New Job Opportunities at UpEnergy, Tanzania Finance and Administration Officer
New Job Opportunities at UpEnergy, Tanzania Finance and Administration Officer
About Us:
UpEnergy brings aspirational products that save energy and improve health within reach of low-income customers. We develop distribution channels that distribute efficient and clean energy and safe water technologies. We finance our product subsidies and our growth via bespoke projects that generate carbon emissions reductions that we produce for global partners seeking emissions reductions and social impact co-benefits.
We sell products under our SmartHome brand, and through partnerships with other brands. We operate regional distribution hubs and build relationships directly with customers through the SmartHome sales operation. We’ve seen 100%+ year on year growth for years and have reached over 800,000 African households with products that deliver health and income benefits.
A typical SmartHome stove saves each family we reach approximately 9% of their annual income while reducing air pollution. Through the SmartHome brand, we also sell household water filters in Uganda. These simple gravity point-of-use devices give households the ability to provide safe and clean water for their families. In Malawi, Zambia, and Mozambique, we install safe water systems in institutions throughout the country.
New Job Opportunities at UpEnergy, Tanzania Finance and Administration Officer
UpEnergy has a 10-year track record of building projects that overperform expectations in the generation of emissions reductions, and that deliver on our performance promises to our customers. We are one of the largest developers by volume of projects focused on poverty alleviation through energy savings and fuel switching. Our team has a collective 50 years of climate finance experience and is at the forefront of Paris-era project finance.
About the role:
UpEnergy is at a time of exciting growth, expanding both in terms of product and geographic portfolio. In the context of our Expansion to the Tanzanian market, we are looking for an experienced Finance and Administration officer who is passionate about our mission and motivated by the challenge to help UpEnergy run operations in a key market.
The Financial administration officer will be responsible for supporting audits, tracking and reconciling the company’s Balance sheet, Profit and loss accounts, support the Finance manager in making sure that operations and finance functions are running smoothly in Tanzania. He/she will also provide support in inventory management and reconciliation.
This role will report to the Finance Manager in Tanzania
Key Responsibilities:
Financial accounting and reporting
- Support the monthly closing and reporting process for Tanzania, to ensure timely month-end reporting
- Support all accounting operations including but not limited to billing, payroll, A/R, A/P, Inventory, and general ledger.
- Ensure weekly reconciliations of bank accounts, mobile money accounts and petty cash.
- Support the risk of issues in financial reporting across auditors and government entities.
- Update, track and maintain fixed asset register, prepaids and cash advances, internally and externally.
- Meeting of month end close deadlines and accurate/complete posting of all mobile money/bank/petty cash transactions.
Payments & Banking
- Process mobile Bank/mobile money payments and posting in QuickBooks within correct budget line item.
- Ensure timely payment of all payment request types to internal and external vendors.
- Organize, file, and follow up on and maintain payment support, from vendors, field and internal team
- Proactive teamwork and coordinate with other entire Upenergy Team.
- Help supervise admin stuff as needed.
- Conduct bank runs as and when required
- Maintain fixed assets register by regularly updating it
- Maintain and update prepaid register by regularly updating it.
Tax & Audit
- Assist in coordinating tax filings/audits and external audits, and work with internal and external stakeholders to ensure tax compliance.
- Support external audits of country operations
- Create and maintain internal review function for tax payments and work with relevant 3rd parties to find solutions to tax-related questions.
- assist risk of tax payments and external audits, and support country finance lead with any government revenue authority audits.
New Job Opportunities at UpEnergy, Tanzania Finance and Administration Officer
Admin
- Assist in the admin function of the Tanzanian entity
Does this sound like you?
Must Have
- Relevant Bachelor’s degree
- Has CPA/ACCA or is in the process of obtaining.
- 3+ years of accounting experience
- Experience working within the accounting or operational finance department of a global entity
- Experience managing financial statements and GL (preferably with QuickBooks)
- Experience with tax filings, working with tax authorities and internal and external audits
- Advanced MS Excel skills
- High work ethic
- Strong leadership and team building abilities
- Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills
- Strong organizational skills
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with project finance and/or the development of energy or carbon projects. Experience in carbon project development is a huge plus.
- An understanding of customers and business culture in Tanzania
