School Kits Limited Recruitment 2019/2020 & How to Apply Online

Job Title: Business Development Executive

Location: Abuja

Job Scope

• Developing a growth strategy for the wholesale arm of the business
• Identifying and engaging prospects, follow up on business opportunities
• Initiating and maintaining profitable relationships with new/ existing customers
• Introducing new/ existing products to prospective clients
• Negotiating contracts, initiating proposals, and closing deals

Key Responsibilities
Business Development Strategy:

• Prospecting potential new clients and convert into increased business
• Designing and implementing a strategic business plan that expands company’s customer base
• Meeting with potential customers by growing, maintaining, and leveraging your network.
• Identifying potential customers and the decision makers within the client organization and set up meetings with the decision makers.
• Negotiating and advising on pricing for customer requests.

Client relationship management:

• Presenting new products and other services/ partnership for schools, building new and enhancing existing relationships.
• Work with the Procurement and Store teams to ensure customer orders are met.
• Follow up with customers on order delivered to ensure satisfaction.

Business Development Planning:

• Attend industry functions, such as exhibitions, conferences, school fun fair, inter-house sport activities, workshops, and provide feedback and information on market and creative trends.
• Present to and consult with the senior management on business trends with a view to developing new services, products, and distribution channels.
• Identify opportunities for campaigns, services, and distribution channels that will lead to an increase in sales.
• Using knowledge of the market and competitors, you will identify and develop the company’s unique selling propositions and differentiators.

Management and Research:

• Submission of weekly progress reports and ensuring all data reported are accurate.
• Ensure that data is accurately entered and managed within the company’s CRM or other sales management system.
• Track and record activity on accounts and help to close deals to meet set targets.

Sales:

• Identify emerging markets and market shifts while being fully aware of new products and competitors’ status
• Build and promote strong, long-lasting customer relationships by partnering with customers and understanding their needs.
• Recording sales information and maintain customers’ records and database

Requirements

• Required Experience – Minimum of 2 years
• Qualification – BSc/ MSc in relevant field

Skills:

• In-depth knowledge of the industry and current trends (Market Knowledge)
• Excellent social skills
• Ability to handle pressure and meet deadlines
• Must have attention to detail and be numerically sound
• Exceptional interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.

Application Closing Date
28th December, 2019.

Finance Manager at School Kits Limited

Job Title: Finance Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Brief

• We are looking for a Finance Manager to supervise all fiscal functions of our company and ensure we use capital and resources beneficially.
• Responsibilities include building financial models, assessing risk in investments and ensuring all accounting activities comply with regulations. To be successful in this role, you should have experience crafting financial strategies and managing accounting teams.
• Ultimately, you will maintain our company’s financial health and increase profitability.

Responsibilities

• Forecast monthly, quarterly and annual results
• Budget control
• Conduct risk management
• Evaluate and advise on investments
• Supervise Accounting Teams
• Allocate resources and manage cash flows
• Conduct profit and cost analyses
• Develop secure procedures to maintain confidential information
• Ensure all accounting activities comply with financial regulations
• Consult senior management and board members about funding options
• Recommend cost-reduction strategies.

Specific Responsibilities
Strategic Functions:

• Provide strategic financial analysis and leadership on decision-making issues affecting the Company (i.e. growth, new markets, and evaluation of potential alliances, employee benefits, retirement plans, and investments).
• Undertake financial analysis periodically, to assist the Senior Management Team in evaluating profitability of business units and potential for cost efficiencies
• Would be required to enhance and/or develop, implement and enforce Finance policies and procedures of Company by way of systems that will improve the overall operation and effectiveness of the company.

Accounting/Finance Management:

• Prepare and send accurate, complete and timely financial and management reports, which will include weekly/monthly/quarterly management accounts and balance sheet control
• Oversee, monthly reconciliation of all Company Bank accounts
• Treasury & Working Capital Management – manage authorization of weekly electronic and manual payments and management of foreign exchange requirements.
• Liaison with bankers or other financial institutions on loan facilities and other correspondence.
• Develop a reliable cash flow projection and facilitate cash management policies that balance receivables collection with payables and include a minimum cash threshold to meet operating needs.
• You will prepare the cash flow statements, income and expenditure accounts, tax returns and balance sheet to be presented and a monthly performance review session.

Tax Matters:

• To ensure that the company is in compliance with all statutory requirements including:
• Payment and filing of VAT returns,
• PAYE and Pension remittance
• Withholding deduction and remittance
• Corporate Income Tax- Liaising with auditors on the payments

Budget:

• Drafting and management of annual budget
• Budget control- Monitor expenditure to ensure adherence to the company’s fiscal year budget
• Continuously improve on the budgeting process through engagement of other departmental heads on financial issues impacting department budgets.
• Analyze budget variances and consolidate the financial statement monthly for further analysis
• Prompt flagging of expenses exceeding budget limits and advising senior management appropriately
• Interface with Sales Unit
• Ensure that sales invoices are raised on all sales orders generated by the sales executives after confirmation of lodgement into bank or authorisation of credit sales by the approving authority.
• Ensure that receipts are raised on confirmation of lodgement into bank accounts

Audit:

• Ensure timely submission of all external reports such as Audit/Tax Reports etc.

Payroll:

• Supervise monthly payroll operation, PAYE and management of employer stakeholder pension plan.

