Account Executive

  • March 4, 2022
  • Posted by: Nathan Akono
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The Account Executive works directly with clients to learn their goals and establish how the company can meet them. Their duties include regularly meeting sales quotas, goals and other forms of client expectations, helping clients understand the limits of their budget or resources and consistently meeting project deadlines laid out by the client.

Responsibilities:

  1. Communicating with clients and gathering information about a project’s scope, budgets and timelines
  2. Meeting with other executives to discuss clients’ project goals, progress and outcomes
  3. Create detailed sales business plans
  4. Set and manage sales goals and quotas
  5. Manage the entire sales cycle
  6. Assist in finding prospects and leads
  7. Identify new sales opportunities
  8. Build strong client relationships
  9. Identify opportunities to up-see and cross-sell
  10. Provide customer support when needed
  11. Learn new product and services features and benefits
  12. Provide professional after-sales support
  13. Respond to complaints and resolve issues to ensure customer success and satisfaction
  14. Prepare and present reports on KPIs

Desired qualifications:

  1. High School or bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as marketing, business administration, accounting, finance from an accredited institution.
  2. 3+ years of experience as an Account Executive/sales agent or Account Manager or 5+ years of experience as an Administrative Assistant.
  3. 2+ years of experience in the fintech industry
  4. 1+ year of experience working with B2C customers
  5. 1+ year of experience working at a start-up
  6. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  7. Excellent attention to details
  8. Excellent negotiation skills
  9. Excellent leadership skills
  10. Languages: Proficiency in French and English
  11. Tools: Proficiency in Microsoft 365 (Outlook mail, Teams, Calendar, Planner, Word, Excel, Sharepoint, Powerpoint) and any relevant tools

Saamaya Finance is a fintech start-up dedicated to digitalizing financial transactions in Cameroon and ultimately, positioning Cameroon as the leading market in West-Central Africa.

Our high-tech products/services are tailored to address the fintech needs of consumers and enterprises located both in urban and rural areas.

Visit www.saamayafinance.net to learn more about us.