Jobs at Summit Recruitment and Search

Key Requirements:

• Identify and ensure completion of corrective/ preventive maintenance as needed across the entire company for assets at the farm.
• Conduct periodic inspections of facilities to identify and solve maintenance issues.
• Respond quickly to emergency requests for maintenance of facilities (e.g., water leak, power outage)
• Identify and create, where necessary, preventative maintenance schedules for equipment and facilities to minimize corrective maintenance.
• Ensure adherence to maintenance plans to ensure equipment availability and minimize loss time.
• Hire and manage mechanical, plumbing, and electrical contractors.
• Identify parts required to complete repairs and partner with procurement department to acquire required parts.
• Ensure appropriate warranties are in place to ensure the company gets best value from vendors.

Qualifications:

• Must have a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical engineering.
• Must have 5+ years of experience in facilities maintenance with a background in mechanical or electrical engineering.
• Ability to thrive while working collaboratively with colleagues, identifying and solving problems independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Must possess strong work ethic, ability to work in teams, intellectual curiosity, and ability to structure and solve problems.

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Key Requirements:

• Provide sound, pragmatic and effective advice to the company regarding compliance, contracts and other areas of potential risk, to assist in the design and implementation of procedures to manage legal risk and to ensure the legal affairs are effectively and efficiently managed.
• Ensure that all aspects of risk are identified, covered and controlled in the implementation of new projects, systems, procedures and products.
• Ensure that changes and developments in legislation, regulations, guidelines and practices affecting operations are analysed, evaluated and any required appropriate action taken to ensure compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements.
• Draft, review and advise on legal agreements, contracts, leases to ensure compliance and to safeguard the interest of the Company.
• Ensure that loan agreements, security documents, and other agreements are properly negotiated, documented, and, where applicable, registered.
• Monitor all litigation matters through constant follow ups and coordination with the external lawyers to ensure the interests of the Company are protected.
• Provide high quality, professional guidance to the Company on corporate governance in relation to the provisions of the Companies Act, Corporate Governance regulatory and statutory provisions, and other related legislation to ensure the Company maintains high standards of Corporate Governance
• Provide sound and effective company secretarial services to the Company through maintenance of statutory registers and other company records, Annual filings, event driven filings to ensure compliance with the provisions of the Company’s Act
• Organize the Company Board Meetings through issuance of relevant Notices, preparation of agendas, board papers, sharing the Board papers with all directors taking minutes to ensure the Board’s deliberations are well documented, communicated and implemented.
• Organize training and development programs for the company to ensure staff and directors understand and effectively discharge their duties and responsibilities for the success of the company
• Act as the legal custodian of the Company Seal and key legal documents
• Oversee company insurance policies.
• Assist in other corporate and operational matters as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Law (LLB) from a recognized university
• Certified Public Secretary CPS(K)
• An Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, member of the Law Society of Kenya with a valid practicing certificate
• Ability to work under minimal supervision.
• Ability to develop and manage internal and external relationships.
• Ability to cope with prominent level of responsibility and with confidential matters.

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Key Requirements:

• Conduct Internal audit of the company on a quarterly or half yearly basis as agreed with the management
• Review the risk matrix of the company if any, otherwise identify significant risks and also review the mitigating controls
• Review IFRS for SMEs guidelines and ensure the companies adhere to the requirements
• Review the Capex and Opex budgets
• Review budget vs actual prepared by the local accountant and any significant variances are reported to the board
• Review the cash flows of the company
• Review the best possible approach in maximizing the benefits to the shareholders
• Ensure that all the necessary statutory returns such as monthly VAT, PAYE, NHIF and NSSF returns are filed as per statutory timelines
• Liaise with the statutory auditors during the course of the annual audit and ensure all information is provided on a timely manner and audit is concluded in time to avoid any late filing penalties
• Review and submit monthly financial reports as required by management. These reports are prepared by the local accountants and it would be reviewed by the Finance and Internal audit director
• Coordinate with the respective tax authorities during in depth audits in liasion with the Statutory auditor and and tax agent

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in a relevant subject
• Must be ACCA/CPAK certified
• Minimum 15 years of experience in a Financial senior role
• Must have East African or African experience
• Able to appreciate the transactional aspect of financial accounting
• A strong ‘all-rounder’ in finance and change leadership
• A strategic and analytical thinker with strong project management skills
• Very strong communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills and the ability to garner respect at all levels
• Commercially astute with a strong business acumen
• Proactive and have the ability to come up with finanical decisions without supervision

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Key Requirements:

• Receive Payments and post amounts paid to customer accounts.
• Preparing, receiving, sending and verifying invoices in both payables and receivables.
• Contact clients and send reminders to ensure timely payments.
• Handling payment to suppliers.
• Negotiate Credit Extensions when necessary.
• Managing payments to suppliers, customers and third-party vendors.
• Processing bank deposits and bank reconciliations.
• Report on the status of accounts payable and receivable.

 Qualifications

• Relevant bachelor’s degree.
• Must have a minimum CPA II.
• Must have 4 years of experience as an accounts receivables and collection assistant with at least 1 year experience in accounts admin.
• Must have good knowledge of bookkeeping procedures and debt collection regulations.
• Self-motivated and proactive and has ability to work to meet deadlines.

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Key Requirements:

• Ensure the territory achieves given sales targets (Volume and Value) through hands on management of given accounts or territory in line with the sales and distribution plans.
• Developing competitive market penetration strategies
• Developing strategic partnerships including Distributors, Depots and Outlet partnerships to support the scaling of the business.
• Contributing to the strategy process to take the business to new territories
• Regularly oversee the Territory Sales Representative visits to outlets to ensure that the 4As (Availability, Accessibility, Affordability and Activation) are being applied and address any skills gaps.
• Target setting to include all parameters /KPIs for each revenue stream: Business segment, regional goals and key accounts including Distributors and Depots
• Ensure all team members have a signed performance contracts as per company policies.
• Be the primary contact person for client management to ensure world class service delivery as of company Beverages to market.
• Drive high level of collaboration with other organizational leaders and associates to maintain cross-functional cooperation and synergy, that drive achievement of company goals.
• Exercise prudent cost management to maintain business expenses within approved budge
• Ensure timely delivery of accurate reports to CEO, as per stipulated templates, dashboards, formats and on time
• Proposing innovative Brand activation initiatives for sales and market increase

Qualifications

• Bachelors/Masters degree in a business related field.
• A minimum of 10 years in sales and distribution within the FMCG Industry.
• Working knowledge in the respective area will be an added advantage.
• Practical experience in use of MS packages and ERP systems.
• Willingness and ability to travel and work extensively in Kenya.
• Strong understanding of customer and market dynamics and requirements.
• Self-driven and self-motivated.
• Must be honest and reliable.
• Must be aggressive with good networking skills.
• Flexibility to adapt to change in priorities.