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 position below:

 

Job Title: Account Associate
Location: Lagos
Responsibilities

• This role is responsible for the delivery of the financial and business processes and systems in line with corporate standards; the post holder will undertake specific work within Finance and contribute to improving functional efficiency.

In particular, you will:

• Audit account payable checks, verifying accuracy of vendor names, amounts, addresses, authorizations, and other key payment information.
• Review bi-weekly check proposals to identify inappropriate transactions in conjunction with the disbursement audit process, primarily by verifying appropriate authorization of new vendors.
• Reconcile all vendor additions, deletions, and changes in Accounts Payable against the monthly vendor change report.
• Review bi-weekly duplicate A/P payment reports; investigate and resolve potential duplicate payments prior to release of payment.
• Prepare monthly reconciliations of store bank accounts.
• Post payroll journal entries and prepare account reconciliations.
• Assist with preparation of monthly consolidated financials and variance reports by collecting data; analyzing and investigating variances; summarizing information and trends.
• Responds to financial inquiries by gathering, analyzing, summarizing, and interpreting data
• Prepares special reports that will be requested by management from time to time.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Accounting or related field
• 5 years' work experience
• Advance proficiency in Microsoft Word processing and spreadsheet applications; ability to utilize database application
• Advanced level of Microsoft Excel (Pivot tables, Vlookups, and nestedifs formulas)
• Ability to interpret Financial Data from various systems and in various format.

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Job Title: Recruitment Specialist
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full Time
Job Description

• As a Recruitment Specialist, Your focus will be on driving candidate generation strategies in partnership with the Head of Recruitment.
• This is a great opportunity to be part of a team focused on making an impact on the business, recruiting for smart, innovative talent.

In particular you will:

• Work closely with hiring managers to achieve a clear understanding of job roles to execute sourcing strategies and identify the best talents to meet overall recruiting goals.
• Engage and captivate the interest of high-quality candidates and convert those candidates into hires.
• Utilize various techniques (Internet sourcing, resume mining, networking, LinkedIn) to find appropriate active and passive candidates for specific and talent pipeline positions.
• Manage end to end recruitment process including initial assessments, first level interviews, and offers.
• Provide timely feedback to candidates to ensure a great candidate experience.
• Maintain positive relationships with candidates in ways that could yield referrals that could become potential hire.
• Collaborate with recruitment team continually develop and improve on existing recruitment processes.
• Identify future talent needs and proactively recruiting and sourcing; develop talent pool or social engagements.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Psychology, Human Resources or any related field.
• 5+ years of recruiting
• 3+ years of corporate and or search firm progressive experience including passive candidate generation and full life cycle recruiting.
• Must have experience with a building and utilizing a variety of sourcing plans and tools, including proactive phone and internet research.
• Experience partnering with and advising hiring managers on recruiting decisions
• Ability to learn systems, processes, and procedures quickly

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: HR Operations Associate
Location: Lagos
Responsibilities

• This role will deliver the day-to-day support of Human Resources policies, programs and processes by providing quality real-time solutions to employee inquiries and requests.

In particular you will:

• Apply working knowledge and understanding of internal HR policies spanning employment, employee relations, benefits, compensation, payroll, training and HRIS to assist employees.
• Manage the employee experience through processes and programs that span across the employee lifecycle (onboarding, transfers, performance cycles, engagement surveys and offboarding).
• Maintain the HRIS database and employee files; develop forms and processes for all employee-related actions
• Assist with all HR related processes and forms for onboarding and offboarding employees.
• Develop, schedule and facilitate new employee orientations.
• Assist in the administration of all company benefits and communication, including but not limited to health, medical, dental, life insurance; leaves and workers’ compensation
• Work with HR and business management in implementing recognition programs that promote corporate values and enhance employee retention
• Assist with Performance Management programs.
• Collaborate with Benefits and Compensation to implement the merit increase process and support the focus on employee performance
• Manage and coordinate succession planning process across multiple sites, including developing and reporting metrics and presentations related to current succession planning status, areas for improvements, and improvement plans.
• Perform data analysis, compilation and/or preparation of confidential reports and statistics for various purposes i.e. headcount, retention, turnover, etc.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and progressive responsibility in HR to include at least 5 years’ experience leading an HR operations or HR shared service function
• Experience with HR programs such on-boarding, employee relations, recruiting, engagement initiatives, policy interpretation/administration.
• Ability to manage HR project roll-outs and on-going people processes within client group.
• Advanced Excel to create macros, pivot tables, VLOOKUPS, analytical capabilities and work books, and experience with HR systems.

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Corporate Sales Executive - Jumia Travel
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Responsibilities

• 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:
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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