Jobs Kenya

Company Address: Address 15 Gem Lane, Kileleshwa, Nairobi

  • Director, Finance

    Director, Finance

    Job descriptionThe Opportunity
    The Director of Finance partners with the Chief Finance Officer in providing support to the country finance teams in the region. You will work to ensure countries achieve their objectives of timely and accurate reporting and sound financial management of Living Goods activities.
    Specific duties and responsibilities:

    Financial Management

    Prepare and maintain country and consolidated accounts in accordance with Living Goods Financial policies and procedures.
    Submit a monthly checklist to the Chief Finance Officer in line with the monthly reporting timetable and establish effective financial planning, analysis and measurement techniques, and oversee the development of financial reporting, business plans, forecasts and budgets for Living Goods Kenya, Regional and other Living Goods entities.
    Implement all aspects of cash flow, cost allocation, budgeting, forecasting, financial statements, consolidations, financial modelling and analysis for a complex social enterprise.
    Direct all appropriate accounting activities including accounts receivable and payable, bank reconciliations, grants accounting, and work with partnerships to ensure appropriate accounting and banking procedures.
    Ensure effective controls and procedures for all Branch related processes
    Develop, maintain and monitor internal controls over all Living Goods Kenya finances and ensure that such internal controls are consistent within Living Goods. Ensure appropriate policies and procedures are developed, communicated and monitored. Assess strengths and weaknesses of financial management strategies and implement strategic and tactical steps to improve them.
    Coordinate the activities of external auditors and respond to external auditors’ reports including the implementation of recommendations. In this role he/she will also prepare the annual consolidated financial reports.
    Maintain current knowledge of regulatory requirements affecting Living Goods Kenya financial operations, including applicable tax laws in Kenya and in any new countries LG may establish operations in.
    Work collegially with other members of management and staff to integrate financial elements into its programmatic strategy.

    Financial Planning And Budgeting

    Lead the process in the preparation of Living Goods Kenya budget estimates
    In partnership with the country teams, provide input on the preparation of Living Goods administrative budget estimates for submission to the Board for discussion and final approval.
    Regularly monitor expenditure against budget and advises the Country Director on variances, cost escalations, and budget re-allocations

    Procurement

    Counter-approve all Local Purchase Orders (LPO’s) signed by the Operations Teams
    Act as first signatory on all payments (cheques and wire transfers) to suppliers
    Ensure correct allocation of costs and review Living Goods global cost structure and allocations.
    Payroll Management
    Review and authorize the staff payroll on a monthly basis
    Ensure that all statutory deductions are effected and remitted within the stipulated period(s).
    Liaise with the administrators of the Living Goods Kenya staff provident fund, to ensure that proper records are kept and that the scheme conforms to Kenyan law and practice

    Banking

    Ensure that banking arrangements are adequate to support the activities of Living Goods
    Ensure all bank transactions conform with the agreed upon banking contracts, controls and arrangements
    Maintain cash flows and liquidity at optimum levels

    Annual Accounts And Audit

    Prepare the annual accounts for Living Goods Kenya and the consolidated accounts for Living Goods.
    Facilitate the carrying out of the external audit
    Regularly review and update Living Goods Kenya internal controls and procedures manual and ensure such controls are consistent within Living Goods
    Advise the CFO on any necessary amendments

    Team Development

    Partner with the CFO and the Senior Leadership to build a culture of high performance at Living Goods.
    Recruit and provide line management, mentorship and support to the Finance teams.

    Relevant Experience And Professional Qualifications

    Minimum of 10 years’ experience in Finance and general accounting and at least 4 years of experience working at a senior level in a multi donor, multi program International NGO.
    Bachelor’s degree in business administration, economics, accounting, finance or related field. Along with a CPA (K) or ACCA finalist qualification.
    Demonstrable understanding or certification in key donors rules and regulations for cooperative agreement, contracts, procurement, and sub awards management and project administration.
    Exceptional numeracy and analytical skills
    Computer proficiency and familiarity with a range of software applications including MS Excel, MS Word, and accounting/ERP packages.
    Working knowledge of not-for-profit and private foundation law and accounting regulations.
    Experience with ERP software desirable
    Sound technical skills.
    Excellent oral and written communication skills.
    Problem-solving skills and initiative.
    Strong attention to detail and an investigative nature.

    Compensation
    A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity. The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Senior Software Engineer

    Job description
    The Opportunity
    Living Goods is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team in Nairobi. We believe that technology is an increasingly powerful and positive disruptive force in enabling Living Goods to provide effective community health service and drive impact. As the Senior Software Engineer, you will lead our Kenya technology team in designing, developing, testing, and rolling out, and supporting technology innovations to support LGK operations. You will provide management leadership for Tech projects though coordination and supervision of the implementation of project activities.
    Support product management and product design for all technology products, whether developed in-house at Living Goods or developed by vendors, ensuring effective communication across actors.
    Pioneer and implement game-changing innovations while managing Living Goods’ mission critical technologies, including mobile tools, data management systems and software needs.
    Language: Excellent spoken and written English
    Location: Kenya /Uganda
    Report to: Software Development Manager
    Travel: 10%
    Responsibilities

    Join engineering team tasked with continuous development of the Living Goods platform
    Contribute to design, development, and maintenance of features on the Living Goods platform, including new feature development, fixing bugs, code review and scalability testing
    Work directly with Living Good’s partners and customers to understand usability, address issues, and receive feedback
    Monitoring of cloud platform and mobile network operator (MNO) infrastructure
    Work directly with our support team, customers and vendors to resolve issues
    Report in daily scrums on milestones, progress towards tasks, barriers needing attention, etc. Log all development activities inside Echo’s task management system
    Guide and influence the direction of the product.
    Creative ideas are always welcome.
    Work with designers and project managers to ensure that systems designs are feasible and building upon past work. Be available to other teammates who may be building other systems, to maintain best practices and quality

