Title / Position: Finance Manager
Location: Nairobi
Department or Business Unit: Samasource
Employment Type: Full Time
Min. Experience: Mid LevelLocation: Nairobi
Department or Business Unit: Samasource
Employment Type: Full Time
The Company: Samasource is a social enterprise that provides dignified, internet-based work to people living in poverty. We build technology that helps leverage the brain power of the poor so they can lift themselves out of poverty by providing valuable services to companies around the world.
We are a dynamic and growing team
with a big vision--to reduce worldwide poverty and its effects through
technology. We need the best people to help us achieve it.
We like to move fast and get things
done. If you join us, you’ll be able to make an immediate impact, connect with
some of the brightest people in the fields of social enterprise, impact
sourcing, and tech.
Samasource is supported by major
corporate and philanthropic funders including eBay, Google, Cisco, and the
Rockefeller and Ford Foundations.
Job Description: Samasource is launching its first owned and
operated impact sourcing center, Samasource Center, and is seeking a seasoned
finance professional to oversee financial reporting and management and
accounting and bookkeeping activities.
The Finance Manager should have
experience leading a finance department, including designing and executing all
relevant policies/procedures.
Responsibilities:
The Finance Manager will be responsible for a wide-range of activities - as the Center scales, this role will be expected to build-out a team to support these functions.
Accounting:
Responsibilities:
The Finance Manager will be responsible for a wide-range of activities - as the Center scales, this role will be expected to build-out a team to support these functions.
Accounting:
- Compile and analyze financial information to
prepare entries to accounts, such as general ledger accounts, documenting
business transactions, following GAAP
- Data entry, particularly into QuickBooks
- Bank reconciliations
- Setting up online bank payments
- Accounts payable and accounts receivable
processing
- Payroll processing
- Staff expense reconciliations and processing
- Lead all month-end closing activities
Finance:
- Cash management: create cash flow models and
ensure availability of funds as needed
- Maintain internal controls and financial
procedure documents
- Coordinate external audits and filing of tax
returns
- Ensure regulatory compliance regarding all
financial functions
- Manage insurance programs
Financial Planning and Analysis:
- Work with management team to establish yearly
objectives
- Prepare and communicate monthly, quarterly and
annual financial statements
- Create management reports and board reports as
needed
- Update yearly budget for monthly and quarterly
results
- Develop tactical recommendations around
financial planning
Qualifications required:
- A Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting,
or equivalent.
- Preference will be given to candidates with
the Certified Public Accountant or Certified Management Accountant
designations.
- Experience with Oracle Financial Analyzer or
equivalent, and Business Intelligence, Pastel a plus.
- Experience of computerized accounting software
- QuickBooks - and an aptitude for system improvements and developments.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Outlook and
PowerPoint.
Skills required:
- Excellent communication skills are essential
in regards to presenting the results of analyses to management.
- Self-motivated to learn new concepts and
participate in new projects.
- Strong organizational, analytical and
interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated leadership experience; the
ability to develop and coach a team.
- Ability to collect, combine and analyze
information under challenging conditions.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Strong management and mentoring skills.
Experience required:
- Business experience and 5+ years of
progressively responsible experience for a major company or division of a
large corporation.
- Strong experience in income statement
analysis.
Interested candidates should apply
through our website: http://samasource.theresumator.com/apply/mUz1xw/Finance-Manager.html