Accounting Finance Jobs at Kenya Power Pension Fund (KPPF), NCBA Group, Habitat for Humanity, BURN and other companies


Deadline of this Job: 25 January 2023
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Job Description
The Senior Pensions Officer shall be responsible for the effective administration of the Income Drawdown Fund. The job will entail maintenance of members biodata, processing of monthly drawdown payroll, issuance of benefits statements, and handling member related matters.

Minimum Qualifications
• Qualification: Bachelors Degree
• Experience: 5 year(s)

Key Responsibilities
• Identification and implementation of strategies aimed at growing the IDDF.
• Proactively participating in the review of the IDDF Strategic Plan, IPS, and annual plans
• Development of training and information materials for use in educating and creating awareness of IDD
• Ensuring effective delivery of services to the IDDF members
• Handling the day-to-day activities of the IDDF
• Maintenance of updated, accurate and complete IDDF members biodata
• Processing of monthly drawdown payroll
• Issuance of IDD Members benefits statements
• Providing regular and periodic updates to the IDDF members on topical issues
• Preparation, control, and monitoring of the annual IDDF budget
• Liaison with other Fund functions to ensure smooth operations of the IDDF
• Preparation of quarterly administration reports and any other IDDF reports
• Attending to any other duties and responsibilities as shall be assigned from time to time.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Bachelors Degree or an equivalent in bachelor of business management from accredited and recognized institution.
• Bachelors Degree or an equivalent in bachelor of science (actuarial science with it) from accredited and recognized institution.
• Bachelors Degree or an equivalent in bachelor of science (economics & statistics) from accredited and recognized institution.
• Proficiency of IT
• Interpersonal and cross-cultural skills
• Creativity and innovation skills.
• Action oriented and demonstrated ability to manage priorities
• Quality focus and attention to detail.
• Professionalism and integrity in line with Kenya Power Pension Fund values
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Critical and analytical thinking and problem solving skills
• Personal motivation and drive exhibited through commitment to hard work, continuous improvement, and achievement of goals.
• Good customer relationship management skills (internal and external customers).
• Risk awareness and focus - demonstrate understanding of risk management practices, standards and regulatory requirements


Deadline of this Job: 28 January 2023
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Responsibilities:
• Responsible for research and thought leadership in Sustainability for the Group;
• Coordinating the development of the Sustainability strategy for the Group;
• Leading the development of sustainable products and services to be offered by Group;
• Providing advisory support on technical and emerging sustainability areas;
• Alignment and collaboration with the Group on the twin engine business model, Group Strategy and delivery of the Social and Environment Transformation Pillar (Pillar 5) of the Africa Recovery and Resilience Plan;
• Investor and key stakeholder relationship management focused on strategic partnerships, funding, group positioning and brand development, advocacy and policy;
• Leading the sustainability aspects of funding initiatives with the Strategy, Finance and Treasury teams.
• Representing the business at technical subject matter meetings and other external events;
• Contributing to the wider organizational ESG policy, procedures and tool development and implementation thereof.

Requirements: Qualification and Skill
• Commercial and client oriented, with an ability to persuade and influence a wide range of people.
• Knowledge and experience with Financial Institutions, including supporting institutions in embedding Sustainability into their Strategy and the products and services offered
• Degree in Sustainability, Development Economics, Finance, or other comparable studies.
• Over 10 years of relevant working experience in sustainability.
• Strong team skills, contributing to team success and to a constructive, positive, and collaborative work environment.
• Ability to build productive lasting working relationships with clients and strategic partners.

Language
• Solid communication and writing skills (fluency in English is required). French is considered a strong advantage

Benefits and Contractual information:
• Permanent Contract
• Willing and able to relocate to Nairobi, Kenya
• Suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.


Deadline of this Job: 26 January 2023
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Qualifications and Basic Requirements for Support Departments and Divisions
• Minimum of a Diploma or a First degree from a recognized Institution in the following disciplines: Finance/Accounting, Supply chain Management, Human Resource Management, Communication, ICT, Law, Records Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Business Administration, Business & Office Management, Secretarial Studies, CPA (K), KNEC Craft Certificate in Secretarial Studies with Short hand III (minimum 120 w.p.m); Typewriting III ( 50 w.p.m) Computerized Document Processing III & Business English III/Communication III and any other relevant qualifications from a recognized Institution.

Personal Attributes:

• Should possess interpersonal and communication skills;
• Be fluent in English; and
• Computer Skills.


Deadline of this Job: 28 January 2023
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Required Qualifications
• Those seeking internship in Program Management, Renewable Energy, Engineering, Community Development – including Public Health, Project Development, Monitoring and Evaluation, Finance, Operations and Public Relations should have a formal undergraduate degree with evidence of certificate and full transcript.
• Those seeking Finance roles should have a relevant academic Degree and CPA (K) finalist qualification.
• All applicants must be aged between 24 and 35 years.

Period
• Successful candidates will be engaged and mentored for a period of 2 months, both remotely and in-person at the HLB CEZAM Program Office in Nairobi, Kenya and, as might apply, across different field locations within Kenya.

Duties
• Your duties, learning and exposure schedule will be shared with yourself at the time of engagement.


