About the Role
Ensure timely payment processing to all suppliers, reporting on Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Treasury, and Audit functions. Facilitate accurate and timely ledger postings, reconciliation of balance sheet accounts, financial statement preparation, and coordination of audits.
Duties and Responsibilities
Payment Processing and Financial Reporting:

Lead the Accounts... Payable/Receivable, Treasury, Audit, and Month End Close team.
Review and process all due bills for payment, ensuring timely payments to service providers.
Reconcile processed work, verifying entries, and comparing system reports to balances.
Respond to vendor inquiries regarding finance and negotiate payment terms with external stakeholders.
Prepare analyses of accounts and monthly reports, continuously improving the payment process.
Analyze financial information, summarize financial status of the organization, and recommend actions to resolve identified discrepancies.

Accounts Receivable Management and Reporting:

Collaborate with retention teams to track and manage AR performance for improved collections.
Prepare and analyze AR reports, including models to track key metrics.
Inter-company billing and reconciliation.

Treasury Management and Operational Efficiency:

Reconcile revenue and expenditure items on the TB and share documentation with the Audit team.
Identify operational efficiencies and enhancements to internal controls.
Monitor bank balances, currency conversions, and payment uploads.
Own relationships with banking and cash cycle-related vendors.
Manage the reconciliation and schedules of all balance sheet accounts and their sub-ledger accounts.

Audit and Compliance:

Perform and control the full audit cycle, including risk management and control management over operations' effectiveness, financial reliability, and compliance with all applicable directives and regulations.
Coordinate periodic internal and external audits, including Grant audits where applicable.
Prepare and present reports reflecting the audit's results and document processes.

Financial Governance and Risk Management:

Develop and implement methodologies for controlling foreign exchange exposure, excess cash management, debt facilities management, and interest rate risk management.
Grant and project fund management in collaboration with the Business Development team.
Monthly COGs reconciliation and chargeback to inventory for all products.

Qualifications

Business Degree preferably in Finance or Accounting.
CPA/ACCA Finalist.
Minimum 7 years’ experience in accounting with at least 2 years in Treasury, AR & AP management.
Preparation of financial reports.
Advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge is a MUST.
Excellent quantitative and analytical skills of large data sets are a MUST (will be assessed).
Strong team player and communicator, decisive with problem-solving skills.

Application Deadline
2024-02-29 more

About the Role
The Fundraising and Partnerships Manager joins us at a critical juncture. Our growth in the next 5 years will hinge on our ability to mobilize resources and build strategic partnerships with bi-laterals, INGOs, multilaterals, and governments for the scaling of our safe sanitation services to citizens everywhere. The Fundraising and Partnerships Manager will be responsible for... raising institutional and philanthropic funds to achieve our strategy, as well as implementing organizational-level initiatives for Results-Based Financing (RBF), climate financing, and Public-Private partnerships (PPP) with the government. The Fundraising and Partnerships Manager manages the business development team and leads relationships with key global partners.
Duties and Responsibilities

Achieve Fresh Life’s ambitious grant fundraising targets through partnerships with key stakeholders.
Collaborate with the leadership team to align fundraising strategies with organizational goals.
Lead strategy for all aspects of donor relationships, including conducting baseline prospect identification and research, preparation of proposals, solicitation, closure, and stewardship.
Cultivate strong, trust-based relationships with grantmakers, foundations, government agencies, and other key stakeholders.
Drive the implementation of Results-Based Financing (RBF), climate financing, and Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) with the government.
Network with potential donors and partners to enhance funding opportunities.
Manage and inspire a high-performing business development team.
Represent Fresh Life and the Sanergy Collaborative externally with funders, government, and other key stakeholders. 
Enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of business development processes, including proposal development, partnership management, financial reporting, etc.

