Operations & People Manager – Artefact Côte d’Ivoire
On-siteAbidjan, Abidjan Autonomous District, Ivory Coast
Job Summary
Internalise and lead the finance, people, and operations functions currently managed externally, including bookkeeping, treasury, payroll, and compliance with Ivorian tax and social obligations. Own cash-flow monitoring, budgeting, and monthly reporting to the Partner while managing end-to-end recruitment, talent development, and office culture for a junior-heavy team. Support commercial pipeline operations by connecting staffing capacity to sales forecasts and ensuring operational discipline for proposals and client onboarding. This pivotal role evolves toward a COO mandate as the office scales, placing you directly alongside the Partner to build the operational backbone for Artefact's Francophone Africa expansion.
Required Qualifications
- 4 to 7 years of relevant experience, typically from a top audit or consulting firm and/or a finance role in a company
- Strong finance foundation — management control, reporting, cash flow; comfort with numbers and with owning them
- A real appetite for operational, hands-on work — you want to build and run things, not only advise on them
- Genuine interest in the people dimension: recruitment, team development and culture, not treated as an afterthought
- Sound judgement under pressure and the ability to make and defend decisions autonomously
- Fluency in French; professional working English
- Deep familiarity with the Ivorian business, legal and talent environment
Desired Qualifications
- Prior operational experience in a company (financial control, operations or country management)
- Entrepreneurial experience — having built, run or scaled something of your own
- Exposure to a scale-up or fast-growth environment
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