Director of Debt Capital Management at M-KOPA Nigeria

The scale and impact of our work is massive. 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: Director of Debt Capital Management

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time, Remote

You're Excited about this Opportunity because you will

• Manage Fund Raising, you'll build a strategy around Debt Capital
• On-Balance Sheet (both secured and unsecured facilities)
• Develop ongoing relationships with potential funders
• Structure and negotiate loan facilities, including covenants
• Manage debt funder DD processes and RFIs
• Local currency/hard-currency
• Off-Balance Sheet
• Develop and run off-balance sheet funding strategy
• Develop Hedging Strategy related to debt
• Manage our Existing Debt Facilities and own the whole lifecycle
• Manage debt-funder relationships
• Report covenants and other reporting requirements related to debt facilities
• Manage repayment schedules
• Lead on any restructurings required.
• Respond to auditor requests on debt facilities
• Provide regular input into FP&A team on aspects related to debt
• Guide Asset-Liability/Capital Adequacy Management across the organisation
• Maintain the appropriate balance of Assets to Liabilities
• Set and maintain the right mix of debt instruments (on vs off-balance sheet, local vs hard currency, secured vs unsecured etc)
• Monitor and stress test capital risk, liquidity risk, funding risk, interest rate risk, forex risk (as it relates to funding), refinancing risk against ALCO Committee defined risk tolerances.
• Prepare material for ALCO Committee and management related to financial asset and liability management

We're Excited about you because you have Experience with

• Have a Bachelor's Degree in a related subject area.
• Advanced Degree.
• Have 5+ years or equivalent experience in Capital Management, Corporate Finance, Debt Capital.
• Have experience in strategic finance, special purpose vehicle, debt management.
• Have experience helping achieve topline growth
• Comfortable operating without a plan and manage a culture of creativity, risk-taking, experimentation and learning.
• Have experience setting up strategy and action plans with measurement frameworks.
• Have experience leading and implementing growth projects independently and with across the organisation.
• Great at collaboration and communicative in a changing environment where collaboration and understanding people is required. You have enthusiasm for making colleagues successful throughout the company.
• Work with internal partners in a remote work environment

What's in it for you?

• Private health insurance (inpatient outpatient, maternity, eye care, and dental)
• Life insurance (2 x gross salary)
• Company pension
• Salary sacrifice
• Remote working
• Group Life Cover and Personal Accident Cover
• Company pension (A mandatory basic national social security scheme)
• 25 days leave per annum (excludes additional 8 public bank holidays)
• Airtime allowance (dependent on the nature of the role)
• MIFI monthly payment for remote workers
• 20 days per annum (excluding public holidays). Annual leave is accrued at the standard rate of 1.67 days per month.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.