Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, July 12 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Purpose of the Role:
• The Business Advisor reports to the Director Corporate Services and transacts Growth Advisory services to existing PKF clients as well as sourcing new clients, and to provide Growth Advisory services to clients in order to facilitate business growth. In this regard, the Business Advisor is expected to assess how client organisations are performing and to help them improve their business processes and systems. The Business Advisor deploys various critical thinking skills to identify, define and diagnose business challenges and to come up with interventions and solutions to these business problems faced by client organisations and helps to introduce these solutions to the client businesses. He/she is expected to use data to suggest ways that organisations can operate more efficiently. The Business Analyst must gather and analyse data to develop and investigate potential solutions – including improvements to systems and processes – to organisational challenges.
• This position requires a high degree of critical-thinking skills such as problem diagnosis and problem solving, independent judgement, initiative, tact and accuracy in processing assignments, some of which are confidential in nature.

Detailed Job Specifications:
• Uses data-modelling techniques to identify ways in which an organisation can operate more effectively and efficiently;
• Communicates with senior people in organisations to find out what they hope to achieve;
• Formulates ways for businesses to improve, based on previous research;
• Persuades internal and external stakeholders of the benefits of new technology or strategies;
• Explores how the client organisation is currently operating via research, which could include interviewing employees and collecting quantitative data;
• Explores different solutions, their risks, benefits and impacts;
• Proposes solutions to an organisation’s leaders, and keeps them updated with progress;
• Ensures, where and if necessary, that recommended and agreed changes / interventions are implemented – for example, by overseeing the implementation of new approaches or technology;
• Undertakes any other duties as assigned by superiors and as may reasonably be required

Person Specification:
Qualifications and Experience
1. Grade 12 School Certificate
2. Master of Business Administration (MBA), Strategic Management, or similar
3. Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accountancy or Economics, CA Zambia, or ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
4. Minimum five (5) years relevant corporate service experience
5. Previous experience working as a Business Advisor in a related industry is an added advantage

Required knowledge, skills and abilities
• Commercial awareness and strong understanding of the business environment;
• Confidence working with complex data and systems;
• Excellent problem diagnosis and problem solving skills;
• Good understanding of how ITC can be used to resolve business-related problems;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work with people at all levels of an organisation;
• Good time management and organisational skills;
• An interest in, and understanding of, project management techniques
• Ability to maintain the confidentiality of affairs of the Client organisations;
• Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines with attention to detail;
• Familiarity and proficiency with Microsoft Office;
• Awareness of current trends and legislative developments that impact on the business sector will be an added advantage.

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months:

Level of Education: Associate Degree

Job application procedure
• Applicants who meet the requirements should submit their application, along with a copy of their Curriculum Vitae, academic/professional qualifications, and any other relevant documentation as a single PDF to palusaka@zm.pkf.com  no later than Friday, 14 July 2023.
• Please state the email subject as “Business Advisor Application“.

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