Davis and Shirtliff Careers

Key Roles and Responsibilities:-

• New product development
  • Rapid prototyping of equipment and software systems
  • Product performance verification and validation.
• Provide technical support for field teams in electricals, instrumentation, control, automation, and renewable energy systems.
• Configuration and deployment of equipment monitoring solutions including IoT, SCADA and BMS.
• Track and document operational software systems incidents & outages and initiate root cause analysis.
• Handle customer technical complaints and escalations as required.

Key Qualifications and Competencies:

• Holder of Degree in Electrical & Electronic / Mechatronic Engineering or closely related field from a recognized institution.
  • Training in ICT networking and/or software development fundamentals.
  • Experience with solar power systems, pump solutions and equipment monitoring systems.
• Proficiency in digital electronics.
• Strong problem-solving skills and analytical capability.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to multi-task, organize, and prioritize work.

Interested candidates should apply before the deadline of 30th April 2024

This is a three-month internship programme (renewable once) that provides a challenging and stimulating work environment with excellent growth opportunities. Candidates who will be successful in this programme stand a good chance to be deployed within the Group Shared Services on permanent basis.

 The main tasks during the internship period are: -

• General ledger maintenance and analysis
• Cash office operations
• Bank reconciliation and cash book management
• Job costing
• Preparation of management accounts
• Credit management
• Ensuring compliance with internal and regulatory requirements

 Role Specifications: -

• Graduate in a relevant discipline from a recognised university
• Minimum Upper Second Class Honours Degree
• Fully Qualified CPA (K) or ACCA
• Good computer skills including MS Office packages
• Experience in ERP will be an added advantage
• A good team player with strong interpersonal and analytical skills
• Strong written and verbal communications skills in English
• French language skills (written and spoken) will be an added advantage

 please apply for the role on or before Friday,23rd April 2024.

We are looking for qualified and talented young engineering professionals to fill in the following position.

Sales Engineer Intern

The candidates will meet the following requirements:

• Graduate Engineer in any engineering discipline from a recognized University, with a minimum of Upper Second Honours degree.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft office suite.
• Valid driving license and having AutoCAD skills is an added advantage.

The successful candidates will join the company’s internship program details of which are on the company website and will be posted to any of the company’s many branches across the country. This provides an exciting opportunity to join a dedicated team of dynamic experts who derive satisfaction from "Improving Peoples Lives' through Providing Water and Energy Solutions for Africa".

The overall responsibility for this role will be evaluating and improving internal controls, risk management processes, and compliance with internal and regulatory requirements. The successful candidate will report to the Group Internal Audit Manager and be charged with the following responsibilities.

• Conducting audit routine checks.
• Assisting in the development and execution of audit plans.
• Conducting comprehensive financial and operational audit reviews to ensure adherence to company policies and procedures.
• Advising management on internal control and risk management issues.
• Conducting follow up reviews to monitor implementation of audit recommendations.
• Implementing and appraising the Group’s Integrated Management System.
• Performing any other task that may be assigned by management.

Qualifications and Experience

• Fully qualified CPA (K) or ACCA.
• Upper Second-Class degree in a relevant discipline.
• Relevant professional qualifications such as CISA, CIA will be an added advantage.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in providing internal audit assurance services in a reputable organisation.
• Experience working with audit software such as ACL, IDEA, or similar will be an added advantage.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data and identify patterns.

Critical Competencies

• Be self-motivated, disciplined, and effective team player.
• Excellent written and spoken English, good communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• High integrity, professionalism, and attention to detail.

The Davis & Shirtliff Group is the leading supplier of water and energy solutions in the region. The group is Kenyan based and operates through a network of Kenyan branches as well as regional subsidiaries in Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Rwanda, among others. The company has a total complement of over 900 highly trained and professional staff spread across the region.

We are looking for qualified and talented young accounting professionals to fill the following position:-

This is a one (1) year internship programme that provides a challenging and stimulating work environment with excellent growth opportunities. Candidates who will be successful in this programme stand a good chance to be deployed within the Group Shared Services on permanent basis.

The main tasks during the internship period are:-

• General ledger maintenance and analysis
• Cash office operations
• Bank reconciliation and cash book management
• Job costing
• Preparation of management accounts
• Credit management
• Creditors ledger maintenance
• Ensuring compliance with internal and regulatory requirements

Role Specifications:-

• Graduate in a relevant discipline from a recognised university (minimum Upper Second-Class Honours Degree)
• Fully Qualified CPA (K) or ACCA
• Good computer skills including MS Office packages
• Experience in ERP will be an added advantage
• A good team player with strong interpersonal and analytical skills
• Strong written and verbal communications skills in English
• Proficiency in French language (written and spoken) will be an added advantage 

If you meet the set requirements and would like to be considered, please apply for the role before Friday 23rd February, 2024.

