About This Role

Reporting to the Finance Director, the Finance Manager will oversee the day-to-day operations of the finance department and champion strong financial systems and processes with a rapidly growing volume of transactions and geographically distributed business units. They will also be required to lead the finance department employees, including Senior Finance Officers and Finance Officers. This role will be based in Nairobi, Kenya, with some travel.

What You Will Do

• Lead the day-to-day financial operations within the company, including payables, payroll, invoicing, and other transactions, with adherence to accounting standards
• Lead the finance department employees, including Senior Finance Officers and Finance Officers to ensure proper entries, reconciliations, and accurate reporting to management
• Seek out and recommend methods for minimizing financial risk to the company as well as conduct reviews and evaluations for cost-reduction opportunities
• Establish and maintain financial policies and procedures for the company and build strong internal control processes that safeguard assets, revenue, and resources
• Ensure an ongoing management reporting system that generates timely and accurate reports relevant to decision-making and reporting to investors
• Conduct reviews, audits, and reconciliations to ensure high data integrity
• Review and monitor performance versus the budget and reach out to teams to offer advice and guidance where need be
• Be a great manager to the finance team, and a great coach, and train them to be superstars at their jobs

What You Have

• Qualified Accountant (ACCA, CPA) with 5+ years working as a Finance Manager, supervising at least two accountants
• Knowledge of Kenya Tax regulations
• Bachelor’s Degree in business administration, finance, accounting, or a related field from a well-recognized university
• Advanced Excel and strong analytical skills
• Experience with new system implementation and experience with an ERP system is an added advantage
• Experience working for fast-growth, rapidly-scaling companies is an added advantage

You Are Also

• Strong people management skills
• Person of high integrity
• Strong verbal, written, and communication skills
• Analytical, attentive to detail, and tenacity
• Have good judgment and the ability to prioritize
• Highly flexible, adaptable, and able to work from anywhere

About The Role

The Field Manager role is appropriate for hard-working professionals who are good at managing teams to implement projects in the field, and who have a sincere commitment to serving farmers with integrity and positivity. Field Managers are based in the field to manage small rural field offices, and spend most of their time collaborating with the local administration officials, managing Field Officers & Field Facilitators in their field activities by providing training, coaching and mentoring teammates, leading brainstorming of challenges and solutions, answering questions, reporting on progress, and ensuring work is being carried out to a high quality.

Location: The role will be based in either of our coastal locations of Kilifi or Kwale, Kenya.

What you will Do

• Regularly visit the FEN staff when working in the field in order to check on the quality of their work and confirm proper execution of work tasks
• Interact with sub-chiefs, village elders, and other community leaders and groups to secure support of and assistance with the project
• Monitor & submit weekly reports to the immediate supervisor on the FEN progress and deliverables
• Organize & train Field Officers & Facilitators in all required technical and behavioral job elements in order to successfully enroll & serve farmers, plant & maintain trees
• Lead social marketing efforts in your locations (attend barazas, parent-school days, churches, etc.) to enhance farmer mobilization, recruitment & enrollment
• Provide both onboarding training for new staff, annual refreshers for all staff, and just-in-time training throughout planting season.

What You Have

• Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in related fields required
• Minimum of two years’ experience in field operations & management level
• Experience in community mobilization, and experience in forming self-help groups for various projects is very advantageous
• Good leadership, teamwork and communication skills
• Willing to relocate and live within your designated project area
• Experience in training of trainers

You're Also

• Motivated, detailed oriented & organized
• Flexible and self-motivated with the drive to do whatever necessary to get the job done
• Comfortable working in a field environment
• Self-directed and intellectually curious; you know how and when to seek feedback in the pursuit of continuous improvement
• Growth-obsessed with a strong desire for personal development
• A collaborative problem solver who seeks the opinions of other teammates and departments in the development of creative and sustainable systems