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Role Overview

• Our Client is seeking a strategic, results-driven Finance Manager to lead our financial operations, strategy, and compliance frameworks. As a key partner to the CEO and senior leadership team, you will drive financial planning, optimize operational efficiency within the competitive FMCG sector, and ensure robust risk management. This role requires a balance of high-level strategic insight and hands-on operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Strategy & Planning

• Strategic Planning: Serve as a key strategic partner to the CEO and leadership team. Contribute critical financial insights to the overall corporate strategy, including new product launches, market entry, and potential product lines.
• Budgeting & Forecasting: Lead the design and implementation of robust budgeting, financial forecasting, and long-term financial planning processes. Monitor performance against annual and multi-year organizational goals.
• Financial Analysis: Deliver actionable, data-driven financial insights to support operational decision-making across all departments, with a heavy focus on Sales, Procurement, and HR.
• Investment & Capital Allocation: Evaluate investment opportunities, oversee the company’s capital budget, and secure sufficient funding (CAPEX and working capital) to support daily operations and growth initiatives.

Operational Finance

• Working Capital Management: Optimize working capital by efficiently managing inventory levels, receivables, and payables cycles. Prevent inventory overstocking to maintain a healthy, predictable daily cash flow.
• Cost & Margin Management: Identify and execute cost-saving initiatives across procurement,
• logistics, and operations. Track gross margins closely by SKU, category, and sales channel to secure long-term business profitability and sustainability.
• Trade Spend Efficiency: Monitor and evaluate the ROI of trade promotions, marketing spend, and human capital investments—a critical focus area in the fast-paced FMCG landscape.
• Pricing Optimization: Develop, maintain, and govern a structured framework for daily and
• monthly pricing decisions alongside route-to-market strategies to safeguard competitiveness and margins.

Accounting, Compliance & Risk Management

• Financial Reporting: Oversee all core accounting functions, ensuring the timely, accurate, and actionable preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements in strict compliance with IFRS and local GAAP standards.
• Internal Controls & Audit: Establish and maintain robust internal controls and financial procedures to safeguard corporate assets. Ensure continuous quarterly and annual audit readiness, coordinate internal/external audits, and resolve findings promptly.
• Tax & Regulatory Compliance: Guarantee absolute compliance with the Kenya Revenue
• Authority (KRA), county government tax laws, financial regulations, and statutory requirements (including NEMA, OSHA, and DOSH).
• Risk Management: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate financial risks—including market, credit, operational, and foreign exchange (FX) exposures—implementing hedging strategies when necessary.

Leadership & Stakeholder Relations

• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing finance and accounting team.
• Promote a culture of efficiency, continuous process improvement, and rigorous performance reviews.
• Stakeholder Relations: Act as the primary corporate liaison for external auditors, commercial banks, financial institutions, investors, and venture capitalists (VCs).
• Systems Enhancement: Drive the continuous improvement and integration of financial systems and technologies (including Odoo ERP, DMS, eTIMS, and M-Pesa integrations) to optimize automation and advanced reporting capabilities.

Education & Professional Certifications

• Degree: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a business-related field from a recognized institution.
• Certification: CPA-K (Certified Public Accountant - Kenya) designation is mandatory. Must be a member in good standing with ICPAK.

Experience & Skills

• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of progressive work experience in financial management, accounting, or corporate finance, preferably within the FMCG, retail, or logistics sector.
• Technical Proficiency: Hands-on experience working with modern ERP systems (e.g., Odoo), digital management systems (DMS), and local tax integration platforms (e.g., eTIMS).
• Leadership: Proven track record of managing and coaching finance teams, alongside exceptional stakeholder management skills for dealing with VCs, banks, and auditors.

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Role Overview

• Our client is seeking a highly analytical and dynamic Supply Chain Manager to oversee our end-to-end supply chain, warehouse operations, and data integration frameworks. This role demands a unique blend of strategic planning, technological proficiency in ERP (Odoo) and Power BI systems, and hands-on leadership to drive operational efficiencies, eliminate waste, and optimize our marketplace potential.

