Senior Commercial Insights Manager at M-KOPA Nigeria

M-KOPA is a fast-growing FinTech company offering millions of underbanked customers across Africa access to life-enhancing products and services. From our roots as the pioneer in pay-as-you-go “PayGo’” solar energy for off grid homes, we have grown into one of the most advanced connected asset financing platforms in the world, empowering a broad range of customers to achieve progress in their lives.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Commercial Insights Manager

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time
Department: Credit

Description

• We are looking for an experienced Business Insights and Strategy Manager to join our team in Kenya.
• We’re not merely seeking an operations manager; we’re looking for a strategic consultant to our business leaders in Kenya. Someone eager to work on the front lines of our commercial business and strategy.
• You could be an analytical project manager, a commercial insights analyst or someone working in credit (B2C).
• In this role, you’ll identify problems, manage analytical workflows, and deliver actionable recommendations and insights to our business leaders in Kenya.
• You’ll handle multi-source data, design out of the box experiments, test hypotheses, and create impactful presentations and reports for your stakeholders.
• This role is perfect for those with strong strategic planning and execution skills. If you're data-driven and thrive on strategic impact, this role is your ideal platform.

Responsibilities
What's exciting about this role?

• Your insights will drive key decisions, as you provide thought leadership and in-depth analysis using tools like SQL, R, and Python. You'll design innovative initiatives to enhance credit performance, working closely with various departments to achieve stellar results.
• As a key player, you'll develop and refine financial models, monitor performance metrics, and challenge existing credit management practices.
• Your reports and presentations will influence senior management and investors, while your innovative approaches will keep M-KOPA at the forefront of the industry.
• You'll build strong stakeholder relationships, communicate complex ideas clearly, and foster a culture of creativity and problem-solving. This role is your chance to make a significant impact, guiding business growth and setting new standards in credit management.
• In essence, this role offers you a thrilling opportunity to lead transformative efforts in bad debt provisioning and adjustments , Interventions to improve credit performance, product, service, and pricing decisions

Requirements
Our expectations are that your CV reflects a rich blend of technical expertise, practical experience and leadership competencies positioning you as a valuable asset in the field of Credit:

• We’re seeking a candidate with a blend of technical expertise, practical experience, and leadership/advisory in a B2C Kenyan marketed business. Credit exp would be a bonus but is not essential.
• Showcase your skills in using data from SQL, R, Python, PowerBI, and Excel and through financial analysis produce insightful presentations. Knowledge of lending practices and consumer credit in emerging markets is a plus.
• To lead and influence General Manager and c-suite leaders in the business, exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills are crucial.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Hiring Process
Our hiring process is as much about us selling to you as the other way round-the interview process will be as follows:

• Recruiter call 30 mins - an introduction to the process and M-KOPA.
• Hiring Team call 30 mins - High level introductions with the Credit Team.
• Take home assessment - A deep dive into the role dynamics.
• Personality test - Self awareness is crucial for you as a strategic leader.
• Stakeholder interview 60 mins - This is where most of the magic happens.