Rift Valley Railways Jobs and Career Opportunities

Our client, the Rift Valley Railways is a holding company that won the concessions to run the incumbent railway services of Kenya and Uganda.

The concessions principally involve the overall management of rail track, locomotives and other rolling stocks of Kenya Railway Corporation and Uganda Railway Corporation

RVR is looking to recruit extremely organised, efficient and effective professionals to take up the positions of the Chief Finance Officer and Chief Operations Officer.

The Chief Finance Officer

Responsible for all overall financial matters as well as finance staff management, the CFO's role will have the following responsibilities.

To:

• Provide leadership, direction and expertise in financial management functions and aspects of the company operations, and ensure that these are effectively and efficiently managed to provide high quality finance services
• Establish, enhance and implement overall financial controls in order to ensure profitability and sustainability of the company while assuring compliance with locally acceptable accounting principles, company policies and procedures, tax and local laws and regulations
• Provide leadership and coordination in the administrative, business planning, accounting and budgeting efforts of the company, and in formulating and implementing financial management strategy, policies and systems.

To succeed within this role, the CFO will need to be fully qualified (CPA, ACCA, ACA, CIMA, ACMA or equivalent) with previous experience as an CFO or FD preferably in the private sector.

You will also need a Bachelor Degree in Finance or Accounting.

An MBA degree would be advantageous.

In addition, you need to have the following:

• Demonstrated financial and management restructuring and turnarounds skills and experience in a relevant sector, and in a complex business operated under concession contract or license including financial and operational reporting to the Board-, shareholders and to meet statutory requirements
• A track record and ability to budget, control and tightly manage costs and liquidity in a crisis setting
• Experience and understanding of large scale project financing, and ability to effectively manage and address and fulfil financial and legal obligations under the international loan agreements
• Reporting and experience should include working with international lenders as well as international investors.

The Chief Operations Officer

This position will provide leadership, direction and expertise in operations management including production, planning and control and train services; the design, installation and maintenace of the infrastructure to ensure high quality safety, health and service standards.

You will also grow the profit line of the company and maximise shareholders/investors value through development and implementation of improved business operations processes, as well as:

• Lead the implementation of the company change strategy and appropriate reward/recognition and coaching/corrective practices to align staff to company's goals
• Provide leadership in the development and implementation of improved business processes and management methods
• Ensure that the railway infrastructure is designed and maintained at an acceptable quality, on time and within budgeted costs in accordance with agreed company service schedule and within set policies and procedures and budget.

To succeed in this role you must have a Bachelor or Masters Degree from a four (4) year college or university; or at least eight (8-10) or more years of related experience and/or training. Work related experience should consist of:

• Experience mainly gained from logistics and transportation industry with at feast three years at senior management level
• A practical understanding of operations management theories such as technical project management; total quality management; Kaizen; business process reengineering; six sigma, and ISO 9001
• Excellent experience in project and change management, business process re-engineering and implementation; business strategy and policy formulation, monitoring and evaluation; disaster management, and operations risk management and control
• A proven record of success at senior level in a relevant sector supporting the delivery of a range of highly competitive customer services
• Demonstrated operations restructuring and turnarounds skills and experience.

Both positions require:

• Experience of managing staff in a dual or regional matrix reporting structure.
• Strong leadership, negotiation and creative problem solving skills
• Exceptional oral, written and interpersonal communication and relationship building skills - can communicate and relate effectively with the board, technical partners, local and international funders and stakeholders, customers and employees
• Advanced computer literacy including standard office applications such as MS Office packages: word, excel, powerpoint, and the internet
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• The roles also require willingness to work a flexible schedule, and be available after normal working hours to get the jobs done.

Further specific responsibilities and details of the roles are available on request.

To apply for the role, please simply send your CV, and a covering letter to: admin @ ircchrservices.com.

If your skills and experience meet with any of our client's requirements and/or needs, we will provide our client with your full details so that they can consider whether you may be suitable for the vacancy.

Your details, as submitted by you, will only be used in conjunction with this vacancy. By submitting your CV and cover letter to us, you give express consent to us using your details for this purpose.

If you have any queries regarding this role, please send us an email, and we will be happy to answer any questions you may have about the role and our services.

ircc Human Resources Services Limited.

Tel: +44 207 830 9695

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