Job Overview
Location
South Africa
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Finance
Date Posted
August 18, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • You've built the model, the deck, or the due diligence pack that got the deal across the line — then watched it get filed away and forgotten within a quarter. What if the next model you build didn't end at signing, but determined how a company gets 3 million more customers access to credit for the first time?
- • M-KOPA has just crossed 7 million customers across Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, and South Africa, with more than $2 billion in credit unlocked. Of those customers, 55% are accessing formal financial services for the first time, and 86% report a real improvement in their quality of life.
- • Every one of those growth milestones has to be modelled, stress-tested, and defended before it becomes a board decision. That's the job of the Strategic Finance team — we own the Long-Range Plan, the market entry business cases, and the analysis that sits behind what the CEO, COO, and board actually decide to do next.
- • Most rigorous modelling work sits inside a bank or advisory practice, where the output ends at deal close or client sign-off, or inside a corporate finance function, running templates someone else designed years ago. This role sits at the intersection of strategic finance, modelling and FP&A.
- • The core of the role is the company's Long-Range Plan — base, stretch, and market-specific upside/downside scenarios, with the assumptions packs and documentation that leadership and the board rely on.
- • A good amount of this role is architecture before arithmetic: taking a half-specified problem and figuring out the right model structure before you touch a single formula.
- • A background that's been tested in a high-calibre, high-rigour environment — ideally through an analyst role in investment banking, management consulting, or transaction advisory, where "good" means audit-ready output on tight deadlines and no room for a number you can't defend.
- • Experience in environments such as corporate finance, M&A, transaction advisory or strategy, where you've had to build and defend complex financial models and translate analysis into commercially meaningful recommendations.
- • A genuine fluency in how operational drivers flow through to financial statements — you don't just build the model, you understand why each line moves the way it does, and you bring the same strategic thinking and commercial judgement to a business case that you'd bring to a live deal.
- • Relentless attention to detail paired with the communication skill to defend your assumptions and explain your logic to someone who's never opened the model.
🎯 Requirements
- • A background that's been tested in a high-calibre, high-rigour environment — ideally through an analyst role in investment banking, management consulting, or transaction advisory, where "good" means audit-ready output on tight deadlines and no room for a number you can't defend.
- • Experience in environments such as corporate finance, M&A, transaction advisory or strategy, where you've had to build and defend complex financial models and translate analysis into commercially meaningful recommendations.
- • A genuine fluency in how operational drivers flow through to financial statements — you don't just build the model, you understand why each line moves the way it does, and you bring the same strategic thinking and commercial judgement to a business case that you'd bring to a live deal.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Empowerment of employees to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training.
- • Support for individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritization of well-being, and embracing flexibility.
- • Recognition as one of Africa's fastest-growing companies by the Financial Times, named on CNBC's World’s Top Fintech Companies, and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world.
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About M-KOPA Holdings Limited
M-KOPA Holdings Limited provides asset-financing and digital financial services across Africa, enabling underbanked customers to acquire smartphones, solar home systems, and productive-use assets through flexible pay-as-you-go installments. The company combines IoT-enabled hardware, mobile payments, and proprietary credit algorithms to offer affordable, unsecured loans while building credit histories for millions. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, M-KOPA operates in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa, serving over 3 million customers and disbursing more than $1 billion in cumulative credit.
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