Finance Manager Job in Nairobi, Kenya (200K)

Our client is seeking to recruit a competent, hands-on Finance Manager to support the revenue growing function but at the same time manage costs and other controls to ensure maximum return.

Duties and Responsibilities

Management
  • Maintain a documented system of accounting policies and procedures
  • Manage outsourced functions
  • Oversee the operations of the Accounts department, including the design of an organizational structure adequate for achieving the department’s goals and objectives

Funds Management
  • Forecast cash flow positions, related borrowing needs, and available funds for investment
  • Ensure that sufficient funds are available to meet ongoing operational and capital investment requirements
  • Maintain banking relationships
  • Assist in determining the company’s proper capital structure
Budgeting
  • Manage the preparation of the company’s budget
  • Report to management on variances from the established budget, and the reasons for those variances
  • Assist management in the formulation of its overall strategic direction
Financial Analysis
  • Engage in ongoing cost reduction analyses in all areas of the company
  • Review the performance of competitors and report on key issues to management
  • Engage in benchmarking studies to establish areas of potential operational improvement
  • Interpret the company’s financial results to management and recommend improvement activities
  • Review company bottlenecks and recommend changes to improve the overall level of company output
  • Participate in target costing activities to create products that meeting predetermined price goals
  • Assist in the determination of product pricing in relation to features offered and competitor pricing
  • Manage the capital budgeting process, based on constraint analysis and discounted cash flow analysis
  • Create additional analyses and reports as requested by management
Required Skills and Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting
  • 5+ years of progressively responsible experience with SMEs
  • Certified Public Accountant or Certified Management Accountant designations
  • An entrepreneurial mind set where they have more than accountant’s mind and can interpret information to feed the other sections of the business.
Email your CV to vacancies@jantakenya.com clearly indicating ‘Finance Manager 150-200K’ on the subject line by 1st August, 2016. 

Do not attach any certificates.

Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted.