Role Summary

Husk is seeking an Area Sales Lead to join the growing team in Nigeria. The ideal candidate will play an integral role in driving power sales and ensuring optimum revenue generation across our various mini-grid sites. We are looking for someone who has experience within the Nigerian context and understands the sales dynamics in rural environments.

The individual should also be passionate about contributing to solving one of Nigeria’s most critical challenges – the energy access deficit. 

Key responsibilities:

General

• Manage site sales agents and other field representatives to coordinate and drive field sales activities.
• Present, promote and sell products/services using solid arguments to existing and prospective customers.
• Achieve agreed upon sales targets and outcomes within schedule.
• Coordinate sales effort with team members and other relevant business units.
• Keep abreast of best practices and sales trends
• Other duties as assigned

Sales Management

• Drive sales activities across all mini-grid locations, in line with sales targets and overall business strategy
• Expedite the resolution of customer issues and complaints to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Leverage sales data to understand customer behaviour, trends, and patterns for driving sales.

Sales Reporting and Data Management

• Ensure prompt and accurate reporting of activities from all site sales agents.
• Ensure a clear understanding of the sales potential of locations under management, track sales, and provide status reports on a timely basis.
• Leverage sales data to understand customer behaviour, trends, and patterns for driving sales.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Maintain regular communication, and develop positive and productive relationships with various stakeholders, community leaders, customer/client groups, etc.

Required Skills and Competencies

• Graduate from a leading institution with a related degree in science, engineering, or social sciences. Graduate degree or relevant training or certifications in sales; a plus.
•  3-5 years of experience in a similar role within the power or telecommunications sectors, delivering on sales targets and revenue growth.
• Ability to drive sales and ensure closure for optimal service delivery.
• Excellent skills with MS Office.
• Superb interpersonal skills, including the ability to quickly build rapport with customers, site sales agents, and representatives.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-diverse environment coordinating with multiple stakeholders.
• Responsive with great time management and organizational skills
• Relationship management skills and openness to feedback

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Role Summary

Husk is seeking a skilled HR Operations Specialist to focus on the practical, day-to-day activities that support the HR department’s functioning and the business’ workforce at large. This includes managing payroll, ensuring compliance with labor laws, maintaining the Human Resource Information System (HRIS), overseeing the onboarding and offboarding processes. The HR Operations specialist will also play a crucial role in executing strategic initiatives, such as improving employee engagement, developing structured onboarding programs, and facilitating a positive work environment.

Key responsibilities:

General

• Talent Acquisition: Support manpower planning and drive the recruiting strategy for the company, while bringing a high level of clarity surrounding hiring plans and metrics.
• Talent Retention: Support the design & and implementation of various short-term and long-term plans for various levels to ensure the retention of critical talent and high performers.
• Training and Development: Evolve systematic Training needs identification, prepare a training calendar and events, and schedule the same as per business requirements.

Payroll & Employee Benefits

• Payroll Management
• Administer health and life insurance programs
• Inform employees about additional benefits they’re eligible for (e.g extra vacation days)

Learning & Development

• Create and execute learning strategies and programs
• Evaluate individual and organizational development needs
• Implement various learning methods companywide (e.g. coaching, job-shadowing, online training)
• Design and deliver e-learning courses, workshops and other trainings
• Assess the success of development plans and help employees make the most of learning opportunities
• Help managers develop their team members through career pathing
• Track budgets and negotiate contracts

Administration

• Update employee records with new hire information and/or changes in employment status
• Update internal databases with new hire information
• Maintain organizational charts and detailed job descriptions along with salary records
• Monitor budgets by department
• Prepare reports and presentations on HR-related metrics like total number of hires by department
• Develop training and onboarding material

Compliance

• Process employees’ queries and respond in a timely manner
• Stay up-to-date and comply with changes in labor legislation

Employee Engagement

• Design an employee engagement engagement strategy.
• Come up with noble employee engagement initiatives.
• Coordinate and evaluate the employee engagement strategy.

