Uchumi Supermarkets Head of Treasury Job in Kenya

Be a Transformative Leader – Recruitment of top talent for a leading regional chain of retail supermarkets

Our client, Uchumi Supermarkets Limited (USL) is a chain of retail supermarkets currently operating in East Africa (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania), and is the only listed retail outlet in the Eastern African Region.
The Company operates a network of 37 branches across East Africa. USL strives to be the best choice for customers by helping to ease retail shopping as the friendly home of value, and striving to achieve a worry and hassle-free shopping at competitive prices and enshrined high level of integrity member of the society.

USL is currently undergoing a major restructuring to ensure efficiency and support its growth strategy.
In order to execute and sustain its growth and expansion strategy, USL is seeking to recruit result oriented individuals with drive, vision and creativity to manage the chain of Supermarkets in the following capacity:

Head of Treasury
Ref: HT/06/2015

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the Head of Treasury will manage the treasury function and credit control and continuously resolve as well as improve the current accounting systems in addition to providing management with accurate financial information.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing and advising on long-term and short-term investment strategies;
• Reviewing weekly and monthly performance of USL, highlighting areas of concern to management; and advising accordingly;
• Managing all aspects of in-house investment portfolios;
• Forecasting cash requirements and advising on investment of surplus funds;
• Ensuring the completeness of revenue by comparing marketing statistics with financial information;
• Reviewing and recommending changes to the investment policies based on the market conditions;
• Approving payment requests and facilitating the processing of payments; and
• Appraising staff, identifying their training needs and developing training programmes to enhance their skills.

Personal Specification

• A fully qualified accountant with current membership to a professional accounting body;
• Bachelor’s degree from a recognised university;
• A minimum of 7 years working experience, at least 5 of which should be in a senior management and/or advisory role within Treasury function; and
• Good knowledge and experience on all aspects of a financial institution, accounting and IFRS standards and legal points of view is required.

How to Apply

If you have the relevant qualifications and experience, please email a cover letter and your CV quoting the reference number of the job you are applying for in your email to esd@deloitte.co.ke on or before 3 July 2015 addressed to:

The Director
Executive Selection Division
Deloitte Consulting Limited
Email: esd@deloitte.co.ke
Nairobi, Kenya