Position Title: Business Support Manager
Nairobi, Kenya
About Bridge International Academies
Bridge International Academies is a for-profit startup company revolutionizing education across Africa with a unique business model. The company runs a large-scale network of low-cost primary schools in Kenya that significantly outperforms other primary schools in the same areas because of our “school in a box” systems.
Our schools profitably deliver this high-quality education for less than $4 per child per month, which enable the schools to cover all their costs and create a profitable central organization at scale. We have launched 37 schools in Kenya, will double in size in the next 6 months, and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million students across the continent.
About this position
This is a key role within the finance department and working very closely with
all heads of department.Nairobi, Kenya
About Bridge International Academies
Bridge International Academies is a for-profit startup company revolutionizing education across Africa with a unique business model. The company runs a large-scale network of low-cost primary schools in Kenya that significantly outperforms other primary schools in the same areas because of our “school in a box” systems.
Our schools profitably deliver this high-quality education for less than $4 per child per month, which enable the schools to cover all their costs and create a profitable central organization at scale. We have launched 37 schools in Kenya, will double in size in the next 6 months, and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million students across the continent.
About this position
The finance department vision is to always be a valued business partner providing high quality and timely financial services. Reporting to the Head of Finance and Administration, the job holder will play a major role in building effective and value adding budgeting, business planning and models, analytical and reporting systems and tools that provide scheduled and on demand information, trends and business reports and ratios that help to plan and interpret business results and decision impacts on a continuous basis.
Working closely with finance and business team leaders, the individual should be a hands on and strategic player who is able to identify and deal with issues at the micro and macro business unit levels.
Key Areas of Responsibilities:
- Development
of tailor made reports and analysis within the Navision account schedules
and dimensions in line with standard and non routine demands of the
finance and non finance team leaders
- Constant
monitoring of profitability and balance sheet ratios and trends and offer
insights that assist decisions to help achieve anticipated results and
returns on investment.
- Build
appropriate tools to ensure quick feedback to operations department even
with high growth of business projects and activities
- Initiate,
train staff and implement ABC budgeting systems and budgetary control and
reporting across the business
- Develop
short to long term business planning and synchronize this within the
business reporting and activity cycles with high engagement of operations
team leaders. User friendly planning and reporting will be a key
requirement
- Analyse
costs and revenue drivers and support business leaders in their day to day
decisions
- Train
managers on financial aspects
- Enhance
technology based systems within Microsoft Dynamics ERP to anchor business
information and decision support
- Champion
continuous improvement projects in a structured way and seek opportunities
to increase efficiency of the finance and administrative operations
- Provide
leadership to a small team in the business support function to ensure best
in class systems and value adding outputs form the team.
About you
- Qualified
accountant with ACCA/ CIMA or CPA, business degree from a reputable university
and excellent academic and professional record
- Minimum
of 5 years work experience in a manufacturing, supply chain or other
environments that has provided excellent skills in building and managing
enduring and value adding business support functions with ability to
supervise and develop a small team of professional staff
- Experience
of financial reporting and consolidation in a complex multinational
organization, or of the internal or statutory audit of such organizations
- Experience
of working with medium to high exposure of business analysis,
communication and support for large and fast growing profit oriented
organizations.
- High
integrity, IT literacy and excellent attention to detail
- People
skills and superior presentation abilities is a major requirement
- Excellent
awareness of current technical accounting and reporting requirements and
the ability to apply these requirements in a pragmatic and commercial
manner
- Ability
to plan and manage own workload and coach/mentor team members in order to
harmonize work flows and meet tight deadlines
- Excellent
spreadsheet skills and proficiency with Microsoft Dynamics (Navision)
version 2009
- Ability
to use initiative and creative thinking to anticipate issues and develop
common sense and practical solutions
- Proactive
and self motivated with excellent communication skills
- Confident
and flexible team player with great ability to work closely with non
finance team members within a multicultural environment
- A
“finisher” with the genuine drive and commitment to produce the highest
quality work and to deliver technical expertise at all times
- Passionate
about children and education in Africa.
CVs and applications must be uploaded via the Careers page at www.bridgeinternationalacademies.com where detailed profiles are available.
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