Vacant Job Positions at Jumia Nigeria, 12th February 2019


Jumia is Africa's leading internet group, with already over 3,000 employees in more than 20 African countries and huge successes such as Jumia, Jumia Travel, Jumia Food, Jumia Deals, Jumia House, Jumia Jobs and Jumia Services. It is led by top talented leaders offering a great mix of local and international talents and is backed by MTN, Millicom, Rocket Internet, Axa, Orange, Goldman Sachs & CdC. We are currently looking for talented people with a passion for emerging markets and Africa to join our team and embark on our exciting journey in the positions below:     Job Title: Finance Operations Manager - Jumia Location: Lagos Job Type: Full Time 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.
Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply     Job Title: Senior Reconciliation Specialist - Jumia Pay Location: Lagos Job Type: Full Time 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
Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply       Job Title: Sales Executive - Jumia Travel Location: Lagos Department: Direct Sales Job Type: Full Time 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.
Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply     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
Application Deadline  23rd April, 2019.