Job description: Karbak Ventures Limited (ISO NG19/90729) is an Engineering, Procurement and Construction Company, with approximately two decades’ experience in Electro- Mechanical Projects for FMCG companies in West and East Africa. We have vast experience with plant/equipment installation of numerous sizes and complexity and we pride ourself in the vast capacity built over the years in providing design, procurement and installation supports to numerous FMCG firms such as Coca Cola, Nigeria Breweries, Guinness, Friesland, PZ Wilmar, Murzah Wilmar (Tanzania), Kasapreko (Ghana), etc. and supports for OEMS such Sidel, KHS, Krones, Pentair etc.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Internal Auditor
Job Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Brief

• We are looking for an objective Internal Auditor to add value and improve our operations by bringing a systematic and disciplined approach to the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes. The successful candidate will possess a thorough knowledge of accounting procedures and a sound judgement.

Job Description

• Performing the full audit cycle including risk management and control management over operations’ effectiveness, financial reliability and compliance with all applicable directives and regulations.
• Generate periodic audit reports and present findings to senior management, offering insights and recommendations for improvements in financial operations.
• Keep up-to-date with regulatory changes that impact the Engineering industry.
• Maintain thorough audit documentation, including workpapers, findings, and recommendations.
• Identify potential risks in financial processes and systems, develop strategies to mitigate them.
• Conduct comprehensive audit on, projects, authorization processes, purchase of materials, equipment, procurement and store and various departments and teams to provide guidance on risk mitigation and internal control best practices.
• Identify loopholes and recommend risk aversion measures and cost savings
• Identify areas for process improvement and efficiency gains, providing recommendations to enhance financial and operational performance.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and or Finance.
• Five (5+) years of plus working experience.
• A professional certification (e.g., CPA, CIA, CISA) is a complusory.
• A Master’s Degree is an added advantage.
• Must be proficient in Sage50 cloud, Odoo and other related software

Working Knowledge and Skills:

• Proven experience in internal auditing, preferably in the Engineering industry.
• In-depth knowledge of financial auditing standards, principles, and practices.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
• People management and interpersonal skill.
• Proficiency in use of MS Suite (MS Word, Excel & PowerPoint).
• Business acumen.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Attention to detail and strong organizational abilities.
• Ethical and professional conduct, with a commitment to maintaining confidentiality.

Expected salary: 150000 – 180000 per month

Location: Ikeja, Lagos State

Job date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 01:24:14 GMT

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Job description: Ginos Ventures Limited is an Indigenous distributor of medical consumables and devices across Africa, we provide solutions to all problems of procurement, distribution, and supply of all medical consumables. We currently distribute for over 15 multinational healthcare companies and have a working relationship with about 60% of healthcare institutions in Nigeria with 23 Medical Representatives and 10 mini distributors that cover major regions in the country.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Procurement Officer

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• We seek a Procurement Manager who will be responsible for the procurement and supply of medical equipment and consumables across the country.
• He/She will spearhead our procurement efforts, helping the company get products that are both cost-efficient and of high quality, within schedule.

Job Description

• Following and enforcing the company’s procurement policies and procedures.
• Preparing plans for the purchase of equipment and supplies.
• Researching and evaluating prospective suppliers.
• Managing inventories and maintaining accurate purchase and pricing records.
• Ensure all items are properly updated on our warehouse system.
• Oversee the preparation of items for shipping, receiving, and storing inventory.
• Handle any other task assigned by the management.
• Maintaining and updating supplier information such as qualifications, delivery times, product ranges, etc.
• Arrange for the transportation of products to the location of our clients.
• Oversee all incoming deliveries to the warehouse and ensure accurate documentation of all receipts.
• Oversee all aspects of the shipping process including pickup, packing, and proper documentation of shipments.
• Preparing and submitting weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Procurement & Management, or a related field.
• A minimum of 3 years of work experience as a Procurement Officer.
• Ability to negotiate, establish, and administer contracts.
• Cost Optimization and Project Management skills.
• Great communication skills.
• Efficient with Microsoft Office tools, especially Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of procurement processes, policies, and systems.
• Must be able to carry out a proper market survey.
• Good organization and problem-solving skills.
• Great customer service skills.
• Ability to meet tight deadlines.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resume and Cover Letter to:

Expected salary:

Location: Nigeria

Job date: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 07:53:19 GMT

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Job description: below: Job Position: Branch Manager Job Locations: Asaba, Delta and Isolo, Lagos Employment Type: Full-time Job Description Plan… regulatory agencies and ensure timely compliance. Supervise the activities of the Floor Manager and all heads of department…

Expected salary:

Location: Asaba, Delta State

Job date: Fri, 05 Jan 2024 23:30:25 GMT

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Job description: Italian Coffee Ventures is a trading company with large stocks of luxury coffees from different brands like Nespresso, Caffitaly Lavazza, illy, Dolce Gusto, and more popular coffee brands as well as Coffee Machines and Accessories. We are Nigeria’s first biggest B2B/B2C business company dealing in all Coffee supplies.Our utmost business goal is to provide unquantifiable services that would leave our consumers with mind-blowing impressions. We give 100% attention to providing the best of the best and ensure to deliver quality products to our clients.

