GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION:

This position has the overall responsibilities of:


Lead and be the custodian of all key financial, accounting, fiduciary, compliance, controls and risk mitigating responsibilities. Lead the accounting team effectively.
Lead, control and oversee the budgeting, accounting, cash flow management and ensure timely, accurate and efficient reporting, audit and... compliance.
Provide timely strategic financial advice to the CEO and Board of Directors to support informed decision-making, ensure financial sustainability, and drive long-term organizational growth.
Support medium- and long-term business strategy development. Direct strategic and financial plan implementation, support or oversee certain shared services and subsidiary plan execution to achieve business objectives and targets.
Ensure timely and effective engagement with investors, auditors, financial institutions, regulators, legal and tax advisors, and other strategic partners.


SPECIFIC JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Group Finance Manager is responsible and accountable for the following Core job elements:


Lead the annual budgeting process in collaboration with department heads to align budgets with overall strategic goals.
Develop financial models to assess long-term growth scenarios such as market expansion and capital expenditure investments.
Monitor and report on budget vs. actual performance on a monthly basis, providing variance analysis and recommending corrective action on key deviations.
Design and maintain KPIs and financial dashboards to support Board and CEO-level reviews (e.g., EBITDA margins, working capital ratios, departmental spend efficiency).
Lead quarterly business reviews with key stakeholders to evaluate financial performance and re-align budget priorities.
Oversee cash flow planning, liquidity management, and the company’s investment strategy to ensure operational stability and growth.
Coordinate group-wide forecasting, business planning, and financial scenario modeling.
Implement strong internal control frameworks to safeguard company assets and ensure financial integrity.
Monitor adherence to regulatory requirements and support tax planning and compliance across all group entities.
Coordinate internal and external audits and ensure timely closure of audit findings.
Evaluate capital requirements and oversee preparation of investment proposals for Board approval.
Maintain strong relationships with investors, auditors, financial institutions, regulators, legal and tax advisors, and other strategic partners.
Represent the finance function in executive leadership forums and contribute to high-level decision-making.
Lead the implementation and optimization of ERP and financial reporting systems to enhance efficiency and data accuracy.
Champion data-driven decision-making through improved financial analytics and automation of reports.
Provide mentorship and capacity building for finance staff to ensure high performance and succession planning.
Align the finance function’s skills and structure to support the company’s long-term strategic goals.


EDUCATIONAL AND COLLATERAL REQUIREMENTS:


An undergraduate degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field from an accredited University and CPA / ACCA or CFA qualification.
At least ten (10) years' progressive experience in finance, with at least five (5) years in a managerial role.
Experience building financial models from scratch, budgeting, scenario analysis and stress testing required.
Strong understanding of tax laws, regulatory frameworks, and corporate governance standards.
Excellent interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills with the ability to engage with senior executives, the Board, and external stakeholders.
Self-starter. Strong analytical and outstanding strategic, interpersonal, problem solving, negotiation, complex accounting, communication and people management skills.
IT Skills: MS Office particularly excel and PowerPoint, accounting software such as Navision, SAP, QuickBooks, Oracle. more

GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION:
This positions key responsibilities are:

Co-develop with vendor and approve engineering design, timelines, costs and milestones for pre-commissioning activities and track progress against targets. Ensure accurate, efficient reporting.
Oversee equipment installation, trial runs, troubleshoot operational issues and fine-tune processes to achieve optimal performance for... full-scale production.
Co-Develop tomato processing standard operating procedures (SOPs) including sanitation and hygiene protocols. Ensure consistent quality and safety standards are met.
Secure all required permits and certifications for factory operations, ensuring compliance and readiness for production.
Ensure an optimized organizational structure with the right people in the right positions to achieve productivity targets.

EDUCATION AND COLLATERAL REQUIREMENTS:

A bachelor’s degree in engineering, Food Science, Business Administration or a related field from an accredited university. MBA is an added advantage.
At least ten (10) years of progressive leadership experience in project management and factory operations, preferably in the food processing industry.
Strong technical knowledge of food processing equipment, automation systems, and facility design principles.
Familiarity with regulatory requirements and quality standards for food manufacturing, including HACCP, GMP, and ISO certifications.
Proficiency in project management tools and software for planning, scheduling, and reporting.
Hands-on experience in factory setup, commissioning, and optimization is highly desirable.
Detail-oriented and with outstanding strategic, analytical, financial literacy, creative, problem solving and presentation skills.
Demonstrated leadership experience, labour relations, negotiating skills, board relations a plus.
Willingness to travel and work extended hours as needed to meet project deadlines. more

GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION:
This position has the overall responsibilities of:

Create and implement agricultural ingredients sourcing strategies from farmers, farmer groups, societies and cooperatives that meet international standards, are innovative, cost-effective and incorporate the growing complexities and challenges within the industry.
Achieve quality and volume sourcing targets based on... business needs for organic and industrial grade tomatoes, diverse spices, seed fruits and other agricultural produce.
Build, engage and establish sustained relationships with key farmers, village buying agents, brokers, societies, cooperatives and others in the counties of operation to assure consistent supplies.
Manage the sourcing process, stakeholders and supply chain effectively and efficiently – within budget and policies of the company.
Support the Internal Control Systems (ICS) department to achieve and maintain all local and international certifications and ensuring zero non-compliance to those certification standards.

EDUCATION AND COLLATERAL REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor’s degree in Procurement, Supply Chain or a relevant business field with ten (10) or more years’ experience sourcing and specifically managing performance & productivity of farmer organizations. Knowledge / experience in tomato and fruit purchasing is an added advantage.
Excellent understanding of farmer organizations, sourcing and procurement techniques as well as dexterity in ‘reading’ the market. Experience with tomato growing farmers and Kenya’s tomato value chain will be an added advantage.
Understands local and international certifications and how to practically manage them.
Ability to effectively communicate with farmers and management clearly, accurately and articulate the company’s vision and get farmer buy-in to enable sustained supply.
Self-starter. Result- oriented with strong analytical, and outstanding strategic, supervisory, leadership, interpersonal, mentoring, negotiation, decision making, communication and organization skills.
IT Skills: MS Office particularly Word, excel and PowerPoint. more

GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION
The positions key responsibilities are:

Create and implement innovative, cost-effective international sourcing strategies incorporating the growing complexities and challenges within the industry.
Achieve quality and volume sourcing targets for organic and convention / conversion coconuts.
Engage with, build and establish sustained, loyal relationships with farmers,... Village Buying Agents and brokers in the counties of operation on behalf of the business.
Manage the sourcing process and supply chain effectively and efficiently – within budget and policies of the company.
Support the Internal Control Systems (ICS) department to achieve and maintain all certifications, particularly Organic certification. Ensuring zero non-compliance to the certification standards.

SPECIFIC JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Sourcing & Farmer Engagement Manager will be responsible and accountable for the following Core job elements:

Develop a strong understanding of the market and monitor competitive factors and risks. Understand the potential supply base and track the market and price trends.
Refine the company’s dynamic pricing model for farmers, Village Buying Agents and brokers, including validation of parameters, assumptions and relationships between these and the recommended price.
Design optimal logistics structure to support sourcing initiatives. Develop total landed coconut cost models to monitor spend and derive relevant insights to support sourcing strategies and decisions.
Develop a comprehensive sourcing plan for organic and conversion farmers to meet volume and quality targets.
Negotiate prices and terms and conditions with farmers, farmer groups and suppliers and ensure that such negotiations are properly contracted, documented, and filed.
Develop a performance review system to measure volume capture from organic and conversion farmers YoY and sustained engagement from existing and new farmer groups.
Meet with farmers to discuss performance metrics, provide performance feedback and forecasts to identify any deviations at an early stage. Ensure timely and effective implementation of remedial actions.
Actively engage into networking activities to leverage coconut sourcing knowledge and opportunities for the company: peers, professional associations, NGO’s, Government and local authorities, suppliers, etc.
Execute all certification programs, consistent with the organizational strategic plan and compliant with Ecocert, USDA organic standards and or the standards of other applicable accreditation bodies.
Develop and implement a loyalty program for specific farmer segments, starting with the currently established farmer groups.
Provide input to the seedling program to target distribution efforts for farmer groups that have potential for increased volume share capture.
Oversee internal control systems established and liaise with the ICS Manager to make improvements needed, specifically on ensuring zero non-compliance to the certification standards.

EDUCATIONAL & COLLATERAL REQUREMENTS:

Bachelor’s degree in Procurement, Supply Chain, agronomy or a relevant business field with ten (10) or more years’ experience sourcing and specifically managing performance & productivity of farmer organizations. Knowledge or and experience in coconut purchasing is an added advantage.
Excellent understanding of farmer organizations, sourcing and procurement techniques as well as dexterity in ‘reading’ the market. Understands international certifications and how to practically manage them.
Ability to effectively communicate with farmers and management clearly, accurately and articulate the company’s vision and get farmer buy-in.
Self-starter. Result-oriented with strong analytical, and outstanding strategic, supervisory, leadership, interpersonal, mentoring, negotiation, decision making, communication and organization skills.
IT Skills: MS Office particularly Word, excel and PowerPoint. more

GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION
The positions key responsibilities are:

Financial modeling, budgeting, variance analysis, business intelligence and forecasting.
Establish and evaluate businesses capital requirements, support fund raising and investor relations.
Manage liquidity risks within the approved thresholds. Advise on cost of funds, risks and pricing.
Manage balance sheet risks and ensure... balance sheet optimization. Champion ALCO meetings.
Maintaining timeliness, accuracy and adequacy of financial and management reporting. Support management, Board, investor and other stakeholder reporting.
Support all round risk management and compliance including investor covenants.
Support people management including training, performance management and mentoring.

