Openings at Living Goods

Purpose of role:

We are looking for top-caliber candidates to fill the exciting Senior Manager: HR Business Partner role in Kenya. This role will drive the translation of Living Goods Kenya’s Business Strategy into periodic People & Culture Operating Plans while providing advisory services to the Country Leadership team, as well as the Global People & Culture teams in implementing world-class, integrated Human resources solutions.This role will report functionally to the Chief People & Culture Officer and Operationally to the Country Director - KE.

Top Accountabilities:

Strategy Development & Implementation:

• Partner with the Kenya Country Director, Senior Leadership Team, Country Management Teams, and Chief People and Culture Officer to design Kenya’s short and long-term business strategy. Enable the effective implementation of the Country Strategy through fit-for-purpose annual human resource operating plans.
• Provide proactive advice and coaching to the Country’s Senior Leadership Team and Line Managers in the delivery of the Country’s Operating Plans through effective teams.
• Lead the organization design and organization effectiveness imperatives through defined global processes and practices
• Lead organizational change and coach Line Managers as well as their teams to navigate different change initiatives for organizational relevance, impact, and sustainability.
• Assessing and implementing continuous improvements in People and Culture Policies and processes in line with global trends and market best practices.

Talent Management:

• Partner with the Talent Management Centre of Excellence to identify, acquire, assess, and hire candidates to fill open positions at the country level.
• Lead the Country’s Employee life cycle strategy implementation; Acquisition, Onboarding, Engagement Development, Retention, and Offboarding.

Employee Experience:

• Advise and support Kenya’s Functional leadership to build a Great-Place-To-Work and a culture that is built on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion norms.
• Build a high-performance culture that is strongly linked to Living Good’s Purpose, Mission, and core values.
• Respond to complex People and Culture employee relations matters escalated by the HR Shared Services team.
• Be a thought leader for the country in designing the hybrid workplace of the future that is safe, secure, and exciting.
• Stewarding staff compliance to Living Goods’ Code of Conduct and Safeguarding policies.

Policies, Processes, Systems & Administration:

• Review, design, and communicate people and culture policies as well as processes and procedures, ensuring compliance with employment law and alignment with global best practices.
• Provide oversight for Staff Master data management and leverage the HR Information system to generate useful HR analytics for management reporting and decision-making.

Others:

• Support the HR shared service process standardization and improvement by providing continuous feedback.
• Provide support in the preparation for HR audits and subsequent action plans while safeguarding employee data in line with Living Goods compliance & Data privacy standards
• Undertake specific HR-related projects with the larger global HR team as appropriate.

Qualifications & Experience Required

Qualifications:

• First degree in Social Sciences plus a Postgraduate qualification in HR management.
• Membership with an accredited HR professional body.
• A relevant master’s degree will be an added advantage.

Experience

• 7-10 years Experience working in a multi-national environment, NGO, or international development sector.
• Keen analytical, organization, and problem-solving skills that support and enable sound decision-making.
• Proven strength in building and sustaining supportive relationships and persuasively communicating institutional goals and needs.
• Strong human resource management experience: the ability to supervise, mentor, and engage staff members and inspire credibility, and confidence and build consensus.
• Demonstrated capacity to think strategically with expertise in complex problem solving, decision making, and critical thinking skills, displays good judgment.

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Purpose of role:

The Global Senior Manager of Accounting works with the Director of Accounting services in maintaining the consolidated and global accounting shared services operations and provides direct oversight over the accounting team of the Kenya Country Office. The Global Senior Manager of Accounting oversees all day-to-day accounting operations and provides direct support and direction to all other in-country accounting teams. The Global Senior Manager Accounting is expected to have and keep in-depth, and up-to-date knowledge and understanding of both US GAAP and International accounting standards (IFRS). Provide advice to management on changes in accounting regulations or practices that may impact operations and reporting.

