire recruitment process and we maintain zero tolerance to dual employment.  Any request in this direction should be immediately

 

Please apply in English using a cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document including details of your current remuneration and salary expectations for this role.

      Candidates should apply through the links that will be provided by Careers.sl.

      Applicants should attach a copy of a valid Labour Card to their applications

 

HOW TO APPLY :

APPLY – Senior MEAL Manager

 

WOMEN ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY

Street Child is recruiting to fill the following positions:

1.) Finance Officer
2.) Finance Manager

 

See job details and how to apply below.

 

1.) Finance Officer

 

Job title:  Finance Officer

Reports to: Finance Manager

Overall job purpose: Book keeping

Job Level: Tier 4        

Location:  Freetown

Duration: One year with possibility of extension

 

ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND

Street Child of Sierra Leone (SCoSL) is a local Non-Governmental Organization promoting the right to education and child protection for children in the most remote communities in Sierra Leone.

We believe that every child deserves the right to live in a safe place, secure home and above all, have the chance to receive a quality education. As an organization, our key focus is helping children into schools-and ensuring that they stay there. For those that have no access to education, we work towards creating access in some of the most remote parts of the country, ensuring that no child is left behind.

KEY RESPONSIBILITY AREAS AND ASSOCIATED TASKS:

• Processing Transactions, including but not limited to:

• Make payments and receive funds in accordance with SCoSL finance procedures:
• Collect and examine supporting documents from book keepers from the field
• Prepare payment vouchers, and receipts for all transactions.
• Maintain float, loan and salary advance registers.
• Prepare monthly payroll.
• Ensure that supporting documents/signatures are valid.

 

 

Maintaining proper books of account and supporting documents, including but not limited to:

• Post all financial transactions on the accounting software (quickbooks) as appropriate.
• Manage the petty cash
• Prepare Petty Cash Form or internal requisitions.
• Carry out petty cash count every two weeks.
• Ensure that all accounts records are filed in an orderly manner.
• Liaison with the finance manager and assist in preparation of financial reports to donors.
• Undertake any other duties that may be requested by the Finance Manager.
• Monitor actual expenditure versus budgets.
• Keeping appropriate books and records for cash, bank, fixed assets, stocks etc.
• Carrying out reconciliations to ensure accuracy (eg cash count and bank reconciliations)

 

 

Maintaining proper physical files and computer files and folders to enable easy retrieval of information by the organization and others

 

Note: The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

 

Qualifications & Experience

• BSC in applied accounting its equivalent or Finance related Field
• Knowledge in the use of Computer: MS word and Excel
• Minimum of three years’ experience in related field
• Ability to work in a Team
• Experience in working with a Non – Governmental Organization
• Knowledge in the use of Accounting Software
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, and training/facilitation skills.
• Proficiency in computer e.g. MS Word, MS Power Point and Excel.
• Ability to be self-sufficient and resourceful, proactive in identifying and addressing challenges, yet consulting and asking for assistance as needed/relevant.
• Ability and willingness to travel to project communities and stay in basic conditions.

 

Street Child of Sierra Leone is a Child Protection organization and has a clear policy on child protection and we believe that:

• Children and young people should never experience abuse of any kind, and

We have a responsibility to promote the welfare of all children and young people, to keep them safe and to practice in a way that protects them.

• SCoSL has Safeguarding and Child Protection Policies in Place, and is committed to the protection of vulnerable children and adults

 

It is therefore mandatory for all staff to commit themselves to respect, uphold and promote this policy and to sign the SCoSL code of conduct

Street Child of Sierra Leone is committed to the safeguarding and protection of the communities we serve, our partners, our volunteers, and our staff. As part of this commitment to safeguarding, safeguarding questions will be included in interviews and all offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate background checks.

 

• WOMEN AND PERSONS LIVING WITH DISABILITIES ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY

 

HOW TO APPLY 

To apply for this position please send up-to-date CV and a supporting letter, copies of relevant certificates to info@streetchildsl.org Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Closing date for the receipt of application packages is: 27th September, 2022.  

 

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2.) Finance Manager

 

Job title:  Finance Manager

Reports to: Finance Director

Line Manages: Finance Officers

Overall job purpose: Manage HQ Finance Team and prepare monthly and quarterly Donor reports

Job Level: Tier 3        

Location:  Freetown

Duration: One year with possibility of extension

 

ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND

Street Child of Sierra Leone (SCoSL) is a local Non-Governmental Organization promoting the right to education and child protection for children in the most remote communities in Sierra Leone.

We believe that every child deserves the right to live in a safe place, secure home and above all, have the chance to receive a quality education. As an organization, our key focus is helping children into schools-and ensuring that they stay there. For those that have no access to education, we work towards creating access in some of the most remote parts of the country, ensuring that no child is left behind.

 

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITY AREAS AND ASSOCIATED TASKS:

Managing staff in the finance department so that they can perform and be able to fulfill their responsibilities, including but not limited to:

• Ensure that appropriate financial systems are maintained, and that all procedures and internal controls are implemented and adhere to
• Participate in Induction and training of new staff
• Make sure there is effective delegation of responsibility, support and follow up
• Maintaining a motivated and effective team
• Periodic establishment of objectives and carrying out regular performance reviews

 

• Ensuring that necessary financial planning procedures are carried out but not limited to:

• Working with and facilitating budget holders/project managers in development of their monthly requisitions
• Ensuring donor formats and conditions are complied with
• Consolidation and review of budgets and monthly requisitions
• Cash flow forecasting
• Participating in development and implementation of financing strategy
• Ensuring proper control of cheque books and receipt books
• Processing payments on time, managing liabilities

 

• Producing accurate, useful and timely reports, including but not limited to:
• Reports for budget holders, senior management, Board, donors and beneficiaries
• Provide any other financial information, as requested, and respond to any other financial queries.

 

 

• Ensuring good team work and cooperation between finance and programme, including but limited to:

 

• Participation in regular project management meetings
• Ensuring programme staff are trained in relevant aspects of financial management
• Ensuring a proper understanding of field operations, including risks and practical limitations.

• Ensuring that adequate internal controls are in place

 

Note: The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

 

Qualifications & Experience

• Qualification – BSC in applied accounting/ ACCA Applied Skills Module (Level 2) completed  or Finance related Field
• Knowledge in the use of Computer: MS word and Excel
• Minimum of five years’ experience in related field
• Ability to work in a Team
• Experience in working with a Non – Governmental Organization
• Knowledge in the use of Accounting Software
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills and training/facilitation skills.
• Proficiency in computer e.g. MS Word, MS Power Point and Excel.
• Ability to be self-sufficient and resourceful, proactive in identifying and addressing challenges, yet consulting and asking for assistance as needed/relevant.
• Ability and willingness to travel to project communities and stay in basic conditions.

 

Street Child of Sierra Leone is a Child Protection organization and has a clear policy on child protection and we believe that:

• Children and young people should never experience abuse of any kind, and

We have a responsibility to promote the welfare of all children and young people, to keep them safe and to practice in a way that protects them.

• SCoSL has Safeguarding and Child Protection Policies in Place, and is committed to the protection of vulnerable children and adults

 

It is therefore mandatory for all staff to commit themselves to respect, uphold and promote this policy and to sign the SCoSL code of conduct

Street Child of Sierra Leone is committed to the safeguarding and protection of the communities we serve, our partners, our volunteers, and our staff. As part of this commitment to safeguarding, safeguarding questions will be included in interviews and all offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate background checks.

 

• WOMEN AND PERSONS LIVING WITH DISABILITIES ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY

 

HOW TO APPLY 

To apply for this position please send up-to-date CV and a supporting letter, copies of relevant certificates to info@streetchildsl.org Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Closing date for the receipt of application packages is: 27th September, 2022.  

Easy Solar is recruiting to fill the following positions:

1.) After-Sales Manager
2.) Market Research Analyst
3.) Revenue Assurance Manager
4.) Corporate Sales Manager
5.) Corporate Finance Analyst
6.) Finance Manager
7.) Financial Controller
8.) Internal Control/Internal Audit Manager
9.) Data and Business Intelligence Lead
10.) Junior Data Analyst
11.) Content Writer
12.) Group Learning and Development Manager
13.) Technician – Solar/Electrical
14.) Assistant Technician (Solar/Electrical)
15.) Sales Analyst
16.) Sales Support Officer
17.) Planning Manager

 

About Easy Solar

Easy Solar is a leading solar company in West Africa, distributing and financing high-quality solar products and appliances for those with limited or no access to the conventional grid. Customers can finance their purchase over time by paying in weekly or monthly installments, with the option to pay via cash or mobile money. To date, Easy Solar has reached more than 720,000 beneficiaries, distributed through its extensive network of agents and outlets throughout Sierra Leone and Liberia.

 

See job details and how to apply below.

 

1.) After-Sales Manager

 

About the Role

We are looking for an After-Sales Manager to ensure we meet our brand promise of exceptional customer service, by leading a team of technicians and field staff dedicated to each product category marketed by Easy Solar. As After-Sales Manager you will set up and manage Easy Solar’s regional service centers, ensuring the quality of the after-sales service is maintained, and be constantly in interaction with the Sales, field, and customer care teams to ensure all customer complaints are addressed in a timely fashion.

In setting up and managing Service Centers, you will ensure they offer after-sales technical support such as customer education, warranty inspection, product replacement/repair, replacement stock management & service tracking through accurate data entry in our system.

You will develop an evaluation framework to assess the effectiveness of the after sales model, focusing on our ability to deliver and maintain the service level agreement (SLA) to customers. You will also be in charge of monitoring the warranty policies with various suppliers, harmonizing them into a unified Easy Solar After-Sales policy that governs all products.

