Head of Operations and Finance at Bayse Markets

Bayse Markets is Africa's Largest prediction market platform that allows people to trade the news, opinions, and outcomes of future events. Think of the stock market, but for real-world topics that everyone can relate to.

Our goal is simple. We want to create a seamless and user-friendly experience that enables users to turn their knowledge, skills, and access to information into financial opportunities. From politics and sports to music, pop culture, and crypto, our users leverage their insights to participate in markets based on real-world outcomes.

Building meaningful products is challenging, but deeply rewarding. We are a team that values ownership, creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer a flexible hybrid work structure, a supportive environment, and room to grow in a fast-evolving industry.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Operations and Finance

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Role Summary

• As Head of Operations and Finance at Bayse, you will sit at the center of execution in a product-led company. You will align product, design, engineering, marketing, and growth so priorities ship on time, operations scale cleanly, and the business runs with strong financial discipline.
• This is not a back-office role. Bayse is a trading and prediction market platform where trust, funds movement, and operational correctness are core to the product experience.
• You will own the operating cadence that drives delivery, while also leading finance operations including reconciliations, settlements, cash management, controls, and reporting readiness. You will also own key external stakeholders and partners that power the business, from payments and banking to KYC, compliance stakeholders, and auditors.
• Success in this role requires strong startup execution, high agency, and the ability to build systems that scale without slowing the team down.

Key Responsibilities

• Company-wide execution and alignment: Run the operating cadence that aligns product, design, engineering, marketing, and growth, including planning cycles, weekly execution rhythms, OKRs, and delivery tracking.
• Product-led operations: Partner closely with product and engineering to translate strategy into shipped outcomes, unblock teams, manage cross-functional dependencies, and keep execution tight.
• Finance operations and controls: Own reconciliations, settlements, payouts, cash management, vendor payments, expense controls, approvals, and governance tied to funds movement.
• Reporting and financial readiness: Build close processes, reporting routines, and financial hygiene required for audits, investors, and regulatory readiness.
• External stakeholders and partnerships: Own critical partners (payments, banking, KYC, compliance tooling, data providers). Lead onboarding, SLAs, performance reviews, escalations, and relationship health.
• Operational excellence: Build SOPs, eliminate bottlenecks, improve tooling, and drive automation to increase speed, quality, and reliability across the organization.
• Risk and integrity: Design and enforce controls that reduce operational risk, prevent fraud exposure, and ensure correctness across payment, withdrawal, and settlement workflows.
• Customer and trade operations: Own operational workflows that impact user trust directly, especially funds-related escalations, turnaround times, and issue resolution quality.
• Team leadership: Hire, manage, and develop ops and finance ops talent, building a culture of ownership, high agency, and high standards.

About You

• 6+ years experience in operations, finance operations, business operations, or similar roles, ideally in fintech, payments, financial services, marketplaces, or high-growth tech.
• Strong finance experience is essential, especially in reconciliations, settlements, cash management, controls, vendor payments, and operational governance.
• Demonstrated experience operating in a product-led startup environment, aligning cross-functional teams and driving execution across product, design, engineering, and growth.
• Strong external stakeholder and partner management experience, with comfort handling SLAs, escalations, negotiations, and high-stakes conversations.
• Highly detail-oriented with a strong bar for correctness, control, and operational reliability.
• Strong analytical thinking, you can define KPIs, build dashboards, and improve systems using data.
• Excellent communication. You can create clarity, drive accountability, and keep teams moving.
• High ownership and high agency. You take initiative, solve problems end to end, and deliver outcomes consistently.
• Experience supporting audits, regulatory processes, or investor reporting is a strong advantage.
• Experience operating products involving funds movement, trading, or financial risk is a strong advantage.

Application Closing Date
23rd March, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their resume and relevant materials with a short pitch to: build@bayse.markets using “Head of Operations and Finance - Lagos” as the subject of the mail.

Note: We will reach out if your application is a strong fit.