upOwa is a solidarity company, created in France, with the vocation of radiating a positive impact on the lives of people and communities throughout the world while ensuring solid economic profitability for the sustainability and development of its actions. The staff shares a base of three common values, the foundations of individual motivations: courage (boldness and openness), well-being (respect and sharing) and collective success (organization and optimization).

UpOwa designs, develops, finances, produces, installs and operates solar solutions adapted to areas underserved by public electricity networks in sub-Saharan Africa.

The strength of the company lies in its economic model, which makes it possible to offer families and micro-entrepreneurs previously without electricity guaranteed equipment at an affordable price thanks to special payment facilities.

Presentation of the function and environment of the position

The position is based in Yaoundé with mobility of national scope.

Responsibilities and missions

Hierarchical organization

The Management Control Assistant is placed under the functional and hierarchical responsibility of the Head of Collection, Audit and Compliance.

Assignment

The Management Control Assistant is in charge of participating in the analysis and optimization of the company’s overall costs and monitoring them. As a good adviser, he must identify and make a good study of his professional environment.

Made essential by the growth and sustainability of upOwa’s commercial activities, this function aims to support the decisions taken by Management with the aim of optimizing operational activity and guaranteeing solid and sustainable growth of the company.

Responsibilities
Under the responsibility of the Head of collection, Audit and Compliance, the management control assistant oversees the implementation of tools used to measure the company’s performance.
He helps his hierarchy with forecasts and the preparation of dashboards (reporting). He sends him all the recommendations concerning better management of the company.
He collects numerous figures (expenses, income, investments, stocks, etc.), uses them while setting up reporting tools (dashboards) and writes summaries. Forecast analysis and control of procedures are also part of his daily life. It also ensures that management tools and procedures are optimized.
It proposes and coordinates the implementation plan for all corrective actions and all periodic controls of the company’s activity with a view to achieving the strategic objectives defined by the governing body.
He performs the general accounting and management controls of the company under the responsibility of the Head of Collection Audit and Compliance with a view to transmitting them to the Directors, who may ask him to make specific amendments.
The Management Control Assistant is placed under the hierarchical responsibility of the Head of Collection, Audit and Compliance (N+1).

Key activities
A- Development of management procedures and tools
Create accounting and management procedures and tools
Establishment of a management control system and associated tools
Design activity dashboards (monthly, quarterly and annual)
Ensure compliance with procedures.

 B- Monitoring, analysis and reporting

Extraction and analysis of the provisional general balance and third-party balances (account control)
Analysis of reconciliation statements (States & accounting): State of fixed assets & Accounting / Cash & Accounting / Orange money & accounting
Participation in inventories of stocks of goods , Goodies, telephone, equipment
Production of accounting and financial information that is sufficiently regular and sincere and reflecting a faithful image of the bank’s assets and
operations
. management of the budget process
Collect, analyze and synthesize budget data from the operational and profit departments
Integrate budgetary elements into monthly or quarterly results monitoring grids
D- Supervision, control of accounting closures

In connection with accounting, ensure monthly monitoring of cash returns and return of supporting documents
Perform permanent control of accounting and financial operations
Participation inventories of merchandise stocks, Goodies, telephone,

E-equipment Improvement of company performance

Identify any information likely to affect the result of the company and study the KPIs
Analyze the performance of specific projects on a monthly basis (commercial action, new project launch, commercial caravan, marketing action, etc.) by studying the deviations of results from budgets and objectives
Promote the audit and expertise of all accounts of the company upOwa
Also collaborate in various ad hoc studies (profitability studies, organizational studies, studies on costs or the implementation of new key indicators, etc.).
Assist the Head of Collection, Audit and Compliance on all work and projects.
Profile sought
Baccalaureate level + 5 (Business school)
Good knowledge of internal audit, internal control, accounting and taxation
Have a minimum of 3 years of experience as an accountant (Junior or Senior)
Strong ability to deploy and seek solutions
Adaptation and easy understanding
Excellent analytical and synthesis skills
Excellent interpersonal skills and very good listening skills
Strong motivation to work in a dynamic environment
Probity and ethics
Advanced mastery of Excel, power point and Google sheet

Submit your application by email to recruitment@upowa.org
Application deadline: 01/31/2023
Applications from women are strongly encouraged.