Job Opportunities at Ufanisi Digital Media

The ideal candidate must have prior management experience in the solar industry.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop customers and grow business across the region
• Ensure awareness of competition and competitors’ activities inclusive of pricing and product
• Adjust company tactics and strategy to deliver required results.
• Manage advertising and marketing initiatives within agreed time frames and budget.
• Ensure the highest standard of public branding image is maintained.
• Manage all debt, ensure individuals are responsible for collections and appropriate follow up
• Remain up to date with new development within the industry
• Manage the Sales team, ensuring they operate within all company policies and guidelines, and achieve set target
• Responsible for staff growth & development, motivation, training, coaching, promotion and discipline.
• Identify training needs, conduct staff performance appraisals and recommend requisite training
• Carry out annual appraisals of all your subordinates along the company documented guidelines. 

Qualifications

• Minimum Five years’ work experience in Solar Industry. 
• Undergraduate degree in Energy Engineering, Commerce, or equivalent
• Ability to determine work priorities, make decisions and take appropriate actions
• Ability to meet schedules and deadlines of the work area
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Ability to deliver results
• Ability managed sales teams
• Appreciation for technical products
• Passion for customer service
• Team player 

Monthly gross Salary: Kshs. 150,000 gross plus commission

Role:

1. Develop custom web applications and websites using LAMP stack.
2. Meet with project team members and clients to develop an understanding of client requirements.
3. Implement client websites and web applications, intranets and extranets.
4. Help to architect client projects under the guidance of our chief technical officer.
5. Prepare project specifications documents, features documents, feature documents and project plans.
6. Work as part of a dedicated team of project managers, developers and database pros and designers.
7. Develop new products and extend existing ones.
8. Participate in all phases of Web application and websites development projects, from requirements gathering to deployment. 

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on web development experience.
• Programming experience using PHP/MySQL required.
• Thorough knowledge of both front-end and back-end technologies,
• Strong HTML, CSS AJAX and JavaScript experience.
• Proven experience building web applications and database-driven websites.
• Interest in feature development to accommodate user needs
• Appreciation of cross-browser compatibility and web standards
• Experience with shell scripting, Perl, Python is is an added advantage.

The successful candidate is also expected to assist in managing financial accounting system and ensuring effective financial controls and accounting procedures and practices are followed. 

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS

1. Direct reporting to the Finance and Administration Manager
2. Working relationship with all staff. 

MAIN AREA OF RESPONSIBILITIES AND KEY ACTIVITIES

Effective management of the organisation’s financial accounting system

• Assist in developing an appropriate financial accounting system
• Keep and operate a simple accounting system (QuickBooks)
• Keep a record of all the receipts and payments
• Keep all consultancy contracts for associates
• Undertaking all banking services
• Undertaking monthly bank reconciliations and cash flow management
• Assist in Preparing and submitting monthly financial reports
• Assist in Preparing and submitting program financial reports

Management of effective financial controls

• Make payments to all creditors including preparation of payment vouchers for approval and making payment reconciliations
• Supervise the use of office petty cash imprest
• Following up on all grant/program financial requests and payments

Ensure tax compliance of the organistion

• Dealing with taxation matters including VAT, Withholding Tax and PAYE
• File tax returns in accordance with existing laws

Facilitating audits (Program and institutional)

• Maintain proper filing system of all financial records
• Preparing for and facilitating statutory annual audits
• Liaise with specific donors on program audits

Program accounts

• Familiarise with program documents and program financial requirements
• Assist to prepare and submit program financial reports and reconciliations
• Follow up on all per diems and reconciliations

PERSON SPECIFICATIONS:

Education

• University Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or related field from a recognized university.
• Professional accounting training – CPA (K), Chartered Accountant (CA), ACCA or equivalent.

Experience

• At least 4 years’ experience in accounting, preferably in a not for profit organization.
• Strong technical knowledge of finance and accounting.
• High level of IT proficiency in use of MS Word, Excel and QuickBooks.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks with competing priorities.
• Excellent communication and Interpersonal skills.