Key Responsibilities:

Accounting, Reporting, and Internal Controls

• Maintain accounting, financial reporting, financial controls, and information systems to ensure adequate records, appropriate authorizations of transactions, and safeguard assets.
• Works with the Director of Accounting Services to ensure compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other relevant governance acts or regulations in the respective jurisdictions of LG.
• Interpret and implement Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and other standards applicable to LGs operational jurisdictions.
• Provides compliance guidance on all accounting issues.
• Initiates process improvements.
• Coordinate and lead all local and international audit and proper filing of statutory and tax returns; prepare for and coordinate all external audits.
• Research and resolve technical accounting issues, including consultation with external auditors, and country accounting teams.
• Ensure legal and regulatory compliance regarding all financial functions across all LG operations and jurisdictions.
• Assume a key role in collaboration with the Financial and Grant reporting teams in annual planning, budgeting, and in monitoring revenue and expenditure against budget.
• Provide shared accounting services to all global operations including new country expansion.
• Oversee balance sheet reconciliations and month-end close procedures across all operations.

Accounting oversight of Kenya Country Office

• Oversee the accounting function and staff and ensure compliance with organizational policies and procedures and statutory regulations.
• Ensure the hiring and talent pipeline management of quality engaged staff.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and development of staff.
• Monitoring performance and initiating timely action to strengthen staff and staff engagement.
• Translating organizational goals into functional and individual goals and ensuring proper task and functional divisions.
• Oversee the timely submission of statutory filings including tax returns, company registrar filings, insurance submissions, etc, and ensure compliance with country financial, tax reporting, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure accounting processes and workflows are fit for operational purposes to maximize the use of digital platforms and compliance with an organizationally approved delegation of authority.
• Coordinate and lead the annual auditing process including liaising with external auditors and liaising with the Global Director Accounting Services and the local Board of Directors.
• Managing the country’s cash flow and forecasting and providing oversight of all bank accounts.

Treasury Management

• Supports the treasury function with the Global controller.
• Ensure compliance with banking regulations and treasury policy.
• Ensures that Countries have appropriate cash flow.

Management and Advisory services

• Guide the countries and operations teams to understand the implications and complexities of transactions and other matters by providing expertise and accounting guidance.
• Advise management and accounting teams about complex financial accounting and reporting issues and transaction structuring, and current technical accounting developments.
• Support general accounting and financial reporting teams, and interactions with accounting shared service organizations including account reconciliations, closing processes, general ledger & financial systems maintenance, and accounting compliance.
• Maintain an environment of excellence and a “can do” culture that facilitates the success of LG.

Qualifications & Experience Required

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, or a related field.

Professional Qualifications / Membership in professional bodies

• CPA or ACCA required.

Experience:

• Minimum of 10 to 12 years of working Experience.

Competencies & Attributes:

• In-depth knowledge of nonprofit accounting (fund accounting principles), including sophisticated fund and grant accounting, compliance, and reporting.
• Broad experience with multiple funding sources, including the US government, other country governments, other bi-and multilateral donors, and corporates and foundations.
• Evidence of partnering with executive staff, resulting in the development and implementation of creative financial management strategies.
• Experience streamlining, refining, and automating financial processes, including the development of user-friendly tools and training programs, and deploying suitable technology.
• Track record of working with technology leaders to manage critical financial management and reporting systems.
• Mission-driven, articulate professional with substantial finance and administrative management experience.
• Keen analytical, organization, and problem-solving skills that support and enable sound decision-making.
• Proven strength in building and sustaining supportive relationships and persuasively communicating institutional goals and needs.
• Strong human resource management experience: the ability to supervise, mentor, and engage staff members and inspire credibility, and confidence and build consensus.
• Technology savvy and specific knowledge of accounting and reporting software.
• Demonstrated capacity to think strategically with expertise in complex problem solving, decision making, and critical thinking skills, displays good judgment.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Bilingual in French is a plus.