Job Description

We are seeking a vibrant and dynamic individual to fill the above position.
Reporting to the Director-RDI, the position coordinates grower management, sales administration, compliance, reporting, and financial planning within the Rural Development & Industrialization Division.

Duties and Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
The incumbent key responsibilities shall include but not limited to: -
• Formulating and reviewing standard operating procedures and internal controls while ensuring regulatory compliance in grower management.
• Administration and oversight of operations and transactions for out-growers and ensuring data integrity and timeous capturing of inputs.
• Maintain accurate records for growers' personal details and accounts in the ERP.
• Provide growers with monthly statements of their accounts.
• Ensuring that grower account queries are attended to and resolved in a professional and timely
manner.
• Insurance liability account management & monthly reconciliation.
• Ensure that staff accounts used for Greenleaf purchasing are reconciled and cleared daily.
• Ensure payments to growers for commodity purchases are processed within contractual timelines.
• Monthly analysis of grower interest rates vs the cost of borrowings and sharing the report with the Head of Finance.
• Analysis of grower KPIs relevant for executive decision-making including cost of production, grower profitability, grower default rates, analyzing the mismatch risk on funding tenor extended to growers versus tenor of funding received by the organisation, season on season analytical review, etc., and share with management and Board in the relevant platforms.
• Creation of seasonal loan deals and ensure that both loan forms and roll over balance forms are signed by the relevant Authorities.
• Updating prices and interest rates for each season before inputs are disbursed and ensuring the prices are signed by the Head of Finance and Head of Agronomy.
• Process all grower inputs requests within stipulated delivery timelines.
• Monthly review of grain purchases and grower account reconciliations.
• Daily reconciliations of the creditor's accounts and clear all variances within 24 hours.
• Review grower payments and ensure all cash advances are posted before payments are submitted to signatories for approval.
• Ensuring the readiness of grower accounts for processing of early grain deliveries.
• Consistently checking on the accuracy of Sales-related computations (i.e. Stop Orders and Statutory Deductions).
• Ensure all commercial and small-scale grower account-related queries are resolved within 24 hours.
• Ensure compliance with financial policies and procedures.
• Ensure financial reporting deliverables are submitted per the stipulated timelines.
• Co-ordinate pricing of inputs to growers and fuel deliveries
• Monitoring of specified input stock levels as well as expiry dates of chemicals.
• Distribute and administer specified grower inputs per approved cashflows.
• Track orders of inputs from suppliers to warehouses.
• Order and distribute books for commercial growers - (Chemical, grower requisition, grower collection, warehouse distribution, fuel collection, fertilizer order books)

Qualifications and Experience

Qualifications & Experience
• Accounting Degree or Professional qualifications such as ACCA, CIS, CIMA
• MBA an added advantage
• Prior work experience in a similar role or related environment.
• Must have sound knowledge of finance and accounting.

How to Apply

Applicants should submit their Application Letters clearly indicating the position applied for together with detailed Curriculum Vitae and Certified Copies of Certificates to: [email protected] not later than 23 June 2024.