General Duties and Responsibilities

Service Centre Management

• Review and revise current after-sales model at HQ service center, implementing improvements to reduce bottlenecks
• Recruit, train and lead a team of technicians to enable them to provide after-sales service for the three categories of Easy Solar products (solar, cooking, phones)
• Evaluate the performance of after-sales technicians on quarterly basis
• Set up regional service centers, ensuring adherence to Easy Solar branding guidelines and liaising with facilities team to identify, refurbish and maintain the center
• Define the work schedule of the after-sales service centers
• Coordinate with regional sales and field operations teams on the after-sales process for case and inventory management
• Provide frequent after sales training to all customer-facing teams and service center staff
• Ensure 100% Service center compliance on system usage for Ticketing, Work orders, Inventory management and Parts ordering
• Vet external service partners identified upon the introduction of any new product, and define their service level offering, ensuring it’s in line with Easy Solar’s policy

Supplier & Inventory Management

• Coordinate with service centers to ensure parts and refurbishment stock availability
• Implement daily cycle and weekly inventory counts to ensure it tallies with the theoretical count by the servicing system
• Conduct and share monthly product test reports (samples or defective returns)
• Report to suppliers on persistent product issues, and returns that go beyond expected product return ratio
• Order spare parts in a timely fashion to ensure stockouts do not impact turnaround times
• Serve as an interface between Easy Solar and our suppliers for all technical aspects of products
• Engage in frequent refresher training with suppliers on product’s technical specifications and updates to their recommended after-sales process, translating that knowledge to technicians and relevant customer facing teams
• Monitor the warranty policies with various suppliers, harmonizing them into a unified Easy Solar After-Sales policy that governs all products
• Follow up on guarantees with suppliers

Audit & Reporting

• Develop an evaluation framework to assess the effectiveness of the after-sales model, focusing on our ability to deliver and maintain the service level agreement (SLA) to customers
• Evaluate Service Centers performance and conduct audit of the after-sales activities at the Service Centers on a quarterly basis
• Share audit feedback with servicing teams and customer experience director and follow up on improvement areas identified during the audit period
• Provide weekly and monthly after sales report on the following KPI’s:
  • Repair/Replacement Speed (Turnaround Time, Long-Term Pending)
  • Repair Quality – Repeated Repair Ratio
  • Parts Availability
  • Customer satisfaction / NPS
  • Warranty cost management

KPIs

• Service Center network expansion based on quarterly targets
• Training of new and existing service center teams
• Quarterly performance audit of Service Centers as per approved evaluation and audit criteria
• 100% timely utilization and accuracy of after sales tool in all service centers
• Spare parts and refurbishment stock availability at the service centers
• Pending work orders and customer units at the service centers >5 days
• Quarterly used parts return/collection ratio by the service centers < 95%
• Weekly and Monthly reporting of After-sales activities

Required Qualifications
Required Education & Experience

• A degree in computer science, electronics operations, management, or a related field is required
• Minimum of 5 years in an operational support role, ideally having developed and deployed after sales service strategy for a technology / FMHA (fast moving home appliances) function
• Experience of at least 3 years in installation and maintenance of solar products is a plus
• Demonstrated ability to engage and negotiate with vendors to add value to a business
• Demonstrate the ability to understand business goals and recommend new approaches, policies and procedures to effect continual improvements in business objectives
• Prior working experience in the off-grid solar sector (preferred)
• Significant prior working experience in Sierra Leone and/or other parts of West Africa is a plus

Skills & Attitude

• Strong knowledge of technical English
• Have technical knowledge in electronics, electricity, IT
• Being able to analyze data and present it clearly
• Excellent Excel skills are a must
• Demonstrate excellent organization
• Demonstrate speed and responsiveness
• Know how to respect and keep service commitments
• Business driven, people focused, with exceptional influencing skills
• Strong mindset for continuous improvement and meeting or exceeding expectations and able to demonstrate complete discretion and confidentiality
• Excellent organizational, multi-tasking, presentation and time-management skills
• Passion for social enterprise, development of people and environmental benefits

What We Offer

• A very attractive, performance-based, remuneration with benefits
• Plenty of opportunities to grow within the company and take management positions
• The opportunity to take part in one of Sierra Leone’s most exciting entrepreneurial projects that has a strong commitment to outstanding customer service, user-friendly, high-quality life- changing devices and environmental sustainability
• Frequent coaching and training
• The opportunity to work closely with a young, international, tech-driven team of renewable energy enthusiasts

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2.) Market Research Analyst

 

About the Role

We are looking for an After-Sales Manager to ensure we meet our brand promise of exceptional customer service, by leading a team of technicians and field staff dedicated to each product category marketed by Easy Solar. As After-Sales Manager you will set up and manage Easy Solar’s regional service centers, ensuring the quality of the after-sales service is maintained, and be constantly in interaction with the Sales, field, and customer care teams to ensure all customer complaints are addressed in a timely fashion.

In setting up and managing Service Centers, you will ensure they offer after-sales technical support such as customer education, warranty inspection, product replacement/repair, replacement stock management & service tracking through accurate data entry in our system.

You will develop an evaluation framework to assess the effectiveness of the after sales model, focusing on our ability to deliver and maintain the service level agreement (SLA) to customers. You will also be in charge of monitoring the warranty policies with various suppliers, harmonizing them into a unified Easy Solar After-Sales policy that governs all products.

General Duties and Responsibilities

Service Centre Management

• Review and revise current after-sales model at HQ service center, implementing improvements to reduce bottlenecks
• Recruit, train and lead a team of technicians to enable them to provide after-sales service for the three categories of Easy Solar products (solar, cooking, phones)
• Evaluate the performance of after-sales technicians on quarterly basis
• Set up regional service centers, ensuring adherence to Easy Solar branding guidelines and liaising with facilities team to identify, refurbish and maintain the center
• Define the work schedule of the after-sales service centers
• Coordinate with regional sales and field operations teams on the after-sales process for case and inventory management
• Provide frequent after sales training to all customer-facing teams and service center staff
• Ensure 100% Service center compliance on system usage for Ticketing, Work orders, Inventory management and Parts ordering
• Vet external service partners identified upon the introduction of any new product, and define their service level offering, ensuring it’s in line with Easy Solar’s policy

Supplier & Inventory Management

• Coordinate with service centers to ensure parts and refurbishment stock availability
• Implement daily cycle and weekly inventory counts to ensure it tallies with the theoretical count by the servicing system
• Conduct and share monthly product test reports (samples or defective returns)
• Report to suppliers on persistent product issues, and returns that go beyond expected product return ratio
• Order spare parts in a timely fashion to ensure stockouts do not impact turnaround times
• Serve as an interface between Easy Solar and our suppliers for all technical aspects of products
• Engage in frequent refresher training with suppliers on product’s technical specifications and updates to their recommended after-sales process, translating that knowledge to technicians and relevant customer facing teams
• Monitor the warranty policies with various suppliers, harmonizing them into a unified Easy Solar After-Sales policy that governs all products
• Follow up on guarantees with suppliers

Audit & Reporting

• Develop an evaluation framework to assess the effectiveness of the after-sales model, focusing on our ability to deliver and maintain the service level agreement (SLA) to customers
• Evaluate Service Centers performance and conduct audit of the after-sales activities at the Service Centers on a quarterly basis
• Share audit feedback with servicing teams and customer experience director and follow up on improvement areas identified during the audit period
• Provide weekly and monthly after sales report on the following KPI’s:
  • Repair/Replacement Speed (Turnaround Time, Long-Term Pending)
  • Repair Quality – Repeated Repair Ratio
  • Parts Availability
  • Customer satisfaction / NPS
  • Warranty cost management

KPIs

• Service Center network expansion based on quarterly targets
• Training of new and existing service center teams
• Quarterly performance audit of Service Centers as per approved evaluation and audit criteria
• 100% timely utilization and accuracy of after sales tool in all service centers
• Spare parts and refurbishment stock availability at the service centers
• Pending work orders and customer units at the service centers >5 days
• Quarterly used parts return/collection ratio by the service centers < 95%
• Weekly and Monthly reporting of After-sales activities

Required Qualifications
Required Education & Experience

• A degree in computer science, electronics operations, management, or a related field is required
• Minimum of 5 years in an operational support role, ideally having developed and deployed after sales service strategy for a technology / FMHA (fast moving home appliances) function
• Experience of at least 3 years in installation and maintenance of solar products is a plus
• Demonstrated ability to engage and negotiate with vendors to add value to a business
• Demonstrate the ability to understand business goals and recommend new approaches, policies and procedures to effect continual improvements in business objectives
• Prior working experience in the off-grid solar sector (preferred)
• Significant prior working experience in Sierra Leone and/or other parts of West Africa is a plus

Skills & Attitude

• Strong knowledge of technical English
• Have technical knowledge in electronics, electricity, IT
• Being able to analyze data and present it clearly
• Excellent Excel skills are a must
• Demonstrate excellent organization
• Demonstrate speed and responsiveness
• Know how to respect and keep service commitments
• Business driven, people focused, with exceptional influencing skills
• Strong mindset for continuous improvement and meeting or exceeding expectations and able to demonstrate complete discretion and confidentiality
• Excellent organizational, multi-tasking, presentation and time-management skills
• Passion for social enterprise, development of people and environmental benefits

What We Offer

• A very attractive, performance-based, remuneration with benefits
• Plenty of opportunities to grow within the company and take management positions
• The opportunity to take part in one of Sierra Leone’s most exciting entrepreneurial projects that has a strong commitment to outstanding customer service, user-friendly, high-quality life- changing devices and environmental sustainability
• Frequent coaching and training
• The opportunity to work closely with a young, international, tech-driven team of renewable energy enthusiasts

APPLY

 

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3.) Revenue Assurance Manager

 

About the Role

Easy Solar is looking for a Market Research Analyst to ensure the company uses data driven insights in defining and executing our sales, marketing and product strategies. As an analyst, you will study market conditions in our geographical markets as well as in the broader industry, evaluate our current performance in comparison to competitors and customer expectations, and recommend potential growth channels.

