Job Openings at Jumia Nigeria

Department: Finance

Responsibilities

• As a Finance Business Partner, you will apply a Finance lens and deep understanding of business issues and priorities to form a consolidated view of Jumia Services [Supply Chain Business] performance. The role supports the business by translating this view of performance to provide insights for decision making and ensuring financial implications are integrated into strategic plans and help drive performance improvements whilst maintaining an independent Finance appropriate decision making.

 In particular, you will:

• Partners with the business stakeholders to analyse financial performance and articulate the underlying delivery of actuals vs. latest forecasts on a monthly and provide recommendations and interventions to drive improved performance.
• Timely processing & update of supply chain costs.
• Prepare activity/ rate calculation for supply indirect, warehousing and freight
• Analyze and report all variances impacting supply chain profitability
• Review the transfer pricing/ costs charges by concerns & 3rd party suppliers
• Monitor & report slow moving and obsolescent stocks
• Co-ordinate & forecast key supply chain cost drivers that impact the financial catchup
• Provide accurate and timely costing information and analysis to drive budget tracking & costs control
• Assist CFO to manage annual budgeting of SC components including supply indirect
• Provide finance business partnering to the supply chain team (make, source, plan & deliver)
• Develop savings & profit targets/ KPIs in line with business objectives and action standards
• Provide financial input into supply chain projects
• Identify key areas of opportunities and improvement gaps 

Professional Skills & Qualifications

• Master’s in finance, Accounting, Economics or similar
• At least 5 years experience of related commercial finance and FP&A work experience preferable in a FMCG company
• Finance Business Partnering experience will be an added advantage
• Experience in Supply Chain Accounting and Controls.
• Experience in annual strategic plan and business planning.
• Well versed dealing with similar stakeholders from Operations/Supply Chain/Buying.
• Strong Data & Analytics experience - Advanced Excel, VBA/SQL skills required
• Experience with the identification of risks and opportunities in the PnL.
• Experience managing a large and complex set of stakeholders

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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Department: Engineering

Responsibilities

• Jumia Pay is a new and free online payment service that enables you to send payments online securely, instantly, and cost-effectively.

In particular you will;

• Design and implementation of web-based back-end components that are high-performing and scalable.
• Participate and improve development processes such as Agile, Scrum and Kanban along with strong robust coordination processes related to software release, deployment and testing.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 3-5 years relevant experience in Java / J2EE developement with Spring framework, especially with modules such as Web, JMS, transactions with Core container.
• Excellent Knowledge in Data Structure and Algorithms.
• Strong experience with Maven;Strong experience with ORM (Hibernate) and SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• A strong sense for code quality, following/defining coding guidelines and experience with Unit-Testing and SonarQube.
• Experience working with a large code-base and version systems, ideally GIT.
• Pro-activeness, team player and positive attitude.
• Adaptable, meticulous, innovative with good problem solving skills.
• Excellent English 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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Responsibilities

• As Head of Vendor Promise, your role is a unique opportunity to help drive our efforts to improve vendor satisfaction across the entire vendor journey
• This is a critical role as it directly correlates to continually improving vendor experience and as a result better vendor loyalty and retention.

In particular you will:

• Ensure execution of 21-day RTV attempt promise of course
• Ensure execution of 21-day delayed item reconciliation
• Proactive hub auditsProactive VIBES exemption routines
• Proactive analysis of Vendors with low success rate
• Participation in Focus groups
• Analytics: Analysis of vendor centric key performance indicators and vendor NPS to ensure high quality vendor experiences Product improvement.
• Proactively search for new vendor related features on the platform which could improve a seamless vendor experience
• Scalability and growth. Take on new opportunities like launching a new project
• Support. Manage day to day queue management issues arising from various departments across the firm
• Develop and optimize processes: scale new and improve existing processes based on vendor data and feedback to allow the business to efficiently operate and grow
• Auditing and monitoring of processes, queues, hubs and order placement
• Work Closely with the Head of Vendor Experience to lead projects within the unit and companywide projects with functional managers.

Professional Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree from accrediated universities.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in a fast-paced corporate environment preferably in a similar role
• High level of intellectual curiosity and focus on generating action-oriented business insights.
• Demonstrated success in developing innovative solutions and resolving bottle-necks within eco-systems
• Prior experience setting up processes for monitoring and assessing experience on various customer interfaces, including digital channels
• Tested entrepreneurial skills with the ability to conceptualize and re-engineer processes within large organizations

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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Department: Finance

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for reviewing, directing audits and ongoing reviews of organization controls, operating procedures, and compliance with policies and regulations, assess the adequacy and extent of programs designed to safeguard organization assets.

In particular you will:

• Work with the business to develop new and/or review existing business and operational policies/processes.
• Develop anti money laundering & anti bribery policies & trainings.
• Develop the internal control environment
• Develop and maintain risk enterprise register for the company.
• Run a compliance check program quarterly or bi annually on all functions working with the functional heads of department.
• Work with the business to develop new and/or review existing business and operational policies/processes.
• Presentations to senior management & board on risk & compliance profile for the organization.
• Work with the necessary functions to limit, mitigate Financial, business, regulatory, legal & reputational risk to the business.
• Develop Business continuity plans for the organisation.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics or related field.
• Minimum of 6 years’ experience working in a fast-paced corporate environment in a in a public accounting or internal audit, payment or settlement environment.
• Membership in an internationally recognized professional accounting body e.g. CPA, ACCA, CIA, CISA, CRISC.
• Experience running for quality & compliance certificates like PCIDSS, SON, ISO etc
• Must have advanced level Excel skills.
• Strong and demonstrated experience in handling technical accounting and financial reporting issues.
• Conceptual, analytical and financial modeling skill
• Competent in the use of Microsoft office suites software (Word, Excel, Access and Power Point) 

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