Customer Service Jobs at Vision Fund and other companies

JOB DETAILS:
Responsibility:
• Provides support to Business Centre(Branch) in day to day activities related to data entry in VFT MFB system,
• Provide satisfactory customer service.

Main tasks
• Ensure approval documents are in place for manual data entry,
• Supervise, Effects & Confirm Mobile change & ATM requests and registration at the Business Center
• Register the bank pay in slips and issue receipts to the respective clients
• Initiate payments, and submit to Finance
• Prepares all journals
• Acts as a member of the branch credit committee and branch delinquency committee.
• Searches customers in Credit info to confirm if they are eligible to take loan.
• Sends disbursement documents to Regional Operations Officer,
• Leads the disbursement process, physically confirms clients during disbursement and reports any missing or problematic clients to central processing personnel
• Payments and Petty cash management
• Customer Service/Directs customers to respective officer or right channel
• Savings Mobilizations/Ensure KYC of saving accounts are approved by BCM

Education/Experience

• Degree Holder in Accounting/ Business Administration for CSO-I
• Diploma/certificate holder for CSO-II
• Must have a clear understanding of data entry and technology
• Very good knowledge and comfort dealing with financial information
• Very good analytical & reporting skills
• Proficient in Microsoft office application
• Be a good leader
• Very good communication and marketing skills (both written and verbal)
• Model and demonstrate effective Christian leadership and able to lead daily devotions.

Special / Personal Abilities
Achieving Capabilities:

• Achieving quality results & service. Practicing accountability & integrity. Communicating information effectively.

Thinking Capabilities:
• Thinking clearly, deeply and broadly. Understanding the Microfinance Industry. Understanding Vision Fund mission and operations.

Self-Managing Capabilities:
• Demonstrating Christian values in life and work. Learning for growth and development. Maintaining work/life balance and effectiveness.

Relational Capabilities:
• Building collaborative relationships. Practicing gender and cultural diversity. Influencing individuals and groups.
JOB DETAILS:
1. About the company:
• EA Fruits is a food-tech company focusing on efficient distribution of foods from farm to market. It has an extensive operations and logistics team that works around the clock to achieve the highest distribution efficiency in the industry.
• Be a part of something big! EA Fruits is growing and now is your chance to join a company where you will have influence! We are a lean company who asks a lot of its talented workforce and in return give you the opportunity to be part of a major player in the food-tech and distribution space.
• If you are energized by solving large-scale challenges, come work with us.

2. Job Summary:
• This position is responsible for planning, executing and evaluating the Key account customers/ Wholesalers of EAF company and initiatives to attract, retain and expand a loyal customer base for the designed customers.
• For success in the performance of this role, the Client Relations officer needs to understand the demand of customers and improve their on-time services. Customers should feel that they can depend on the business to meet their consumer needs and respond to queries and concerns in a timely manner.

3. Roles and Responsibilities
A. Sales & Marketing Strategy:
• Managing and maintaining customer accounts
• Support the sales and marketing department in creation and execution of the company’s marketing strategic plans for key accounts / wholesale customers.
• Liaise with superiors and sales team to execute on time delivery of orders
• Making sure he/she gets pre orders and escalates them to respective sales reps and monitor the deliveries on time as well payment collections.
• Analyzing and auditing customer documents
• Daily tracking and progress of all credits and follow up for approvals before sales.
• Conduct customer visits at least twice in a week and improve customer relationship.
• Maintain positive growth in your market area.

B. Client Management:
• Collect, monitor feedback and maintain a high degree of client satisfaction.
• Track complaints from the company’s customers to resolution.
• Participate in matter review meetings to identify and track opportunities for improving client satisfaction.
• Work closely with receivables accountant to resolve un approved credits, follow up on payments on time.

C. Reports:
• Track and report daily, weekly and monthly on key accounts customers performance.
• Perform any other duties assigned by the management and supervisors.
4. Qualifications and Experience:

a) Must-Have criteria
• Minimum of one year, experience in Business Development, Sales and/or Marketing.
• Diploma in Business administration, marketing accounting and finance or related field.
• Successful previous experience on client’s management, consistently meeting or exceeding targets.
• Strong computer and technical skills with specific experience in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Leadership skills.
• Strong business acumen.
• Effective communication skills.
• Detail-oriented.
• Understanding of accounting packages like ERPNext

b) Nice-to-have criteria
• Experience and knowledge in the FMCG industry.
• Presentation and negotiation skills.
• High capacity for problem solving.

5. Success Criteria:
• Revenue targets being exceeded.
• Achieving operational benchmark standards.
• High levels of client conversion and satisfaction.
• Ability to follow up issues on time.
• Report writing.

6 Key Contacts (internal/external):
• Finance Manager and accounts team
• Sales Manager and sales team
• Key accounts / Wholesalers contact persons.