iRecruiters Africa is a fast-growing recruitment firm, offering world-class virtual recruitment & job posting services.
Mission
To be Africa’s trusted high quality talent providers, creating value-added partnership
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The Head of Admin will oversee administrative operations, financial oversight (non-CFO-level), production operations support, and organisational coordination. The role is ideal for a detail-oriented, analytical, and structured professional capable of building systems, strengthening internal controls, and driving execution across teams.
This is a strategic and execution-heavy leadership role reporting directly to the CEO, with the opportunity to evolve into the COO position as the organisation scales.
The role will be focused also on ensuring that our Zoho Implementation is executed across the company.
Qualifications & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Engineering, or related fields.
ACA/ACCA or other professional accounting certification is strongly preferred.
5–10 years’ experience in administration, operations, finance/accounting, or manufacturing-related support roles.
Experience in a structured, manufacturing, automotive, engineering, or fast-growing start-up environment.
Strong operational, organisational, and financial documentation skills.
Proficiency with Excel, ERPs, Zoho CRM, data reporting, and administrative management tools.
Preferred
Experience in the taxi, logisitics operations, fleet operations, automotive, renewable energy, power or industrial sectors.
Background supporting physical capacity expansion or operational scale-ups.
Familiarity with Zoho, LEAN operations, continuous improvement, and workflow optimisation.