Career Opportunities at Jumia Nigeria

Department: Direct Sales

Responsibilities

• Jumia Travel is a hotel/flights booking website that provides travellers with the perfect place/flight they need at the best price from more than 25,000 hotels in Africa and more than 200,000 hotels around the world.
• This role is ideal for a travel professional with sales experience within a travel agent or a tour operator, seeking career development and something a little different. Reap the benefits and utilise your existing travel experience!

In particular you will:

• Build and maintain relationships with new and existing clients
• Communicating with clients to understand their travel needs
• Preparing tailor made proposals
• Converting enquiries to bookings to exceed targets and earn commission
• Supporting senior managers with ad hoc projects
• Develop, build, and manage a client base of corporate accounts
• Target new and existing B2B accounts
• Attend networking events with PR/Marketing team and Follow up on leads generated from the events.

Professional Skills & Qualifications

• Degree in Hospitality, Travel, Tourism, Business or relevant field
• 3 - 5 years experience selling travel packages to B2B
• Candidates with personal travel experience will be preferred
• Exemplary sales skills and customer oriented approach
• Well versed in various areas of travel (domestic/international, business/holidays, group/individual etc)
• Ability to present, persuade and communicate effectively
• Ability to understand client's needs and present solutions
• Understanding of market and product.

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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Responsibilities

• Jumia Pay is a new and free online payment service that enables you to send payments online securely, instantly, and cost-effectively
• You will be responsible for the reconciliation and settlement activities within JumiaPay, facilitate complete and accurate processing of settlement figures for all transactions/products by ensuring that required due diligence is performed.

In particular, you will:

• Ensure daily reconciliation of all transactions and provide daily/weekly reconciliation and settlement reports to the AR Manager
• Keep record of the relevant KPI’s for the businesses Analysis and reporting of settlement/payment activities to the AR Manager
• Documentation of processes, procedures, resolution guides etc. for the reconciliation department
• Continually evaluate and recommend best practice business process throughout payment value chain
• Support each bank E-business team in resolving settlement and reconciliation issues
• Liaise with Bank Settlement team to ensure reconciled funds are transferred
• Monitor the income/fees’ reconciliation with Settlement banks, NIBSS and other clients and ensuring value is transferred to the company account’s promptly
• Perform daily/weekly analysis of bill payment data: Trends, failure rates etc and extract Business Intelligence from payment data
• Develop and maintain business relations with NIBBS, value card (Visa, MasterCard etc), unified payments, Interswitch, and JumiaPay settlement banks
• Ensure daily reconciliation of and correct postings of all cards and other electronic channels transactions
• Verify the incoming and outgoing payment reports

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in or higher preferably in Accounting or other discipline in Social Sciences from a recognized University.
• Minimum of 8 years working experience in Cards/Mobile/FinTech company, fully integrated in all aspects of settlement and daily reconciliation process
• Detailed understanding of the operational aspects of payment cards, mobile payments and banking industry
• Previous experience within a Reconciliation, Settlement or Middle Office environment
• Excellent documentation skills and use of collaboration tools
• Advanced level of Microsoft Excel (Pivot tables, Vlookups, and Nestedifs formulas)
• Ability to interpret Financial Data from various systems and in various format

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
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders

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Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for managing comprehensive general accounting, management accounting and reporting
• Also, you will drive standardization, ensuring financial outputs and service delivery are not only maintained to a high standard but improved, to increase efficiency within the team and forge strong working relationships across the organisation.

In particular you will:

• Build, develop and maintain data models, reporting systems, data automation systems, dashboards and performance metrics that support key strategic business decisions
• Lead settlements and clearance of financial transactions
• Effectively partner with finance partners to design user-friendly reports to meet the needs of the business and enable greater business insight and more effective analysis and decision support
• Work with Ops vendors to ensure timely execution and accurate reporting
• Set up risk management policies, procedures and parameters; responsible for staff training and communication; audit on a regular basis to ensure compliance
• Develop relationships with management to gain a deep understanding of the business and identify opportunities to influence business decisions
• Lead the implementation of new finance related projects
• Oversee effective reconciliation of partner balance between Operations systems and Accounting systems
• Design new processes and controls for growing business activities.
• Develop and execute financial planning processes for expense areas

Required Skills & Qualifications

• B.Sc in Accounting, Finance, Economics or a related field
• 5+ years of leadership experience, managing finance, accounting and operational processes
• Proven ability to influence finance and non-finance teams through a mixed set of finance skills (commercial finance, accounting, FP&A, audit, operations)
• Must have strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills; with the ability to work with cross functional teams and senior management
• Experience of analyzing large volumes of data
• Expertise in SQL, PowerPivot & Excel
• Ability to communicate data-based decisions to individual contributors as well as leadership. You can articulate clearly and defend your decision-making processes.

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
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders