We are looking for a Senior Manager: Group Consolidation and Financial Reporting to join our Group Finance team; as we scale up and drive digital and financial inclusion across our markets.
Leading a team, you will play a pivotal role in preparing M-KOPA for its planned IPO on the London Stock Exchange by overseeing all aspects of group financial reporting, consolidation, and technical accounting. You will serve as a key advisor and executor across financial control, system implementation, and automation initiatives, driving reporting excellence across the organization.
About Us
As Senior Manager: Group Consolidation and Financial Reporting, you will be responsible for preparing accurate and compliant consolidated financial statements, managing the group reporting calendar, coordinating with external auditors, and ensuring IFRS and GAAP standards are upheld. You will also oversee the financial operations and reporting for non-operational entities, ensuring all tax, balance sheet reconciliations, and foreign exchange exposures are effectively reviewed and managed. You’ll work closely with regional finance leads, auditors, and internal teams to deliver insights that support high-quality financial decisions.
At M-KOPA, our IPO journey marks a transformative milestone. You will be instrumental in building systems and processes that support automation, improve data integrity, and scale our financial reporting operations across multiple regions. If you thrive in a fast-paced, high-impact environment and have a passion for precision and strategic leadership, this is the role for you.
This is an on-site role, you would be working from our offices in Johannesburg, South Africa, partnering with a diverse group of employees from our different markets and locations across the UK, Europe and Africa. You will be reporting to the Director of Financial Reporting.
Expertise
We are looking for a qualified finance professional with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance and preferably a CPA or CA designation. You should have 10+ years of experience in accounting and financial reporting, including 5+ years in a leadership role. Strong technical expertise in IFRS/GAAP, financial consolidation systems, ERP platforms, and analytical reporting is required.
Our expectations are that you are a collaborative leader who is passionate about building strong teams and implementing scalable financial systems. You should be solution-oriented, with a high level of attention to detail, and capable of communicating complex financial information in an accessible manner to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. If you are driven to build transparent, accurate, and agile financial processes in a company preparing for public listing, we would love to hear from you.
Why M-KOPA?
At M-KOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritize well-being, and embrace flexibility.
Join us in shaping the future of M-KOPA as we grow together. Explore more at m-kopa.com.
Recognized thrice by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing companies (2022, 2023 and 2024) and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024 , we've served over 5 million customers, unlocking $1.5 billion in cumulative credit for the unbanked across Africa.
Important Notice
M-KOPA 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.
M-KOPA 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. M-KOPA 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.
M-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment 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.
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What We Do
M-KOPA is a UK-headquartered emerging market fintech that provides affordable smartphones and digital financial services. With operations in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda, the company has extended over $1.5 billion in credit to more than 5 million customers. Using an innovative financing model based on daily repayments, M-KOPA provides affordable smartphones embedded with financial services that fit with the cash flow of millions of underserved individuals who earn their income on a daily basis.
By leveraging rich payments data and proprietary AI-driven analytics, M-KOPA builds a credit record for each customer which forms the foundation for a long-term financial relationship for digital loans, affordable data subscriptions and insurance.
The company employs over 3,000 staff and 30,000 sales agents across its African markets.
M-KOPA has been recognised by the Financial Times as one of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies for the past 3 years, and by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Companies globally for the past 2 years.
