Senior Finance Manage

As the Senior Finance Manager, you will oversee all financial management and compliance operations in South Africa—ensuring strong controls, accurate reporting, and strategic financial insight that informs decision-making. You will work closely with both our General Manager and Group Finance to drive local performance while ensuring alignment to group-wide objectives.

This is a key leadership role, offering the opportunity to directly influence M-KOPA’s impact in one of our most dynamic and high-growth markets.

At M-KOPA, we are committed to making everyday essentials accessible through flexible financing. As our Senior Finance Manager, you will play a critical role in enabling that mission by shaping the financial performance and integrity of our South African operations.

You will lead end-to-end financial reporting, control, and planning, ensuring compliance with local and international standards. You will also serve as a strategic partner—contributing to commercial decisions through financial modelling, scenario planning, and business case development. Your ability to build scalable financial processes, influence senior stakeholders, and work cross-functionally will be essential.

This role is designed for a finance leader who is analytically strong, action-oriented, and deeply committed to impact. If you’re ready to bring your expertise into a business that’s creating access for underserved communities, this could be the opportunity to lead with purpose.

Expertise

We are looking for a qualified Chartered Accountant (CA(SA) or equivalent) with at least 5 years’ post-articles experience, including 2–3 years in a finance leadership capacity—ideally in a high-growth or multinational environment.

You will bring:

• Big 4 training or equivalent technical foundation.

• Strong expertise in IFRS reporting, internal controls, and statutory compliance.

• Proven experience building and presenting business plans, investment cases, and partnership proposals.

• Excellent proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, with the ability to translate complex data into executive-ready insights.

• A structured, analytical mindset and high attention to detail.

• Confidence managing tax, regulatory requirements, and audit readiness.

• The ability to build relationships across departments, working collaboratively with Group Finance and senior leadership.

What We Offer

• A mission-driven environment where your work contributes to real impact across South Africa.

• A senior, influential role that shapes the financial direction of a growing, purpose-led fintech.

• An opportunity to collaborate with high-performing, global teams across the continent.

• Competitive compensation, and a values-driven culture rooted in innovation, inclusion, and empowerment.

If you’re ready to lead with purpose, drive performance, and shape the financial future of M-KOPA South Africa—we’d love to hear from you.

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 four times by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025) 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.

Applications for this position will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Shortlisting and interviews will take place at any stage during the recruitment process. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a suitable candidate is selected before the advertised closing date.