Qualifications

Master's Degree in International Development, Economics, Project Management, or equivalent preferred.
7+ years of work experience in a social enterprise with a proven track record in building partnerships and raising and managing grants >$5 million/ year.
Passion for the Cause: A genuine passion for Fresh Life’s mission and effectively conveying its importance to potential donors and partners.
Project Management: Effective organization and management skills are crucial for planning,  executing, and leveraging strategic fundraising opportunities and campaigns.
Highly organized and able to follow through and prioritize tasks.
Impeccable integrity and ethics.
An effective communicator at all levels in the organization, with strong oral and written skills and a willingness to share information, required fluency in English.
Inspiring leader for the team and the organization in a fast-paced work environment.

Application Deadline
2024-02-29 more

About the Role
This job entails managing the assigned customer portfolio: Ensuring as an organization, we provide the best service to FLOs  (FLT repairs, timely collections, and tackling any issues they raise within specified timelines) and documenting/keeping important customer information and documents. It also ensures customers maintain sanitation and hygiene standards and pay their monthly... service fee.
Duties and Responsibilities
Customers Onboarding 

Onboard quality customers through executing customer vetting.
Clearly set customer expectations, their role and the organization’s role before they are fully onboarded.
Conduct customer training on our mission and vision, how to maintain sanitation and hygiene standards, the process of issues escalation and making payments.

Manage credit/Debt collection

Visit,call or use any other acceptable strategy to ensure the assigned customer portfolio pays their invoices.
Strategically engage,plan with customers with arrears on how the arrears will be paid and document the customer payment plans.
Conduct checks and scrutiny on the customer balances to ensure they are correct and in case there are issues to escalate the same to supervisors and follow through to ensure they are corrected.
Engage customers in the most effective way through deploying CLEAR conversations with FLOs.
Always ensure your toilet portfolio’s operational status in the field matches what is in the system at all times to ensure invoices are correctly generated and provide a true picture of retention numbers.
Employ simple problem-solving techniques to tackle payment-related issues.

Management of issues/Cases

Manage escalation of customer complaints and issues by ensuring all are escalated within the right time frame.
Collaborate with relevant team members and departments to ensure customer issues and complaints are resolved in a timely manner.
Conduct problem-solving techniques i.e 5 whys to establish preventive measures to issues occurring within your customer portfolio.
Issues that commonly happen are maintenance/Repair issues, late/missed collections, payment issues and other issues raised by customers.

Customer Data/Documentation.

Manage customer information by ensuring customer details are correctly captured in the system and any errors are corrected timely.
Verify customer documentation after launch to ensure franchise agreements Land approvals document, government approval forms and any other documents are available and information is well captured and signed correctly.
Ensure the operational status of the FLTs in the field reflects the odoo status all times.
Document all customer issues.

Standards

Train, coach customers on how to maintain quality sanitation and hygiene standards and monitor progress to ensure they are adhered to.
Conduct refresher training to all customers and users on sanitation and hygiene.
Execute corrective measures on cases related to poor sanitation and hygiene standards and ensure they improve.
After the QuaC (hygiene and standards survey) ensure all customers get feedback and those below standards are trained and cautioned in order to improve.

Retention.

Engage customers with closed FLTs to handle issues at hand in order to reopen the FLTs.
Prevent closures by working to tackle issues that might lead to closures 
Ensure the operational status in the field reflects the same in the CRM (Odoo) and any disparities are corrected immediately

Qualifications

Diploma or Degree in business management/ credit/debt management
Previous experience in debt collection, credit control, field-based sales (FMCG) is preferred
Good communication skills, customer handling/management skills, problem-solving skills, customer service
Customer-centric - employs diplomacy and firmness to build win-win partnerships with customers.
Ability to collect customer data and generate reports
Computer literate with basic, MS Excel skills 
Confident, assertive and persuasive - ability to handle difficult customers

Physically fit - this role will involve walking daily, in informal settlements
Application Deadline
2024-03-08 more

About the Role
Fresh Life is looking for an exceptional individual to join our Business Development team. The Fundraising & Partnerships Specialist will be responsible for leading the fundraising efforts to secure and manage significant income from a diverse range of funders to support Fresh Life’s operations and growth in Nairobi, Kenya. They will lead collaborative research, engagement strategy... and proposal development for funders to increase the scale and impact of the organization. A confident networker, they will represent the organization at meetings, forums and events in order to initiate and strengthen strategic relationships. They will support the organization in the research and development of strategies for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with government entities. They will contribute to the organizational business development knowledge with best practices, procedures, and tools for the diversification of financing structures.
Duties and Responsibilities