Key Responsibilities

Technology, Data &Business Applications

• Data & Analytics: Develop and maintain Power BI reports, interactive dashboards, and data visuals mapped to core metrics and KPIs to answer critical business questions.
• Platform Optimization: Actively identify and execute technical upgrades across Power BI, Delivery Management Systems (DMS), e-commerce platforms, and other Omni-channel solutions.
• Process Automation: Continuously review data flow processes to eliminate manual data entry errors and streamline data capture.
• ERP (Odoo) Management: Manage ERP (Odoo) and related business application support tickets to continuously improve service delivery. Perform systems requirement analysis, design, and prototyping for management dashboards, reporting, and new operational features.
• Systems Support & Training: Support users by triaging, documenting, and prioritizing ERP- related issues in the ticketing system. Write and maintain comprehensive user documentation to provide ongoing technical system support.
• Functional Specifications: Translate complex business requirements into clear functional specifications for new technology features and reporting tools.
• Commercial Guidance: Guide the wider business on maximizing DMS and e-commerce applications to improve productivity, business processes, and commercial outcomes.
• Inventory Systems Alignment: Leverage the ERP and complementary control measures to define precise inventory levels, oversee physical counts, and reconcile physical inventory with system data.

Warehouse Operations, Controls & Quality Assurance

• Process Standardization: Focus heavily on documenting and subsequently automating core warehouse workflows, including:
• Stock intake and stock unloading
• Weekly and monthly stock takes
• Stock issuing and vehicle loading
• Customer and vendor returns processes
• Specialized banana processing workflows
• Operational Execution: Supervise daily warehousing and distribution operations by effectively planning, coordinating, and monitoring the receipt, storage, order assembly, and dispatch of inventories.
• SOP Governance: Implement, monitor, and enforce strict Standard Operating Procedures
• (SOPs), protocols, and operational controls. Ensure tight adherence to sourcing and warehouse policies to maintain a high-standard corporate culture.
• Inventory Control & Quality: Guarantee that all sourced stocks are physically received at the warehouse and updated in the ERP on the exact same day. Inspect incoming stocks and reject any products that fail to meet strict Quality Control (QC) standards.
• Waste Mitigation: Perform daily stock analyses and strictly enforce First-In, First-Out (FIFO) rules to minimize produce waste and enable proactive operational decisions.
• Continuous Improvement: Implement a robust daily stock-take system to ensure discrepancies are captured, documented, and immediate countermeasures are taken. Maintain a "continuous improvement" mindset to isolate root causes and prevent recurring issues rather than just providing reactive support.

Supply Chain & Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)

• S&OP Scaling: Improve and scale up the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) framework to ensure the business hits monthly targets without overstocking or going Out of Stock (OOS).
• Demand Forecasting: Build and continuously refine multi-level operational demand forecasts by analyzing historical sales trends and market data.
• Work plans & Reporting: Prepare weekly sourcing work plans and other allocated operational management reports.

Strategic Planning, Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Team Leadership & Development: Structure, manage, and optimize the performance of the sourcing team. Establish clear, measurable objectives for the supply chain team to align them with organizational goals.
• Culture & Collaboration: Build a winning corporate culture focused on seamless cross-functional collaboration among internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Marketplace Expansion: Drive business growth by executing proactive turnaround plans that leverage marketplace opportunities, offering direct guidance to the team.
• Supply Strategy: Partner with the Supply Planning organization to map out inventory strategies for existing product lines, new item introductions, and product phase-outs.
• Supplier Network Management: Continuously identify and onboard new suppliers while maintaining strong partnerships to secure uninterrupted supply lines at the most efficient cost structure.
• Financial Oversight: Input into and hold ultimate responsibility for purchasing and cost- estimation budgets, including compiling monthly forecasts and budgets.
• Risk Management: Develop and monitor a comprehensive risk mitigation strategy tied closely to market environments to minimize price fluctuations and capture emerging opportunities.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

You will develop and maintain performance metrics designed to drive maximum efficiency across our sourcing and warehouse infrastructure, with a primary focus on:

• Stock Availability: Maintain 100% stock availability across all product lines and SKUs.
• Risk & Incident Management: Achieve 100% closure and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) documentation for all warehouse issues, business risks, and workplace safety incidents.
• Inventory Accuracy: Attain a 100% perfect match between physical weekly/monthly stock takes and ERP system data.

Education & Certifications

• Degree: Bachelor’s degree in Procurement and Supply Chain Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, or a closely matching corporate discipline.
• Professional Membership: Professional certifications (e.g., KISM, CIPS) are a distinct advantage.

Experience & Skills

• Work Experience: Minimum of 5 years of progressive work experience in supply chain management, logistics coordination, or warehouse operations (experience in the FMCG, fresh produce, or agribusiness sectors is highly preferred).
• Technical Systems: High proficiency with ERP systems (specifically Odoo), Power BI data modeling, and digital warehouse/delivery management systems (DMS).