SPECIFIC JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Assistant Manager Finance - Treasury is responsible and accountable for the following Core job elements:

Assemble industry-based market research and advise on industry benchmarks and trends. Manage data, trends, insights and metrics for the business and the industry.
Financial analysis, variance analysis and forecasting of growth projections for the business including budgets.
Providing analysis and modeling support to the business as per business requirements.
Cashflow projections and planning-preparation of rolling budgets. Contribute to the drafting and / or revising of annual budgets and business plans.
Extracting and providing cash liquidity analysis. Preparation of cash call requests from the holding company for approval.
Projecting the funding gaps, generating & updating funding pipelines, organizing meetings, preparation of information packs, responding to queries from analysts and investors.
Liaising with financial advisors, conduct due diligence, prepare documentation / contracts negotiations, closure, disbursement, relationship management and monitoring for compliance against covenants, reporting requirements etc.
Reviewing revenue, pricing, expenses, portfolio mix and aspects that assist in improving performance and decision making.
Conducting system reviews and system enhancements for business modelling and analytics.
Reviewing branch accounts and branch data to give performance improvement recommendations.
Supporting the executive leadership in preparation of board packs and stakeholder presentations.

EDUCATIONAL & COLLATERAL REQUREMENTS:

Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting or Business Administration and CPA / ACCA or CFA qualification.
Six (6) or more years’ experience in corporate finance (either buy or sell side of debt or equity). Experience in Commercial or Microfinance Banking is an added advantage.
Experience building financial models from scratch, budgeting, scenario analysis and stress testing required. Practical knowledge, experience with applicable tax laws required.
Self-starter. Strong analytical and outstanding strategic, interpersonal, problem solving, negotiation, complex accounting, communication and people management skills.
IT Skills: MS Office particularly excel and PowerPoint, accounting software such as Navision, SAP, QuickBooks, Oracle. more

GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION
The position's key responsibilities are:

Develop and lead the implementation of effective and efficient company policies and processes aligned with the strategic goals
Direct, manage and oversee day-to-day administrative and operational functions of the business
Providing oversight and strategy input to the Human Resources, Legal and Logistics departments.
Ensure an... optimized organizational structure with the right people in the right positions, ensuring achievement of productivity targets
Managing the organization's customer service operations to enhance a customer-centric culture, improve turnaround time and meet customer retention targets.

SPECIFIC JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Operations Officer is responsible and accountable for the following core job elements:

Ensure optimal operational performance while generating interdepartmental synergy to deliver excellent customer service
Regularly evaluate the efficiency of business procedures according to organizational objectives and apply improvements
Review financial information and adjust operational budgets to promote profitability. Ensure operational costs are kept to a minimum
Implement necessary checks and balance to mitigate operational risks across all departments and to ensure the best interest of the company
Planning, developing and implementing operational strategies for the business to meet agreed performance targets within agreed-upon budgets and timescales
Develop policies and procedures for implementing quality and customer-service standards. Build and retain a customer-centric and operational excellent culture
Supports the Directors on their initiatives, with clear and timely communication on all relevant governance, compliance and risk matters
Manage the flow of information to the Directors, capturing the salient, need-to-know and value-added information required to drive the company strategy
Proactively strive to have an in-depth understanding and keep abreast of the new laws and regulations of the local and international property market being aware of the current legal issues of the country specifically pertaining to the property law.

EDUCATIONAL & COLLATERAL REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor’s degree in business or related field
Ten (10) or more years of experience in project management. Experience in the real estate sector is an added advantage.
Experience leading multiple departments in meeting targets
Experience implementing strategic plans across the business
Thorough understanding of management of a real estate business, regulatory compliance and reporting as well as demonstrable commercial and business acumen
Outstanding strategic, problem-solving, negotiation, communication and change management skills
Experience providing leadership and oversight to Legal, Finance, HR and Logistics teams
Proof he or she is an independent thinker able to negotiate, persuade and influence high level decision making at the top levels of the business. more