    Qualifications

    Degree in Software development, IT, Software Engineering or related field.
    Have 5 years’ experience in software development
    Ability to forge ahead and independently, demonstrate effective collaboration with teams across different functions.
    Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful APIs.
    Have developed, deployed, and maintained production web applications.
    Have experience in Java, Python, C++ and even better if you are an expert in any of them.
    Are productive in a UNIX-like environment: you can script your way out trouble, and build software you need from source code if necessary.
    Are excited to work with asynchronous JavaScript in the browser and in Node.
    Understand the basics of database systems – both SQL and NoSQL databases, and can become proficient with any one of a wide variety of them without too much trouble.
    Are capable of picking up front-end JS frameworks, such as AngularJS, ReactJS, even better if you are already a master with one of them.
    Proven experience in developing and maintaining highly scalable Node.js microservices
    Are well-versed in CSS, HTML and JavaScript, as well as mobile responsive web development.
    Enjoy working closely with and learning from designers to iterate upon solutions and solve problems together.
    Experience leading and/or mentoring a small team of developers
    Perfectionism: knowing how it should be done and not stop until it’s done right.
    Can communicate effectively in English over video and text chats as part of a results-focused distributed team.
    Ability to work through ambiguity and deal with shifting priorities

    Compensation
    A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity. The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.
    Life at Living Goods
    Living Goods is aiming to make disruptive changes, dramatically improving the lives of underserved communities. We think big, but we operate small and nimble. At Living Goods, you will have the chance to use your creativity and work with your teammates to conceive and test new ideas every day. If you work well in a dynamic, highly collaborative culture, if you set high standards for yourself and your colleagues, if you know how to fail fast and learn fast, if you meet challenges with calm determination and a sense of humor, you will thrive at Living Goods.

  • Project Manager Designer

    Project Manager Designer

    Living Goods (LG) seeks to improve the lives of tens of millions of underserved customers by revolutionizing the way community health is delivered in the developing world.
     
    To do this, Living Goods not only grows its own business operations, but also dramatically magnifies its impact through large-scale partnerships.
     
    Living Goods works with many of the world’s leading visionary organizations across the corporate, social and government sectors.
     
    Current partners include the governments of Kenya and Uganda, plus Care International, BRAC and PSI. Living Goods’ future success increasingly depends on the state of the art mHealth, communications, the latest mobile tools, apps and technologies to drive impact.
    Living Goods is looking to hire a Project manager who will be responsible for delivering our Technology projects on time within budget and scope.
     
    An ideal candidate for this role should possess business management, budgeting and analysis skills and have a track record of delivering results in a fast-paced environment.
    Project managers are skilled at getting the best out of the people and projects that they oversee.
    Ideally, you are proactive, a strong written and verbal communicator, self-directed, self-motivated, committed and passionate about Living Goods mission, and excited to join a dynamic, growing team.
    A successful candidate will work cross functionally with different regional and global teams to ensure the successful deployment of projects in Africa.  
    Responsibilities:

    Developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
    Manage and coordinate the ‘path-to-deployment’ and ‘path-to-scale’ for multiple innovation projects; coordination of projects activities which include conceptualization, designing, development and configuration, functional and user testing of projects spanning multiple year, driving potential for large scale impact.
    Work with the design team to design and iteratively improve on the health service delivery workflows incorporated in Living Goods products.
    Develop Impact and activity metrics/indicators and monitoring plan for portfolio projects to track and address issues as they arise for successfully transition to full-scale and realize health impact and monitoring overall progress and use of resources, initiating corrective action where necessary.
    Lead the process of documenting and communicating lessons learned from projects both internally and externally. Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
    Support the communication team with the development of external communication material including; proposal, reports, presentations and write-ups for various audiences ensuring timely reporting and communication with all stakeholders.
    Prepare and manage work plans and budgets for all projects under various scenarios to facilitate quality project management and decision making in an ambiguous environment.
    Identify all the internal and external resources whether financial or human resources required completing the project successfully and recruiting for junior positions within the project.
    Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
    Provide coaching and guidance to the team members about every aspect of the project so that the team members can understand their tasks fully and act on them efficiently.
    Manage team members on assigned projects.
    Perform risk management to minimize project risks
    Recommending information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements.
    As Living Goods is a dynamic organization, perform other duties as assigned.

    Qualifications

    Be based in Kenya /Uganda and/or have legal work permits for Kenya/Uganda.
    BA/BS degree in Project Management, Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT or related field.
    3+ years’ experience in project management with experience in Project Management tools.
    Experience working with marginalized communities in any social impact programs.
    Excellent work planning and budget management skills.
    Experience in collaborating multiple internal and external stakeholders and teams.
    Experience with managing expectations and change directly and indirectly.
    Good understanding of data collection, analytics and ability to interpret research for program design and implementation.
    Willingness to travel to project implementation geographies in Africa up to 50% of the time.
    Adaptable, self-motivated, inquisitive and a team player who is interested in being part of a fast-paced, growing and diverse team with a start-up atmosphere.
    Detail oriented with demonstrated ability to multitask and manage timeline pressure focusing on quality.
    Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English.

    Compensation: A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity.  The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.
    Life at Living Goods: Living Goods is aiming to make disruptive changes, dramatically improving the lives of underserved communities.

     
    We think big, but we operate small and nimble. At Living Goods, you will have the chance to use your creativity and work with your teammates to conceive and test new ideas every day.
     
    If you work well in a dynamic, highly collaborative culture, if you set high standards for yourself and your colleagues, if you know how to fail fast and learn fast, if you meet challenges with calm determination and a sense of humor, you will thrive at Living Goods.

    go to method of application »