Chief Accountant - Payables
Department: Finance
Reports To: Chief Finance Officer
- Payables Accountants
- Accounts Assistant - Payables
Purpose: Payables
manager is obliged to ensure that the company’s financial obligations are
adequately met.
He/she holds a key function of
compensating vendors for a smooth supply chain flow.
Being one of the major functions, he/she must portray strong leadership skills to his broad team.
Key Objectives
- Maintain accurate, complete and reconciled
vendor records by timely posting of invoices and monthly reconciliations.
- Facilitate a seamless supplies flow by
ensuring timely supplier payment that fairly matches to cost of sales.
- Ensure stable cash flows by preparation of
weekly, monthly & yearly cash outflow plans.
- Achieve optimum staff productivity by
implementing monthly performance measures.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Manage vendor accounts by ensuring a healthy
vendor relations at all times
- Ensure all liability is timely and accurately
recognized in the books.
- Ensure that supplier’s balances reconcile to
the company books at all times.
- Schedule and Facilitate vendor payments and
remittance advises
- Ensure all goods returned to vendors are
timely and adequately recovered
- Ensure all company financial commitments are
planned for and conveniently met
- Facilitate a smooth supply chain by ensuring
timely payments for purchases.
- Ensure the company enjoys sufficient supplier’s
credit by negotiating the optimum terms with vendors.
- Maintain a close match between bills payable
and inventory position at all times.
- Minimizing adverse cash flow exposures by
maintaining minimal prepayments.
- Maintaining a proper HQ petty-cash imprest
system.
- Participate in preparation of weekly, monthly
and yearly cash flows plans
- Monitoring and advising the management on
critical liabilities by way of monthly Aging analysis.
- Perform all other duties that may be assigned
by Management
Person Specifications
Academic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Financial
Management/Business Administration
Professional Qualifications:
- Certified Public Accountants (CPA-K) and a
member of ICPAK
Experience:
- 5-8 years in a similar capacity
Skills:
- Strong computing skills (MS-Office)
- Familiar with basic accounting packages
- Knowledge of daily accounting and strong
internal controls
Training Administrator
Department: Human
Resources Development
Reports To: Human Resources Development Manager
Purpose: Provide
an effective administrative and secretarial support to the training &
development department and the training instructors.
Professional Qualifications, Job experience & Skills requirement
- Maintaining accurate training records- both
paper and I.T systems.
- Support the training department in the full
range of training activities – training room set-ups, provision of
training materials etc.
- Facilitate good and effective communication
with other departments and institutions
- Issue logs and record all appraisal documentations
on annual basis-ensure that the training activity is extracted in order to
plan training and development activities.
- Prepare periodical reports and statistics of
all training activities.
- Prepare and ensure adherence to training
budgets
Professional Qualifications, Job
experience & Skills requirement
- Bachelor’s degree
- Diploma in office/business administration
- 3 years’ experience in a similar role
Job Title: PR & Marketing Officer
Job Purpose: Provide
an effective administrative and secretarial support to the training &
development department and the training instructors.
Tuskys seeks to hire a diligent, keen
and aggressive PR & Marketing officer to support management in formulation
of an effective communication & media plan, organizing of events and
carrying out sales campaigns.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Act as the main liaison officer between the
company and the media
- Coming up with creative marketing proposals
and ideas
- Coordinate and supervise the production of
marketing material from suppliers
- Monitor and report on the effectiveness of
marketing activities
- Follow up on logistics of events like dealer
opening / sales Meetings, seminars, exhibitions and trade shows, test
rides
- Act as liaison between the company and the
advertising agencies, print suppliers and the various marketing services
Professional Qualifications, Job
experience & Skills Requirement
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing or related
field
- At least three years experience in PR or
related field
- Understanding of market will be retail and
FMCG industry is an added advantage
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Proficient in ICT
- Posses high sense of integrity and
confidentiality
- Pleasant personality, self-driven and able to
work under minimum supervision
Job Title: Category Managers
(8 Positions)
Report to: GM
Operations.
The category manager is supposed to
drive the sales targets of the Category.
This will be achieved through Sales
Team Leadership, Training, and Managing for results.
The Category Manager will be expected
to be an in-store expert in the merchandising, pricing, management
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Planning and driving category sales budgets
for the category across the whole chain of 52 branches
- Identifying new opportunities for Tuskys in
the category
- Responsible for managing inventory and for
effectively planning and forecasting in order to maximize the
profitability of the inventory flow.
- Balancing projected forecasts and actual
sales, create trend forecasts and implement sales plans, and supply chain
of the category
- Financial analysis is also a key part of the
planning responsibilities in the clothing, footwear and furniture section.
- Responsible for setting competitive pricing
points, and adjusting the pricing to increase sales and clear out stagnant
items from inventory.
- Often work closely with buyers to expand
successful product lines, and implement successful exit strategies for
unsuccessful unpopular merchandise.
- Responsible in creating marketing success
formula - the right products at the right time for the right price.
Professional Qualifications, Job
experience & Skills requirement
- Bachelor’s degree in business management.
- Must have strong background with Sales,
Marketing, merchandising and vendor relationships in the chosen category
- Experience in FCMG and or clothing, footwear
and furniture sales is an added advantage
If you meet the above requirements
send your CV to hr@tuskys.com.
Application deadline is Friday, 20th
July 2015 at 5:00pm.
Late applications will not be
considered.
All applicants must quote job ref on
the subject line at the email.