Deadline of this Job: 01 February 2023
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Duties and Responsibilities:
• Improve the credit control system in collaboration with Sales and Finance
• Creating procedures and policies that ensure timely payments while maintaining a high level of customer retention and satisfaction.
• Understand customer insights and leverage them to develop relevant intervention mechanisms.
• Ensuring credit and collection policies and procedures are followed within the Company's team
• Provide portfolio health reports and repayment analytics
• Improve and implement debt collection processes when there are any overdue invoices or payments
• Review customer’s credit applications and propose to the Credit committee to approve or deny applications based on company standards and requirements
• Maintain accurate records of receivables, analyze the effectiveness of the company’s credit control system, and implement changes to improve profitability and reduce bad debts
• Establish a credit assessment process and scoring methods
• Regularly contacting customers to ensure all relevant debts are managed as necessary
• Manage escalation process for delinquent and default accounts
• Propose write-off of irrecoverable receivables per company policy
• Undertake account reconciliations as required
• Ensure monthly processing deadlines are met as required
• Review the company's debt recovery procedures

Skills and Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in a finance or business-related field of study
• Five years of experience working with PAYGO accounts receivable.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Good business acumen for problem-solving
• Competency with large ERP systems
• Confidence to deal with a range of stakeholders
• Ability to establish and maintain good client relationships, both internally and externally at all level

Deadline of this Job: 13 February 2023
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Key Responsibilities:
National Offices Support (60%)
• Lead/Manage the HFS related interventions/programmes within the National Offices
• Support the National Directors in the regional National Offices in strengthening financial services in support of their intervention portfolios (co-creation)
• Support the National Offices with designing of HFS interventions and development of proposals linked to HFS
• Identify, develop, mentor and support staff members in HFS programming within the National Offices
• Lead the reporting and MEAL activities with regards to the HFS interventions within the National Offices
• Facilitate internal National Offices learning activities

Launching and Implementation of Africa Housing Finance Systems Program (30%)
• Support in research, strategy, planning (including budgeting) of HFS interventions in the region
• Identify and manage a credible network of partners including private sector, government, academia, public sector, industry associations, and other market actors
• Participate in design of innovative HFS solutions in the respective markets
• Participate in driving market understanding and body of knowledge to position HFS as a regional expert
• Support the HFS team in development of concepts and proposals aimed at soliciting funding from development partners
• Collaborate and work closely with global HFS colleagues to ensure alignment with global program strategy
• Work with the MEAL team to ensure monitoring and evaluation of the HFS and ensure data is periodically captured and analyzed and reported
• Represent Habitat for Humanity and TCIS in industry gatherings and conferences as required
• Collaborate with Habitat’s teams around the globe to share emerging good practices and foster organizational learning

Participation in SVL program (10%)
• Lead the development of concepts, proposals and interventions related to financial systems including consumer housing loans, impact insurance, SME financing etc. in support of the Shelter Venture Lab (SVL) goals
• Manage the Housing Finance projects within the SVL
• Represent and become an active member within the Shelter Venture Lab (SVL)
• Lead the report and MEAL activities within Shelter Venture Lab (SVL) for HFS related interventions .
• Manage a strong HFS portfolio in the region evidenced by active interventions and collaborations
• Participate in active strategic and strong regional and global partnerships along with provide support to the National Offices and other programmes including SVL
• Manage a strong pipeline of proposals for soliciting funding
• Maintain ongoing relationships and reports of interactions with key ecosystem partners
• Conduct timely reporting in compliance with all internal Habitat for Humanity and external donor requirements
• Participate in active internal learning and feedback

Key Requirements:
• At least a bachelor’s degree and/or postgraduate degree in Finance, IT, or related field
• 5 years relevant experience in the financial sector particularly in the product design/roll out or similar field with progressively increasing responsibility
• 3 years’ experience in digital financial services including developing digital finance solutions
• Significant experience working with financial institutions, impact investors, venture capital firms in the region, with evidence of networks and relationships
• Experience in project management particularly scaling of products/solutions
• Entrepreneurial - Works well in dynamic environments with limited resources
• Persuasive - Demonstrates ability to influence others, to work with outside actors and create collaborative projects
• Agile - Prioritizes tasks and redirects work effort in response to new opportunities and changes in priorities
• Strong inter-personal skills - with the ability to develop and manage good relationships with internal staff, between the project, private sector, government and other stakeholders
• Quality and results oriented - Demonstrated attention to detail, highly organized and able to coordinate multiple activities simultaneously and within deadline
• Consultative and communication skills - with a proven ability to work with globally dispersed teams, and different private sector partners
• Strong project management skills - with demonstrated track record of leading initiatives from concept to completion

Deadline of this Job: 21 January 2023
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Job Purpose Statement
To maximize recoveries within the SME/Business Banking Segment of the bank by setting and implementing appropriate recovery strategies in line with the Bank’s Remedial Management Process and Procedures. This is designed to minimise loss on the impaired bank assets and Ensure focused attention on and close monitoring of the performance of the non-performing loans portfolio of the bank. The guiding strategy is returning the accounts to performing status, recovery or total exit

Ideal Job Specifications
Academic:
• University degree with a Second Class Upper /GPA 0f 3.00 and above or equivalent.
• Professional:
• Relevant professional qualification in banking, risk management and law an added advantage

Desired work experience:
At least 4 years work experience in a bank or financial services institution in a similar role