Duma
Works is recruiting a Finance
and Data Controller for our clients, McKinsey Social Initiative.
Location: Nairobi
Generation is a global youth employment programme that helps provide young adults the opportunity to launch successful careers and change their life trajectories – closing the skills gap and easing youth unemployment.
Location: Nairobi
Generation is a global youth employment programme that helps provide young adults the opportunity to launch successful careers and change their life trajectories – closing the skills gap and easing youth unemployment.
We
work with delivery partners to recruit candidates, design, and deliver a 4-12
week “bootcamp” training program focused on technical, behavioural, and
foundational skills, and to track the return on investment for both employers
and young people.
This
initiative has been launched across five countries – India, Mexico, Spain,
Kenya and US.
As we build out this local entity we are looking for an individual to manage financial and management account processes, the collection and analysis of data from students and employers, drive the administrative part of legal processes and manage the internal IT function.
As we build out this local entity we are looking for an individual to manage financial and management account processes, the collection and analysis of data from students and employers, drive the administrative part of legal processes and manage the internal IT function.
A
fundamental part of crafting the methodology is making the case to employers
that there is a return on investment from having employed student from
Generation as compared to their non Generation recruitment channels.
This
role will be critical to defining this part of the methodology.
Responsibilities
- Financial
and management accounting
- Prepare
and manage Generation Kenya annual and quarterly financial budgets
- Reconcile
invoices monthly against budget and solve any discrepancies
- Manage
cash flow
- Create
mechanisms to charge and collect from students and employers
- Fulfil
periodic and ad hoc reporting requirements to funders
- Manage
procurement process and administration
- Manage
collection of vouchers originating from local team and ensure processing
with global team
Data
Collection, Management and Analysis
- Ensure
all data are in one overall data management system
Employers
- Understand
and contribute to the ROI strategy
- Navigate
employer environments and find correct person to get the correct data from
- Collect
data and do analysis to make the positive ROI case
Students
- Manage
the complete student database, ensuring data from all sources is in one
place (Gallup, delivery partners)
- Fulfil
necessary analysis requirements as needed
Legal
- Complete
all administrative requirements for closing off of legal processes
IT
- Ensure
the smooth running of centres IT requirements
- Ensure
smooth implementation of process automation
- Identify
opportunities for process automation
- Manage
IT procurement processes
Mindsets
& Experience
- Bachelor’s
degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Marketing,
Statistics or related discipline
- The
ideal candidate is also a CPA (K)
- 2
– 3 years of experience in a role with strong data engagement
- High
proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel, Access)
- A
minimum 2 years experience working with Microsoft Excel
- Well-developed
sense of attention to detail
- Interest
in working in a fast growing organization and being an integral part of
aggressive scale
- A
positive, solutions-oriented attitude, drive for excellence, and ability
to be a team player
- Ability
to communicate using local language
- Strong
stakeholder management skills and ability to understand customer care and
satisfaction, strategic relationship builder
- Positive,
solutions and impact orientated attitude, drive for excellence and ability
to be a team player
- Entrepreneurial,
proactive mind-set required of start-ups that takes ownership for outcomes
and seeks innovative solutions for issues without too much guidance
- Demonstrated
ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines and commitments
- Professional
demeanour, excellent organizational and communication skills, and strong
attention to detail
- Self-reflective,
open to frequent feedback and ability to give constructive feedback
Apply
Applications letters (maximum 2 pages) and detailed CV are to be sent by email to apply@dumaworks.com marking the subject as “ 2221”, Your Full name & Phone number e.g. 2221, Barack Obama, 07xxxxxxxxx.
Applications letters (maximum 2 pages) and detailed CV are to be sent by email to apply@dumaworks.com marking the subject as “ 2221”, Your Full name & Phone number e.g. 2221, Barack Obama, 07xxxxxxxxx.
If you
don’t follow these instructions, your application will not go through
Deadline for receiving applications: 31st July 2016
Deadline for receiving applications: 31st July 2016