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Finance Transformation Manager — M-KOPA

Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South AfricaRemoteFull timeManagerPosted 17 days ago
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FINANCE TRANSFORMATION MANAGER — M-KOPA

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You've built systems, automated processes, or solved technical problems that changed how people work. Now imagine applying that thinking to finance.

We're not looking for a finance professional who happens to be technical. We're looking for a technical thinker who wants to apply that thinking to finance — and we'd rather wait for the right person than compromise on the technical capability that matters here.

Where this sits. M-KOPA is one of Africa's fastest-growing fintechs, now serving 7 million customers across five markets and having unlocked over $2 billion in credit. Our finance function runs on Microsoft Dynamics and Anaplan, and increasingly on Claude — and we've reached the point where making that stack genuinely intelligent needs someone who thinks like an engineer first — someone who sees technology, automation and intelligent systems as core to how the finance function should operate.

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Why now. We've grown from 5 million customers to 7 million, with 10 million next in view. That growth doesn't need more traditional finance transformation — it needs someone who looks at reconciliation, reporting, and planning the way a technologist looks at any inefficient system: as something to be automated, restructured, or rebuilt. 86% of our customers report improved quality of life, and 70% use our products to generate income — the infrastructure behind those numbers needs someone who brings a fundamentally technical lens to how finance processes are designed, improved and scaled.

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