Requirements

• Proven work experience as a Financial Controller or similar role
• In-depth understanding of cash flow management, bank reconciliation and bookkeeping
• Hands-on experience with budgeting and risk management
• Excellent knowledge of data analysis and forecasting models
• Proficiency in accounting software
• BSc/BA/MSc in Accounting, Finance or relevant field and any other professional accounting qualification.
• Years of Relevant Experience: Minimum of 5 years
• Possession of CFA is an added advantage
• Any other relevant accounting qualification.

Skills:

• Candidate must be able to build financial models
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills
• Creative thinking and ability to proffer solutions to address financing challenges
• Strong systems, process and best practice experience
• Leadership skills with High level of integrity
• Excellent presentation and delivery skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Application Closing Date
20th December, 2019.

HR Manager at School Kits Limited

Job Title: HR Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Description/Scope

• Strategic Employee Engagement to ensure a motivated workforce and overall increased productivity
• Culture custodian- ensuring that the culture of the organization is continually reinforced and that overall work ethics reflects the core values of the company
• Manpower planning- Recruitment and backfilling within specified timelines
• Management and Administration of Compensation and Benefits
• Performance Management- Ensuring the process cycle is adopted with full implementation
• Training Needs Identification and Capacity building- Scheduling and Implementation of Trainings
• Custodian of Human Resource Policies and Implementation of its provisions
• Administration of Employee Welfare activities to include Insurance policies (Group life and HMO management)
• Record management/ HRIS (Human Resource Information System) Management and designing roles with specific job descriptions
• Strategic roles- Business partner to senior management on business decisions and career path/ succession planning
• Other duties assigned.

Responsibilities
Employee Engagement:

• Developing robust employee engagement strategies to foster integration of the company’s business units
• Ensuring that staff members are actively engaged through regular meetings, one on one sessions
• Drafting an activities calendar for the FY and ensuring execution
• Staff counselling and support
• Dispute/ conflict resolution amongst staff members

Manpower planning and recruitment:

• Strategic manpower planning, benchmarking staff structure with standard practice
• End to end recruitment, either as expansion or back filling
• Matching the allocated budget as per wage bill with resource requisition
• Staff audit
• Overseeing proper documentation for all staff to include all file requirements as stated in the policy and ensuring that the files are updated with all relevant correspondence in the course of employment
• Conducting background check for all new hires within a month of employment and providing feedback to senior management.
• Overseeing record management by ensuring staff files are safe and organized in the cabinet provided.

Administration of compensation and benefit:

• Ensuring that all staff salaries are processed and updates sent to Accounts by 20th of the month
• Prompt processing of all staff allowances as stipulated in the policy
• Ensuring strategic review of salaries as per policy and performance appraisal scores and advising senior management on implementation structure
• Monitoring pension administration with accounts team to ensure compliance
• Coordinating with admin team on staff travels (ticket booking, allowance processing, hotel accommodation)
• Managing staff loans and all salary advance requests

Performance Management:

• Drafting and reviewing job description for all staff
• Ensuring strategic planning for annual performance management cycles
• Carrying out a goal settings exercise at the start of the FY and monitoring performance through quarterly periodic review
• Scheduling annual appraisals at the end of the FY with all eligible staff
• Making recommendation on salary review and or promotion for eligible staff
• Carrying out competence mapping to ensure skill sets match relevant roles for staff Developing a performance improvement plan to monitor staff performance.

Training and Development:

• Identifying training needs of staff through the appraisal process
• Drafting a training budget for the FY fully considering all eligible staff
• Sourcing for relevant training (external) and making recommendations to senior management and ensuring implementation of the planned trainings
• Building capacities internally by knowledge share sessions and in-house trainings.

HR policies and process implementation:

• Strategic policy making with senior management benchmarking standard practice including all business entities
• Culture custodian- ensuring that the culture of the organization is continually reinforced and that overall work ethics reflect the core values of the company
• Ensuring that the HR policy manual is up to date with all revised/ reviewed policies and ensuring policy implementation
• Educating all staff periodically on policies as applicable to their employment lifecycle
• Driving compliance with Internal control on all staff policies.
• Addressing all disciplinary issues through accurate interpretation of the procedures laid out in the Human Resource Policies
• Ensuring prompt escalation of any such issues requiring senior management attention
• Issuing queries and final warning letters to defaulters
• Ensuring progressive discipline and keeping record of all flagged cases
• Coordinate the annual vacation schedule with all Heads of Department and ensure compliance
• Ensuring that all vacation days are taken as stipulated in the policy with proper documentation
• Processing of leave allowance for staff as stipulated in the policy – (when this policy is implemented by Senior Management).

Staff welfare:

• Ensuring that all staff members are adequately provided with work tools. All work tools required for their deliverables must be provided by the Admin and IT teams
• Overseeing the management of HMO administration to all staff and ensuring prompt renewal of the scheme
• Management of the Group Life insurance policy to cover all eligible staff
• Making adequate provision for staff during peak period to include refreshments
• Ensuring a safe and healthy working environment in all locations
• Making scheduled periodic visits to locations apart from the Head office
• Attending to all staff issues and escalating to senior management where necessary.

Strategic roles:

• Business partner to senior management on all staff matters. Providing strategic support to senior management on all business decisions as applicable
• Coordinate quarterly retreats to review strategic, operational and financial global targets
• Strategic implementation of corporate social responsibility and other key HR initiatives
• Career path/ succession planning
• Any other duties assigned.

Qualifications

• B.Sc or M.Sc in any related field
• Minimum of 4 years HR experience
• Professional HR qualification is an added advantage

Application Closing Date
20th December, 2019.

How to Apply School Kits Limited Recruitment 2019/2020

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: humanresources@schoolkitsng.com using the “Job Title” as the subject of the mail.