Green Spoon Careers

The Role

Today we are offering a Finance Internship to extremely talented (almost) graduates. We are looking for someone who likes to work with systems, creating an overview and structure in our business. We are looking for someone who wants to grow with us in our organization, someone who is curious and who wants to upskill. The internship is for 3 months, with a possible extension of another 3 months. At the end of the internship period, the intern will be offered a full-time contract if performance has been excellent.

The Finance Intern will get a broad understanding of the Finance role in an innovative start-up:

• Correctly making financial entries
• Develop perspectives on financial statements: income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements
• Supporting with making projections on income, costs and cash flow
• Support with accounts payables and accounts receivables reconciliation
• Cross checking purchase orders with invoices
• Supporting on intake new suppliers and products
• Preparing tax documents
• Keeping track of accounts payable and receivables

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master's level in Finance, Accounting, Economics or similar
• Excellent academic achievements
• Strong work ethic
• Naturally curious
• Comfortable working with Excel and ERP systems

ROLE DESCRIPTION / RESPONSIBILITIES

You will be responsible for both back-end and front-end development including the implementation of WordPress / D365 plugins and custom functionality. You will also be responsible for monitoring website availability and performing regular maintenance / upgrades on WordPress plugins and core. You will work directly with our CTO, who is an expert in WordPress and Product Management. From day 1 you will be able to learn a lot by getting a lot of responsibilities, access to courses and plugins and interacting with the rest of the team.

Location: Mostly remote with on-site presence in our office in Regen, Kikuyu, 1 day (or if necessary 2 days).

• Maintain existing website and make changes to the front-end and backend functionality as required by internal and external stakeholders
• Conducting website performance tests
• Troubleshooting issues
• Performing regular plugin, theme and core updates and resolving issues in Staging environment before transferring changes to Live
• Train internal teams as required
• Proactively monitoring website performance and availability and suggesting solutions to improve speed, performance & optimizations
• Creating new and innovative solutions to enable our internal teams and customers to have an outstanding experience with Greenspoon products

REQUIREMENTS

• Previous work experience with WordPress development
• In depth understanding or experience in WooCommerce preferred
• Knowledge of front end technologies such as CSS3, HTML5, Javascript and jQuery
• Experience with or the ability to quickly learn PHP and WordPress plugin development
• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
• Experience with or the ability to quickly learn to develop iOS and Android apps
• Good understanding of website architecture and aesthetics
• Experience designing and developing responsive design websites
• Ability to manage projects and tasks independently
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Centrals and the AL programming language an asset but not required

The role

Unlike any other e-commerce company in Kenya, we want to create a personal connection with our customers. Our delivery drivers are the most important touchpoint that customers have with Greenspoon. Therefore we are looking for the best delivery drivers of the country. The drivers should be a true representation of the Greenspoon brand, master driving with our vans and deliver an 'honestly delicious' experience for our customers. The driver is responsible for the deliveries in the neighborhood he/she covers.

The profile of drivers that we are looking for is the following:

• Extremely friendly and polite
• Funny!
• Positive mindset
• Strong communicator toward customers, but also internally
• Very honest
• Excellent English
• Good knowledge of Nairobi roads and traffic
• Creative on how to get orders to customers in time
• Can do mentality

Working as a driver is fun: you have good work life balance as you work during the day and you make your customers happy with delicious products. You will receive a fixed compensation and every month you are eligible for a significant variable reward based on:

• Customer feedback
• On time in full order delivery
• Delivery efficiency

Qualifications:

• Driver's license (car + preferably motor bike)
• Having a smart phone (to install driver app) - we give airtime
• Living close to Kikuyu or willing to move