Manager, Technology Transformation at KPMG

KPMG is a professional service company, being one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, EY and PwC. Seated in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, KPMG employs 174,000 people and has three lines of services: audit, tax, and advisory.

Roles and Responsibilities

The overall responsibility for the Manager, Powered Enterprise is to lead a team involved in assisting clients transform back office operations through ERP solutions using KPMG’s Powered Enterprise tools and assets. These solutions cover all back-office processes including HR, Supply chain and Finance and are built on platforms such as Oracle, Microsoft and SAP. You shall help in defining strategies and defining adoption approach for our clients. You will work closely with our client’s CFO, CHRO, CIOs etc to help transform and manage the identified processes.

• Managing Engagements
• Be responsible for the ERP/Powered Enterprise advisory team and related engagements
• Planning, managing and delivery of related projects to ensure business risks are recognized and appropriately managed before adversely affecting the project objectives. Activities include planning, scoping, budgeting, development of execution methodologies and resourcing the project.
• Provide technical knowledge, direction and training to the engagement team to produce quality deliverables on time and on budget.
• Building and promoting strong client relationships by understanding client needs and proposing initiatives to serve their needs.
• Providing and facilitating the involvement of subject matter experts for the key components depending on platforms in use.
• Presentation to project committee or board of directors (where relevant) on the engagement status, recommendations and action plans
• Manage engagement risk
• Business Development
• Develop and maintain relationships with decision makers at key clients
• Identify transformation opportunities based on a thorough understanding of client transformation and emerging technologies in different sectors.
• Contribute to business development and proposal development efforts
• Facilitation of events to create awareness of technology transformation offerings in the market.
• Contribute towards meeting the expected revenue numbers as agreed with the leadership.
• Manage the opportunity lifecycle in the pipeline.

Professional Qualifications And Experience:

1. Bachelor’s degree in IT or related degree from a recognized University
2. 8 plus years in IT and business experience
3. At least 5 years’ experience working with various OEMs or partners especially Oracle, Microsoft or SAP
4. Professional qualification such as Digital Transformation Certification, Lean six sigma, Prince2 AGILE, TOGAF, ISTQB, COBIT, ITIL certifications preferred
5. Various requisite qualifications/certifications in various systems including Oracle, SAP or Microsoft
6. Team/ engagement management skills
7. Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills
8. Strong understanding of corporate governance and the regulatory environment
9. Demonstrated track record of quality work, project management and productive team interactions.
10. Willingness to travel moderately

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Operations Manager at Influx

Influx provides Support as a Service for brands and tech companies. This includes an entire operation available on demand: agents, management, training, QA, data, and insights. Influx builds full-service customer support teams that can flex and scale monthly. We enable companies of all sizes to deliver consistent and high-quality service 24/7.

Influx is a fast-growing startup offering a scalable, elastic, and turnkey customer support solution for tech companies and eCommerce brands.

Summary

We’re looking to hire an experienced manager to build and run a high-performance team to deliver service to our clients, to their satisfaction. This is a remote position, you’ll be working from home, managing a team of 20-30 customer service agents, team leaders, and account managers. You’ll be working remotely with employees from various countries, delivering service to clients located all over the world.

What We’re Looking for

• Success story in managing 15+ people, preferably in the service industry
• Prior experience managing a complex team containing various roles
• Prior experience working in a B2B environment
• Takes initiative and performs autonomously
• Ability to form effective plans and roadmaps
• A team player, able to work with various stakeholders
• Good communication skills, including written and spoken English

What We Offer

• A work-from-home arrangement, which provides some flexibility to a degree
• An international team that embraces a growth mindset as well as the importance of coaching. You will grow with us!
• A set of international clients with high standards of excellence
• A growing company (and industry), which poses challenges as well as opportunities

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M-Pesa Africa: Legal Counsel at Safaricom Kenya

Safaricom is a leading communications company in Kenya with the widest and strongest coverage. The home of the famous Mobile Money service- M-PESA

Summary

We are pleased to announce the subject career opportunity within M-Pesa Africa reporting to the MD – Mpesa Africa / Finance Director- Mpesa Africa with a dotted line reporting to HOD Legal & Secretarial Services – Safaricom.