Human Resource Operations Specialist

• Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria
• Full-time

Company Description

About Us

Husk Power Systems (“Husk”) is an award-winning clean energy company serving rural India and Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2023, it was named “World’s Best Challenger Brand” in the energy industry and is a 3-time Global Cleantech 100 company. The company’s AI-powered rural energy platform provides 24/7 renewable power to rural households, commercial customers, institutions, and small factories. It also delivers a range of other products and services, including e-commerce and credit financing of branded appliances for home and commercial use, as well as community-based solutions for e-mobility and the agricultural value chain. Husk’s mission is to supercharge economic growth and social well-being in rural communities that are unserved and underserved.

Husk Values

Honesty and Integrity; Act with discipline and integral to your job; Respect each other; Respect Human rights within our responsibility and contractual obligations. Frugal Innovation, Quality and Reliability; Respect for environment, health, and safety. Excellence as an attitude; We shall align perception to a common understanding of performance rating and measures., We > I, Fail Fast and Learn Faster Continuous Learning.

Husk is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, or religion. Husk is committed to improving gender balance within its teams in Nigeria and globally. Female candidates are therefore highly encouraged to apply even if not all requirements are met.

Benefits

Husk offers flexible working conditions with employee benefits that are in line with global best practices. These include clear career growth planning, transparent annual review processes that are gender inclusive, maternity, and paternity leave, gender-inclusive workplace conditions, family health insurance, and frequent training to assist the employees to grow in and to the next roles. Husk does not believe in micromanagement and encourages its employees to have a healthy work-life balance hence giving them the freedom to manage their workload to be compatible with their life.

Job Description

Position Name: Human Resource Operations Specialist

Division / Function:  HR/Admin

Location of the Job: Abuja, Nigeria

Reports to: Assistant Manager, HR & Admin 

Role Summary

Husk is seeking a skilled HR Operations Specialist to focus on the practical, day-to-day activities that support the HR department’s functioning and the business’ workforce at large. This includes managing payroll, ensuring compliance with labor laws, maintaining the Human Resource Information System (HRIS), overseeing the onboarding and offboarding processes. The HR Operations specialist will also play a crucial role in executing strategic initiatives, such as improving employee engagement, developing structured onboarding programs, and facilitating a positive work environment.

Key responsibilities:

General

• Talent Acquisition: Support manpower planning and drive the recruiting strategy for the company, while bringing a high level of clarity surrounding hiring plans and metrics.

• Talent Retention: Support the design & and implementation of various short-term and long-term plans for various levels to ensure the retention of critical talent and high performers.

• Training and Development: Evolve systematic Training needs identification, prepare a training calendar and events, and schedule the same as per business requirements.

Payroll & Employee Benefits

• Payroll Management

• Administer health and life insurance programs

• Inform employees about additional benefits they’re eligible for (e.g extra vacation days)

Learning & Development

• Create and execute learning strategies and programs

• Evaluate individual and organizational development needs

• Implement various learning methods companywide (e.g. coaching, job-shadowing, online training)

• Design and deliver e-learning courses, workshops and other trainings

• Assess the success of development plans and help employees make the most of learning opportunities

• Help managers develop their team members through career pathing

• Track budgets and negotiate contracts

Administration

• Update employee records with new hire information and/or changes in employment status

• Update internal databases with new hire information

• Maintain organizational charts and detailed job descriptions along with salary records

• Monitor budgets by department

• Prepare reports and presentations on HR-related metrics like total number of hires by department

• Develop training and onboarding material

Compliance

• Process employees’ queries and respond in a timely manner

• Stay up-to-date and comply with changes in labor legislation

Employee Engagement

• Design an employee engagement engagement strategy.

• Come up with noble employee engagement initiatives.

• Coordinate and evaluate the employee engagement strategy.

Location and Travel

This role is based in Abuja, Nigeria

Salary

NGN 200,000 to NGN 300,000 based on experience.

Required Skills & Attributes

• 4+ years of human resources, talent acquisition, and Business Development experience preferred. 
• Relevant HR Certification obtained would be advantageous.
• Work experience in the power sector, FMCG, or consumer durable industry will be an advantage.
• Strong understanding of staffing principles, laws, and procedures and solid working experience in the end-to-end recruitment process. 
• Demonstrated experience in Learning & Development 
• Able to provide high-level management support to various business units.
• Ability to drive engagement with relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Clear and concise communication and presentation skills in both verbal and written contexts.
• Commitment to continuous process improvement in people strategies and initiatives.
• Meticulous in documenting and reporting. Can create working processes and databases for building robust role pipelines.
• Experience within the off-grid (power) sector is a plus.