Achieve Fresh Life’s ambitious fundraising targets for Nairobi’s growth through building and maintaining partnerships with key external stakeholders, including philanthropic and institutional funders.
Lead all aspects of donor relationships, including conducting prospect research, preparing proposals, managing internal execution of grants, and reporting, working closely with the Operational and Finance teams.  
Craft strong, tailored messages that resonate with existing and new partners and funders. 
Ensure reporting requirements for all funders are met and reports are completed to deadlines.
Build and manage strong, trust-based relationships with key stakeholders at multilaterals, governments, and in the WASH industry.
Represent Fresh Life externally with funders, government, and other key stakeholders. 
Remain abreast of sectors and funders’ trends in line with sustainable development goals, build organizational understanding of new funders and contribute information for prioritization of funding opportunities for scale.
Improve efficiency and effectiveness of business development processes, including proposal development, partnership management, financial reporting, etc.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in International Development, Economics, Project Management, or equivalent preferred.
5+ years of work experience in fundraising in a global development context.
Demonstrated understanding of and experience in international development or the social sector more broadly. Knowledge of the sanitation sector is a plus.
Confident external communication and excellent writing skills.
Highly organized team player, with proactive and flexible work style, and able to follow through and prioritize tasks.
Strong existing funder networks preferred. Ideal candidate would be able to leverage past relationships to develop a strong pipeline of new partnerships.
Impeccable integrity and ethics. more

About the Role
The Grants Manager joins us at a critical juncture. We are ramping up expansion in Kenya and throughout sub-Saharan Africa with its innovative circular economy approach, while at the same time undertaking pioneering research on regenerative agriculture in Africa and entering into both traditional and blockchain-enabled carbon markets. The hire will be uniquely responsible for... identifying and securing grants with key multilaterals, research agencies, prizes, and foundations. The manager will work closely with both our operations and finance teams to successfully realize the goals of these grants. The manager will also lead a small grants team. We are looking for someone who has great, relevant networks and impeccable communication skills, is relentlessly creative, and deeply mission-aligned with our team.
Duties and Responsibilities

 Achieve Regen’s ambitious fundraising targets through building partnerships with key stakeholders
 Lead strategy for all aspects of donor relationships, including conducting baseline prospect-identification and
research, preparation of proposals, solicitation, closure, and stewardship.
 Develop and implement a robust, standardized process for researching, developing and managing a strong
pipeline of grant-funding opportunities
 Lead the the grant team in developing excellent concept notes and applications with a high success rate
 Work directly with executive leadership to secure these partnerships.
 Build strong, trust-based relationships with key stakeholders at multilaterals, governments, research institutions,
and in the regenerative agriculture industry.
 Represent Regen externally with funders, government, and other key stakeholders.
 Engage operational teams to understand their challenges and needs, and work with them to realize grants
 Engage finance teams to work seamlessly for project planning and timely reporting

Qualifications

 5 years of experience and proven track record in building partnerships, particularly with institutional funders.
 A track record in raising and managing >5M / year is desired.
 Deep, relevant networks in the multilateral donor circles.
 Highly organized and able to follow through and prioritize tasks.
 Impeccable integrity and ethics.
 An highly effective communicator at all levels in the organization, with strong oral and written skills and a
willingness to share information; required fluency in English.
 Experience with people management more

About the Role
Fresh Life is looking for an exceptional individual to join our Business Development team. The Grants and Fundraising Specialist supporting philanthropic funders will be responsible for driving the fundraising strategy to secure and manage significant income from a diverse range of funders to support Fresh Life’s expansion into new cities in Kenya and across Africa. They will lead... collaborative research, engagement strategy and proposal development for funders to increase the scale and impact of the organization. A confident networker, they will represent the organization at meetings, forums and events in order to initiate and strengthen strategic relationships. They will support the organization in the research and development of strategies for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with government entities. They will contribute to the organizational business development knowledge with best practices, procedures, and tools for the diversification of financing structures.
Duties and Responsibilities
New - Business Development – 40% 

