Finance Manager - Kenya
4 нед. назад
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Finance Manager to own the financial management of Kenya business, which focuses on financing assets via mobile money for customers in sub-Saharan Africa.
О компании
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- Recognized four times by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026), named on CNBC's World’s Top Fintech Companies 2025 & 2026 and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024 , we've served over 10 million customers, unlocking $2 billion in cumulative credit for the everyday earners across Africa, in addition to over 10,000 e-bikes financed in Kenya.
Требования
- Qualified Chartered Accountant (CPA(K), ACCA, CA or equivalent), with a demonstrable track record in finance management or a senior finance role, including hands-on ownership of statutory and management reporting cycles.
- Deep, applied IFRS knowledge — particularly IFRS 9, IFRS 16, IAS 21, and revenue recognition — and proven ability to manage audit processes end-to-end, from file preparation to auditor queries.
- Exceptional financial modelling and communication skills: you can build a complex multi-scenario model in Excel and present its conclusions clearly to a CFO or a lender in the same week.
- Big 4 training (PwC, Deloitte, EY, KPMG) is a strong advantage. Working knowledge of the Kenyan fintech, lending, or asset-financing sector is a plus, though not required — curiosity and commercial instincts matter more.
Другое
- You've built the controls. You've closed the books. You've explained the numbers to boards who didn't want to hear them. But have you ever built financial rigor into a business that's simultaneously scaling, lending, and putting life-changing assets into the hands of millions of customers who've never had access to credit before?
- That's the question at the centre of this role.
- Kenya is the home market of — sub-Saharan Africa's largest asset fintech. We finance smartphones, solar power systems, and other essential assets for customers who pay daily via mobile money, building credit history and unlocking opportunity along the way. Kenya is where began, and it remains the group's largest and most mature market, with the deepest customer base and loan book in the business.
- has crossed 10 million customers, unlocked more than $2 billion in credit, and is on a deliberate path to 10 million more. Kenya is a critical piece of that next chapter — the market with the longest operating history, the most established regulatory relationships, and the richest repayment data in the group. That's not a legacy structure to simply maintain: it's a business being continually refined in real time, with real customers, real repayment behaviour, and real IFRS obligations.
- We are hiring a Finance Manager to own the financial management of the Kenya business — not just to maintain a finance function, but to strengthen and scale one.
- This is a hands-on, high-ownership position. You will be a finance lead for the Kenya entity — responsible for the monthly management reporting pack, executive commentary, the IFRS 9 Expected Credit Loss model, treasury and compliance matters, and the unit economics that inform commercial decisions across the market.
- You'll manage the end-to-end monthly close: accruals, prepayments, intercompany, depreciation, FX. You'll produce variance analysis that isolates market-specific effects from one-off items. You'll monitor the loan book, analyse repayment behaviour by cohort, and own provisioning and bad debt trends. You'll support statutory and regulatory reporting, manage documentation for funding and compliance processes, and support due diligence as needed.
- And then — because this is Kenya — you'll also be a commercial partner. You'll sit alongside the commercial team to interrogate unit economics, model new product launches, assess pricing and supply decisions, and build the financial cases for leadership and board discussions.
- This is not a role where the strategy happens upstairs and the finance team keeps score. You'll shape both.
- Most finance roles at this level have inherited structures, established processes, and reporting cadences that largely run themselves. This one asks for more ownership than that. You'll identify automation opportunities, strengthen controls, and ensure IFRS compliance in areas where judgement genuinely matters: IFRS 9, IFRS 16, IAS 21, revenue recognition, IFRS 18 readiness.
- You'll also have direct exposure to Africa's most established mobile-money-driven fintech market, working alongside local and regional leadership to navigate a mature but still fast-evolving regulatory and commercial landscape. That's a professional education you can't buy.
- This role will ask a lot of you. The business is scaling fast, the reporting obligations are real, and the market's dynamics require precision. There will be months where the close feels tight and the audit feels relentless. You'll be operating across strategic and operational levels simultaneously — and some days the most important thing on your plate will be debugging a provisioning model, not presenting to leadership.
- If that sounds manageable, it probably is. If it sounds energising — you're probably the right person.
- A front-row seat in strengthening the financial infrastructure of Africa's largest asset fintech business, in its founding and flagship market. A mission where every asset financed is a tangible improvement in a customer's daily life. And genuine ownership — the kind where your judgement shapes how this entity reports, controls, and makes decisions, not just maintains them.
- Ready to build something that matters? Let's talk.