The brand focuses on becoming the most prominent sole distributor in West Africa by building a solid market base through market consistencies and innovations. Thus, being persistent in our business objectives to be masters at organizing, managing, presenting, and utilizing the Italian coffee system, importing foreign coffee brands to coffee lovers in Nigeria, while saving costs, reducing the inconveniences of spurious purchases, and the associated scarcity of this classic consumable.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Content Creator

Job Location: Ikeja / Alausa, Lagos

Employment Type: Full-time

Description

• Research industry-related topics
• Prepare well-structured drafts using digital publishing platforms
• Conduct keyword research and use SEO guidelines to optimize content
• Promote content on social networks and monitor engagement (e.g. comments and shares)
• Identify customers’ needs and recommend new topics
• Create and distribute marketing copy to advertise our company and products
• Interview industry professionals and incorporate their views in blog posts
• Edit and proofread written pieces before publication
• Coordinate with marketing and design teams to illustrate articles
• Measure web traffic to content (e.g. conversion and bounce rates)
• Update our websites as needed

Requirements

• Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor’s Degree in relevant fields with 1 year of work experience.

Expected salary: 70000 per month

Location: Ikeja, Lagos State

Job date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 07:44:01 GMT

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Job description: Location: Lagos, Nigeria (On-site)

Position Status: Full-time, Non-exempt, Regular

About Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse, and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long term impact.

About Mercy Corps Ventures

Mercy Corps Ventures invests in and catalyzes venture-led solutions to increase the resilience of underserved individuals and communities. Founded in 2015 as the impact investing arm of global development agency, Mercy Corps, we’ve supported 44 early-stage ventures to scale, reach 19.8 million users with impactful products and services, and raise over $400.4 million in follow-on capital. Our portfolio is 48% female-founded and centers around resilience-building solutions in adaptive agriculture and food systems, inclusive fintech, and climate-smart technologies, so that those living in frontier markets can withstand disruption and plan for the future. Through capital and support, piloting new approaches, action-oriented insights, and rigorously managing impact, we catalyze the ecosystem toward smarter, more impactful investments.

Select investments include Bitmama, Ejara, Wasako, Complete Farmer, Ndovu, Pula, Goldfinch, and Turaco.

MCV has significant capital to deploy and the team is actively sourcing and closing new investments, with a target to close approximately 10 investments per year. They will also be launching new investment vehicles in the coming 24 months.

For more information, please refer to our , , and page.

Investment Associate – Position Summary

Whether you have a burning desire to dive into venture investing or you already have venture investing experience and are looking to hone your VC craft, this role is for you. Join one of the most active global, early-stage impact venture firms, and help them find and back the most disruptive trailblazers in fintech, web3, climate-tech, and ag-tech across Africa and around the world.

This is the role for you if:

You are excited to dive deep into the impact investing industry and advance your journey into VC as the lead on Nigerian pipeline and portfolio with a top-tier investor that is actively deploying and will give you significant transaction exposure

You are passionate about entrepreneurs and share the belief that high-impact startups are the best engines for driving sustainable, equitable, and resilient impact at scale

Mercy Corps Ventures is looking for an Investment Associate to join its growing Investment Team. You will lead the build out of MCV’s strategy in Nigeria, representing MCV in Nigeria, spearheading pipeline development and transaction execution in the country, and supporting in MCV’s regional priorities. You will be fully integrated into all aspects of the investment process from origination to closing.

In this position, you will work with the team’s other investment professionals to screen, perform due diligence, negotiate, and close seed and early-stage direct investments.

Essential Responsibilities

PIPELINE & PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT (40%)

• Lead and represent Mercy Corps Ventures in the Nigerian market
• Work with the investment team to grow and foster new relationships with strategic partners such as incubators, accelerators, peer investors, and other ecosystem actors in target geographies and sectors.
• Generate and screen approximately 300-400 new investment opportunities per year
• Foster and manage partnerships in the Nigerian market

PIPELINE ANALYSIS & INVESTMENT DUE DILIGENCE (50%)

The Investment Associate will lead our fund’s activities in Nigeria and take a leading role on diligence on deals in this market. They will support the investment team in progressing investments through the entire investment cycle, from initial screening to due diligence and closing. They will be empowered to present investment opportunities to the Mercy Corps Ventures Board of Directors and Investment Committee, as well as collaborate with senior Mercy Corps leadership. This includes:

