Latest Job Vacancies at Engie Africa

Job Purpose/Mission

As part of the Minigrids team and reporting to the Commercial & Product Manager, you will play a key role in providing support for successful commercial operations of the EEA’s minigrids in Nigeria. This includes optimizing the customer experience, coordinating cluster activities, and maximizing minigrid revenues across the different streams of electricity sales, appliances sales, and customer finance.

This role implies to work closely with the rest of the EEA team in Nigeria and the global MySolGrid team. You will be based in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, but will occasionally be required to travel nationally.

Key Responsibilities

Minigrid Development 

• Participate in carrying out mini-grid development activities: site surveys, community and stakeholder engagement, and financial and regulatory due diligence. 
• Carry out site and demand analysis for input to the development of financial models, budgets, and business plans.
• Write concept notes and proposals to support grant applications, responses to tenders, and other partnerships.
• Collaborate with technical operations and legal to facilitate customer connections and smooth onboarding

Minigrid Commercial Operations

• Facilitate energy accounting and sales
• Build working relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders to facilitate appliance financing and sales, and the development of income-generating activities in our client communities
• Act as the ambassador for customers, and liaising with operations, CX, and other key internal teams, to ensure competitive operating decisions
• Build and maintain operational monitoring platforms and monthly reports

Experience

• Have at least 3 years of relevant experience in commercial operations, sales/business development, and customer and stakeholder engagement.
• Proficient in data and quantitative analysis and BI tools such as Excel, Power BI, or Tableau.
• Be passionate about clean energy expansion and improving the socio-economic standing of rural communities.
• Proven ability to be structured, organized, plan and schedule, and have an eye for detail.
• Able to meet deadlines and carry out several tasks in parallel 
• Able to work independently and demonstrate a great sense of initiative and sense of priorities 
• Have an entrepreneurial spirit and be able to work in a team 
• Have strong interpersonal skills to interface with your team-members and interact with people from diverse backgrounds.
• Have excellent written and oral communication skills 
• Commit to upholding high standards of integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality 
• Demonstrate humility, honesty, and flexibility  
• Have experience in the field of minigrids or related experience in electrical utilities
• Functional knowledge of the Nigerian power sector and energy market fundamentals
• Prior experience with, or able to work with CRM tools

Qualifications

• Hold a degree in Engineering, Business, Economics, or any other related field.

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Job Purpose/Mission

The holders of this position will be part of the Finance team that is based in Lagos and Abuja Nigeria, led by the Head of Finance & Admin. You are expected to handle data entry, processing, and recording transactions, updating the ledger, assisting with audits or fact-checking, and preparing budgets and reports. You should be thorough, accurate, and honest with good bookkeeping skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure correct posting of transactions in the financial system (SAP) daily.
• Reconciling the company’s accounts payable and receivable 
• Liaising with internal and external auditors and deal with any financial irregularities as they arise 
• Tracking all payments to internal and external stakeholders 
• Assist with budget forecasts for the company
• Processing EEA Nigeria’s tax payments and returns 
• Continuous management of financial & Inventory systems  
• Producing reports and recommendations following internal audits or public sector audits
• Explaining billing invoices and accounting policies to staff, vendors and clients.
• Resolving accounting discrepancies.
• Assist in Month-end closing process and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Dealing with daily transactions for the petty cash and ensuring that reconciliations are completed on a weekly and monthly basis

Experience

● 2-4 years Accounting experience
● Experience in any major accounting system (SAP an advantage) with ability to work on spreadsheets.
● Excellent understanding of accounting policies, standards and processes
● Excellent attention to detail, thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task
● Technical skills and competence
● Team player and self-starter
● Ability to influence, inspire and motivate people who are not directly under your responsibility
● Computer literate with experience in using Accounting Systems
● Intermediate Excel skills, ability to work with lookups and pivot tables.
● Strong organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills.
● Awareness and ability to demonstrate the importance of ethics & appropriate codes of conduct in the workplace
● Ability to achieve daily targets while attending to impromptu activities that may occur

Qualifications

 Degree or diploma in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance or other related field

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Job Purpose/Mission  

We are looking for a talented, full-stack data scientist to join the digital team to help deliver affordable solar power to emerging markets. This position offers a great opportunity to work alongside an elite team of data scientists and business professionals and directly contribute to the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact. Candidates will get the opportunity to work in a diverse technology stack at scale. . 

