Offer summary

Qualifications:

Experience in financial operations, including budgeting and vendor management., Background in FinTech or technology operations with a track record of operational improvements., Leadership experience with distributed teams and agile practices., Strong communication skills and ability to operate autonomously in fast-paced environments..

Key responsibilities:

Partner with CTO to execute technology strategy and manage resources.

Lead strategic planning, OKRs, and performance measurement across engineering teams.

Oversee technology operations including procurement, contracts, and financial governance.

Coordinate cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management for strategic initiatives.

Job description

Join our Technology Leadership Team as we scale digital and financial inclusion across Africa.

The Impact Your strategic leadership will directly unlock technology solutions for millions of people across Africa whove been excluded from traditional financial services. Weve already helped over 5 million customers access over $1.5 billion in credit, and your operational excellence could accelerate this impact exponentially.
Its your chance to be part of something thats literally transforming lives across an entire continent 🌍 Imagine leading initiatives where success means our platform scales to serve a million new customers, our engineering teams launch in three new countries simultaneously, or our technology infrastructure empowers entire communities to access their first digital financial services.

The Opportunity
🎯 Missiondriven strategy: Every process you build helps expand financial inclusion for underbanked populations
⚡ Immediate impact: See your strategic decisions improve lives in realtime, not just quarterly reports
🏆 Global recognition: Join a company named by TIME 100 as one of the worlds most influential and by the Financial Times as Africas fastestgrowing for 4 consecutive years (20222025)
🚀 Scale challenges: Lead operations for technology serving millions across multiple African markets
🌱 Environmental impact: Were carbonnegative, having displaced over 2 million tonnes of emissions
What Youll Do...
Strategic Operations & Financial Excellence
Partner with our CTO to execute technology strategy through exceptional budgeting, vendor management, and resource planning
Lead OKR setting, strategic planning, and performance measurement across distributed engineering teams
Drive technology operations including procurement, contract optimisation, and financial governance
Oversee project management for strategic initiatives including country launches and platform scaling
Team Development & CrossFunctional Leadership
Build frameworks for team development, recruitment strategy, and organisational growth across technology teams
Coordinate crossfunctional collaboration and stakeholder management with engineering leadership
Establish datadriven processes and optimise resource allocation for maximum impact
What You Need...
Strong financial operations expertise budgeting, vendor management, and cost optimisation in technology environments
FinTech or technology operations experience with proven track record delivering operational improvements
Distributed team leadership experience with agile development practices and crossfunctional stakeholder management
Startupscaleup background with ability to build processes from scratch in fastpaced environments
Exceptional communication skills and bias for action with ability to operate autonomously with senior engineering teams

Our Mission 🌍 We create financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible, customercentric financing model. We strive to drive greater inclusion of women, youth, and lowincome communities.
Our Impact 💚 Our technology has created measurable change:
Connected 📱: 1.7 million firsttime mobile internet users connected
Prosperous 💰: 62% of customers use MKOPA smartphones for income generation, with 30,000+ livelihoods created for agents
Green 🌱: 2.1 million tonnes of CO2 avoided through clean energy products, with over 100,000 circular economy products provided
Ready to drive financial inclusion through strategic technology leadership? Apply now to join our mission.
At MKOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and onthejob training. We support individual journeys with familyfriendly policies, prioritise wellbeing, and embrace flexibility.
This is a fully remote role, you would be working within the following time zone (UTC 1 UTC+3) with a diverse group of other employees working remotely from locations such as UK, Europe and Africa.
Why MKOPA?At MKOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and onthejob training. We support individual journeys with familyfriendly policies, prioritize wellbeing, and embrace flexibility.
Join us in shaping the future of MKOPA as we grow together. Explore more at mkopa.com.
Recognized four times by the Financial Times as one Africas fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025) and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024 , weve served over 5 million customers, unlocking $1.5 billion in cumulative credit for the unbanked across Africa.

Important Notice

MKOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
MKOPA explicitly prohibits the use of Forced or Child Labour and respects the rights of its employees to agree to terms and conditions of employment voluntarily, without coercion, and freely terminate their employment on appropriate notice. MKOPA shall ensure that its Employees are of legal working age and shall comply with local laws for youth employment or student work, such as internships or apprenticeships.
MKOPA does not collectcharge any money as a preemployment or postemployment requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’, or any other kind of money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process.
Applications for this position will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Shortlisting and interviews will take place at any stage during the recruitment process. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a suitable candidate is selected before the advertised closing date.