Simba
Corporation is one of Kenya's most successful indigenous commercial group of
companies with a rich heritage in Motor Vehicle sales and service.
Simba
Corporation is the sole distributor in Kenya for Mitsubishi, BMW, Fuso Trucks
& Buses and Mahindra.
In line
with its strategy of growth and innovation to be market leader, Simba
Corporation is seeking to recruit experienced and exceptional individuals to
fill the following key positions in its different franchises within the Group
in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu.
Sales Executive
Ref.: SE/05/2014
Department: Sales
Branch: Head Office
Reports To: Sales Manager
Supervision: None
Purpose: Develop and increase sales business
by targeting suitable clients.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Identifying sales opportunities.
- Build and maintain long client relationships with new and existing businesses.
- Meet profit target and ensure a sustainable growth.
- Work and coordinate with other departments to ensure quality services required by customers are delivered.
- Ensure that prospects are well managed and maintained throughout their entire life span.
- Ensure that all procedures and documentation pertaining to any sales are duly completed.
- Maintain an awareness of local market competition conditions and industry trends.
- Visit prospects for unit sales.
- Answer all phone calls and give out information as dictated by policy/procedure.
- Track what prospects are saying about the business and follow up after they have visited Simba Corp.
- Communicate to prospects in person, over the telephone and/or in writing the available units, services available, and terms of lease.
- Assist with the composition of newspaper advertisements.
- Compile and update listings of prospects.
- Any other duties as assigned by immediate supervisor
Person Specifications
Academic Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree
Experience: 3 to 5 years’ experience in sales
Skills
- Exceptional negotiation skills
- Persuasive and persistent sales person
- Good communication, networking and interpersonal skills
- Computer literacy- MS Office
Parts Supervisor
Ref.: PS/05/2014
Department: Parts
Branch: Head Office
Reports To: Parts Manager
Supervision:
- Stores Clerks, Cage Clerks
- Binners, Pickers
Purpose: To supervise the receiving and
storage of parts to the warehouse and stores section
Primary Responsibilities:
- To receive parts delivered into the warehouse and ensure proper binning is done
- To assign sections in the stores where parts will be placed
- Prepare orders to requisition for parts for approval by the warehouse administrator
- Reconcile parts against costs for transactions
- To ensure security, cleanliness and tidiness in the stores area
- Any other duties as assigned by immediate supervisor
Person Specifications
Academic Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Stores Management or related field
Professional Qualifications: n/a
Experience: 1 to 2 years relevant experience
in similar role
Skills
- Good record keeping skills and attention to detail
- Good administration and supervisory skills
- Computer literacy and familiarity with records management software applications.
Service Advisor
Ref.: SA/05/2014
Department: Workshop
Branch: Head Office
Reports To: Customer Service Manager
Supervision: None
Purpose: To receive customer vehicles into
the workshop in a timely manner and ensure customer satisfaction with the
service delivery process.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Attend to customer promptly and courteously
- Prepare service orders as per customer request
- Advise customers on the progress of repairs on their vehicles
- Inform customers on the repair charges
- Add on sales to service department
- Ensure vehicles are delivered to customers on time and in good condition
- Quality control at the point of delivery to ensure customer satisfaction
- Receive vehicles bookings
- Respond to customer calls and queries
- Any other duties as assigned by immediate supervisor
Person Specifications
Academic Qualifications
- Diploma in Motor vehicle Mechanics or related field
Professional Qualifications: n/a
Experience: 1 to 2 years’ experience in a
similar role
Skills
- Basic knowledge on vehicle mechanics
- Good communication skills
Service Manager
Ref.: SM/05/2014
Department: Service
Branch: Head Office
Reports To: General Manager, Service
Supervision: Workshop Supervisors
Purpose: To ensure smooth running of all
workshop and body shop activities and ensure customer satisfaction through
quality repairs, service and timely and cost effective jobs.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Certify all workshop and body shop daily and monthly returns, LPO’s, petty cash, requisitions, WIP in workshop efficiency reports, etc.
- Market all workshop service and body activities including visiting customers
- Prepare revenue budgets and monthly forecast.