Responsibilities 

• Deploy and maintain data pipelines and machine learning models to predict repayment, solar system device performance, credit scoring and other metrics which are key to the business.  
• Contribute to design and maintenance of an analytics database to empower data-driven decisions by analysts and strategists across the organization. 
• Design randomized, controlled experiments to understand levers available to improve customer repayment. 
• Perform analyses, with statistical components as appropriate, for department leaders to evaluate the impact of pilots and other interventions. 
• Leverage external data sources to help EEA grow its business and maximize social impact on customers in emerging markets. 
• Train data users across nine markets and the global team on data tools / skills to grow data capacity and culture at EEA. 

Knowledge and skills  

Experience: 

• 3+ years of relevant experience 
• Strong Python, especially in a data analytics/science capacity (ex. pandas, numpy, sklearn, matplotlib) 
• Facility with MySQL/Redshift 
• Experience with experimental design, statistical analysis, and interpretation of qualitative and quantitative data. 
• Good knowledge of statistical tests and analysis 
• Ability to communicate model outputs and analyses to stakeholders at various levels of technical expertise
• Experience deploying predictive models at scale
• Keen eye for detail and thoughtful investigation of data before relying upon it
• Demonstrated expertise in strategic analysis to impact decisions
• Thrives on teamwork
• Bonus: Experience with financial data or credit scoring 

Qualifications: 

• MA or PhD in a relevant discipline (Data Science, Software Engineering, Statistics, or another relevant STEM field)  

Language(s):  

• English 
• French, Swahili or Portuguese is a plus 

 Technology: 

• Python or R, jupyter notebooks 
• Airflow (or other workflow management systems, such as Luigi) 
• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services, such as, but not limited to, Cloudwatch, RDS, Redshift, Lambda, EMR, S3, SQS, EC2 
• AWS environment: Cloudwatch, RDS, Redshift, Lambda, EMR, SQS, EC2 
• Statistical analysis and predictive modeling in python (scipy, stats, sklearn, etc) 

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Job Purpose/Mission

The holder of this position will be part of the Human Resources team that is based in Lagos, Nigeria, led by the Head of Human Resources. The Senior HR Business Partner provides consulting and coaching to departmental leaders and managers in order to support the business’s vision, mission, and overall objective. They also play a major role in the management of varied projects throughout the business, actively participating in project teams, and implementing HR initiatives while simultaneously ensuring proper communication and collaboration within business departments and with other HR business partners.

Key Responsibilities

Talent Management and Organizational Development 

• Provide day-to-day advice and support to business leaders and middle managers on a variety of team and employee topics, including team dynamics, recruitment, learning & development, and employee relations.  
• Recruitment- Identify recruitment needs and design effective selection and retention programmes. Also lead or participate actively in recruitment campaigns; job fairs; community activation programs; general networking; etc. to ensure a robust candidate pipeline. 
• Change Management- Assist in/contribute to the design and deployment of all organizational change projects through process design and approaches that support change and transformation
• Evaluate and measure the impact of talent solutions and programs. Also identify issues, patterns and trends & provide insights to continuously improve business performance.
• Learning and development- Participate in the planning and implementation of learning and development strategy of the organization in line with business objectives 
• Onboarding- Lead the process of candidate selection; interviewing; job offer; background check, onboarding and integration/induction of new employee and act as custodian for our HRIS platform 
• Performance Management- Serve as the primary custodian of our performance management system. This includes training team members and getting them familiar with performance management best practice, pooling periodic reports to track progress, raising tickets and helping resolve technical issues and maintaining an accurate database of employees

Employee Compensation and Benefits 

• Benefits- Support in implementing and maintaining group life, medical scheme and requirements of workmen compensation act as stipulated within regulatory framework 
• Payroll- Provide required input for Payroll management on a monthly basis

HR Analytics and Reports 

• HR Metrics- Ensure the integrity of HR data, support decision making by providing workforce trends and analysis 
• Processes- Support in continual review of our way of doing things, HR processes and workflows to ensure, we retain great employee experience and business efficiency

Employee Services and Administration 

• Record Management- Ensure effective employee record management and adherence to data privacy laws 
• Health & Safety-Assist in the implementation of Administrative processes including workplace health and safety programmes to reduce exposure to workplace hazards, and support the review and enforcement of effective HR policies, procedures and programmes for HR service delivery.

Internal Communications

Work closely with the Marketing team to develop and execute EEA's internal communications strategy. There will be a need to organise engaging events and share aesthetically pleasing content which promote our core values, foster inclusion and position EEA as a great place to work.