Jobs at Safaricom Kenya

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

Health and Safety

• Uphold the company code of conduct, policies and procedures, ensuring integrity and accountability in every aspect of your work.
• All employees have a responsibility to adhere to safety, health, and wellbeing policies, guidelines and procedures in all actions and decisions.
• Preparation of monthly withholding tax and withholding VAT returns together with supporting schedules to ensure filing by the statutory deadlines.
• Preparation of subsidiary corporate tax returns plus supporting schedules for tax filing and accounting reporting purposes.
• Preparation of quarterly instalment tax payments within statutory deadlines.
• Reconcile withholding tax and VAT receivable balances to issued certificates and the GL account and follow up for any outstanding tax certificates.
• Participate in tax planning efforts to assist the business identify areas of tax exposures as well as tax savings opportunities.
• Review of expenses for optimal claim of input VAT credits.
• Ensure import taxes paid by the company are accurately computed and requisite documents to support duty payments are kept.
• Liaise with the Revenue Authority, internal customers and external auditors to ensure tax-related queries and correspondence are addressed in a timely manner.
• Support the analysis and implementation of tax policy changes because of Finance Bill/Act and gazetted tax policy changes.
• Participate in the monthly Balance Sheet Review processes, including adequately preparing the supporting schedules.
• Participate in preparing tax training materials and presenting during this training session.
• Analysis of fixed assets additions for qualifying investment allowances.
• Support in the preparation of information required during statutory and regulatory audits.

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

Business Competencies

Working with Others

• Consciously takes steps to make the most of every conversation/interaction
• Identifies people s needs, interests and motives to be able to influence the decisions they make
• Communicates simply to excite and engage people
• Builds and maintains strong relationships and networks

Operational Excellence

• Focuses on achieving maximum performance and driving continuous improvement
• Thinks about processes and problems cross-functionally and end-to-end
• Uses knowledge of products, technology, process, systems and policy to solve problems

Creativity and Innovation

• Finds creative ways to exploit opportunities and solve problems
• Takes risks and pushes what is possible
• Experiments with unorthodox approaches

Business Know how

• Uses data and research to make decisions that are competitively and financially robust
• Balances current and future needs
• Thinks and acts like an owner of the business
• Acts in line with legal, regulatory, professional and ethical standards

Working with Change

• Responds flexibly to changing situations
• Manages the business and people aspects of change to drive performance

Functional Competencies:

Planning and Control

• Analyses performance trends to determine the health of the business
• Maintains controls within Financial Systems through setup control and master data management

Accounting

• Prepares, analyses and summaries financial data to support business operations and delivery statutory information
• Ensures the integrity of processes and systems to record and authorize transactions in compliance with Safaricom accounting policies and regulation

Reporting

• Delivers timely and accurate reports to satisfy statutory and business requirements
• Identifies key performance and variances, and provides recommendations

Tax

• Delivers filings/reports to satisfy statutory and business requirements Combines expertise and commercial awareness to deliver value added solutions

Qualifications

Education & Experience:

• Honors degree from a recognized university in business or related field
• At least one full professional qualification in accounting namely CPA, ACCA, CIMA or an equivalent
• A minimum of 4 years proven track record of having worked in a similar role in the Tax field with a progressive accounting firm or a Law firm or with a minimum of 4 years tax and accounting experience in a well-run company
• Key performance indicators:
• Timely filing of tax returns and payment of taxes
• Collaborate with the Finance Shared Services team to deliver outputs in a timely and accurate manner
• Structure transactions to avoid tax gross-up by reviewing contracts, tax legislation including double tax treaties.
• Organize quarterly relationship meetings with the stakeholders
• Satisfactory stakeholder management.
• 100% compliance with tax laws, processes and procedures

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Responsibilities

• Health and Safety
• Uphold the company code of conduct, policies and procedures, ensuring integrity and accountability in every aspect of your work.
• All employees have a responsibility to adhere to safety, health, and wellbeing policies, guidelines and procedures in all actions and decisions.
• Assist in the preparation, collation and distribution of Board and Committee papers.
• Coordinate logistics for Board and Committee Meetings (Scheduling meetings, coordination of venue, technology and documentation management.)
• Compilation of directors’ attendance for both the Safaricom Plc board and board subsidiaries and preparation of the quarterly board remuneration schedule.
• Assist with the timely follow up on agreed actions with the senior management teams for the board and board subsidiaries.
• Maintain an annual calendar of Board and Committee meetings for the Safaricom Plc Board and its subsidiaries aligned to regulatory and business requirements.
• Support the Governance Centre of Excellence with the maintenance of the physical statutory registers, records and filings with the regulators including the Business Registration Services, Companies registry and Capital Markets Authority.
• Support shareholder engagement including the coordination of the Annual General Meeting, any Extraordinary General Meetings, Investor Relation Forum, Board and Board Subsidiaries events and retreats, Board Strategy sessions and Half and Full Year Results Announcements and board events.
• Support implementation of Governance Training and Induction for Directors.
• Ensure safe custody of corporate records, charters, minutes and official company seals.
• Manage document workflows, databases and electronic governance systems.
• Provide administrative support to the Governance Center of Excellence team.