Your job will be to use data to tell a story. One that helps our customer-facing teams understand what products people want, who will buy them, why and at what price. You’ll help us examine which channels are most compelling to acquire new customers and retain existing ones, and establish methodologies for measuring the effectiveness of activities. This will involve reviewing existing CRM data (and other sources of data collected) and gathering new  data on consumer demographics, preferences, needs, and buying habits.

You are a guru at using statistical software to make sense of data collected using a variety of methods, such as interviews, questionnaires, focus groups, surveys, and literature reviews. By helping us keep abreast of the story the data is telling us, you’ll ensure Easy Solar is intentional in decision-making and grounded in the reality of what’s happening amongst customers, competitors and the industry.

Responsibilities

Data Collection & Analysis

• Review existing methods of data collection and storage
• Understand business objectives and propose improved methods for collecting data
• Gather data on consumers, competitors, and market conditions using qualitative and quantitative research methods
• Apply statistical techniques to interpret data and produce substantiated recommendations

Reporting & Insights

• Convert complex data and findings into understandable and actionable tables, graphs, and written reports
• Present reports & findings to customer-facing teams including sales, product, marketing and customer care
• Provide competitive analysis on various companies’ market offerings, identify market trends, pricing/business models, sales and methods of operation
• Remain fully informed on market trends, other parties researches and implement best practices

Monitoring & Evaluation

• Monitor and forecast marketing and sales trends
• Measure the effectiveness of sales, product, and marketing programs and strategies

REQUIREMENTS

• Proven Market Research Analysis experience (at least 3 years)
• Ability to interpret large amounts of data and to multi-task
• Excellent knowledge of statistical packages (SPSS, SAS or similar), databases (SQL) and spreadsheet analysis (excel, google sheets)
• Working knowledge of data warehousing, modelling and mining
• Prior experience using data visualization tools (PowerBI is preferred)
• Knowledge of general purpose programming languages is a plus (e.g. Python)
• Strong communication, interpersonal and presentation skills – You should be comfortable presenting results to internal team members and management at various levels
• Search engines, web analytics and business research tools acumen
• Familiarity with CRM programs
• Adequate knowledge of data collection methods (polls, focus groups, surveys etc)
• Strong analytical and critical thinking
• BS degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Marketing, or related field

What We Offer

• A very attractive, performance-based, remuneration with benefits including PTO, family leave and health insurance
• Opportunity to take part in one of West Africa’s most exciting entrepreneurial projects that has a strong commitment to outstanding customer service and environmental sustainability
• The opportunity to work closely with a young, international, tech-driven team of renewable energy enthusiasts

APPLY

 

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4.) Corporate Sales Manager

 

2. About the Role

The Revenue Assurance Manager is responsible for ensuring the smooth operations of Easy Solar Sierra Leone’s revenue & receivables collection activities. The ideal candidate has a keen attention to detail, is extremely organized and trustworthy, and has experience in collections and fraud detection.

 

3. Responsibilities

• Collections
  • Ensure all company funds are appropriately and accurately remitted from all retail sales outlets
  • Confirm correct deductions (commission, bonuses, benefits etc) are made against remittances
  • Monitor collection processes for accuracy
  • Report on collection rates across points of sale outlets and follow up on discrepancies
  • Validate all bank and mobile money remittances received from field teams
  • Perform manual adjustments for bank deposits and mobile money payments, and document appropriately

• Reconciliations & Reporting
  • Perform regular reconciliation and analysis of collection streams not limited to banks, mobile money and POS.
  • Reconcile Payroll Deduction general ledger with government on monthly basis
  • Reconcile manual Payroll Deduction payments against amounts received
  • Perform data manipulation and analysis using tools such as Business Objects, SQL and MS-Access
  • Create executive level reporting with 100% accuracy and advanced level presentation

• CRM Management
  • Ensure ALL CRM user balances are zeroed on weekly basis
  • Monitor, accept/reject requests, and update user CRM balances
  • Participate in business process changes that may affect the company’s ability to identify, monitor or collect revenue (e.g., new system implementations/upgrades, new product rollouts, etc.)

 

• Process Management

• • Document revenue, payment & deduction flows across critical functions and monitors the same
  • Develop policy for low collection rates and angaza balance adjustments (including when to freeze any user accounts on Angaza with low collection rates and work with P&C and Sales Support to institute sanctions)
  • Continuously work to understand core business processes and mitigate losses to ensure the highest levels of revenue recognition
  • Maintain in-depth understanding of industry trends relative to revenue assurance practices
  • Partner with Marketing, Engineering, IT, and Operations to design, develop and implement best practices to minimize revenue leakage

• Fraud Detection
  • Create queries and reports to support ongoing monitoring of initiatives
  • Manage field audit team and review reports on stock, payments & customer care issues related to fraud complaints
  • Promote quality assurance for all processes impacting revenue

4. KPIs

• 100% of company funds remitted to HQ in timely manner
• 100% of reconciliations done on a monthly basis
• 99% of CRM user balances zeroed at end of each month
• 90% of processes and workflows documented
• 95% completion of field audit team properly monitored and reported

 

5. Desired Skills and Experience

• Minimum Knowledge
  • BA/BSc in Finance/Accounting/Business Mgmt or relevant field from reputable university
  • 5+ years’ work experience in revenue assurance
  • 3+ years in a role where data analysis, data reconciliation and data presentation were required
  • Knowledge of all facets of revenue assurance covering key principles related to controls, IT systems, business processes, reconciliations, financial performance, and reporting
  • A sound understanding of the technical infrastructure within an asset financing, telecoms pay-go solar or microfinance company, including billing, CRM, and collections.

• Minimum Skills/Experience
  • Analytical mind able to process information logically delivering value added analysis
  • Experience of working under pressures to tight deadlines
  • Good knowledge of tools to process and reconcile data, such as Excel pivot tables
  • Solid knowledge of fundamental accounting principles
  • Strong project management and planning skills
  • Ability to write advanced SQL and analyze large data sets
  • Advanced level experience in developing business objects reports
  • Excellent communication (both verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
  • Independent self starter and flexible team player
  • Ability to work overtime as required including nights and weekends

6. What We Offer

• A very attractive, performance-based, remuneration with benefits
• Plenty of opportunities to grow within the company
• The opportunity to take part in one of West Africa’s most exciting entrepreneurial companies that has a strong commitment to outstanding customer service, user-friendly, high-quality life-changing devices and environmental sustainability
• Frequent coaching and training
• The opportunity to work closely with a young, international, tech-driven team of renewable energy enthusiasts

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5.) Corporate Finance Analyst

 

• About the Role

The Partner Sales Manager is responsible for leading Easy Solar’s partner sales activities in Sierra Leone that include payroll deduction, asset finance, B2B, and new initiatives. S/he is responsible for ensuring partner sales hits their topline revenue targets and departmental KPIs. S/he will manage strategic client relationships, seek new partnerships and opportunities, and ensure the team is fully aligned and committed to outstanding customer service.

• Responsibilities and KPIs

Payroll Deduction

• Responsible for overseeing all payroll deduction activities across the country
• Drive payroll deduction sign-ups across existing and new sales channels
• Liaise with the GoSL Accountant General’s office and Military payroll office to ensure deductions are made in line with signups on a monthly basis and new forms are submitted in a timely manner
• Review and advise on sales tools, processes and materials in order to drive efficiencies and time savings across the department
• Report monthly and quarterly on PDS activities and key performance indicators

Asset Finance

• Responsible for overseeing all asset finance activities across the country
• Drive asset finance sign-ups across existing and new sales channels
• Work closely with commercial banks and microfinance institutions to ensure excellent customer service and incentives are aligned for all parties
• Review and advise on sales tools, processes and materials in order to drive efficiencies and time savings across the department
• Report monthly and quarterly on Asset Finance activities and key performance indicators

B2B and Bulk Sales

• Responsible for ensuring all bids, RFQs, and other opportunities are responded to and sent through in timely manner
• Maintain and update CRM of all new opportunities and bids
• Manage relationships with key partners across Sierra Leone and develop/court new relationships in relation to B2B sales and other opportunities
• Report monthly and quarterly on all B2B sales activities and key performance indicators

Team Management

• Engage and manage staff performance, capabilities, and capacity development through coaching, mentoring, and inspiring
• Design and redesign partner sales SOPs and ensure team members are following processes accordingly
• Develop specific work plans and professional development for each team member within partner sales unit along with P&C department

New Initiatives

• Responsible for identifying, growing, and closing opportunities with new and existing sales channel
• End to end management of new initiatives, from research and inception through pilot and commercialization
• Present new initiatives to rest of sales team and senior management for official sign-off and feedback

KPIs

• Department Revenue & Sales Target Achievement Quarterly – 95%
• Achieve 90% signups target quarterly
• Minimize revenue (Partner Sales) loss NOT more than 0.5%
• Minimum of 2 bids wins quarterly (B2B) of at least $50,000 USD
• Commercialization of Asset Finance
• Customer resolution (Refunds, Double deductions, etc.) – 95%

• Desired Skills and Experience
• Minimum degree in Business/Management/other relevant field from reputable university
• At least 5-years’ work experience in a rapid sales growth environment
• Proven track record of hitting and exceeding targets and building partnerships
• Demonstrate problem solving capability – ability to create win-win situations while deriving desired numbers and outcomes
• Demonstrate the ability to understand business goals and recommend new approaches, policies and procedures to effect continual improvements in business objectives, productivity
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with, present to, and influence all organizational levels, including executives and C-level credibly and effectively
• Strong mindset for continuous improvement and meeting or exceeding expectations and able to demonstrate complete discretion and confidentiality
• Superior verbal and written communication skills, with an emphasis on tact and diplomacy
• Business driven, people focused, with exceptional influencing skills; Excellent organizational, multi-tasking, presentation and time-management skills
• Passion for social enterprise, development of people and environmental benefits
• Solid understanding of home solar technology is a plus

• What We Offer

• A very attractive, performance-based, remuneration with benefits
• Plenty of opportunities to grow within the company
• The opportunity to take part in one of Sierra Leone’s most exciting entrepreneurial companies that has a strong commitment to outstanding customer service, user-friendly, high-quality life-changing devices and environmental sustainability
• Frequent coaching and training
• The opportunity to work closely with a young, international, tech-driven team of renewable energy enthusiasts

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6.) Finance Manager

 

2. About the Corporate Finance Analyst Role

The Corporate Finance Analyst will be primarily responsible for supporting the Company’s fundraising and investor relations functions.  The main job tasks will include working on transaction documents, investor reports, and financial models.  The Corporate Finance Analyst will also conduct a fair amount of research, analysis, and other duties to support these functions. The ideal candidate will have robust analytical and problem-solving skills, strong attention to detail, and a deep understanding of business.