Role Description

• To act as Business Partner to the Mpesa Africa Group and be the key legal interface into the Mpesa Markets where required and other key stakeholders across the group
• To provide skilled and specialized professional legal services, with an emphasis on contractual drafting, negotiation and review, legal research, legislative watch, and regulatory support on an ongoing basis.
• To provide specified departments/units within the Mpesa Africa and across the Mpesa markets where required skilled and specialized professional legal services.

Key Role Responsibilities

• Negotiating & gaining the buy-in of NEW customer contract including but not limited to agent, merchant, utility, Business-to-Business, Business-to-Customer, and International money transfer (IMT) contracts and any new functionality as may be added from time to time.
• Ensuring suitability & updating existing customer contract templates e.g. consumer T&Cs, Agent agreements, B2C and C2B contracts, etc. in line with changing or evolving features and functionalities of the M-PESA Service.
• Design and implement in conjunction with Risk Management, clear pre-contractual vetting processes for potential M-PESA Africa partnerships.
• Implementation of changing Risk Control measures recommended for the M-PESA Africa Business, through enforcement of contracts. This is to be done in conjunction with the Risk Management Division.
• Where required liaise with Vodafone & Vodacom Group dedicated legal resource on delivery of joint targets in relation to the legal relationship between Safaricom and Vodafone on M-PESA related matters e.g. Trademark matters, M-PESA managed service agreements, IMT (international money transfer) agreements.
• Participate and actively contribute to stakeholder review sessions on legislative issues materially affecting Financial Services, such Anti- Money Laundering, Electronic Financial Services, and Communications etc.
• Regulatory engagement: liaise with relevant regulators to ensure Safaricom remains responsive to regulatory concerns; ensure Safaricom earns/maintains the trust of financial service regulators; participate in the policy formulation and regulatory drafting process;
• Ensure timely submission of monthly and ad hoc reports as may be requested.
• Dispute management for litigation matters that arise from M-PESA contracts.
• All reporting related to the role
• Assist in negotiating renewal terms for facilities obtained from our lenders;
• Liaise with Finance to resolve issues as they arise;
• Provide general legal advice to Finance on a case-by-case basis.

Qualifications

Apply if you have:

• Degree in Law from a reputable commonwealth university with minimum 2nd class honors (or equivalent) and completion of Diploma of the Kenya School of Law;
• An advocate of the high court of Kenya of at least 5 years standing;
• Other post-graduate diplomas or certificate courses suitable for the role in legal matters such as arbitration/mediation & negotiation skills, AML, IP, Legislative Processes/Drafting, etc.
• 3 years practical/demonstrable experience in commercial law, company law, and financial services law.
• Excellent working knowledge of telecommunications and IT legal and regulatory environment, e-commerce/m-commerce.
• Good knowledge of civil and criminal procedure codes

We are happy if you have:

• Experience in engaging regulatory bodies
• Experience of working within a multi-national team and serving customers from multiple countries would be of benefit.
• Experience of working in an agile environment will be beneficial

What you can expect from us:

• We believe in a fair and robust interview process
• We have a robust flexible total reward scheme
• Dedicated support and mentoring/coaching
• Opportunity to develop and progress – plus a solid dedication to work-life integration. It all means you’ll have everything you need to advance your career and achieve your full potential.

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Assistant Business Controller at Global Concrete and Construction Limited

Job Purpose

The job holder is responsible for book keeping, financial reporting, optimal cash management and office administration.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Posting of transactions relating to expenses, revenues accounts receivable and payable
• Preparation of Management Reports
• Preparation of monthly general ledger reconciliations
• Processing of supplier payments
• Review of financial transactions to ensure accuracy and completeness
• Ensuring Financial reports compliance company, professional and regulatory standards
• Preparation of monthly debtors and creditors reports
• Preparation of audit schedules and support to internal and external auditors
• Budget preparation, implementation and monitoring
• Managing statutory deductions, payments and returns
• Managing inventory transactions and records

Job Specifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Accounting CPA II or Equivalent.
• Minimum 3 years relevant experience in retail environment.
• Experience in Accounting ERP desired
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Possess good interpersonal skills.
• Must be a person of high integrity
• Attention to detail.

