Job Vacancies at Jumia Nigeria

Job Objective

As a Tax Manager who will direct and manage multiple operations related to taxes and deliver tax services, your primary responsibility is to manage specific tax-related functions in addition to compliance-related activities i.e. report monthly and quarterly tax preparation. In addition to this, provide a reconciliation of a company's condition for income tax.

Responsibilities

• ​Plan, manage and develop over all aspects of the company& tax process.
• Deliver a full range of tax services within a given period.
• Identify tax risks and provide mitigation plans.
• Build and maintain healthy relationships with the company’s consultants &tax regulators. Coordinate with tax audits and special tax-related projects.
• Provide inventive tax planning and review intricate income tax returns.
• Implement opportunities for process improvement in company tax procedures.
• Manage and support members of the AR/AP team on tax related topics.
• Mentor accounting staff and review their performance on tax related topics.
• Manage tax provision and tax compliance process of the company.
• Maintain and reconcile tax balances on general ledger.
• Prepare all tax papers on a regular basis.
• Review quarterly tax projections.
• Timely filing of consolidated federal, state and local income tax returns and other business filings.
• Monitor legislative and regulatory tax law development and create strategies to capitalize on changes to taxation legislation.
• Provide help in minimizing tax risk in regards to acquisitions, mergers, and various other business dealings.
• Ensure compliance with laws and regulations.

Qualification & Experience

• BSc (Master degree as added advantage) in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in finance, accounting, and operational processes.
• Proven 5+ years of experience as a tax manager or accountant or a similar role.
• Solid knowledge about Nigeria federal, state, and local reporting requirements i.e excellent knowledge of tax
  accounting, tax compliance and all types of tax returns.
• ICAN or CITN (or both) membership compulsory. Strong finance and accounting knowledge, including experience with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
• Proficiency in MS office and tax reporting software.
• Good communication skills. 
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential data.
• Hardworking and honest.
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.

​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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​Job Objective

The Treasury Officer will proactively take ownership of a range of duties including but not limited to the resolution of banking and financial service inquiries, comprehensive analysis and conclusions on operating and payments activities, and execution of treasury compliance activities related to banking, payments and investments.

Responsibilities 

• Proactively monitor cash management processes, identifying non- standard activity, exceptions or non-compliance to cash, banking and treasury policies, and escalating to management (optimize cash management processes and systems).
• Manage the daily cash flows/ liquidity and ensure availability of funds to meet the company’s operations and all likely contingencies.
• Prepare cash forecasts and manage cash flows/cycles ensuring availability of adequate funds to meet daily operational requirements.
• Identify the need and request for funds from Group Treasury as required.
• Validate all supplier and vendor payments and ensure that all requests for payment are supported with valid invoices/ receipts and other supporting documents in line with financial policies.
• Oversee the disbursement of cash ensuring compliance with defined policies and procedures.
• Establish and manage relationships with key bankers and investors.
• Participate/ provide inputs in the review of company’s bankers ensuring compliance with Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Continually identify new banking service opportunities and provide recommendations and/ or business case for adoption of such services.
• Perform any other duties as assigned by the Head of Finance

Qualification & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Economics or other related discipline.
• Relevant professional certification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA).
• Minimum of five (5) years relevant work experience.
• Good understanding of trends, challenges, opportunities, regulations and legislations relating to bank industry.
• Strong finance and accounting knowledge, including experience with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
• Strong data analysis and modelling skills.
• Sound business acumen.
• Good communication skills.
• Good interpersonal and people management skills.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• High ethical standards and integrity.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Good problem-solving skills.

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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​Job Objective

As AP officer, you will be responsible for timely processing of vendors payments, booking of expenses and reconciliation of vendor balances. Overall, your responsibilities will include verification of vendor claims before payments are made and proper accounting of goods and services in a timely manner.

