Third Party Management Associate at Moniepoint Incorporated

Moniepoint Incorporated is a global business payments and banking platform and recently became QED Investors’ first investment in Africa. We are the partner of choice for over 600,000 businesses of all sizes, powering the dreams of SMBs and providing them with equal access to the tools they need to grow and scale.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Third Party Management Associate

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

• As the Third-Party Management Associate, you will play a key role in managing the full lifecycle of our third-party and partner relationships to support the company’s product and service objectives
• Your work will span engaging and assessing prospective partners, negotiating agreements, onboarding new service providers, aligning requirements internally with core product and operational teams, and ensuring these relationships deliver on their commitments.
• You’ll combine industry and technology knowledge with strong relationship management skills to help teams identify the right partners, solve business problems, and ensure that our third-party ecosystem adds value, mitigates risk, and complies with all standards.
• While this is primarily an in-house role, you should demonstrate the professionalism and credibility to represent the company when interacting with external partners or at occasional industry events.

What You’ll Get To Do

• Work closely with core product and operational teams to align on objectives and business needs, and collaborate to ensure these needs are met through effective third-party partnerships.
• Lead the onboarding of new third-party partners, ensuring a seamless and efficient process of discovery, negotiations to go-live.
• Collaborate with Compliance, IT Governance, Risk, and Security teams to ensure all due diligence requirements are fully satisfied.
• Oversee all legal aspects of third-party relationships, ensuring agreements are properly drafted, negotiated, executed, and securely maintained.
• Track and manage the full agreement lifecycle — including renewals, amendments — and ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Monitor and evaluate partner performance, ensuring timely renewals, extensions, or exits as appropriate, and prepare regular performance reports, spend analysis, and contract status updates for management and Finance.
• Monitor spend against approved budgets and identify opportunities for cost savings, renegotiations, or consolidation of third-party services.
• Stay informed on market trends and the external partner landscape to help the business make informed sourcing decisions.
• Support internal teams by addressing third-party related issues promptly and proactively, while building and maintaining strong working relationships.

To succeed in this role, we think you should have

• A Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university.
• 3–5 years of experience in partnerships, product management, procurement, or relationship management within the financial services or fintech sector.
• Proven experience in negotiations, managing stakeholders, supporting product teams, and aligning operations with business needs.
• Proven ability to work in fast-paced environments, supporting multiple teams and shifting priorities.
• Strong industry knowledge and an understanding of how external providers impact products and services in the banking or technology landscape.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Effective communication and presentation skills, with the confidence and carriage to represent the company credibly.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

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