Build and manage strong, trust-based relationships with key stakeholders, especially philanthropic donors, in the WASH industry.
Improve efficiency and effectiveness of business development processes, including proposal development, partnership management, financial reporting, etc. 
Craft strong, tailored messages that resonate with existing and new partners and funders
Listing for new business, such as searching for new opportunities, conducting due diligence, following up on new fundraising leads and ensuring their application. 
Remain abreast of sectors and funders’ trends in line with sustainable development goals, build organizational understanding of new funders and contribute information for prioritization of funding opportunities for replication and scale
Proactively share opportunities for partnership improvement with our funding partners, including engagement materials, network connections, etc.
Coordinate the negotiations and compliance of agreements and contracts with partners  
 Lead engagement with existing funders to achieve partnership goals and fundraising targets (being the main focal point)

Grants management roles - 40% 

Maintain and regularly update the philanthropic grants module using the provided grants management system, this will include budgets and relevant burn rates, adherence to contracts/agreements, funder -reporting, key funder points, funder communication and other relevant project documents. 
Apply reports and data analytics with an aim of performance improvement, and ensure the leadership team is updated on a regular basis;
Together with Business development leadership, and relevant project teams, take part in portfolio review meetings to discuss the status of implementation of projects, follow ups on expenditures (Budget Variance Analysis), challenges as well as flagging key issues for attention.
Represent Fresh life in dynamics and feedback meetings with respective funders
Follow up on key actions from the Grants Review Meetings (GRM) with the relevant teams;
Ensure quality information management related to grants (including managing documentation and trackers)
Ensure Grants folder on SharePoint is up to date
Ensure reporting requirements for all funders are met and reports are completed to deadlines

 Fundraising – 20% 

Work with colleagues in Business development, in strengthening various process tools development, to enhance prudent grant monitoring, and new business development 
Support leadership team to manage funders' relationship and engagement strategy - Work with operational team to build proposal and meet funders' requirements 

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Business related field of study
5+ years of work experience in fundraising or business development in a global development context.
Demonstrated understanding of and experience in international development or the social sector more broadly. Knowledge of the sanitation sector is a plus.
Previous experience collaborating with the government at the national and county level is preferred
Confident external communication and excellent writing skills.
Highly organized team player, with proactive and flexible work style. 
Strong existing funder networks preferred. Ideal candidate would be able to leverage past relationships to develop a strong pipeline of new partnerships.
Impeccable integrity and ethics. more

About the Role
This job entails managing the assigned customer portfolio: Ensuring as an organization, we provide the best service to FLOs  (FLT repairs, timely collections, and tackling any issues they raise within specified timelines) and documenting/keeping important customer information and documents. It also ensures customers maintain sanitation and hygiene standards and pay their monthly... service fee.
Duties and Responsibilities


Customers Onboarding 

Onboard quality customers through executing customer vetting.
Clearly set customer expectations, their role and the organization’s role before they are fully onboarded.
Conduct customer training on our mission and vision, how to maintain sanitation and hygiene standards, the process of issues escalation and making payments.



Manage credit/Debt collection

Visit,call or use any other acceptable strategy to ensure the assigned customer portfolio pays their invoices.
Strategically engage,plan with customers with arrears on how the arrears will be paid and document the customer payment plans.
Conduct checks and scrutiny on the customer balances to ensure they are correct and in case there are issues to escalate the same to supervisors and follow through to ensure they are corrected.
Engage customers in the most effective way through deploying CLEAR conversations with FLOs.
Always ensure your toilet portfolio’s operational status in the field matches what is in the system at all times to ensure invoices are correctly generated and provide a true picture of retention numbers.
Employ simple problem-solving techniques to tackle payment-related issues.