​Responsibilities 

• Check accuracy of invoices
• Input and code invoices to cost centre
• Process invoices
• Match Invoices with Purchase Order (if applicable)
• Send invoices to Manager for payment approval
• Schedule payment runs based on standard company payment terms
• Verify and process employee expense claims and manage the
  approval and payment process.
• Update and maintain vendor database in a timely manner.
• Perform reconciliations including supplier statement reconciliations, accrual accounts reconciliation and more.
• Support the month end process by providing supporting documentation for month end journalsReport on Aged Payables plus other ad hoc reporting where
• applicable
• Identify improvements to the accounts payable process.

Qualification & Experience

• BSc in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience (ICAN membership added advantage)
• Good communication skills and reporting skill.
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Solid understanding of basic accounting and accounts payable
  principles.
• Strong finance and accounting knowledge, including experience with
• International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
• Proven ability to calculate, post and manage financial records
• Accurate data entry skills
• Ability to build good relationships with vendors and suppliers
• Ability to priorities and multitask
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability work as part of a broader team
• Intermediate computer software skills, including Excel and Accounting packages

​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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Job Objective

You will handle the production of Jumia marketing design production for online & offline needs. This entails but not limited to working directly with the commercial teams, customer care, J-force, social media, affiliates, onsite and various other teams. You will report to your Design lead among other various reporting channels including your
CMOs, Heads of design, etc. You will assist in training new design hires, uphold design asset QC while keeping
schedule and capacity requirements through design sprints. You will also act as a touch point for design related consultations from onsite to marketing run campaigns local operations and sometimes other Jumia ventures across
the world with absence of your design lead. You will assume Design lead role and responsibilities when they are indisposed (you don’t need a title to be a leader)

Key Responsibilities

Asset production

• You will produce design materials for all Jumia marketing, commercial, onsite, and
• social engagements requirements. You will assist in creating and developing campaign
• ideas and concepts, applying consumer behavior insights to customer journeys and
• experiences on/in Jumia. You will share incremental improvements, feedback on
• process, and participate in regular creative brainstorm sessions. You will produce design work, assist in training and managing Junior designers, quality control of design for all assets during campaigns and normal CP. You will
• facilitate skills transfer to new and struggling designers through mentorship and hands on training sessions.
• You will exemplify our Jumia culture as a senior designer to new hires; you will be expected to be a role model to all Jumia employees

Marketing and Sales
You will work with Vendor and Category management teams to shape the messaging and communication for Jumia campaigns.

UX and Product
You will be required to share feedback on our products to help refine and improve them. You will be required to participate in UX tests and reviews from time to time

Training
You will participate in training junior designers. You need to keep up with ecommerce trends and learnings from within Jumia and without, you will be expected to study and keep up with world design fails and success stories related to ecommerce, innovations from other leading platforms to help develop new ground-breaking products for local applications.

Analysis
You will incorporate best practices and success case scenarios to shape future marketing and engagement communications through design.

Brand maintenance and development

• Maintain consistency in use of the brands. You will study and use our brand guides and rule books to make sure all our communications adhere to our brand identity. You will act as a guardian to said brand identity and call out fails and breaches in said brand guides. You will train new designers on the brand guidelines and make sure all local
• touch points reflect said guidelines in all use cases. You will propose and observe areas of improvements for said guidelines; even if just to update them.

How
Marketing and campaigns
Create visual identities and oversee their adaptation across multiple platforms Work with stakeholders to review and approve final campaign assets and guides You will apply and review production on said guides for enforcement, QC fails and recommend changes on team’s design production Research market trends and conduct competitive analysis to improve inhouse standards and benchmarks, making recommendations to your team lead Promote skills development and tools competence within the team

People

• Promote creative skills development by promoting curiosity and inquisitive attitudes withing team mates
• Identity struggling team mates and recommend training and improvement programs to your team lead Assist your team lead in management tasks and roles from time to time Review capacity requirements, share feedback with your team lead. Make a strong role model influence off the clock and on it. Grow your team as designers
• and people as well. In extreme scenarios, be ready to make tough decisions by making
• compelling arguments for termination with well documented support to your team lead.