• Landscaping & Pipeline Analysis: Mapping of investment opportunities in specific priority sector(s) for Mercy Corps Ventures.
• Screening: Screening investment opportunities through review of pitch decks, participation in live demo days, meeting entrepreneurs, pouring through data rooms, and management of our inbound deal flow.
• Due Diligence: Conducting detailed data room analysis and interviews with relevant industry experts and partner investors to review and analyze business plans, validate assumptions, stress-test financial forecasts, gain an in-depth knowledge of a company’s unit economics, and address key due diligence inquiries and investment risks.
• Investment Research: Conducting and presenting research as needed in areas such as analysis of market opportunities, threats, competitive differentiation, and potential headwinds to emergent sectors or markets, as necessary to support investment decisions.
• Investment Documentation: Attending all investment team meetings and investment committees and support investment professionals to lead deals through our investment process, including drafting investment memoranda, identifying and explaining key investment risks, coordinating legal and financial DD, structuring and negotiating transaction agreements, and presenting investment opportunities to senior decision-makers.
• Investment Recommendation: Making recommendations on and presenting investment opportunities to the Ventures Team, Investment Committee, and Board for debate and approval.
• Deal Structuring and Execution: Preparing investment documentation and other transaction documents, as applicable, and supporting the coordinated onboarding of closed investments into Mercy Corps Venture’s investment portfolio with applicable handoffs to the Platform Team.

RESEARCH & INSIGHTS (10%)

• Content Generation: Supporting the investment team and working with Mercy Corps Venture’s Communications team to develop curated content through insight pieces to be shared externally.

Supervisory Responsibility

Potential supervisory role for analysts, investment officers, fellows, and/or interns hired in market

Accountability

Reports Directly To: Partner, Investments, Mercy Corps Ventures

Works Directly With: Investment team members, entrepreneurs, co-investors, and ecosystem partners, with exposure to the broader Mercy Corps Ventures team

Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders

Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

Minimum Qualification & Transferable Skills

• Preferred candidates will have a minimum of 5+ years of business experience with a background in corporate finance, investment banking, management consulting, startup operations, or venture building.
• Financial Analysis Ability: A strong grasp of finance and financial modeling – comfortable navigating and summarizing complex financial models in excel.

• Fluency in fundamental financial terms, understanding of financial statements, and ability to evaluate a company’s financial performance and dissect a financial model with minimal oversight and guidance.
• Comfort assessing valuation methodologies and running valuation scenarios, stress testing model assumptions and running scenario analysis would be ideal.
• You should possess an insatiable curiosity and experience in problem sets and solutions within fintech, web3, agtech, and/or climate-tech as well as a strong interest in venture capital in Africa. Knowledge of fundamental business concepts and a foundational grasp of venture capital is important.
• Strong connections with investors, angels, accelerators, and startups in Africa. You should be excited to support MCV in building our network of partners in the region.
• Fluent in written and spoken English (French is a plus)

Success Factors

The ideal candidate will have a superb track record as a fast learner, quick starter, and action-oriented problem solver. We are a low-ego, collaborative team and these traits are essential for any candidate. A candidate needs to have strong strategic thinking skills and be able to navigate complex environments and develop a clear, focused, and ambitious vision. The ideal candidate must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and be able to articulately craft an argument and defend a position. They will have the desire and ability to be part of a highly collaborative, dynamic, mission-driven, and team-oriented culture.

Living Conditions / Environmental Conditions

The position must be based in-person, in Lagos, Nigeria. This is a global role, so may require up to 50% travel to multiple global locations. This position is expected to travel unaccompanied often, which may include some weekends. Constant communication is important where infrastructure allows.

Candidates must hold authorization to work in Nigeria as this cannot be provided or facilitated by Mercy Corps.

Ongoing Learning

In support of our belief that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities we serve, we empower all team members to dedicate 5% of their time to learning activities that further their personal and/or professional growth and development.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Achieving our mission begins with how we build our team and work together. Through our commitment to enriching our organization with people of different origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and ways of thinking, we are better able to leverage the collective power of our teams and solve the world’s most complex challenges. We strive for a culture of trust and respect, where everyone contributes their perspectives and authentic selves, reaches their potential as individuals and teams, and collaborates to do the best work of their lives.

We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a journey, and we are committed to learning, listening and evolving to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive than we are today.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Mercy Corps is an equal opportunity employer that does not tolerate discrimination on any basis. We actively seek out diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be collectively stronger and have sustained global impact.

We are committed to providing an environment of respect and psychological safety where equal employment opportunities are available to all. We do not engage in or tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability (including HIV/AIDS status), marital status, military veteran status or any other protected group in the locations where we work.

Safeguarding & Ethics

Mercy Corps is committed to ensuring that all individuals we come into contact with through our work, whether team members, community members, program participants or others, are treated with respect and dignity. We are committed to the core principles regarding prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse laid out by the UN Secretary General and IASC and have signed on to the . We will not tolerate child abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment by or of our team members. As part of our commitment to a safe and inclusive work environment, team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner, respect local laws and customs, and to adhere to and values at all times. Team members are required to complete mandatory Code of Conduct eLearning courses upon hire and on an annual basis.

Expected salary:

Location: Lagos, Lagos State

Job date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 22:29:48 GMT

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