This role is an exciting one; it is team-playing, forward-looking, pro-active, strategic, and international in nature. The Corporate Finance Analyst will be working closely with members of the Corporate Finance Team as well as the Senior Management Team.

 

3. General Duties and Responsibilities:

 

Support capital raising & investment efforts by:

• Drafting requisite fund-raising documentation and correspondence.
• Constructing financial models.
• Research & analysis of both quantitative and qualitative information.
• Managing the flow of information between the relevant stakeholders.
• Arranging and preparing for and participating in meetings, conference calls, and presentations.
• Periodic reporting (Financial, Environmental, Social & Governance) to various investors
• Maintaining several databases, knowledge, and staying abreast of developments affecting investors, market and industry
• Any other relevant duties as may be assigned from time to time.

 

4. Required Skills & Qualification:

• University degree in finance, accounts, mathematics, business, and/or economics or in another relevant subject
• Minimum of 2 years’ relevant experience
• Good communication skills (Written, Oral & Presentations)
• Excellent financial analysis and report writing skills
• Expert use of MS Office Word, Excel & PowerPoint is a must
• Women are encouraged to apply

 

5. General Duties and Responsibilities:

 

• A very attractive, performance-based, remuneration with benefits
• Plenty of opportunities to grow within the company and take management positions.
• The opportunity to take part in Sierra Leone’s most exciting entrepreneurial Company that has a strong commitment to outstanding customer service, user-friendly, high-quality life-changing devices and environmental sustainability.
• Frequent coaching and training.
• The opportunity to work closely with a young, international, tech-driven team of renewable energy enthusiast

APPLY

 

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7.) Financial Controller

 

2. About the Job

As we grow and scale our operations, we are looking for a Finance Manager with extensive experience in a similar role, who possesses a deep understanding of international financial accounting standards and Sierra Leonean statutory legislation and regulations.

For this role, you will be responsible for managing the preparation and consolidation of our group accounting, improving and overseeing the implementation of internal controls and compliance procedures, and supporting the Finance Director in providing insights into the financial health of the business.

You should hold a degree in Accounting, Commerce, Finance or any related field and preferably be a Chartered Accountant. A proven track record in financial accounting according to IFRS standards and proven exposure to multinational accounting tasks paired with expertise in areas such as tax, auditing, consolidation make you the ideal candidate for this position. We are looking for team players who combine strong analytical skills and a high level of attention to detail to lead our finance department.

3. General Duties and Responsibilities

Managing Group Accounting and Reporting

• Improve consolidation and accounting procedures, assuring compliance of with IFRS standards
• Manage the preparation of group financial statements (yearly, quarterly, monthly) in compliance with IFRS standards including consolidation
• Prepare notes to the consolidated financials
• Lead the design and implementation of an advanced financial IT environment
• Evaluate the treatment of new or changing items and ensure proper presentation and disclosure under IFRS

Financial Controlling and Compliance

• Establish, implement and improve control procedures, advising our teams on the optimal financial structure to serve our customers
• Develop and implement policies related to financial reporting and compliance
• Ensure effective controls over financial reporting

Insights, Monitoring and Evaluation

• Implement, monitor and follow-up on KPIs that allow us to measure and improve Financial Reporting, Compliance, Finance Operations, and Internal Controls
• Review and analyze financial information against the business plan to support strategic and operational decision making
• Support Finance Director in managing the preparation of the company’s budget and tracking performance on a monthly basis

4. Required Skills, Education, and Experience

• BSc./ MA degree in Accounting, Commerce, Finance or any related field
• Professional qualification such as CFA/CPA or similar Is strongly preferred
• A minimum of 3-5 years working experience in financial accounting
• Ability to develop and implement policies related to financial reporting and compliance
• Proficient in finance software (preferably QuickBooks/XERO)
• Advanced excel background
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience working in a managerial role
• Able to manage, guide and lead employees to ensure appropriate financial processes are used
• A solid understanding of financial accounting principles
• Working knowledge of all Sierra Leonean statutory legislation and regulations
• Good interpersonal, communicator and presentation skills
• Strong analytical skills and data-driven thinking
• Willing to work in a flexible work environment with fast evolving operations
• Able to work well under pressure

4. What We Offer

• Competitive remuneration covering a monthly salary, performance bonus and benefits reflective of the candidate’s experience and skills.
• Opportunity to take part in one of Sierra Leone’s most exciting entrepreneurial projects, with a strong commitment to outstanding customer service and distributing high-quality, life-changing, environment friendly devices
• Frequent coaching and training
• Opportunity to work closely with a young, international, tech-driven team of renewable energy enthusiasts

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8.) Internal Control/Internal Audit Manager

 

2. About the Role

We are looking for a result-driven Financial Controller to manage our organization’s accounting record keeping and financial reporting. As the Financial Controller, your strategic planning and exceptional numerical proficiency will aid our organization in maintaining accurate and timely reports, implementing proper internal controls, achieving organizational targets, and developing financial plans that support organizational strategy.

3. Responsibilities:

Accounting Record Keeping and Financial Reporting

• Preparation of financial  and management reports
• Analysis of financial data
• Oversight and preparation of  financial statements (income, balance sheet & cash flow statements)
• Managing financial transactions
• Streamlining accounting functions and operations
• Revenue calculation and recognition on a monthly basis
• Ensure that analysis for all relevant trial balance accounts are done in accordance with month-end closing
• Review of the monthly General Ledger reconciliations and investigate variances
• Inventory control and management
• Management and supervision of Finance staff
• Liaise with other Finance teams in other countries (OpCo’s)

Financial Controlling and Compliance

• Establish, implement, monitor and Improve internal control procedures,
• Advise the teams on the optimal financial structure to serve our customers
• Develop and implement policies related to financial reporting and compliance
• Ensure effective controls over financial reporting
• Stand as point of contact for tax consultants and external auditors

Other Responsibilities

• Participating in budgeting process
• Coordinating External audit processes
• Train staff on business finance principles
• Promote regulatory compliance, and drive income generation
• Provides information to other departments, staff, and individuals within the company regarding their financial needs and position;

4. Required Skills, Education, and Experience

• Professional qualification such as ACCA/CPA or similar qualifications required
• Proven experience in finance management
• At least 5-7 years experience in the same field in a similar role
• Good communication skills
• Strong leadership qualities
• Sound knowledge of accounting principles in theory and application
• Proficiency in accounting software specifically Xero, Quickbooks and Odoo
• Analytical skills
• Ability to manage the complexities and prioritize assignments
• Should have the ability of paying attention to details with a high level of accuracy
• Must have effective planning skills and the ability to work with multiple stakeholders.

5. What We Offer

• A very attractive, performance-based, remuneration with benefits
• Plenty of opportunities to grow within the company and take management positions
• The opportunity to take part in Sierra Leone’s most exciting entrepreneurial companies that has a strong commitment to outstanding customer service, user-friendly, high-quality life-changing devices and environmental sustainability
• Frequent coaching and training
• The opportunity to work closely with a young, international, tech-driven team of renewable energy enthusiast

APPLY

 

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9.) Data and Business Intelligence Lead

 

About the Role

 

The Internal Control/Internal Audit Manager is responsible for data gathering, measurement and analysis of financial, operational, strategic and regulatory compliance risk in the organization in order to assess and ensure timely reporting of all issues noted for the Head of Internal Control’s consideration.

 

General Duties and Responsibilities

 

• Oversee controls testing for design and operating effectiveness of controls embedded within the processes.
• Work with staff to ensure enforcement of policies and procedures and compliance with the regulatory requirements.
• Execute schedules control reviews with a view to provide assurance on adequacy of controls and document report findings
• Focus on continual process improvement, and rationalization of control measures to enhance effectiveness and efficiency of operations and realization of cost savings opportunities
• Perform review of segregation of duties at role level and report findings
• Monitor risk limits/appetite within agreed business operations and processes
• Develop monthly, weekly end to end audit and assurance around the stocks, receivables, and cash
• Maintain an updated risk control matrix for the entire business processes identified and provide risk graduation based on management risk appetite
• Assist the business in building standards across each business processes in line with internal and external regulatory requirements
• Develop monthly, weekly and, where appropriate, daily reports for each function that provides functional heads with the quantitative measures identified with respect to risk exposure and control compliance.
• Assess processes and strategies in place to mitigate risks, identify new ways to further enhance the risk mitigation plans and improve the overall risk return profile

Key Performance Indicators

• Effectiveness of internal control mechanisms.
• Number of fraud/irregularities/sharp practices detected/prevented and undetected.
• Quality of control recommendations/improvements.
• Standardization of control practices and procedures organization-wide.
• Timely and accurate rendition of relevant departmental and management reports.

Experience, Skills and Competencies

 

• Understanding of standard processes, regulatory standards, practices and frameworks as applicable to a telecommunication service business and organization
• Knowledge of different financial operational processes and procedures required to deliver an efficient insight into transactional reporting process
• Understanding of risk and control standards (COSO, IFRS, IIA, etc.) and its applicability in designing an effective business and transformation process
• Ability to think strategically and holistically and to appreciate the systemic impact of various policies, issues and solutions.
• Knowledge of risk and controls implementation standards in major business process cycle
• Excellent written and communication skills with deep tact for analysis and proactive business intelligence
• Good leadership/supervisory and people management skills.
• Good communication (oral & written), negotiation and relationship management skills.
• Problem analysis and solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities.