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Manager, Technology Transformation at KPMG

KPMG is a professional service company, being one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, EY and PwC. Seated in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, KPMG employs 174,000 people and has three lines of services: audit, tax, and advisory.

Roles and Responsibilities

The overall responsibility for the Manager, Powered Enterprise is to lead a team involved in assisting clients transform back office operations through ERP solutions using KPMG’s Powered Enterprise tools and assets. These solutions cover all back-office processes including HR, Supply chain and Finance and are built on platforms such as Oracle, Microsoft and SAP. You shall help in defining strategies and defining adoption approach for our clients. You will work closely with our client’s CFO, CHRO, CIOs etc to help transform and manage the identified processes.

• Managing Engagements
• Be responsible for the ERP/Powered Enterprise advisory team and related engagements
• Planning, managing and delivery of related projects to ensure business risks are recognized and appropriately managed before adversely affecting the project objectives. Activities include planning, scoping, budgeting, development of execution methodologies and resourcing the project.
• Provide technical knowledge, direction and training to the engagement team to produce quality deliverables on time and on budget.
• Building and promoting strong client relationships by understanding client needs and proposing initiatives to serve their needs.
• Providing and facilitating the involvement of subject matter experts for the key components depending on platforms in use.
• Presentation to project committee or board of directors (where relevant) on the engagement status, recommendations and action plans
• Manage engagement risk
• Business Development
• Develop and maintain relationships with decision makers at key clients
• Identify transformation opportunities based on a thorough understanding of client transformation and emerging technologies in different sectors.
• Contribute to business development and proposal development efforts
• Facilitation of events to create awareness of technology transformation offerings in the market.
• Contribute towards meeting the expected revenue numbers as agreed with the leadership.
• Manage the opportunity lifecycle in the pipeline.

Professional Qualifications And Experience:

1. Bachelor’s degree in IT or related degree from a recognized University
2. 8 plus years in IT and business experience
3. At least 5 years’ experience working with various OEMs or partners especially Oracle, Microsoft or SAP
4. Professional qualification such as Digital Transformation Certification, Lean six sigma, Prince2 AGILE, TOGAF, ISTQB, COBIT, ITIL certifications preferred
5. Various requisite qualifications/certifications in various systems including Oracle, SAP or Microsoft
6. Team/ engagement management skills
7. Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills
8. Strong understanding of corporate governance and the regulatory environment
9. Demonstrated track record of quality work, project management and productive team interactions.
10. Willingness to travel moderately

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Operations Manager at Influx

Influx provides Support as a Service for brands and tech companies. This includes an entire operation available on demand: agents, management, training, QA, data, and insights. Influx builds full-service customer support teams that can flex and scale monthly. We enable companies of all sizes to deliver consistent and high-quality service 24/7.

Influx is a fast-growing startup offering a scalable, elastic, and turnkey customer support solution for tech companies and eCommerce brands.

Summary

We’re looking to hire an experienced manager to build and run a high-performance team to deliver service to our clients, to their satisfaction. This is a remote position, you’ll be working from home, managing a team of 20-30 customer service agents, team leaders, and account managers. You’ll be working remotely with employees from various countries, delivering service to clients located all over the world.