- Make out accident repair estimates and negotiate with insurance company and assessors.
- Handle all human relations, health and safety and security for the workshop department etc.
- Assist in complicated diagnosis and testing on vehicles.
- Follow up parts requisition and Vehicle Off Road (VOR) orders
- To collate the productivity and efficiency figures of all technical staff, on a daily basis.
- Plan, initiate and promote Service marketing events, to increase business.
- To analyze current policies, procedures and processes, and identify area’s for improvement.
- Plan and adjust the workloads for departmental personnel to match their skills and abilities, compensating for holidays and sickness.
- Ensure adequate maintenance of tools and equipment in the Service Paint & Body Department.
- Any other duties as assigned by immediate supervisor
Person Specifications
Academic Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Automotive Engineering or its equivalent (Technical Higher National Diploma)
Professional Qualifications: n/a
Experience: 5 to 6 years’ experience in a
similar role.
Skills
- Basic supervisory skills
- Technical skills in electronics, body work, mechanics,
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work well under pressure to meet deadlines
- Good communication skills
Branch Manager
Ref.: BM/05/2014
Department: Administration
Reports To: Chief Operations Officer
Supervision: All branch staff
Job Purpose: Direct and coordinate all branch
operations to increase sales, profitability, market share, as well as customer
and employee satisfaction.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Direct all operational aspects of the branch, including customer service, human resource management, sales, workshop and parts activities.
- Assess local market conditions, identify current and prospective sales opportunities for new vehicles, service and parts and work with the respective teams to close the opportunities.
- Work with the Sales Manager to prepare Branch New Vehicle Sales annual budgets.
- Work with the GM Parts to identify potential Parts sub-dealers in the region, where Simba Corp. does not have a presence.
- With guidance from the General Managers at Head Office, enforce implementation of all functional policies and standard operating procedures at the branch.
- Maintain communication between the branch and Head Office by preparing and submitting daily, weekly and month-end reports (as required) regarding operations and productivity. E.g:
- Parts reports: sales, lost sales
- Service reports: WIP status, job cards opened
- Sales reports: sales activity, including pipeline and conversion ratio
- Oversee branch financial management, including WIP management, debt collection/management and payment of suppliers in line with agreed terms.
- Certify all accounting documents, including LPOs, petty cash, daily banking, purchases, etc.
- Ensure that all departments are properly staffed and directed.
- Address employee and customer concerns promptly.
- Ensure all branch staff are adequately appraised and input into appraisals of branch management staff.
- In liaison with head office, interview potential staff members and ensure training of new hires.
- Manage the branch facility, including security and safety, by implementing requisite security and safety policies and procedures.
- Hold weekly branch management meetings to update on various activities.
- Ensure branch departmental meetings are held weekly.
Person Specifications
Academic Qualifications
- Bachelors degree
Professional Qualifications: N/A
Experience
- 10 years progressive experience in a functional area, 5 of which should be at a management level.
Skills
- Demonstrated high level of integrity and ethical standards
- Knowledge of the company’s products and services
- Demonstrated competence in profit and loss management to maximise financial performance of the branch
- Experience monitoring the market place to identify business opportunities
- Demonstrated understanding and application of effective selling strategies and techniques
- Superior organisational skills
- Ability to work productively with a wide range of people
- Motivated self-starter
- Problem solving skills
SAP FICO Business Analyst
Ref.: SFBA/05/2014
Department: ICT and Finance
Reports To: ICT Manager and
Management Accountant
Supervision: As will be advised
Job Purpose: Working with both the ICT and
Finance teams, the SAP Business Analyst - FICO will be expected to use his/her
consulting skills, business knowledge, and SAP solution expertise to
effectively integrate SAP technology into Simba Corp’s business environment in
order to achieve Simba Corp’s expected business results.