 

Minimum qualification:

• Minimum of a second class or its equivalent in Accounting, Economics, Finance or any other relevant discipline.
• Relevant professional qualifications (ACA, ACCA, CPA, CRISC, CISA, etc.).
• An MBA or equivalent postgraduate degree will be an added advantage
• Minimum of 7 years relevant experience in a similar role

 

What We Offer

• A very attractive, performance-based, remuneration with benefits
• Plenty of opportunities to grow within the company and take management positions
• The opportunity to take part in one of Sierra Leone’s most exciting entrepreneurial projects that has a strong commitment to outstanding customer service, user-friendly, high-quality life- changing devices and environmental sustainability
• Frequent coaching and training
• The opportunity to work closely with a young, international, tech-driven team of renewable energy enthusiasts

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10.) Junior Data Analyst

 

About The Role

We are looking for a savvy Head of Data and Business Intelligence professional with 5+ years of experience with a strong engineering background to join our growing tech team. The ideal candidate’s role is to plan, coordinate, and supervise all activities related to the design, development, and implementation of organisational reporting and analytics and is also responsible for maintaining, supporting, and upgrading reports, dashboards, cubes and data warehouse. The hire will be responsible for expanding and optimising our data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimising data flow and collection for cross functional teams.

The Head of Data and BI will support our software developers and data analysts on data initiatives and will ensure optimal data delivery architecture is consistent throughout ongoing projects. They must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems and products. The right candidate will be excited by the prospect of optimising or even re-designing our company’s data architecture to support our next generation of products and data initiatives.

General Duties & Responsibilities

1. Data analysis and BI

• Conduct research for industry and business questions
• Use large data sets to address business issues
• Deploy sophisticated analytics programs, machine learning and statistical methods
• Prepare data for predictive and prescriptive modelling
• Find hidden patterns using data
• Use data to discover tasks that can be automated

2. Data engineering

• Develop, construct, test and maintain architectures
• Strong Engineering background, Big data, ETL tools
• Building and maintaining Data Warehouses/Centralised databases and data modelling
• Building data pipelines
• Align architecture with business requirements
• Data acquisition
• Develop data set processes
• Python, Nodejs, AWS, GCP, serverless functions, distributed systems
• SQL and NoSQL Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB)
• Data streaming tools (Kafka, Spark, Pub/Sub, Storm)
• Identify ways to improve data reliability, efficiency and quality

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• A unique opportunity to expand energy access & financial inclusion at scale in West Africa
• A secure position in a rapidly growing company with a young, dynamic and motivated team
• The opportunity to develop new solutions and concepts to support a growing retail and asset financing business
• A very attractive, performance-based, remuneration with benefits
• Plenty of opportunities to grow within the company
• The opportunity to take part in one of West Africa’s most exciting entrepreneurial companies that has a strong commitment to outstanding customer service, user-friendly, high-quality life-changing devices and environmental sustainability
• Frequent coaching and training
• The opportunity to work closely with a young, international, tech-driven team of renewable energy enthusiasts
• Relocation package
• A return-trip ticket to home per year
• International medical insurance

APPLY

 

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11.) Content Writer

 

The Position

Easy Solar is seeking a Junior Data Analyst who will be responsible for providing support to a fast-paced analytics department. The ideal data analyst candidate is curious, creative, highly numerate, and tackles real-world problems using quantitative models. Responsibilities will include complex data manipulation, statistical analysis, and translation of insights into business cases or presentations. Analysts will work on a mix of team-oriented and self-directed tasks.

The Role:

• Analyze and identify business challenges and opportunities, and solve for them using fact based analysis to make strategic and tactical recommendations
• Perform product level modeling/analytics to assist product and pricing strategies for various EasySolar products
• Prepare and present dashboards for management team highlighting key findings and takeaways
• Perform credit analysis of existing customers based on historical behavior, creating models, and testing hypotheses using rigorous monitoring and analysis

Are You A Fit? :

• Strong logical thinking, problem solving, and decision making skills
• Experience with at least one statistical package (R, STATA, SAS, etc.)
• Have good SQL skills
• Have good skills with at least one programming language preferred (Python, Nodejs)
• Have a Bachelor’s degree in an analytical discipline, preferably in Math, Statistics, Computer Science. Or equivalent proven experience.

What we Offer

• Competitive salary
• A unique opportunity to expand energy access & financial inclusion at scale in West Africa
• A secure position in a rapidly growing company with a young, dynamic and motivated team
• The opportunity to develop new solutions and concepts to support a growing retail and asset financing business
•  A very attractive, performance-based, remuneration with benefits
• Plenty of opportunities to grow within the company
• The opportunity to take part in one of West Africa’s most exciting entrepreneurial companies that has a strong commitment to outstanding customer service, user-friendly, high-quality life-changing devices and environmental sustainability
• Frequent coaching and training
• The opportunity to work closely with a young, international, tech-driven team of renewable energy enthusiasts

APPLY

 

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12.) Group Learning and Development Manager

 

2. OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE

We are seeking a dedicated Content Writer to create content for blogs, press releases, product descriptions, print collateral, social media, and the company website. The Content Writer’s responsibilities include evaluating analytics to adjust content as needed, regularly updating the company’s website, and promoting the company blog by pitching articles to various third-party platforms. You should also be able to follow editorial guidelines when creating content.

To be successful as a Content Writer, you should keep abreast of the latest SEO techniques. Ultimately, a top-performing Content Writer should be able to contribute to the development of strategies that will increase reader engagement.

3. RESPONSIBILITIES

• Conduct in-depth research on industry-related topics, to develop original content
• Develop content for online channels: blogs, press releases, social media, website
• Develop content for offline channels:  product descriptions, company brochures, external presentations
• Assist the marketing team in developing content for advertising campaigns
• Proofread content for errors and inconsistencies
• Edit and polish up existing content to improve readability
• Conduct keyword research and use SEO best practices to increase website traffic
• Create compelling headlines and body copy to capture the target audience’s attention
• Identify customers’ needs and recommend new content to address gaps in the company’s current content

4. QUALIFICATIONS

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, English, Journalism, or related field. or any related field is preferred
• Proven content writing or copy writing experience
• A portfolio of published articles

Skills

• Excellent writing and editing skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to handle multiple projects concurrently
• Effective communication skills
• Ability to thrive in both reactive and proactive environments
• Consistent professional attitude and behavior
• Ability to work well within a team
• Attention to details with good organizational and time management skills
• Self-starter who is comfortable taking the initiative
• Good decision-making skills,  project management skills and problem-solving skills

 

Please submit relevant work samples alongside your resume when applying.

5. What We Offer

• A very attractive, performance-based, remuneration with benefits
• Plenty of opportunities to grow within the company and take management positions
• The opportunity to take part in one of West Africa’s most exciting entrepreneurial projects that has a strong commitment to outstanding customer service, user-friendly, high-quality life- changing devices and environmental sustainability
• Frequent coaching and training
• The opportunity to work closely with a young, international, tech-driven team of renewable energy enthusiasts

APPLY

 

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13.) Technician – Solar/Electrical

 

2. About The Role

Easy Solar is a young and innovative, fast-growth company. To keep up with its growth needs, the company is investing massively in learning and development initiatives for its employees. As the Group Learning and Development Manager, you will coordinate those efforts across all of our countries of operation. You will be responsible to develop, test and implement learning and development programs to ensure talents are developed to their full potential. As part of this, you will lead the design and roll-out of the Easy Solar Academy, an ambitious L&D program aimed at providing the required training to Easy Solar employees across the board.

It is a challenging role and you will be responsible for creating, designing, and delivering employee training plans for the company.

3. General Responsibilities

a) Training and Development

• Developing and implementing learning strategies and programs
• Designing e-learning courses, career plans, workshops and more
• Maintaining budgets and relationships with vendors and consultants
• Create and execute learning strategies and programs
• Evaluate individual and organisational development needs
• Implement various learning methods company-wide (e.g. coaching, job-shadowing, online training)
• Design and deliver e-learning courses, workshops and other training
• Assess the success of development plans and help employees make the most of learning opportunities
• Help managers develop their team members through their career path
• Track budgets and negotiate contracts
• In collaboration with Group Head of P & C, hire and oversee training and L&D Specialists
• Directs the needs assessment for training and staff development to enhance the effectiveness of employee performance
• Designs and develops HR training programs for management and employees.
• Develops learning activities, audio-visual materials, instructor guides and lesson plans.
• Reviews evaluations of training courses, objectives, and accomplishments.
• Makes assessments of effectiveness of training in terms of employee accomplishments and performance.
• Trains employees on HR and Company-wide policies, practices and procedures. Presents course materials.
• Consults with management on performance, organisational and leadership matters. Conducts needs assessments to determine measures required to enhance employee job performance and overall company performance
• Designs, develops, coordinates, implements, delivers and evaluates training programs that support organisation objectives and are aligned with the organisation’s business plan.
• Create organisational charts and define each position’s responsibility
• Job rotation
• Conduct on the job training as and when necessary
• Plan/facilitate training and development events
• Exemplifies the desired culture and philosophies of the organisation

b) Mentoring and Coaching

• Develops and cascade a robust mentoring and coaching plan based on consultations with the various departments

c) Talent Management

• Contribute to the design and implementation of career development strategies, tools and resources

• Propose approaches, ideas and business insight to Management to increase the effectiveness, reach and visibility of career programs and help the organisation respond to career and talent-related opportunities and demands

• Manage components of the Career Portfolio by prioritising and coordinating the work of others within and across teams; collect and summarise information and use insights to inform decisions.