Management of issues/Cases

Manage escalation of customer complaints and issues by ensuring all are escalated within the right time frame.
Collaborate with relevant team members and departments to ensure customer issues and complaints are resolved in a timely manner.
Conduct problem-solving techniques i.e 5 whys to establish preventive measures to issues occurring within your customer portfolio.
Issues that commonly happen are maintenance/Repair issues, late/missed collections, payment issues and other issues raised by customers.



Customer Data/Documentation.

Manage customer information by ensuring customer details are correctly captured in the system and any errors are corrected timely.
Verify customer documentation after launch to ensure franchise agreements Land approvals document, government approval forms and any other documents are available and information is well captured and signed correctly.
Ensure the operational status of the FLTs in the field reflects the odoo status all times.
Document all customer issues.



Standards

Train, coach customers on how to maintain quality sanitation and hygiene standards and monitor progress to ensure they are adhered to.
Conduct refresher training to all customers and users on sanitation and hygiene.
Execute corrective measures on cases related to poor sanitation and hygiene standards and ensure they improve.
After the QuaC (hygiene and standards survey) ensure all customers get feedback and those below standards are trained and cautioned in order to improve.


Retention.

Engage customers with closed FLTs to handle issues at hand in order to reopen the FLTs.
Prevent closures by working to tackle issues that might lead to closures 
Ensure the operational status in the field reflects the same in the CRM (Odoo) and any disparities are corrected immediately



Qualifications

Diploma or Degree in business management/ credit/debt management
Previous experience in debt collection, credit control, field-based sales (FMCG) is preferred
Good communication skills, customer handling/management skills, problem-solving skills, customer service
Customer-centric - employs diplomacy and firmness to get win-win partnerships with customers.
Ability to collect customer data and generate reports
Computer literate with basic, MS Excel skills 
Confident, assertive and persuasive - ability to handle difficult customers more

About the Role
Fresh Life is looking for an exceptional individual to join our Business Development team. The Grants Specialist For New Cities will be responsible for driving the fundraising strategy to secure and manage significant income from a diverse range of funders to support Fresh Life’s expansion into new cities in Kenya and across Africa. They will lead collaborative research, engagement... strategy and proposal development for funders to increase the scale and impact of the organization. A confident networker, they will represent the organization at meetings, forums and events in order to initiate and strengthen strategic relationships. They will support the organization in the research and development of strategies for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with government entities. They will contribute to the organizational business development knowledge with best practices, procedures, and tools for the diversification of financing structures. 
Duties and Responsibilities

Achieve Fresh Life’s ambitious fundraising targets for new cities through building and maintaining partnerships with key external stakeholders, including philanthropic and institutional funders.
Collaborate closely with the fundraising teams of public utilities to achieve joint fundraising and visibility goals.
Lead all aspects of donor relationships, including conducting prospect research, preparing proposals, managing internal execution of grants, and reporting, working closely with the Operational and Finance teams.  
Craft strong, tailored messages that resonate with existing and new partners and funders. 
Build and manage strong, trust-based relationships with key stakeholders at multilaterals, governments, and in the WASH industry.
Represent Fresh Life externally with funders, government, and other key stakeholders. 
Improve efficiency and effectiveness of business development processes, including proposal development, partnership management, financial reporting, etc.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Business related field of study
5+ years of work experience in fundraising or business development in a global development context.
Confident external communication and excellent writing skills.
Highly organized team player, with proactive and flexible work style. 
Demonstrated understanding of and experience in international development or the social sector more broadly. Knowledge of the sanitation sector is a plus.
Strong existing funder networks preferred. Ideal candidate would be able to leverage past relationships to develop a strong pipeline of new partnerships.
Impeccable integrity and ethics. more

About the role
We are looking for a Technical Procurement Manager to oversee procurement in the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) department in Regen Organic's upcoming and existing facilities. The role’s key objectives

are: procurement strategy and framework management; vendor sourcing and engagement; Vendor quality and technical support; Financial accountability and... support
Duties and Responsibilities
General

Lead the procurement team to complete project and company goals.

Develop framework, standards and templates for internal procurement management processes.

Provide training and feedback to project teams to ensure full adoption of the procurement framework.

