Technology Enablement Lead at Safaricom Kenya

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for the Group Finance Digital Transformation Mission & Roadmap.
• Drive Digital Maturity of Group Finance Processes to support business in meeting its objectives.
• Ensure robust Financial Systems Processes Governance & Control.
• Provide Finance Projects leadership.
• Lead design, analysis and re-engineering of Group Financial Processes.
• Providing lead functional support across Oracle EBS R12 modules, Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Systems.
• Lead the journey of process excellence (Lean Six Sigma) and strategic business improvement projects.
• Partner with Finance and Technical leads while acting as an SME to stakeholders in identifying and prioritizing improvement projects.
• Drive the Group’s master data management policies to support sound Financial transactions flow & reporting.
• Lead expansion of ERP footprint across existing & new operating units.
• Lead in the adoption and incorporation of smart digitization technologies in the process supported. E.g. RPA, Dashboards and Machine Learning and so on.
• Oversee system month end closure is seamless to ensure seamless Financial close.
• Drive documentation of standard E2E system processes.
• Drive delivery of strategy in the Finance Roadmap Projects ensuring adherence to project timelines, budgets, standard implementations.
• Represent Finance in key projects and ensure financial requirements are met across financial systems.
• Formulate training plans for teams in Finance on current system operations and planned system improvements.
• Lead in techno-functional support of teams primarily within Finance Division and other sections of the business.
• Facilitate the availability of all required financial statements for reporting purposes through enhancement of processes & IT systems for review by management on a timely basis.
• Organize regular and relevant training content around Financial Systems aimed at enhancing the skill of staff already using the various modules in these systems.
• Perform quarterly control assessments on financial systems around user access, master data management & other critical financial transactions to ensure controls put in place are enforced
• Perform quarterly reviews on system logs generated for critical and sensitive financial transactions i.e. integrations with bank, dealer transactions, master data changes

QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in managing projects is required. Project management certification is critical.
• Six Sigma Certification with Quality improvement and Lean Deployment background.
• Over 8 years relevant Functional & Technical Financial Systems management experience in a busy environment.
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams in delivery of financial solutions for the business.
• Professional qualification in accounting e.g., CPA, ACCA, CIMA will be an added advantage.
• Knowledgeable and experienced in implementing solutions that leverage leading technologies like RPA, Data Visualization, Machine Learning. Also, competencies in SQL and/or experience in any scripting or programming language.