Job Vacancies at Jumia

Department: Internal Audit

Job Objectives

• The “Internal Auditor, Business Processes & Operations” is responsible for evaluating the adequacy and operational effectiveness of Jumia’s risk management, internal control, and governance processes.
• He/she shall plan and execute audit assignments to ensure that people, processes, and tools operate according to defined policies, standards, procedures and applicable laws and regulations.
• Overall, his/her assignments shall provide a reasonable assurance whether significant financial, compliance and operational risks are appropriately identified and mitigated.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a thorough understanding of the business, risks and processes for assigned projects.
• Implement the approved audit plan including any special tasks or projects that may be required.
• Plan and execute audits of operational, compliance and financial processes (with 40 to 60% travel time to emerging countries and Europe in favorable travel conditions).
• Be a key influencer of operational efficiency and well-controlled change management.
• Present findings to management and provide practical recommendations for improvement and actively monitor audit related remediation and management action plans.

Requirements & Experience

• Bachelor's / Master's in Business Administration, Accounting, or Finance.
• 2-5 years of internal/external audit experience preferably with big 4 practice firm; or risk advisory function.
• Prior experience in an internal controls department and professional qualifications will be a plus (CPA, ACCA, CIA).
• Strong background and experience with audit methodologies and techniques.
• In-depth knowledge of GAAP/IFRS guidelines and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) rules and regulations.
• Practical and creative in suggesting recommendations for improvement to internal control processes, policies and procedures.
• Excellent analytical skills for identifying control issues.
• Excellent writing skills in English (French is a plus) sufficient to prepare audit material.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft office, with emphasis on Excel and PowerPoint.

We Offer

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment.
• The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team working around the world.
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet ventures.

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Department: Commercial - Analysts

Job Objective

• The Category Analyst is the owner of the P&L of his managed categories. As part of his job, the Category Analyst will have to show a great expertise of his categories with a great knowledge of the dynamics of the market.
• The Category Analyst will be interacting mostly with Account Managers at Jumia.
• Responsible for defining the assortment strategy, ensuring that key products are always available with the best market prices.
• The Category Analyst will be working on identifying consumer insights in order to unlock growth.
• He will be responsible for defining and steering the promotional campaign covering his categories.
• Based on his expertise, the Category Analyst will also be the owner of allocating of the key sellers that are leading his category.

Responsibilities

• Steer the full P&L of the category
• Define assortment strategy
• Ensuring 100% availability of key products
• Develop deep consumer insights on the category through consumer focus groups
• Identifies key pain points and frictions from consumers and defines plans to eliminate them
• Knows all key players in this category and market share structure at region level
• Plan category related promotional events
• Revamp the ecosystem of tools and reports for account managers
• Helps steering the performance of key JBP
• Input specific Sales Force battles to the team

Required Qualification

• 2-3 years experience in a top-tier consulting firm, e-commerce company or investment bank
• Top 1% Business / Engineering Schools and Universities

We Offer

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment.
• The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team working around the world.
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet ventures.

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Department: Commercial - Commercial Planning

Job Objective

• The Commercial Analyst - Consumer Electronics will be responsible for providing proactive and actionable insights through persistent forward-looking analysis and financial performance evaluation across the assigned categories.
• You will play a key role in supporting the Commercial Planning Manager in reviewing Commercial performance for the optimization of revenue and gross profit.
• In addition, a pivotal responsibility will be to drive proactive and actionable commercial insights, standardization of analytics, customer engagement routines and performance reviews.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for production and communication on key insights on your category (best selling products, price points, brands, product specs, etc.) to be used in making high impact decisions
• Supporting the execution of the commercial plan, ensuring Jumia always has for the customer, the right products at the best price, at the right place. Being within our teams, an early adopter, a leading ambassador, and a relentless missionary of Jumia's strategic commercial orientation.
• Owning our inventory monitoring process to ensure best in class inventory management
• Understanding all your markets, vendors and customers, bringing valuable insights and convictions to support your data driven commercial recommendations.
• Building analysis, flying high and diving deep, to ensure smart reporting on the performance across specific categories, Supporting Commercial planning team to deliver best in class performance steering
• Working seamlessly with all departments (Commercial, Marketing, Onsite, Operations...), enabling decision making, problem solving and ensuring laser focus execution.
• Support massive and complex commercial operations and project management initiatives, coordinating effectively cross functions initiatives.
• Constantly working toward improving and simplifying our tools and process.

Qualification & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree from accredited universities.
• 2-4 years’ experience in analyzing large data sets to make strategic decisions.
• Proficiency in MS Office, Excel (VBA would be a plus)
• Proficiency in SQL and Google suite
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and presentation skills
• Excellent analytical, numerical and problem-solving skills required
• Ability to work to deadlines and targets, can prioritize tasks under pressure

We Offer

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
• The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team working around the world
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet ventures.