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  • Posted: May 20, 2019
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    Komaza works to unlock the potential of small-scale farmers to solve Africa's wood supply crisis. Collectively, small farmers possess limitless land and labor resources to plant billions of trees. Komaza provides farmers with support across the forestry value chain, from seedlings to sawmills. With a dramatically lower-cost and more-scalable forestry model, ...
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    Finance Systems Associate

    About the Team

    The Komaza Finance team is a critical service center for the organization. We are meticulous, detail oriented-doers, who know how to balance sustainable, scalable systems with urgent, high priority demands. Though an internal facing department, we take a customer service-centered approach to meeting the needs of the company so Komaza can thrive.

    About the Role

    The Finance Systems Senior Associate will lead the design and implementation of scalable operational systems for our managerial finance and accounting activities. You will work closely with the finance department and collaborate with other departments to run trials and roll out financial systems that promote efficiency and support Komaza’s geographic expansion and scaling.  

    What You Will Do

    • Coordinate new software initiatives and lead projects of varying size and complexity
    • Review business processes to identify gaps and implement improvements both solely within the Finance department and where Finance intersects with other functions (e.g. Field Operations, IT or Procurement)
    • Act as the liaison between Finance, IT and other functions on business and systems projects
    • Review cross-functional business requirements for impact on financial systems and develop business requirements for projects directly impacting financial systems
    • Working with Finance senior management, develop a financial systems roadmap and implementation strategy, including ROI justification and implementation dashboards
    • Launch new systems through documenting SOPs, developing and conducting trainings, and monitoring integration into operations, with an eye towards future improvements
    • Support senior leadership team to make decision on Financial MIS through presenting well-researched findings and recommendations

    What You Have 

    • Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, Management Information System or any other related field
    • 3+ years of relevant experience in implementation of financial systems
    • Proven experience working with digital, cloud-based solutions in financial management
    • Relevant project management skills e.g. creating plans, budgets, RACI matrices and scenario BVAs

    You're also

    • Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
    • High energy and enthusiastic
    • Proactive at identifying and communicating solutions to successfully accomplish work
    • Flexible and self-motivated with the drive to do whatever necessary to get the job done
    • Willing and eager to learn and master new technical and professional skills
    • Self-directed and intellectually curious - you know how and when to seek feedback in the pursuit of continuous improvement

    Great vision without great people is irrelevant, Jim Collins wisely stated. If you share Komaza’s vision and want to help making it a reality, apply today! You’ll get a chance to work at our headquarters in Kilifi, Kenya. We offer a competitive remuneration package and an opportunity to further your career.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Komaza Kenya on jobs.lever.co to apply

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