Finance Manager

Job description

About this role

M-KOPA is one of Africa's fastest-growing fintechs, now serving 7 million customers across five markets, having unlocked over $2 billion in credit along the way. That scale doesn't run on a handful of generalists stretched thin — it runs on people who've mastered financial reporting and are ready to own a real piece of the group's numbers. We've gone from 5 million customers to 7 million in the space of a year, and we're building toward 10 million next. That growth doesn't just need more agents and more devices financed — it needs a reporting function built to match it.

Responsibilities

• Owning financial reporting for a portfolio of group companies — monthly close, IFRS financial statements, and management commentary that actually drives decisions rather than just documenting them.
• Contributing to group consolidation across multiple entities and currencies, prepared to audit-ready standard throughout.
• Running year-end audit for your entities end-to-end — planning, managing the auditor relationship, and resolving the technical accounting questions that come up along the way.

Qualifications and requirements

• Qualification as a chartered accountant (CA, ACCA, CPA or equivalent), with extensive post-qualification experience built either in a top-performing Big 4 practice or as a financial reporting specialist in industry.
• Demonstrable, hands-on experience preparing IFRS financial statements and group consolidations across multiple entities and currencies — this is the core of the role, not a nice-to-have.
• A proven track record of running audits — leading them, not supporting someone else who does.
• The reality check
• This is a shared-services model, not a solo controller seat: you'll work closely with a Director of Commercial Finance, a Head of Group Financial Reporting, and a Group Financial Controller, and you'll be expected to write clearly enough to brief executives without hand-holding. It suits people who are comfortable operating remotely with international teams, who hold high standards without needing to be the loudest voice in the room — and if that sounds like how you already work, you're probably ready for exactly this.
• If group consolidation and IFRS reporting are where you do your best work, and you're ready for a portfolio that rotates instead of stagnates, we'd like to hear from you. No pressure — just worth a conversation if any of this sounds like the work you actually want to be doing.