Engage all internal and external stakeholders to ensure procurement blocks are flagged and cleared in a timely manner.
Procurement strategy and framework management

Developing procurement strategies for projects, new equipment orders and existing equipment spare parts.
Take lead in creating, documenting and updating technical procurement processes.
Prepare and maintain a comprehensive vendor database of contractors, consultants and suppliers.
Develop a robust procurement framework and eliminate waste within procurement processes.
Lead end to end problem solving related to sourcing, procurement and delivery of technical products/services.
Build positive relationships with engineers, operational managers, finance team and vendors, to foster harmony between the sourcing, payment and use of procured items. Vendor sourcing and engagement
Conduct extensive research on potential sources of project equipment and spare parts by ensuring that prices are competitive and specifications meet requirements.
Develop vendor selection criteria and coordinate vendor onboarding.
Perform vendor shortlisting to select suppliers that will meet the Sanergy quality standards.
Prepare and issue RFPs and RFQs, obtain quotes and proposals from shortlisted vendors.
Conduct bid analysis, issuing reports that include recommendations on intended purchases.

Building healthy, prosperous communities

Negotiate costs and delivery timelines to ensure project budget and timelines are met.
Arrange, attend and/or chair vendor meetings with technical team members, ensuring requests are responded to within agreed timescales.
Support in contract development and review, negotiating contractual terms with vendors through to sign off. Vendor quality and technical support
Coordination with engineers to ensure equipment suppliers meet quality requirements before payments are released.
Support with preparation of purchase requests / purchase orders on the Sanergy systems.
Work with the logistics team to ensure equipment are safely packaged and shipped to Kenya.
Assess supplier performance based on quality, costs, delivery and service.
Participate in troubleshooting activities, plant and equipment commissioning, coordinating with engineers to measure adherence to specifications.
Report any complaints or concerns raised by stakeholders and address them with vendors for resolution.

Financial accountability and support

Ensure all procurement is within set budgets
Negotiate commercial terms with suppliers to obtain the right quality at the right price.
Organize various procurement requests from the engineering team.
Liaise with other departments including finance to ensure all payments are done on time
Actively participate in value engineering exercises to ensure best value for the organization.

Skills and qualifications

Degree in Engineering, Quantity Survey and/or relevant work experience in technical procurement.
5+ years of experience in procurement of equipment or parts for processing units.
Knowledge of engineering & construction principles.
Experience in building strong relationships with vendors and contract negotiation.
Experience in import/export requirements to Kenya.
Effective interpersonal skills to properly represent Sanergy in an ethical and professional manner.
Ability to explain technical information to technical and non-technical people.
Demonstrated ability to manage a team, and provide constructive feedback. more

About the role
The Corporate Finance Intern is expected to support the organization while learning about a career in the finance field. Regular duties and responsibilities will include generating and analyzing reports, taking notes during meetings, entering data, and assisting with ad hoc projects within the Corporate Finance team. 
Duties and Responsibilities

Work with Corporate Finance team... to learn a variety of processes and contribute to the overall department goals
Support the Corporate Finance Team in performing budget to actual expense variance analysis
Support the Corporate Finance Team in volume and headcount analysis
Support the Team in performing research and analysis where necessary.
Support the Corporate Finance team in the preparation of ad hoc projects and reports as necessary
Resolve discrepancies in a timely manner
You will occasionally prepare presentations for the Finance committee and Leadership Team.
You will take minutes whenever we have team meetings.

Qualifications

Degree in a Finance/Economics or related field.
6+ months experience supporting Financial Analysis, from either Investment Banking or Financial Advisory
Willingness to work both independently and in a team environment
Analytical skills specifically in spreadsheets to be able to simplify complex issues
Intermediate - Advanced knowledge of Excel and Google sheets (will be assessed)
Quick-learner in a fast paced environment.
Presents ideas confidently with passion
Demonstrates a strong sense of urgency & drive
Can rapidly adjust priorities where appropriate
Must be willing to commit to at least 6 months of internship, a small stipend will be offered with lots of growth and learning opportunities

Application Deadline: 21st April 2023 more