Career Opportunities at Oze Ghana

Job Brief

• The mission is to work directly with the Co-founder/CEO to develop Oze’s strategy, run special projects, attract resources to the company, and execute on the vision of the company. 

Responsibilities

• Act as a thought partner and provide operational support to the CEO
• Provide senior leaders with insight and analysis on the company’s operations.
• Identify and help to solve core problems or opportunities within business processes.
• Manage the collection of leadership memos and preparation of the weekly leadership meeting agenda, deck and meeting notes.
• Provide a contrarian view, push back when data or instincts disagree with the strategy, be a voice asking us to do more. 
• Lead special projects that test the water for new strategies and scale up what we already know works.
• Oversee projects from ideation to implementation to iteration and/or scale. 
• Support prioritization of special projects considering weighing cost and impact. 
• Measure the impact on the business of new initiatives and make recommendations for a path forward. 
• Projects could include the roll out of a new product feature, testing a business model, testing a new growth strategy, opening a new market, developing partnerships, etc. 
• Support teams across Oze to drive their outcomes to achieve company-wide and department level objectives and key results.
• Support the executive team in effectively communicating company strategy to all stakeholders 
• Provide tactical support to implement ideas within teams.
• Be relentless when it comes to setting and achieving time lines.
• Be a second-mind and extra set of hands to support data-driven and experiment-driven decisions. 
• Help with coordination on multi-team / multi-market projects
• Partner with the CEO to manage investor relations and raise our Series A. 
• Lead the collection and presentation of data for monthly investor updates and board meetings. 
• Work with senior leaders to set the business plan for the series A.
• Prepare the financial model for the fundraise.
• Lead analysis on core KPIs for pitch decks.

Who Are You?

• Passion for solving problems that face small business owners in Africa. 
• 3+ years of experience in consulting, startup business operations, investment banking, or venture capital.
• A reputation for getting stuff done!
• Self starter who is able to create their own work plan to achieve a goal with minimal supervision. 
• Ability to manage ambiguity, shifting priorities, and multiple projects concurrently.
• Superb verbal and oral communication skills and analytical capacity. 
• Experience building financial models with minimal data. 
• Excited to build a company with ambitions to reshape an economy so that small businesses win. 

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Job Brief

• The mission of the Director of Strategy & Investor Relations is to work directly with Oze’s founders to develop Oze’s strategy, run special projects, attract resources to the company, and execute on the vision of the company. 

Responsibilities

• Act as a thought partner and provide operational support to the founders and leadership team
• Provide senior leaders with insight and analysis on the company’s operations.
• Identify and help to solve core problems or opportunities within business processes.
• Run the weekly leadership meeting in partnership with the CEO including managing the collection of leadership memos and preparation of the weekly leadership meeting agenda, deck and meeting notes.
• Provide a contrarian view, push back when data or instincts disagree with the strategy, be a voice asking us to do more. 
• Lead special projects that test the water for new strategies and scale up what we already know works.
• Oversee projects from ideation to implementation to iteration and/or scale. 
• Support prioritization of special projects considering weighing cost and impact. 
• Measure the impact on the business of new initiatives and make recommendations for a path forward. 
• Projects could include the roll out of a new product feature, testing a business model, testing a new growth strategy, opening a new market, developing partnerships, etc. 
• Support teams across Oze to drive their outcomes to achieve company-wide and department level objectives and key results.
• Support the executive team in effectively communicating company strategy to all stakeholders 
• Provide tactical support to implement ideas within teams.
• Be relentless when it comes to setting and achieving time lines.
• Be a second-mind and extra set of hands to support data-driven and experiment-driven decisions. 
• Help with coordination on multi-team / multi-market projects
• Partner with the CEO to manage investor relations and raise our Series A. 
• Lead the collection and presentation of data for monthly investor updates and board meetings. 
• Work with senior leaders to set the business plan for the series A.
• Prepare the financial model for the fundraise.
• Lead analysis on core KPIs for pitch decks.

Who Are You?

• Passion for solving problems that face small business owners in Africa. 
• 7+ years of experience in consulting, startup business operations, investment banking, or venture capital.
• A reputation for getting stuff done!
• Self starter who is able to create their own work plan to achieve a goal with minimal supervision. 
• Ability to manage ambiguity, shifting priorities, and multiple projects concurrently.
• Superb verbal and oral communication skills and analytical capacity. 
• Experience building financial models with minimal data. 
• Excited to build a company with ambitions to reshape an economy so that small businesses win.