Core competencies, knowledge and experience

• Technology particularly Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation.
• Working With others.
• Operational Excellence.
• Business Know-how.
• Working With Change.
• Project and Programme Management.
• Negotiation.
• Service Quality and Planning.

Functional Competencies

• Exceptional organization skills
• The Senior Administrator, Governance  must be well organized, proactive and be able to multi-task. This is especially needed to ensure the smooth flow of company board and board committee meetings and to guarantee that all necessary information or correspondence is communicated timely and to the right people.
• Integrity and Ethical Judgment
• The Senior Administrator, Governance must possess outstanding integrity due to the sensitivity of content that is discussed in the various Boards and Board Committees.
• Strong Interpersonal and Stakeholder Management Skills
• The Senior Administrator, Governance  must have strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills and be able to work under pressure to meet strict deadlines.
• High levels of professionalism and accountability
• The Senior Administrator, Governance  must be committed to excellence, high levels of profession ability and should be able to take personal accountability and responsibility for their work and the general management of the Governance Center of Excellence.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years' experience in a busy corporate environment.
• Diploma or bachelor’s degree in law, Business, Business Administration, Corporate Governance or related field.
• Accredited Project Management certifications will be an added advantage.
• Experience in interacting with senior leadership and board directors.
• Experience in planning/ organizing for committee, board, general meetings, engaging with the various stakeholders in the process and attending meetings with minimal supervision and preparation for board trainings.
• Experience in working with public listed entities is an added advantage.
• Good interpersonal, oratory and written skills and ability to work with a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Ability to handle confidential information with integrity and discretion.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Board portal software, use of artificial intelligence and digital transformation.

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Key Responsibilities

• Platform Architecture: Design and develop a scalable and extensible data engineering platform to support the organization's data driven initiatives. Architect data pipelines, storage solutions, and frameworks to handle large volumes of data efficiently.
• Data Integration and Processing: Implement data ingestion pipelines to integrate data from various sources, including databases, data warehouses, APIs, and streaming platforms. Develop ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to preprocess and clean raw data for analysis. 
• Analytics Tools and Technologies: Evaluate, select, and integrate analytics tools and technologies to support data exploration, visualization, and modeling. Implement and optimize databases, data warehouses, and analytics frameworks such as SQL, Hadoop, Spark, and Elasticsearch. 
• Scalability and Performance: Optimize data processing pipelines and analytics workflows for scalability, performance, and efficiency. Implement parallel processing, distributed computing, and caching mechanisms to handle largescale data engineering workloads. 
• Data Governance and Security: Ensure compliance with data governance policies, regulatory requirements, and security best practices. Implement access controls, encryption, and auditing mechanisms to protect sensitive data and ensure data privacy and confidentiality. 
• Monitoring and Maintenance: Develop monitoring and alerting systems to track platform performance, data quality, and system health. Proactively identify and resolve issues to minimize downtime and ensure uninterrupted data analytics operations. 
• Automation and DevOps: Implement automation pipelines for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment. Establish continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes to streamline platform development and operations. 
• Documentation and Training: Document platform architecture, data pipelines, and analytics workflows. Provide training and support to data analysts and data scientists to ensure effective use of the data analytics platform. 

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Bsc computer science or equivalent practical experience
• Solid understanding of data engineering principles, techniques, and methodologies.
• Over 5 years’ experience building cloud based data engineering solutions
• At least 2 years of experience in software development in any of the following programming languages Python, Java, or Scala.
• At least 2 years of experience working on streaming processing tools such as Amazon  Kinesis, Apache kafka, Apache Flink, apache pulsar.
• At least 3 years of experience working with data processing frameworks such as EMR Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, or Apache Nifi.
• Familiarity with database systems such as SQL databases, NoSQL databases, and distributed file systems both cloud and on premise.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong analytical skills with capability to develop and analyze complex data sets and understand their significance in driving customer experience excellence.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Proficient understanding of distributed computing principles
• Experience in collecting, storing, processing and analyzing large volumes of data