He/she
shall also provide the first line of support to all the end users of the
module.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Acts as liaison with Simba IT and Finance team when troubleshooting: investigate, analyze, and solve software problems relating to FICO module
- General functional support to end users on any recurrent finance system problems
- Continuously training end users and new staff in the finance department
- Preparation and updating of business process procedures and end user manuals
- Continuous business process improvement and streamlining business processes by reviewing and enhancing relevant controls
- Support to the technical team when developing and enhancing reports, smart forms and workflows
- Design, configuration and testing of new functionalities and enhancements to the FICO module as per the requirements of the business
- Testing for any new functionalities and developments done on other modules that are directly integrated with the FICO module
- Roll out and support activities to the branches and subsidiary companies
- Advice the Finance and ICT teams on any new enhancements and upgrades published by SAP
Person Specifications
Academic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Accounting or Finance
Professional Qualifications
- SAP Certification in the Finance and Controlling (FICO) module
- CPA or ACCA Finalist
Experience
- At least 5 years working experience in an SAP environment
- Solid understanding of fundamental accounting processes i.e. receivables, payables, bank and cash, taxation, general ledger, fixed assets, management accounting and financial reporting
- Must have at least one full lifecycle SAP R/3 EC6 implementation experience (Project Preparation till Go-Live)
Skills
- Strong understanding of IFRS standards
- Business knowledge and process design skills
- Ability to analyse problems and provide clear recommendations
- Strong organizational skills
- Able to collaborate with different teams, and have a strong desire to excel.
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
- Good interpersonal skills
- Must be able to work independently as well as a team player and can manage own workload
- Able to Multi-task and work under tight deadlines
- Must be able to work independently with little to no supervision
- Must be an effective problem solver
- Ability to read and understand ABAP code
SAP FICO Business Analyst
Ref.: SFBA/05/2014
Department: ICT and Finance
Reports To: ICT Manager and Management
Accountant
Supervision: As will be advised
Job Purpose: Working with both the ICT and
Finance teams, the SAP Business Analyst - FICO will be expected to use his/her
consulting skills, business knowledge, and SAP solution expertise to
effectively integrate SAP technology into Simba Corp’s business environment in
order to achieve Simba Corp’s expected business results.
He/she
shall also provide the first line of support to all the end users of the
module.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Acts as liaison with Simba IT and Finance team when troubleshooting: investigate, analyze, and solve software problems relating to FICO module
- General functional support to end users on any recurrent finance system problems
- Continuously training end users and new staff in the finance department
- Preparation and updating of business process procedures and end user manuals
- Continuous business process improvement and streamlining business processes by reviewing and enhancing relevant controls
- Support to the technical team when developing and enhancing reports, smart forms and workflows
- Design, configuration and testing of new functionalities and enhancements to the FICO module as per the requirements of the business
- Testing for any new functionalities and developments done on other modules that are directly integrated with the FICO module
- Roll out and support activities to the branches and subsidiary companies
- Advice the Finance and ICT teams on any new enhancements and upgrades published by SAP
Person Specifications
Academic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Accounting or Finance
- Professional Qualifications
- SAP Certification in the Finance and Controlling (FICO) module
- CPA or ACCA Finalist
Experience
- At least 5 years working experience in an SAP environment
- Solid understanding of fundamental accounting processes i.e. receivables, payables, bank and cash, taxation, general ledger, fixed assets, management accounting and financial reporting
- Must have at least one full lifecycle SAP R/3 EC6 implementation experience (Project Preparation till Go-Live)
Skills
- Strong understanding of IFRS standards
- Business knowledge and process design skills
- Ability to analyse problems and provide clear recommendations
- Strong organizational skills
- Able to collaborate with different teams, and have a strong desire to excel.
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
- Good interpersonal skills
- Must be able to work independently as well as a team player and can manage own workload
- Able to Multi-task and work under tight deadlines
- Must be able to work independently with little to no supervision
- Must be an effective problem solver
- Ability to read and understand ABAP code
How to Apply
Attractive
remuneration packages commensurate with the positions’ responsibilities will be
negotiated with the successful candidates.
If you
believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the relevant
criteria for any of the roles above, please submit your application with a
detailed CV via email, stating your current position, current remuneration,
email and telephone contacts and quoting the reference number for the position
applied for on your application letter and email subject.
To be considered,
your application must be received by 30 May 2014 addressed to the undersigned.
Only
shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Executive
Selection Division
Deloitte
Consulting Limited, Kenya
Email: esd@deloitte.com
