CFO, Delivery Manager, Safety Manager, General Associate, Delivery Head, SharePoint Admin, Project Manager and Tax Manager Jobs – Tatu City
CFO – Africa Land
Department: Business Support – Finance
- Experience in debt and capital raising for large real estate
- Culturally adaptable – strong personality. An assertive personality might be able to pull it better.
- Land development experience
- Good and strong networks with Sovereign wealth funds, Development banks, IFC etc
- Tender negotiations
- Portfolio (HoldCo) budgeting and reporting
- Cash flow management and forecasting and reporting at Holdco and subsidiary level
- Fund raising (infrastructure, project financing, equity and debt at HoldCo level, equity and debt at subsidiary levels): info memorandums, presentations, lender negotiations & all documentation
- Infrastructure cost management
- Tender and procurement processes
- Verification processes
- Portfolio and subsidiary shareholder interest management
- HoldCo and subsidiary IPO management
- Shareholder issues: agreements, term sheets, legal liaison
- Execution of new land transaction to expand the portfolio
- Execution of any exit transaction
- Contract negotiation for subsidiary companies
- Group reporting
Delivery Manager, Africa Land
Department: Business Support – Project Management
- Technical feasibility assessment on master plans
- Technical execution of Lubumbashi, Tema and Takoradi projects, working closely with the project Deal Captains
- Economics and value engineering on infrastructure
- Land use planning and Infrastructure design supervision
- Hands on management of consultants and professionals – owners mindset vs. consultant approach
- Problem solving approach in challenging regulatory environments which are also short of professional services
- Multi cultural approach and a very strong team player
- Out of the box thinking
Environmental Health & Safety Manager
Department: Principal Investment – Project Management
Areas of Responsibility
- Management and control of all environmental, health and safety policies and procedures within the Tatu City development in terms of the SEA, EIA and all regulatory requirements
- Liaison and management of stakeholders including but not limited to relationships with regulatory bodies
- Work closely with developers, contractors and construction staff on implementation and compliance of EHS programmes
- Establishment of monitoring, control and reporting processes and procedures prior to, during and post construction phases of Tatu City
- Preparation of Audits, analysis, reviews and reports for Tatu City Limited management and regulatory bodies
- Manage a team of environmental officers which will be brought on as the development accelerates
Core Competencies and skills
- Kenyan national and registered with the required regulatory bodies
- Degree qualified environmentalist with a minimum of 5 years working experience with a minimum of 3 years within a related field in the public sector
- Ability to implement training modules and manage training of staff at all levels
- Leadership and management experience including ability to manage a team within the field
- Experience in health and safety particularly the construction industry would be advantageous
Key Personal Attributes
- Energetic, dynamic team player with the ability to work under pressure
- Professional and confident with excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication skills
- Self managed, motivated and with a strong work ethic.
- Focused and Driven
General Associate, Africa Land
Department: Principal Investment – Analysis
Head of Delivery, Tatu
Department: Business Support – Project Management
- Head of delivery for new projects
- Assist Deal Captain in selection of professional team, keeping professionals to deliverables and driving value from professional team
- Technical feasibility assessment on master plans
- Technical execution of Tatu projects, working closely with the project Deal Captains
- Economics and value engineering on infrastructure
- Land use planning and Infrastructure design supervision
- Hands on management of consultants and professionals – owners mindset vs. consultant approach
- Problem solving approach in challenging regulatory environments which are also short of professional services
- Multi cultural approach and a very strong team player
- Out of the box thinking
Programme Scheduler & SharePoint Administrator
Department: Business Support – Operations
- Updating, reviewing and base lining of a multi-disciplined Master Schedule detailing the sequence and logical dependencies of all work to be performed
- Maintain the Master Schedule for each project within the programme and identify and record the impact of work performed and not performed as scheduled
- Interface with project stakeholders as necessary to discuss impacts of work and identify solutions to challenges
- Contribute to the development of working schedules, graphical analysis and reports and provide guidance to Project Managers
- Applies project management knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques in supporting project leads and driving the development and application of project management methodology and culture
- Responsible for developing and maintaining a site wide Programme Execution Plan
- Ensures all projects administered by the PMO adhere to the best practices and standard approaches for programme and project management
- Consolidates all aspects of project risks, issue resolution, actions tracking, progress reporting and change management
- Identifies, evaluates and communicates lessons learned across the programme team
- Ensures that the interdependencies between and amongst projects are managed to avoid conflicts and maximise benefits
- Responsible custodian of PPM knowledge and practice by providing a single, integrated repository and point of contact for all issues relating to the application of project management processes, tools and techniques
- Change control and configuration management
- Administrate, update, maintain and take control and responsibility for the document management system and information storage
- Project and Programme management qualifications such as PRINCE2 and/or MSP – Managing Successful programmes
- Minimum of 10+ years of setting up and running multi disciplinary programmes
- Academic qualifications related to project management and/ or construction management
- Good understanding and application of project, programme and portfolio management methodologies, including Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK); Achieving Excellence in Construction
- Knowledge and experience of various project and programme management tools/systems and experience in their application (preferably Share Point)
Senior Project Manager, Africa Land
Department: Business Support – Project Management
- An integral understanding of the building life cycle and understanding of construction impact on development return
- Ideally the successful candidate will have around 15 years experience with a deep understanding of urban land development, particularly in a community environment, and its associated processes.
- Extensive experience in the property development field in emerging markets, ideally but not essentially in Africa
- Experience of Programme Management and Development Management ideally within large scale mixed use or new community projects
- Have had ownership and responsibility for entire value chain in large real estate projects from feasibility studies to final delivery
- It is likely that the successful candidate will come from a Project/ Programme management or development management background and will ideally have experience of working on the developer/ client side
- Experience in both pre construction feasibility and production and delivery of projects valued at a minimum of $250m
- Experience of managing consultants and contractors
- Strong commercial skills capable of understanding and reacting to the overall investment strategy
Tax Manager, Africa Land
Department: Business Support – Finance
Major Responsibilities:
You will be part of the Africa Land Execution Team which is responsible for co-ordinating and managing the non-construction aspects of Africa Land’s real estate development projects across Africa.
The team will also include Finance, Legal and Marketing and will report to the Africa Land CFO.
The team will support the individual project teams on each local project. Africa Land currently has development projects and plans in Kenya, Zambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo and Senegal.
As part of Group Tax you will ensure the implementation of group policies and planning in Africa Land, particularly in relation to international structuring, funding and transfer pricing.
Group Tax is responsible for all the Renaissance business units (Partners, Investment Banking, Asset Management and Consumer Finance) and currently has 7 Tax Professionals located in Moscow, Cyprus and London.
You will be involved in all tax aspects of our development projects.
This will include
- Working with local advisers
- Analyzing the detailed tax consequences of project plans
- Structuring investment and acquisition
- Involvement in tax lobbying initiatives
- Minimizing operational tax costs such as customs duties, VAT and withholding taxes
- Tax risk management and reporting
- Managing local tax compliance
The role will be based in Johannesburg but require frequent travel within Africa.
Required Background:
- A Chartered Accountant, Lawyer or equivalent, probably with large firm training or experience.
- You will be working with the financial detail of projects and must be highly numerate and comfortable with large amounts of data.
- You will have at least 7 years tax experience which must include significant experience of property development, construction and real estate.
- Ideally, you will have worked in the industry and have experience of projects in more than one country, preferably across Africa.
Renaissance Group is a group that prides itself on innovation and operating in emerging markets; you must be excited by that challenge.
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