Head of Accounting

Company Introduction

ALWAYS PAMOJA: We are one global team with one mission - Energy Equality through Enterprise Technology

Our diverse team at ZOLA Electric dispersed across 4 continents and 13+ different nationalities, share a common vision and commitment to solving the Energy Access challenge that afflicts almost 3 billion people and businesses globally. This is one of the world's great problems, impacting our most vulnerable and driving inequality across income, healthcare, education and climate change. As one of us, you are equally passionate about making an impact as you are creating the technologies that will eradicate Energy Inequality

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ZOLA Electric was born in and around the Serengeti in Tanzania, initially installing smart, connected devices (batteries and solar) that powered basic energy needs such as lighting for rural communities. Our theory that thousands of networked, connected devices will form the basic architecture of energy provision in emerging markets holds today. ZOLA doesn’t design discrete hardware products sold to end users, we design an enterprise technology platform that combines the power of a family of hardware devices all controlled and managed by one operating system, VISION. Our customers are regional and global integrators who are building and managing distributed grids and providing electricity to individual homes, local communities, and businesses in emerging markets. We design, implement, and help them manage and support these grids with our comprehensive platform consisting of hardware, software, and services that enable our customers to start at any size deployment, and scale to millions of entities creating local, profitable, and sustainable businesses. Today we are proud to say that our technology platform delivers reliable, affordable, and smart power in over 10 countries, and four continents, to almost 3 million people, schools, clinics, and businesses. This is just the beginnin

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Job Role Overvi

ew:For our Accounting department, we are looking for an experienced finance leader who can help us add value to the organisation. You will be collaborating with colleagues who work in African countries (Tanzania and Nigeria) and the United States. In this role you will own and manage Zola’s globally consolidated financial statements, as well as its subsidiaries. You will manage internal controls over financial statements, statutory, regulatory and financial reporting, tax exposure and provide oversight of the payroll function. You will lead and direct the global accounting team and support in building a cost efficient and highly productive global accounting structure to support the growth of our organisati

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• sks:Oversee all accounts, ledgers, and reporting systems ensuring compliance with appropriate IFRS standards and regulatory requirem
• entsMaintain internal control and safeguards for receipt of revenue, costs, and actual expendit
• uresManage the annual auditing of financial reports by the external auditor, review and sign off on the audit pack, and respond to audit queries identified during the a
• uditMonitor accurate monthly close and timely preparation of financial statem
• entsConsistently analyse financial data and present financial reports in an accurate and timely manner; clearly communicate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements; monitor progress and changes and keep senior leadership abreast of the company’s financial st
• atusMonitor compliance to tax regulations and manage the organisation’s exposure to minimise impact on pro
• fitsBe the resource for technical accounting guidance in the com
• panyLead the periodic financial and operational risk assessments to identify and mitigate risk to the busi
• nessCarry out internal audits as necessary to assure CFO and Zola Executive / Board that financial risks are properly man
• agedSupport in the development annual budgets based on operational and financial tar
• getsMonitor the operating budget to ensure expenditure is aligned to budget allocat
• ionsAuthorise expenses as per delegation of autho

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Experience and Technical Sk

• ills:Post graduate qualification in Accou
• ntingCPA or CMA pref
• erredMinimum 10 years accounting and finance experience, of which 5 years is at a management
• level10+ years’ financial management exper
• ienceExperience as a Financial controller or equivalent role in public accou
• ntingBig 4 Experience pref
• erredExperience with creating financial state
• mentsExperience with general ledger funct
• ions Month-end/year end close pr
• ocessKnowledge of accounting principles and proce
• duresKnowledge of accounting sof
• twareKnowledge of the relevant financial legisl
• ationLeadership s
• killsPeople management s
• killsRisk management s
• killsRelationship management s
• killsAnalytical s