Current Job Placements at Pivotage Consulting

Ref No: PAWS/1118/FA
Career: Mid/Level Expert

Job Description
The purpose for this role will include but not limited to:

• Prepare and analyze financial data and information.
• Communicate and implement the company's strategy internally and externally.
• Ensure that all employees, partners, suppliers, and contractors understand the company-wide strategic plan and how it carries out the company's overall goals.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead on the strategic planning and policy development across the Group, Africa-wide, in line with corporate and local priorities.
• Provide a professional research and review service to deliver thorough, relevant, accurate and innovative solutions and projects that support our business-focus areas.
• Coordinate and carry out projects to support Group-wide business operations.
• Lead on the development and review of plans, processes and strategies.
• Undertake quantitative and qualitative research to inform plans, processes, policies, investments and performance improvement across the Group.
• Provide advice around report writing and corporate processes, ensuring high standards are maintained.
• Prepare clear and accurate briefing papers and reports to support senior leadership team.
• Liaise with internal and external partners to support partnership working.
• Maintain an up-to-date understanding of policy, legislation and key industry drivers across Group companies.
• Develop and maintain a good understanding of the service’s business needs to ensure that research, strategic planning and policy reviews are relevant and add value to the business and comply with the corporate priorities and statutory frameworks.
• Generate and monitor key performance ratios.
• Prepare financial statement summaries and analysis of financial statements as required by Executive Management.
• Assist in the preparation and monitoring of monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports.
• Perform periodic analysis of the financial statements to ensure the Group is operating in compliance with contemporary standards and regulations.
• Analyze spending patterns on a timely basis (weekly or more often) to ensure expenditures are within appropriate budget guidelines.
• Develop and oversee a reporting structure between Group and subsidiaries’ personnel for investment financial and budget compliance.
• Assist in the development of the annual budget and performs periodic analysis to ensure the Group is operating within budget guidelines.
• Develop and analyze the annual budgets to ensure expenditures are within appropriate operating ratios and they meet projected growth expectations.
• Assist in gathering information in preparation for the annual financial audits.
• Perform monthly analysis of the financial statements to determine variances and areas for improvement. Produces monthly reports necessary to explain the variances to be used by management.
• Work with the internal auditor to help manage Corporate Governance Compliance with both the internal documentation and evaluation of internal controls and the ongoing monitoring and testing.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline.
• 4- 8 years’ experience with at least 3 years in a similar role.
• Strong Analytical and problem solving skills.
• Interpersonal skills.
• Decision making skills.
• Ability to proficiently use computers and applications.
• Knowledge of Financial Ratios/Analysis.
• Organization skills.
• Ability to work under minimal supervision.
• Excellent communication skill.
• Result-oriented and performance driven mindset.

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Ref: PAWS/1118/S&ME
Career: Mid/Level Expert
Reports to: Sales and Marketing Manager.

Job Responsibilities

• Plan, develop and implement effective marketing communication campaigns to promote products and services.
• Analyze trends, data, demographics, pricing strategies, and other information that can potentially improve marketing and sales performance.
• Identify product improvements or new products by remaining current on industry trends, market activities, and competitors.
• Identify business opportunities by prospecting and evaluating their position in the industry.
• Maintain relationship with clients by providing support, information, and guidance; researching and recommending new opportunities; recommending profit and service improvements.
• Create a plan for gaining customers and then retaining them based on warranties or guarantees.
• Sell products by establishing contact and developing relationships with prospective clients.
• Prepare sales report by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information.
• Manage the sales and marketing representatives in other regions.
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in Sales and Marketing.
• Good network of prospective members and ability to close sales.
• Strong understanding of customer and market dynamics and requirements.
• Must have the ability to take initiatives and accept challenges.
• Must have the ability to be upright in areas of personal character, commitment, organizational, communication and selling skills.
• Must have the ability to demonstrate, interact and cooperate with all company employees.
• Must have the ability to maintain accurate records of all marketing activities and continuously adhere to all company policies, procedures and business ethics codes
• Must be good looking, smart, intelligent, trendy and appealing.

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Job Ref.: PAWS/1118/MA
Career: Mid/Level Expert

Job Responsilbilities

• Generate accurate and timely management reports with all relevant supporting schedules.
• Ensure that inventories are properly captured with monthly reconciliation with physical stock.
• Maintain fixed assets on the accounting software and generating monthly reports.
• Reconcile W.I.P, investments and inter-company receivable account.
• Ensure that adequate records are kept of all withholding and value added taxes.
• Ensure the prompt remittance and collection of tax receipts/certificates.
• Liaise with all SBUs and departments in relation to budget figures/requirements and the preparation/compilation of the final (annual) budget and business plan with the support of the financial/treasury accountant.
• Monitor all cash advances and ensure that they are retired and accurately expensed at due time(s).
• Prepare monthly and quarterly management accounts in the prescribed format for submission by the 7th of every month.
• Generate and post journals and subsequent posting to the general ledger.
• Review ledger postings, warehouse issuances and capitalize fixed assets as appropriate.
• Ensure that all sales are correctly invoiced in conformance with set selling prices and that VAT are appropriately and adequately charged on all sales invoices.
• Ensure that withholding taxes claimable are received as at due date(s).
• Analyze and review financial ratios, including aging and average collection period of receivables for management decision making and to align with standards and financial covenants.
• Respond to management enquiries by gathering, analyzing, summarizing, and interpreting financial and non-financial data.
• Prepare special reports by studying variances; preparing budgets; developing forecasts.
• Update job knowledge by keeping current with financial regulations and accepted practices; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications.
• Any other assignment as may be assigned by the CFO from time to time.   

Job Requirements

• B.Sc/HND (Accounting/Finance)
• Part/full qualification CIMA/ICAN/ACCA.
• 4- 8 years with at least 3 years in similar role.
• Strong Analytical and problem solving skills.
• Highly proficient in the use of SAP.
• Critical Reasoning.
• Ability to proficiently use computers and applications.
• Knowledge of Financial Ratios/Analysis.
• Profound knowledge of IFRS.
• Ability to work under minimal supervision.
• Excellent communication skill.
• Result-oriented and performance driven mindset.