Finance Manager Kenya

We at Yara are part of a global network, collaborating to profitably and responsibly solve some of the world's key challenges - resource scarcity, food insecurity and environmental change.

About the Unit

Yara combines knowedge, innovation, and sustainable crop nutrition to help farmers grow profitably and responsibly. We have an opportunity based in Nairobi, Kenya for a Finance Manager to join our team. The Finance Manager Kenya is responsible for the functions of finance and control to ensure implementation of sound accounting, financial management and governance processes for the local entity. The role also leads inventory and procurement functions to ensure optimal working capital, operational efficiency, and full compliance with corporate and regulatory requirements. This position partners closely with the Vice President East Africa to support strategic financial planning, risk management, and business performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead on all finance, accounting, controlling, and governance matters.
• Provide financial insights and analysis to support decision-making, resource allocation, and operational performance improvement.
• Ensure capex adherence to approved budgets and governance thresholds.
• Oversee and manage the entire operational cost base, ensuring alignment with the approved CRC budget and cost-control objectives.
• Review and validate business cases for investments (terminals, blending, IT, warehouses, etc.) while monitoring ROI, payback, and post-investment reviews.
• Facilitate the Business Plan process by ensuring accurate forecasts, qualified inputs, and timely submissions.
• Strengthen internal control environment including segregation of duties and reviewing and approving process flows to minimize fraud risk.
• Ensure compliance with Corporate Governance, accounting principles, local IRFS/tax regulations and Yara’s ICFR (Internal Control over Financial Reporting) principles
• Oversee credit policy implementation and ensure disciplined adherence to Credit Limit Allocation (CLA) and customer exposure.
• Ensure efficient and optimal management of working capital to support operations and business growth.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate financial risks including FX exposure, credit risk, subsidy receivables, and counterparty risk.
• Drive structured collections process and overdue recovery strategy while monitoring debtor aging and DSO for provisioning and bad debt reserves.
• Liaise with banks on funding lines, guarantees, and trade finance while optimizing banking structures and minimizing finance costs.
• Oversee ERP controls and system compliance ensuring accuracy of financial master data (customers, vendors, materials).
• Drive automation and digitalization initiatives in finance.
• Proactively manage tax risk, audits and disputes and optimize tax efficiency within legal frame-works.
• Oversee transfer pricing documentation and intercompany compliance.
• Lead the month-end closing process and ensure high-quality and timely delivery of Financial Statements, Statutory Reports, and Tax Reports.
• Prepare and validate financial submissions in accordance with corporate and local regulatory requirements.
• Ensure continuous audit readiness, including internal, external, customer, and regulatory audits.
• Oversee the quality and performance of outsourced activities related to accounting, tax, and reporting.
• Oversee end-to-end inventory management across the region to support optimal stock availability and financial accuracy.
• Ensure timely and accurate stock reconciliations, cycle counts, and variance investigations.
• Maintain rigorous inventory controls to minimize shrinkage, write-offs, and discrepancies.
• Oversee procurement activities to ensure timely, cost-effective, and compliant sourcing of goods and services.
• Ensure supplier performance is monitored, evaluated, and aligned with expectations on delivery, quality, and cost.
• Support negotiations, tender processes, and contract management for key suppliers.
• Lead and develop the finance team to build high-performing finance culture aligned with company values

Requirements

University degree within finance, accounting and/or auditing or comparable education
Chartered Accountant (CPA, ACCA or any similar institution)
Minimum of 10 years working experience 5 (five) of which should be in a multinational company
5 years’ experience in a senior/managerial finance role within a global entity
IFRS and local GAAP/tax competence
Working Knowledge of ERP systems (SUN,SAP)

Additional Information

Excellent MS Office skills with competency in SAP and financial reporting tools.

Analytical mindset combined with high interpersonal and communication skills.

Solutions-focused with a passion to challenge established practices and processes and drive improvement.

Interest and ability to work in a fast changing multi-cultural environment.

English (fluent written and verbal) skills are necessary. Additional languages are an advantage

Contact details

Tasneem Barnabas: People and Culture Africa

Philani Ntanzi: Finance Director Africa

Apply no later than

Monday, 23 March 2026

Knowledge grows through differences
Yara is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe that creating a diverse and inclusive work environment is not only the right thing, but also the smart thing to do. To deliver on this, Yara has firmly anchored Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) in our business strategy and has more than 400 employees worldwide involved in D&I ambassadors networks.

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