UI/UX and Product
Propose improvements during test cycles and give feedback on design samples and modules
Receive feedback from other teams about design and interaction bottlenecks on the websites and escalate using proper channels for action

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Degree/Cert. in Design, Visual/Fine Arts or a relevant field
• 3+ years of experience leading creative experience design or comparative position or equivalent experience (experience in ecommerce/ customer experience would be a plus)
• Strong people skills
• Comfortable working in a high impact, high energy, fast-paced environment
• Proven competence in design standard tools e.g., Adobe suite
• Tolerant working under pressure where high stakes are on the table
• Showcased creativity

​We Offer

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
• A unique opportunity of having strong impact in building the African ecommerce sector
• The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team

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Job Objective

The Sourcing Associate will be responsible for the inventory management of our controlled ecommerce grocery supply and our dark store supply. He will be working with the commercial teams to ensure correct inventory levels at all times - creating POs, matching inventory to demand, working with the supplier to adjust PO, working with Jumia Services to inbound stock in a timely manner.

Responsibilities

• ​Making sure POs are raised and sent to the suppliers in due time with the right quantities.
• ​Following up on stock received, inbounded.
• ​Contributing to the automation of our replenishment processes (automatic PO, etc).
• ​Ensuring there is a steady flow between our main warehouse and our dark stores.
• ​Anticipating the needed supply based on sales history, seasons and upcoming campaigns.
• ​Monitoring and analyzing current inventory based on key inventory management KPIs.
• ​Developing action plans in coordination with the sales team to optimize stocks.

Requirements and Experience

• Bachelors degree or equivalent from a reputable Nigerian
  university.
• ​Intermediate/ Advanced Excel. Knowledge of other tools i.e. PBI etc. is an advantage
• Exceptional team working skills and people management.
• Experience working in a fast-paced corporate environment preferably in a consumer goods or retail environment.
• Adequate knowledge of the Online Marketplace and the Ecommerce Industry

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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Job Objective

As Social Media manager, your role will be to support Jumia developing its brand across SoMe channels (Instagram, FB, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok). You will leverage and develop Jumia’s community of influencers. You will execute our content strategy across all SoMe, designing posts that generate engagement. Ultimately, your goal will be to contribute to positioning Jumia a relevant and engaging brand, associated with trendy content and positive conversations. Thus, you will be at the core of the Jumia brand building strategy. You will need to be extremely tuned to trends, influencers, and generally speaking be completely passionate about Social Media.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute quality content aiming to improve Jumia’s content
  quality.
• ​Make checks on all our SoMe on a daily basis
• ​Plan content weekly to ensure posts generate the right level of
  engagement
• ​Collaborate with graphics team to ensure quality visuals for your content
• ​Be ahead of the curve for all the viral trends
• ​Trending products, challenges, reposts, videos, etc….
• ​Share best practices across countries
• ​Generate weekly plans and reports to improve KPIs
• ​Monitor implementation and scale up Jumia’s relationship with influencers
• ​Ensure growth on # influencers participating to Jumia’s campaigns
• ​Assess the quality of the influencers and emulate the community
• ​Frequently interact with them to ensure they are excited to work with Jumia
• Monitor the impact of their posts on KPIs and steer performance
• ​Scale the # orders driven through influencers

KPIs to evaluate success

• Number of influencers and number of orders driven from their content
• Average Engagement on IG, FB and Twitter
• Daily Active Users driven from social platforms
• Routine compliance (weekly report, weekly content plan, monthly planning with influencers, weekly CMO review)

Qualification & Experience

• Passion for social media scene and trends
• Fast learning abilities and analytical skills
• Previous experience with social media (eg working in an agency) a plus
• Well organized and ability to simultaneously handle multiple projects
• Excellent communication skills in English, and willingness to be immersed
  in a very international and entrepreneurial environment​

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