Responsibilities
The successful candidate will have the following key responsibilities:

• Oversee the development, execution and monitoring of credit policies, systems, and solutions.
• Develop and deploy an appropriate product marketing mix in collaboration with the marketing and sales teams.
• Develop and implement a credit collection and asset repossession strategy, in consultation with Senior Management.
• Develop and maintain relationships with potential funders and structure, negotiate and manage loan facilities.
• Oversee overall risk management for the company.
• Manage legal, contracting and compliance matters, in liaison with Daylipa's legal counsel.
• Provide direction, guidance, and support to the credit team to maintain a healthy debt book.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum 10 years' experience in consumer finance and credit risk management (preferably in PAYG sector), five of which should be at General Manager level or similar.
• Graduate degree in Commerce / Business Studies, Economics, or any other relevant field with minimum Upper Second-Class Degree from a recognised institution.
• MBAor Masters degree in relevant discipline is an added advantage.
• Hands-on experience in developing flexible and affordable asset financing schemes for mass-market customers.
• Experience in capital and debt finance structuring.

Critical Competencies

• Proficient in financial modelling with in-depth credit data analysis skills.
• Strong strategic, analytical, and innovative mindset.
• Strong negotiation, collaborative and communication skills.

Key responsibilities

• Building software to assist customers – This will entail proactively building and implementing services including monitoring, scripting, automation and maintenance of software in a CI/CD environment.
• Creating prototypes, designing UI/UX and writing code against user and technical requirements adhering to deadlines to product pixel perfect software.
• Performing peer reviews, collaborating with developers to produce easy. efficient and attractive software solutions.
• Reviewing design and architecture to assure users of high availability, secure, bug free, high performance and resilient software.
• Providing software-related support.
• Proactively managing backlog as part of their daily tasks.
• Research on new fit for future technologies and actively adopt and implement viable solutions.
• Build APIs and integration endpoints to other systems.

Key Qualifications

• IT, Software, Computer science, engineering – At least a 2nd Class Upper class degree.
• 2 – 3 years programming experience – PHP, JS, HTML, CSS, MYSQL, Dart / Flutter, Java, Kotlin.
• Experience in PHP CMS and Frameworks – Laravel, Joomla, Codeigniter and Opencart.
• Github and Git experience for code versioning.
• API development and Microservices – SOAP / REST, XML, JSON
• Mobile app development and deployment experience to stores - Flutter, Xcode, Android, Maven, Gradle and Cocoapods.
• Experience with application security to secure applications and data.
• Experience with server management will be an added advantage – Azure, AWS, cPanel, Apache, Nginx, Litespeed, Digital Ocean, Containers, Kubernetes.
• Experience with Photoshop, XD, Figma will be an added advantage.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving and people skills.

The principal job tasks being as follows:

• Collaborate with project teams to identify business needs.
• Investigate and recommend solutions for system challenges.
• Develop and deploy platform extensions on Business Central.
• Constantly improve the existing applications to match growing needs.
• Train users on the functionalities of Business Central.
• Participate in improvement of technical and operational processes.
• Build integrations with Business Central usingAPI's.
• Assist in identifying value adding technology opportunities.
• Provide on-going support to customers through help desk.

The successful candidate will have the following attributes:

• Holders of an Upper 2 class honours degree in Computer Science or closely related field from a recognized institution.
• 2+ years of development experience on Business Central or Dynamics NAV.
• Expertise in Microsoft SQL Server database management system.
• Working knowledge in Business Central's integration with 3rd party applications search as Warehouse Management, Tax Management, Bank & Mobile Money.
• Understanding of CRM, Jet Reports and Power BI reporting tools will be an added advantage.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving and people skills.

The candidates will meet the following requirements:

• Graduate Engineer in any engineering discipline from a recognized University, with a minimum of Upper Second Honours degree.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft office suite.
• Valid driving license and having AutoCAD skills is an added advantage.

The successful candidates will join the company’s internship program details of which are on the company website and will be posted to any of the company’s many branches across the country. This provides an exciting opportunity to join a dedicated team of dynamic experts who derive satisfaction from "Improving Peoples Lives' through Providing Water and Energy Solutions for Africa".