Senior Finance Associate

Locations: Ndola

Sun King’s Finance team supports the distribution partnerships (B2B) and direct-to-consumer (B2C) sales channels as well as the financial operations of the company overall. The in-country finance team works closely with the respective Operations, Sales, and HR teams to support critical finance related activities in the region and collaboratively with the global Finance team based in more than seven countries. 

The Finance team plays a critical role in managing revenue and accounting for the company’s pay-as-you-go (PAYG) direct solar financing and wholesale distribution businesses; in ensuring compliance with local tax and reporting regulations; and in reporting to investors and servicing the company’s financing and debt obligations. 

What you would be expected to do:

Closure of books and audits

• Ensuring accurate month-close/quarter-close and year-close processes and manage all financial reports
• Closure of all statutory and tax audits, external and internal audits
• Finalization of the financial statements and perform the required review of the financial statements.
• Discuss audit queries and close all issues raised by the auditors.
• Manage tax and overall account reconciliations to ensure the balance sheet is stated accurately.
• Provide periodic Trial balance to show movements in profit and loss as well as balance sheet.
• Ensuring accountings are in accordance with local GAAP and US GAAP

Taxes and local compliance

• Manage all direct and indirect tax filings, reporting, and all of its underlying processes.
• Drive all Transfer pricing assessments, filings, reporting and processes.
• Liaising with the Service provider for getting the Transfer pricing study completed on a yearly basis.
• Preparing the necessary Tax reporting package on a quarterly basis for provision of all the status updates to Global finance team.
• Ensuring that the correct with-holding tax rate has been used for deducting the tax for all the required heads and all relevant items have been included for with-holding tax deduction.
• Liaising with the service provider for getting the remittance done on time for VAT, WHTax, PAYE, NHIS, NAPSA and other related items.
• Maintenance of the monthly Compliance Dashboard and to ensure that all statutory payments are made on time.

Others

• Partner with global finance team to execute finance initiatives across organization as required from time to time.
• Drive visibility into variable cost accounting, variable cost productivity, project margins and other key financial metrics.
• Creating of masters with all the relevant information of the customers and vendors and maintenance of necessary documents for them
• Processing of employee reimbursements.
• Ensure all local secretarial compliances are done on time.

You might be a strong candidate if you:

Bachelor’s degree in accounting/Finance

• ACCA / CPA or any relevant professional qualification is a must.
• 5 years relevant work experience in Controllership, accounting, or taxation practices
• Relevant work experience with Big 4 audit firms or MNCs

Desired Characteristics

• Excellent analytical skills, able to clearly link financial results to operational performance drivers, generate alternatives and drive positive change.
• Clear thinking/problem solving, able to lead projects/process improvement within operations/finance function.
• Able to break down complex issues into simpler steps and resolve them.
• Fluent in written and verbal English communication
• Excellent presentation skills and strong executive presence
• Ability to prioritize & promote teamwork.
• Willing to participate and engage in operations in addition to finance.
• Excellent grasp over MS Excel and MS power point
• Should be flexible, willing to stretch and achieve over and above base expectations.
• Possess strong people management skills.

What we offer (in addition to compensation and statutory benefits):

• An opportunity to grow as a professional in a dynamic, fast-growing, high impact industry; 
• The chance to work in an open-minded, collaborative culture surrounded by enthusiastic Greenlighters who are driven by the challenge of continuously innovating and growing an innovative, sustainable business with a profound impact on the world; 
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds. 
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Greenlight Academy.

About Sun King

Sun King designs, distributes, and finances the purchase of solar powered home energy solutions for the world’s 1.3 billion under-electrified consumers. We are market leaders in the distributed off-grid solar industry, and our Sun King™ products have enabled 90 million people around the world to access clean, reliable, solar-powered light and energy at home. 

Sun King products range from portable solar lamps to more robust multi-light solar home systems, to solar-powered televisions and fans and energy-efficient inverter bulbs. Our products drastically improve the quality of life for those that lack reliable electricity access: they help extend the number of productive, income-generating hours in a day; they enable children to study after dark; they allow families and communities to gather safely to socialize after sunset; and when replacing field-based sources of light like kerosene lamps, they reduce exposure to indoor air pollution.   

We reach our customers through two distinct business models: a vast network of more than 300 distribution partners across 40 countries, and through our EasyBuy™ Direct sales channel, where we sell directly to consumers in India, Kenya, Myanmar, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Togo, and Zambia through a network of more than 15,000 commission sales agents. Our customers have the option to purchase these products upfront or to pay for them through an installment payment plan over a period of 4-18 months through our Sun King EasyBuy™ line, our technology-enabled ‘pay-as-you-go’ (PAYG) systems. 

Sun King employs more than 2,000 people in 11 countries across sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. We are passionate about serving off-grid customers, and we are driven by the challenge of continuously innovating and growing a smart, sustainable business with a profound impact on the world.

Sun Kung is committed to gender equality in the workplace. Women represent 47% of Greenlight’s workforce.