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Role Summary

Husk is seeking a General Manager - Finance is a senior leadership position responsible for overseeing and managing all financial aspects of the organization in Nigeria and other geographies in Africa. This role plays a critical role in shaping the financial strategy, ensuring financial stability, and providing leadership to the finance team. This person will work closely with the country and global leadership team and contribute to strategic decision-making and planning.

This position provides the opportunity to join a growing team that is changing the face of rural electrification in Nigeria and India.

Key responsibilities:

Financial Strategy and Planning:

• Develop and implement financial strategies, plans, and policies to achieve the organization's financial objectives.
• Provide financial analysis and recommendations to support long-term and short-term decision-making.

Financial Reporting:

• Prepare and present accurate, timely, and comprehensive financial reports to the executive team and the board of directors.
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards.
• Timely preparation of compliance reports for investors and lenders.
• Monitoring and managing financial covenants and KPIs as prescribed by lenders and investors.

Statutory Audit:

• Manage audits for Nigeria and other African entities in a time-bound manner.
• Manage transfer pricing documentation and ensure arm’s length inter-company transactions.

Budget Management:

• Lead the budgeting process, working with department heads to create and manage the annual budget.
• Monitor budget performance and provide insights for cost control and revenue optimization.
• Prepare financial forecasts and present them to management for effective decision-making.

Cash Flow Management:

• Manage cash flow and liquidity, ensuring that the organization can meet its financial obligations and make strategic investments.
• Implement cash management policies and strategies.
• Managing Accounts Receivables, Payables, and Inventory.

Risk Management:

• Identify, assess, and mitigate financial risks like foreign exchange risk, etc. that could impact the organization's financial health.
• Develop risk management strategies and policies.

Financial Operations:

• Oversee accounting, financial systems, and financial operations.
• Manage Direct and Indirect taxes.
• Ensure accuracy and compliance with accounting principles and standards.
• Manage compliances and filing.

Team Leadership:

• Led and mentor the finance team across multiple geographic locations in Africa, providing guidance and professional development opportunities.
• Build a high-performance finance department.

Financial Modelling and Projections:

• Develop and maintain financial models and projections to support strategic planning and decision-making.

Stakeholder Relations:

• Maintain relationships with investors, lenders, and external financial partners.
• Communicate financial performance and plans effectively to these stakeholders.
• Manage and retain relationships with vendors/suppliers.
• Maintain close Inter-departmental relationships for planning and providing strategic inputs.
• Interact closely with financial consultants, auditors (Big4), and government agencies.

Internal Audit:

• Develop/review, document, and implement financial policies and processes.
• Conduct regular Internal audits with a view to improving internal controls and adherence to policies and processes.

Fund Raise:

• Assist Global CFO in various fundraising activities like due diligence, financial queries, etc.
• Develop and manage relationships with various Banks/financial institutions to arrange on and off-balance sheet working capital limits.

Required Skills & Attributes

• Chartered Accountant / CPA or equivalent degree.
• Extensive experience of at least 15 years in finance, with a strong track record of financial leadership in progressively responsible roles.
• In-depth knowledge of financial principles, regulations, and best practices.
• Excellent knowledge of corporate financial law.
• Knowledge of Direct and Indirect Tax and prevailing accounting standards.
• Knowledge of IFRS.
• Knowledge of accounting for retail business and commercial projects.
• Hands-on experience in risk management in Nigeria.
• Able to handle large data files and consolidate multi-currency financials for multi-geography entities.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Willingness to adapt to changing priorities and challenges.
• Excellent leadership and team management abilities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Problem solver and critical thinker mindset with strong decision-making capabilities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a multi-tasking mindset.
• Proficiency with financial software and tools.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office tools.
• High ethical standards and integrity.
• Hands-on experience in financial management software and SAP (will be an added advantage).