Open Positions at SunCulture Kenya Ltd

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and file tax returns, ensuring SunCulture is in compliance with applicable tax laws and regulations. 
• Manage the tax and audit process. Close on inquiries from tax authorities by preparing and providing the relevant documentation.
• Manage the tracking and implementation of the governance company-wide budgets and forecasts before payment processing.
• Ensure compliance with internal control procedures, accounting policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Manage the month-end and year-end closing processes, including preparing journal entries, reconciling accounts, and completing financial statement analysis.
• Drive the end to end process of statutory, investor and regulatory audits. Collaborate with auditors to provide necessary information, resolve inquiries, and address audit findings.
• Prepare and process payments to vendors, including bank transfers and mpesa payments, while adhering to payment terms, contractual obligations and internal controls
• Complete supplier reconciliations and ensure accounts payable expenditures are reasonable by referring any irregularities to your line manager before posting. 
• Ensure supplier statements are reconciled to invoices on a monthly basis. 
• Review and reconcile the bank reconciliation reports within the deadlines set.
• Prepare accruals and ensure they are all booked every end month.
• Answer queries from vendors regarding problems with invoices or payment of the invoices. 
• Any other finance-related role assigned from time to time by your reporting head.

Does this sound like you?

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field (required)
• Professional certification (ACCA/CPA 4) or in progress 
• 4 years experience as an accountant or in a related role
• Working knowledge of accounting principles, financial reporting, and internal controls
• Working knowledge of IFRS and KRA regulations
• Proficiency in accounting ERPs and advanced MS Excel skills
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Attention to detail and accuracy in financial analysis and reporting
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines

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Responsibilities

Project Management  

• Undertaking Site visit for pre-feasibility and Feasibility site information collection and analysis.
• Contacting clients to set preferred dates and installing the products within the set timelines.
• Proper time management to ensure all projects assigned are achieved within the timelines set

Risk Management

• Be very proactive in identifying job risks during installations, resolving them, and reporting to the team leads 
• Communicate and mitigate any risk factors that are encountered in the field by various engineers.

Additional Roles & Responsibilities

• Carrying out technical surveys and submitting the reports) to the engineering team leads
• Designing irrigation systems, conducting installations, and providing after-sale services for SunCulture products
• Mentoring and in-field training of new engineers
• Guiding clients through contract filling and sending the signed contracts to HQ every Friday.
• Contacting all clients assigned promptly and setting the agreed preferred dates in the app sheet
• Filling and syncing Job Submission Forms(JSFs) in the app sheet within the same day the installation/after-sale is done
• Vetting of clients and initiating dispatches of products via the app sheet once the set threshold requirement has been met.
• Reporting of emerging issues during after-sales and installations to the relevant authority as soon as they emerge.
• Work closely with the after-sales department to ensure quick resolution of after-sale issues.
• Advise and provide recommendations to clients on products  that would work best for them during technical surveys
• Do a minimum of 2 installations in a day.
• Achieve a mean Turn Around Time of under 2 days for jobs done
• Achieve a mean app adherence of 100% of all the jobs done

Traits for the role

• Be a team player.
• Be ready and committed  to working  in the field
• Be ready to learn
• Be creative and quick to resolve unprecedented issues that arise in the field

Does this sound like you?

• Degree/ Diploma in Mechanical Engineering or any other related field with specialization in Agricultural equipment is an added advantage
• 2+ years of experience with solar grid pump systems and  irrigation systems  management
• Hands-on, detail-oriented, and with strong execution skills especially installation and conducting surveys
• Good communication skills both written and spoken with the ability to interact freely with customers of different levels and backgrounds.
• Passion for irrigation and proactive in decision making
• An independent thinker who is able to thrive in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
• In-depth knowledge of the industry and current trends adaptable for  SunCulture
• Be organized and be an expert in  time management 
• Thrive in resources constrained environments with discretion in using budgetary allocation.
• An agile trainer capable of training and being trained and be very resilient and flexible
• Strong computer skills in, GSuite, Microsoft Office, database management experience in CAD or other project design software is a plus
• Able to work in a dynamic environment with immense pressure and meet deadlines
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to plan, be organized, and meet deadlines
• Proactive, collaborative, organized, curious, problem solver with a “can-do” attitude