Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job title: Finance & Admin Assistant
About Wowzi:
Wowzi is a globally leading technology company that enables SMEs, multinationals, creative agencies, research companies, and NGOs to push brand messages and pull consumer insights from trusted influencers shaping the trends that drive African commerce. Wowzi is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya with teams in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and across Europe.
The Wowzi platform is designed to help brands automate influencer marketing, consumer insights and ultimately product sales workflows whilst simultaneously creating earning opportunities for millions of creators, professionals, celebrities and everyday community members across emerging markets. We are well on our way to creating 1 million jobs with 150+ SMEs, multinationals, creative agencies, research companies, and NGOs leveraging the platform. Wowzi is where the future of marketing meets the future of work.
Your job will be to help our HR department facilitate important functions for the success of the entire organisation, alleviating a large portion of the workload from our current staff. You will be in the frontline, growing and building up the company from within and ensuring things run smoothly
What qualities are we looking for in a person:
• Energy: Enthusiastic and moves with speed.
• Intelligence: Not only have the expertise to do the actual work but also have the business intelligence to understand what needs to be done and contribute to the conversation. It also means being empathetic to understand and care for fellow team members, and clients and competent to know what they’re doing - understand the business and initiate new projects as we face and try to solve challenges within the operational processes.
• Flexibility: Need to be completely comfortable with ever-changing responsibilities and work demands. And this flexibility must be accompanied by a good attitude.
• Creative and able to get shit done: No excuses, no BS. Need to find ways to get things done, even if they’ve never done them before. They should be able to ask for help when needed, but not let lack of experience get in the way of making things happen. They should never assume it’s someone else’s job. - be proactive, persistent, and have a sense of urgency. Need creative approaches and thinking to always get things done.
• Thrive as an individual contributor: They won’t wait to be told what to do every step of the way, nor will they feel that they are above doing even the most mundane task. Need to be proactive in contributing to meetings and in problem-solving ideas.
• Strategic thinker: Proactive with the departments and overall big picture goals and ensuring that his or her actions are helping the fledgling company achieve its goals. The person should be able to explain their strategic plan and what actions will be required along the way.
• Broad skill set: Excellent teamwork skills, effective planning and communication, adaptability, and a great attitude. Also need someone that is going to be willing and able to pick up new responsibilities as needed.
• Compatible work style: Person needs to fit the Wowzi culture - high productivity, high responsibility, and outcomes-driven.
• Ability to receive and act on feedback: Need to take feedback positively and use it to improve.

Responsibilities
Finance and Accounts (90%)
• Support monthly, quarterly and annual accounting activities including documentation and reconciliations
• Support in budget preparation
• Support in keeping organized financial records
• Process invoices and follow up with clients, suppliers and partners as needed
• Issue invoices to customers
• Improve systems and procedures and initiate corrective actions
• Pursuing customer payments
• Customer accounts reconciliation and preparation of customer statements
• Learn and recognize triggers based on customer behavior and engage with customers who request to terminate or downgrade service
• Recommends financial actions by analyzing accounting options
• Answers accounting procedure questions by researching and interpreting accounting policy and regulations
Administration (10%)
• Keep stock of office supplies and place orders when necessary
• Manage on-boarding to suppliers, partner
What we expect from you
• Major in finance or any economics related niche
• Advanced MS Excel skills (creating spreadsheets and using financial functions)
• Familiarity with accounting software (e.g. QuickBooks)
• Attention to detail, with an ability to spot numerical errors
• At least a year’s experience in working in a finance or administrative role
• Experience with working with office suites and utilities, and at least the desire to work with office collaboration tools
• Ability to manage internal and external correspondence
• Exceptional organization and time-management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
What we offer
• Be responsible and feel your impact on the product used by hundreds of thousands and soon enough millions of people
• Collaboration and knowledge sharing with a first-class team from across the globe
• Benefit from our Threewin learn sessions, ecosystem events, and regular team parties
• Enjoyment of an established startup environment and opportunities for accelerated growth provides

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
To execute our exciting and impactful growth plans, we’re committed to working with the best and brightest people globally. At Wowzi we are do-ers, we’re always curious, selfless, innovative and courageous. Are you interested in joining us to Wowzi the world? Please submit your resume to careers@wowzi.co 

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