• Keep informed of industry best practices and trends in the career space, continually assessing where we can tap into subject matter experts and make improvements.
• Identify the talents in the Company and develop an Easy Solar Talent pool
• Discuss Career path options with high potential employees.
• Develop and implement strategies to attract diverse candidates to all areas of the business
• To organise and prepare for talent reviews, follow up and implementation of development initiatives

d) Succession Planning

• Identify potential high-risk jobs and their successors and the minus 1s for Group heads
• Ensure the transfer of skills/knowledge from expats to locals in the stipulated time agreed.
• Develop and cascade a robust succession plan

e) Graduate Programmes/Internships

• Serve as a point of contact for prospective and current students regarding graduate program/internship and the universities
• Provides administrative support to both the Graduate and internship programs
• Develop and cascade a robust graduate and Internship program for Easy Solar.

f) Easy Solar Academy

• Develop and lead the launch of Easy Solar Academy
• Ensure the development of learning portal
• Ensure that all course materials uploaded on the portal are appropriate.
• Provide reports to GHP&C on learning and development across the group

4. Required Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Adept with a variety of multimedia training platforms and methods.
• Ability to evaluate and research training options and alternatives.
• Ability to design and implement effective training and development.
• High ethical standards and ability to exhibit a high level of confidentiality
• Business awareness/knowledge
• Excellent planning, coordination and follow up skills

• Ability to work effectively and meet tight deadlines with minimal support
• Excellent interpersonal and team skills
• Excellent reporting and documentation skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Counselling skills

 

5. Educational Qualification and Experience

• Proven experience as an L&D Manager, Training Manager or similar
• Current knowledge of effective learning and development methods
• Familiarity with e-learning platforms and practices
• Experience in project management and budgeting
• Proficient in MS Office and Learning Management Systems (LMS)
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills; sharp business acumen
• Ability to build rapport with employees and vendors
• Professional certification (e.g. CPLP or CIPD) is a plus
• Degree in Human Resource Management, BSc/BA in Business, Psychology or a related field, Bachelor’s degree in training and development or organizational development or other relevant qualification
• Three years of training experience, and at least one year of management experience.
• Experience designing and implementing effective training and development programs
• Knowledge of employee engagement drivers and strategies
• High degree of professionalism, maturity and confidentiality
• Minimum of 4 years experience, with at least 2 in an HR generalist role supporting recruitment, employee relations, training and development
• MBA preferred or relevant qualification

APPLY

 

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14.) Assistant Technician (Solar/Electrical)

 

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Technician-Solar/Electrical shall be primarily responsible for supporting the Company’s Power Solutions team. The main tasks shall include assembling, installing, and maintaining solar panel systems on rooftops or other structures.

 

GENERAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

 

Primary responsibilities to perform project installations include:

• Mechanical/structural mounting of racking, modules, and electrical equipment
• Assembly of mounting hardware
• Attic work in homes and businesses to verify the structural attachment
• Working on residential and commercial rooftops as well as installing ground-mounted systems
• Pulling inventory for specific projects
• Following the layout of solar modules
• Attend mandatory training sessions on new products, methodology, and safety
• Perform servicing & maintenance of PV system as required

REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATION

Knowledge and skill requirements include:

• Diploma in electrical engineering
• 5 years of experience electrical installation in home and office wiring.
• Basic understanding/experience with electrical wiring of AC and DC systems is preferred
• Possess demonstrable mechanical aptitude and basic electrical knowledge.
• Experience with all types of hand-held and power tools
• Team player who listens, learns, and actively communicates
• Visual thinker good at problem solving and implementing ideas
• Desire to learn and master all aspects of installing solar PV systems!
• Professionalism and excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work overtime and non-standard working hours (nights, holidays, weekends), when needed
• Understanding of general workplace safety and the ability to follow safety standards, as well as help the company improve upon the standards in place.
• Women are encouraged to apply

 

WHAT WE OFFER

• A very attractive, performance-based, remuneration with benefits
• Plenty of opportunities to grow within the company and take management positions.
• The opportunity to take part in Sierra Leone’s most exciting entrepreneurial Company that has a strong commitment to outstanding customer service, user-friendly, high-quality life-changing devices and environmental sustainability.
• Frequent coaching and training.
• The opportunity to work closely with a young, international, tech-driven team of renewable energy enthusiast

APPLY

 

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15.) Sales Analyst

 

2. About the Sales Analyst Role

Easy Solar is looking for a Sales Analyst to join our team. The Sales Analyst will report to the Head of Sales will be responsible for compiling and analyzing sales and market data and providing valuable feedback and actionable insights to guide our promotional and sales activities.

 

To be successful as a Sales Analyst you should be able to analyze large amounts of data, accurately project sales trends, identify sales opportunities, and provide practical guidance to optimize sales strategies and increase market share.

 

3. General Duties and Responsibilities

 

• Compiling, analyzing, and reporting sales data.
• Monitoring and analyzing competitive activity, customer, and market trends.
• Providing actionable insights to guide the sales and marketing teams.
• Contributing to the development of sales plans and objectives
• Monitoring and evaluating sales performance.
• Forecasting demand, revenue, and expenses.
• Determining sales potential and making recommendations.

 

4. Required Skills & Qualification

• Degree in Business Administration, Finance, or related field
• Experience in sales & marketing analysis.
• Strong research and data analysis skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and CRM software.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Projection and forecasting skills.
• Ability to work independently and with cross-functional teams
• Women are encouraged to apply

5. What We Offer

• A very attractive, performance-based, remuneration with benefits
• Plenty of opportunities to grow within the company and take management positions
• The opportunity to take part in Sierra Leone’s most exciting entrepreneurial companies that has a strong commitment to outstanding customer service, user-friendly, high-quality life-changing devices, and environmental sustainability
• Frequent coaching and training
• The opportunity to work closely with a young, international, tech-driven team of renewable energy enthusiast

APPLY

 

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16.) Sales Support Officer

 

2. About the Role

Easy Solar operates a large network of shops and agents across the country which collects cash payments from their customers. It is key to our operations to ensure that the cash collected by this distribution network is sent back to HQ in a timely manner, agents’ cash balances are properly monitored, and the team in charge of doing so is managed effectively. The Sales Support Officer will play a vital role in ensuring the company maintains proper collection rates and does so in an efficient manner. This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties to be performed. An employee will be required to follow any other job-related duties required by his or her supervisor.

3. Responsibilities & KPIs

A. Sales Support: Responsibilities

• End to End Management (planning, process creations, and implementation) of Cash/Mobile Money collections daily/weekly or as needed from Easy Solar Agents and Shops
• Identify opportunities and strategies to increase efficiency and effectiveness of collections process through Mobile Money or other means
• Management and daily upkeep of “Live” Agent Commission Platform (AMT)

 Duties: Daily/Weekly

• Resolve all issues raised through support comms (Whatsapp, 3cx, vtiger, other)
• Confirm, then record all failed Mobile money payments for further deduction
• Ensure weekly sales report is sent and received by all sales team
• Update all agents who are eligible for rewards and prepare report

Duties: Monthly

• Prepare Monthly report on All agents and Shops Collection status
• Prepare Monthly report on All agents Monthly expense and send to finance department
• Prepare sales team bonuses (Sales Supervisors, Territory managers) send to fiance
• Ensure All Shops Brand Ambassadors are paid monthly by coordinating and liaising with the support team members
• Prepare Monthly report on top performing sales agents and shops

 

B. Operation/Communication/Analysis: Responsibilities 

• Regular communication with Field Staff and Customer Care Teams on responding to commission, agent balance, and agent queries and other on a regular basis
• Regular updates to Easy Solar official WhatsApp Groups on daily basis with reporting on remittance updates and collection trends
• Weekly reports to HOS on analysis, trends, feedback from Easy Solar Agents and various departments on agent remittances, collection rates, commission deductions, etc.
• Attend and participate in bimonthly agent training and on-boarding sessions of new agents

Duties:Daily/Weekly

• Attend to the Field Sales team through various support comms (whats app, 3cx, other), provide support and resolve all issues.
• Ensure all tickets raised by the Agent support officer are resolved and close to satisfaction
• Liaise with shop support team and resolve all Brand ambassadors inquiries

4. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Deliver within the Collection Targets (Monthly and Quarterly) set by SMT
• Attention to detail and zero leakage of collection and deduction amongst agents or shops
• 100% satisfaction and response rate to Easy Solar Sales Agents and Shop staffs
• Zero leakage of Collection or stock amongst Sales Agent and Shops in assigned territory

5. Desired Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in (preferably a banking/accounting degree or related field)
• Minimum of 2 years of microfinance/loan recovery experience or related experience
• Knowledge of proper and ethical debt collection techniques
• Fluency in English and Krio; local language skills are desirable
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Proficient in spreadsheet and database applications
• Strong customer service orientation
• Willingness to travel regularly

Women are strongly encouraged to apply

6. What We Offer

• A very attractive, performance-based, remuneration with benefits
• Plenty of opportunities to grow within the company and take management positions
• The opportunity to take part in one of West Africa’s most exciting entrepreneurial projects that has  a strong commitment to outstanding customer service, user-friendly, high-quality life- changing  devices and environmental sustainability
• Frequent coaching and training
• The opportunity to work closely with a young, international, tech-driven team of renewable  energy enthusiasts

APPLY

 

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17.) Planning Manager

 

2. About the Role

An exciting opportunity to build and run a Sales & Operations Planning process, with a planning organization to support it, for a fast-growing, multi-country business in West Africa. The role will require building people, processes and systems capabilities in a challenging, but quickly developing, environment and has the potential to be one of the largest supply chain roles in the territory. lead, train and motivate a multi-country supply chain. Based in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the ideal candidate will have a very strong supply chain background, a genuine interest in working for a social enterprise that combines social impact and financial performance, and an exceptional ability to team.