What We’re Looking for

• Success story in managing 15+ people, preferably in the service industry
• Prior experience managing a complex team containing various roles
• Prior experience working in a B2B environment
• Takes initiative and performs autonomously
• Ability to form effective plans and roadmaps
• A team player, able to work with various stakeholders
• Good communication skills, including written and spoken English

What We Offer

• A work-from-home arrangement, which provides some flexibility to a degree
• An international team that embraces a growth mindset as well as the importance of coaching. You will grow with us!
• A set of international clients with high standards of excellence
• A growing company (and industry), which poses challenges as well as opportunities

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M-Pesa Africa: Legal Counsel at Safaricom Kenya

Safaricom is a leading communications company in Kenya with the widest and strongest coverage. The home of the famous Mobile Money service- M-PESA

Summary

We are pleased to announce the subject career opportunity within M-Pesa Africa reporting to the MD – Mpesa Africa / Finance Director- Mpesa Africa with a dotted line reporting to HOD Legal & Secretarial Services – Safaricom.

Role Description

• To act as Business Partner to the Mpesa Africa Group and be the key legal interface into the Mpesa Markets where required and other key stakeholders across the group
• To provide skilled and specialized professional legal services, with an emphasis on contractual drafting, negotiation and review, legal research, legislative watch, and regulatory support on an ongoing basis.
• To provide specified departments/units within the Mpesa Africa and across the Mpesa markets where required skilled and specialized professional legal services.

Key Role Responsibilities

• Negotiating & gaining the buy-in of NEW customer contract including but not limited to agent, merchant, utility, Business-to-Business, Business-to-Customer, and International money transfer (IMT) contracts and any new functionality as may be added from time to time.
• Ensuring suitability & updating existing customer contract templates e.g. consumer T&Cs, Agent agreements, B2C and C2B contracts, etc. in line with changing or evolving features and functionalities of the M-PESA Service.
• Design and implement in conjunction with Risk Management, clear pre-contractual vetting processes for potential M-PESA Africa partnerships.
• Implementation of changing Risk Control measures recommended for the M-PESA Africa Business, through enforcement of contracts. This is to be done in conjunction with the Risk Management Division.
• Where required liaise with Vodafone & Vodacom Group dedicated legal resource on delivery of joint targets in relation to the legal relationship between Safaricom and Vodafone on M-PESA related matters e.g. Trademark matters, M-PESA managed service agreements, IMT (international money transfer) agreements.
• Participate and actively contribute to stakeholder review sessions on legislative issues materially affecting Financial Services, such Anti- Money Laundering, Electronic Financial Services, and Communications etc.
• Regulatory engagement: liaise with relevant regulators to ensure Safaricom remains responsive to regulatory concerns; ensure Safaricom earns/maintains the trust of financial service regulators; participate in the policy formulation and regulatory drafting process;
• Ensure timely submission of monthly and ad hoc reports as may be requested.
• Dispute management for litigation matters that arise from M-PESA contracts.
• All reporting related to the role
• Assist in negotiating renewal terms for facilities obtained from our lenders;
• Liaise with Finance to resolve issues as they arise;
• Provide general legal advice to Finance on a case-by-case basis.

Qualifications

Apply if you have:

• Degree in Law from a reputable commonwealth university with minimum 2nd class honors (or equivalent) and completion of Diploma of the Kenya School of Law;
• An advocate of the high court of Kenya of at least 5 years standing;
• Other post-graduate diplomas or certificate courses suitable for the role in legal matters such as arbitration/mediation & negotiation skills, AML, IP, Legislative Processes/Drafting, etc.
• 3 years practical/demonstrable experience in commercial law, company law, and financial services law.
• Excellent working knowledge of telecommunications and IT legal and regulatory environment, e-commerce/m-commerce.
• Good knowledge of civil and criminal procedure codes

We are happy if you have:

• Experience in engaging regulatory bodies
• Experience of working within a multi-national team and serving customers from multiple countries would be of benefit.
• Experience of working in an agile environment will be beneficial

What you can expect from us:

• We believe in a fair and robust interview process
• We have a robust flexible total reward scheme
• Dedicated support and mentoring/coaching
• Opportunity to develop and progress – plus a solid dedication to work-life integration. It all means you’ll have everything you need to advance your career and achieve your full potential.

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