3. General Duties and Responsibilities

• Team building – Identify, recruit and develop Planning Team to cover Demand and Supply Planning across the business
• Team management – Providing leadership, direction and management of the Planning Team in Sierra Leone and Liberia
• Demand Planning – Working closely with Sales to implement robust Demand Planning processes. Standardising dis-aggregation and forecasting methods and procedures. Introducing Demand Risks & Opportunities
• Supply Planning – Working closely with Procurement to implement robust Supply Planning processes. Creating a clear view of supply lead-times and stock policies. Implementing Supply Risks & Opportunities
• Replenishment – Working closely with Logistics to implement replenishment policies to govern stock movement around the in-country network
• Sales & Operations Planning – Work with Head of Supply Chain and Finance function to introduce a robust monthly S&OP process
• Reporting – Establish a set of Supply Chain KPI and dashboards

4. Required Qualifications

• University degree or equivalent in a Supply Chain related field
• Minimum of 7 years’ supply chain experience, preferably with Demand and Supply related roles
• Demonstrating a sense of urgency is essential as this position requires a hands-on, problem solving, multitasking team member who has a strong understanding of planning, customer service and supply chain in general
• Ability to design, communicate and implement processes
• Ability to clearly communicate and present data, analysis and recommendations at all levels
• Ability to build strong relationships with, and influence other supply chain functions.
• Can present the inconvenient, brutally honest, truth in an appropriate and helpful manner
• Strong analytical skills with ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• High integrity, a strong worth ethic, and be a self-starter as well as have the ability to juggle multiple projects
• Demonstrate the ability to understand business goals and recommend new approaches, policies and procedures to effect continual improvements in business objectives

5. What We Offer

• A very attractive, performance-based, remuneration with benefits
• Plenty of opportunities to grow within the company and take management positions
• The opportunity to take part in one of West Africa’s most exciting entrepreneurial projects that has a strong commitment to outstanding customer service, user-friendly, high-quality life- changing devices and environmental sustainability
• Frequent coaching and training
• The opportunity to work closely with a young, international, tech-driven team of renewable energy enthusiasts

APPLY

 

Career with BRAC International

BRAC is an award-winning international non-governmental development organisation, with the vision of a world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination, where everyone has the opportunity to realise their potential. BRAC is a leader in developing and implementing cost-effective, evidence-based programmes to assist poor and disadvantaged communities in low-income countries, including in conflict-prone and post-disaster settings. It is an organisation of and for the people of the Global South, pioneering new development and social enterprise approaches to equip communities to achieve prosperity. As well as being the world’s biggest NGO by number of staff and people directly reached, BRAC has regularly been ranked the number one NGO in the world by the Geneva-based NGO Advisor, an independent organisation committed to highlighting innovation, impact and governance in the non-profit sector. BRAC retained the top spot in 2020 among the top 500 NGOs for the fifth consecutive year.

 

BRAC was founded in Bangladesh in 1972 by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. It started its first programme outside of Bangladesh in Afghanistan in 2002, and has since reached millions of people in 11 countries in Asia and Africa. BRAC has a holistic approach to development that uses a wide array of programmes and social enterprises, including in microfinance, education, health, agriculture, gender and human rights. BRAC believes that every person has inherent potential, and when an enabling environment is created and that potential is unleashed, even the poorest can become agents of positive change in their own lives, for their families and their communities.

 

BRAC International (BI) is seeking application from competent, dynamic and self-motivated individuals to fill the following position:

Financial Analyst, Finance & Accounts, Sierra Leone, BRAC International

The purpose of role is to collect and analyze financial information and then make recommendations to management based on analysis. Monitor and advise management on the financial performance of the BRAC Sierra Leone microfinance program.




Key Responsibilities:

• Perform financial forecast, reporting, and operational KPI tracking.
• Analyze financial data and create financial models for decision support.
• Report on monthly financial position and performance and analyse trends on a monthly basis.
• Analyze historical financial performances and positions, perform variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for action.
• Work closely with the accounting team to ensure accurate financial reporting.
• Evaluate financial performance by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts.
• Advice on the cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing cost accounting principles.
• Thoroughly review monthly management accounts, trial balances are drived from the system ledger and transaction lists.
• Formulate comprehensive report and recommend actions on analysis of the financial performance and positional report and communicate to the Head of Finance for review.
• Identify and initiate process improvements especially in the data processing area with high level excel dashboards skill.
• Monitor the liquidity position of the microfinance and flag early warning to the head of finance.
• Assess PESTLE factors in the local and international concept and bring the potential consequence to the performance.
• Advanced skill in financial analytics tool including advanced excel, power BI and query skills.
• Consolidate and analyze financial data (budgets, income statement, balance sheet, target Plan/forecasts etc) taking into account of BRAC Microfinance company’s goals and financial standing.
• Track costs and make trend analysis in compare to income.
• Review MF performance report and make trend analysis of the company’s businesses and submit regular report to management;
• Provide creative alternatives and recommendations to reduce costs and improve financial performance.
• Develop financial models, conduct benchmarking and process analysis.
• Reconcile transactions by comparing and correcting data.
• Gain and update job knowledge to remain informed about novelty in the field.
• Consult with management to guide and influence long term and strategic decision making within the broadest scope.
• Present accurate date to different stake holders including donor and Government and maintains transparency.
• Drive process improvement and policy development initiatives that impact the function.
• Upholds BRAC values and represent BRAC in external forum.

Safeguarding

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Educational Requirements:

• At least Bachelor Degree in Finance, Accounts, Statistics, Economics or related field.

Required Competencies:

• Computer proficiency on MS office;
• Orientation with ERP & finance module;
• Strong interpersonal/ communication skills;
• Proven knowledge of financial forecasting and diagnosis, corporate finance and information analysis;
• Well informed in current financial subjects, tax laws, money market and business environment.

Experience Requirements:

• At least 3 years working experience in MFI, Bank, NGO in financial sector;
• Hands on experience with statistical analysis.

Employment Type: Contractual

 

Salary: Negotiable

 

Job Location: BRAC International Sierra Leone Country Office

If you feel you are the right match for the above mentioned position, please follow the application instructions accordingly:

External candidates need to email their CV with a letter of interest mentioning educational grades, years of experience, current and expected salary at recruitment.bi@brac.net

Internal candidates need to apply with their latest CV including all job assignments in detail with BRAC PIN and email to internal.bi@brac.net

Please mention the name of the position and AD# BI 100/22 in the subject bar.

Only complete applications will be accepted and short listed candidates will be contacted.

Application deadline: 18 September 2022

BRAC is committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share the same commitment. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation – regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedure include extensive background checks and disclosure of criminal records in order to ensure safeguarding to the fullest extent.

BRAC is an equal opportunities employer

FG GOLD is recruiting to fill the following positions:

1.) PROCUREMENT SUPERINTENDENT
2.) SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER
3.) HEALTH SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT MANAGER
4.) CAMP & ADMINISTRATION MANAGER
5.) CONSTRUCTION SURVEYOR
6.) COMMUNITY RELATIONS AND SOCIAL PERFORMANCE (CRSP) ADMINISTRATOR
7.) ACCOUNTS PAYABLE ACCOUNTANT (x2)
8.) FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT
9.) FINANCIAL CONTROLLER
10.) FINANCIAL PLANNING AND COST ANALYST

 

About Us

FG Gold Limited was recently awarded the Baomahun Gold Concession located in Valunia in Bo District and is currently at the development stage. To support the project development, FG Gold Limited is recruiting a qualified Sierra Leonean to fill in the Procurement Superintendent position based on site.

 

See job details an how to apply below.

 

1.) PROCUREMENT SUPERINTENDENT

 

Responsibilities:

The Procurement Superintendent is responsible for assisting in the development and implementation of strategic construction and operational sourcing, the daily management of the section, and the management of project procurement activities. The responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Assist in the development and implementation of organizational procurement policies and processes to ensure a consistent and standardized approach and to drive improvements and efficiencies in procurement activities.
• Participate in the implementation of an ERP business system.
• Maintain department’s compliance with the requirements of local government agencies, shareholders’ interests, environmental health and safety and labor legislation and company regulation.
• Identify the requirement for goods and services from all business units and plan procurement needs in coordinating meetings with key end user groups and management.
• Identify and evaluate a list of suppliers in selecting and approving suppliers for the organization, based upon a thorough selection process and in accordance with the company strategy.

 

 

Skills and Experience:

• Relevant University degree and/or globally recognized materials management certificate(s) mandatory.
• CIPS membership will be an advantage.
• Ten (10) years of related supply chain management working experience in a mining environment, preferably in a developing country mandatory.
• Minimum five (5) years of management experience leading a department mandatory.
• Experience with large mining projects preferable.
• Sound background in commerce, logistics and procurement operations with awareness of local and international markets.
• Experience with integrated ERP business systems and good command of MS Office Suite.

 

 

How to apply?

You can send your application with your most recent curriculum vitae to this email address not later than 18th September 2022: recruitment@fg-gold.com.

 

The company provides equal employment opportunities and does not discriminate in employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, tribe, gender, or age.

Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

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2.) SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER

 

Responsibilities:

The Supply Chain Manager is responsible for Procurement, Logistics and Warehouse management to support construction activities on cost and schedule while achieving highest standards of quality and HSSEC performance. The responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Set up and management of the Supply Chain department
• Procurement management
• Logistics management
• Warehouse and fuel management

 

 

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Accounting or related field or equivalent experience required.
• Formal qualifications and certifications in supply chain management or associated discipline desirable.
• Minimum of eight (8) years of directly related supply chain experience necessary.
• Five (5) to seven (7) years of management experience – leading teams and having direct reports mandatory.
• Mining or construction experience mandatory.
• Good command of ERP and experience in setting up an ERP will be an advantage.
• Strong MS Office skills necessary.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English at all levels of the organization is essential.

 

 

How to apply?

You can send your application with your most recent curriculum vitae to this email address not later than 18th September 2022: recruitment@fg-gold.com.

 

Due to the urgent requirement for this role, applications will be processed on a rolling basis and the role may be filled before the application deadline.

 

The company provides equal employment opportunities and does not discriminate in employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, tribe, gender, or age.

Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

 

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3.) HEALTH SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT MANAGER

 

Responsibilities:

The HSE Manager is responsible for maintaining Occupational Health, Safety, and Environment highest standards across the project as well as ensuring effective and sustainable management systems are implemented and maintained. The responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Ensure occupational health and safety and environmental plans and procedures for all project activities are developed, implemented, and complied with the highest international standards.
• Build a zero-incident safety culture.
• Recruit and provide leadership to the HSE team to ensure the development of a working environment that is conducive to the achievement of budgeted Department KPIs and that employees achieve their full potential.
• Provide training and capacity development to the HSE employees.

 

 

Skills and Experience:

• Tertiary qualifications in an OHS or environmental discipline mandatory.
• Minimum of ten (10) years in mine site OHS or environmental management roles mandatory.
• International mega-projects experience mandatory.
• Open-pit mining and greenfield project experience preferable.
• Proven ability to influence and mentor others in HSSE principles and behaviors.
• Driving license Light vehicle mandatory.
• Ability to communicate, read & write perfectly in English.
• Good command of MS office necessary.

 

 

How to apply?

You can send your application with your most recent curriculum vitae to this email address not later than 18th September 2022: recruitment@fg-gold.com.

 

Due to the urgent requirement for this role, applications will be processed on a rolling basis and the role may be filled before the application deadline.

 

The company provides equal employment opportunities and does not discriminate in employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, tribe, gender, or age.

Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

 

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4.) CAMP & ADMINISTRATION MANAGER

 

Responsibilities:

The Camp & Administration Manager will provide a wide range of administrative and logistical support services to support the project operations teams onsite and in Freetown, including administrative management, travel management, camp management, catering, fuel, transportation, and other facilities as may be deemed necessary for a smooth and efficient operations of the mine and company. The responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Set up and manage the department
• Camp, Office, and Guesthouse Management
• Administrative and logistical support services

 

 

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Technical background will be an advantage.
• Five (5) years of experience in similar or related position at manager’s level mandatory.
• Experience in the mining industry preferable.
• Ability to coordinate and manage staff and project activities.
• Ability to work with culturally diverse groups of people.
• Comfortable with data and regular reporting and good command of MS office.
• Excellent attention to detail across reporting and service delivery.
• Advanced leadership skills and the ability to develop a high performing team with a culture focused on proactive customer service.

 

 

How to apply?

You can send your application with your most recent curriculum vitae to this email address not later than 18th September 2022: recruitment@fg-gold.com.

 

Due to the urgent requirement for this role, applications will be processed on a rolling basis and the role may be filled before the application deadline.

 

The company provides equal employment opportunities and does not discriminate in employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, tribe, gender, or age.

Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

 

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5.) CONSTRUCTION SURVEYOR

 

Responsibilities:

The Construction Surveyor provides a survey support to the construction activities while achieving the highest HSE performance and providing training and capacity development to a local survey team. The responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Conduct physical site surveys using a variety of equipment and tools.
• Set-up of control points for the project.
• Create models for set-out points.
• Survey of roads, process plant, camp, and property perimeter.
• Weekly inspection of survey equipment.
• Survey’s team supervision and training.
• Adopt, uphold, and actively communicate a Zero Arm philosophy across all FG Gold’s disciplines.

 

 

Skills and Experience:

• Diploma in Surveying or Geomatics or a tertiary qualification in a relevant surveying or engineering discipline mandatory.
• Ten (10) years of experience in a similar position required.
• Experience and competency operating survey drones will be highly regarded.
• Well acquainted with survey software and equipment mandatory.
• Good command of MS Office necessary.
• Able to read and interpret construction drawings and survey diagrams mandatory.

 

 

How to apply?

You can send your application with your most recent curriculum vitae to this email address not later than 18th September 2022: recruitment@fg-gold.com.

 

Due to the urgent requirement for this role, applications will be processed on a rolling basis and the role may be filled before the application deadline.

 

The company provides equal employment opportunities and does not discriminate in employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, tribe, gender, or age.

Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

 

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6.) COMMUNITY RELATIONS AND SOCIAL PERFORMANCE (CRSP) ADMINISTRATOR

 

Responsibilities:

The CRSP Administrator is responsible for providing administrative support to the Community Relations and Social Performance Manager and team. The responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Organize meetings.
• Prepare memos and letters.
• Apply filing protocols to document storage and nomenclature.
• Format documents using approved structures and protocols.
• Provide inputs to reports.
• Database management.
• Ensure the availability of required stationery and equipment for the team, within approved budgets; and
• Support the implementation of the CRSP workplan and action tracker.

 

 

Skills and Experience:

• University degree in the social sciences required.
• At least five (5) years of proven administrative experience using Microsoft software including Word, Excel and PowerPoint mandatory.
• Fluent in English (working proficiency in at least one of the languages spoken in the Project area is preferred)
• Ability to prioritize work according to schedule and budget.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent team coordination skills.

 

 

How to apply?

You can send your application with your most recent curriculum vitae to this email address not later than 18th September 2022: recruitment@fg-gold.com.

 

The company provides equal employment opportunities and does not discriminate in employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, tribe, gender, or age.

Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

 

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7.) ACCOUNTS PAYABLE ACCOUNTANT

 

Responsibilities:

The Accounts Payable Accountant is responsible for receiving, processing, and verifying invoices related to accounts payable as well as tracking purchase orders and processing payments that come into the company’s accounting department from suppliers. The responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Responsible for the review and processing of all invoices.
• Ensure the three-way matching is complete before invoice is processed.
• Responsible for the registering and processing of all invoices in the ERP.

 

 

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Business Administration required.
• Postgraduate degree in accounting will be an advantage.
• Proven working experience as Accounts Payable Accountant required.
• Solid understanding of basic bookkeeping and accounting payable principles required.
• Proven ability to calculate, post and manage accounting figures and financial records.
• Data entry skills along with a knack for numbers.
• Hands-on experience with spreadsheets and proprietary software.
• Integrity and honesty.

 

 

How to apply?

You can send your application with your most recent curriculum vitae to this email address not later than 18th September 2022: recruitment@fg-gold.com.

 

The company provides equal employment opportunities and does not discriminate in employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, tribe, gender, or age.

Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

 

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8.) FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT

 

Responsibilities:

The Financial Accountant is responsible for preparing, examining, and analyzing financial reports and records as well as preparing tax documents and supervise the accounts payable functions. The responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Responsible for the preparation of PAYE, WHT, GST returns for filing and follow up on payments.
• Prepare monthly reconciliation of the General Ledger accounts.
• Responsible for the GRNI account reconciliation.
• Supervise accounts payable functions and ensures strict conformance to payment terms.
• Liaise with Supply Superintendent/Inventory controller on relevant supply chain issues.
• Mediate and solve all supplier statement discrepancies.

 

 

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree in accounting, finance, or a related field mandatory.
• ACCA, CIMA, CA Certification preferrable.
• Five (5) years of experience as an Accountant necessary.
• Experience in auditing mandatory.
• Familiarity with tax laws and tax preparation methods.
• Thorough knowledge of accounting principles and procedures.
• In-depth knowledge of financial regulations and legislation.
• Integrity and honesty.

 

 

How to apply?

You can send your application with your most recent curriculum vitae to this email address not later than 18th September 2022: recruitment@fg-gold.com.

 

The company provides equal employment opportunities and does not discriminate in employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, tribe, gender, or age.

Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

 

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9.) FINANCIAL CONTROLLER

 

Responsibilities:

The Financial Controller is responsible for financial planning and analysis and internal control as well as financial reporting to management and compliance with government regulations. The Financial Controller is the deputy of the Finance Manager. The responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Prepare Financial Statements as per relevant Accounting Standards.
• Calculate deferred tax and corporate tax.
• Prepare Weekly Cashflow forecast.
• Ensure payment of merchandise supplied and Services rendered are in accordance with contractual term.
• Review Inventory balances and reconcile with Sub-Ledger.
• Review and sign off reconciliation of all General ledger accounts.
• Review all tax and statutory returns before filing.

 

 

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline mandatory.
• Professional membership with ACCA, CIMA, CA will be an added advantage.
• Five (5) years and above experience in a similar position mandatory.
• Experience in Auditing mandatory.
• Thorough knowledge of accounting principles and procedures.
• In-depth knowledge of financial regulations and legislation.
• Experience with creating financial statements.
• Experience with general ledger functions and the month-end/year end close process.
• Excellent accounting software user and administration skills.
• Integrity and honesty.

 

 

How to apply?

You can send your application with your most recent curriculum vitae to this email address not later than 18th September 2022: recruitment@fg-gold.com.

 

The company provides equal employment opportunities and does not discriminate in employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, tribe, gender, or age.

Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

 

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10.) FINANCIAL PLANNING AND COST ANALYST

 

Responsibilities:

The Financial Planning and Cost Analyst is responsible for analyzing financial statements and predicting the future performance of the company. This includes forecasting future revenues and expenditures, as well as modeling capital structure and budgeting. The responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Preparation of the entire project report (Capex & Opex).
• Preparation of periodic, monthly, and quarterly management accounts and the computation of unit cost, cash cost, AISC and AIC.
• Responsible for the consolidation of Mine Operational Plan (Budget) and financial input into LOM.
• Responsible for quarterly and midyear forecast.
• Analyze monthly and quarterly cost reports of the mine.
• Advise management on cost savings initiatives.
• Load approved budget into the ERP.

 

 

Skills and Experience:

• Master’s degree in a relevant discipline mandatory.
• Experience with tier 1 and mid-tier gold mines in similar role mandatory.
• Ten (10) years of relevant experience mandatory.
• Strong financial modeling experience.
• Ability to streamline functions and passion to learn and grow.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including written and oral communication skills.
• Integrity and honesty.

 

 

How to apply?

You can send your application with your most recent curriculum vitae to this email address not later than 18th September 2022: recruitment@fg-gold.com.

 

The company provides equal employment opportunities and does not discriminate in employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, tribe, gender, or age.

Women are strongly encouraged to apply.