Managing Director at Elizabeth Maddeux Limited

Elizabeth Maddeux provides a range of human resources solutions designed to empower your workforce, enhance technical proficiency, refine soft skills, and accelerateorganizational growth for better impacts by enhancing organizational dynamics through a well-rounded and robust human resource intervention.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Managing Director

Location: Cameroon
Employment Type: Full-time
Industry: Financial Services / Microfinance

Job Summary

• The Managing Director will provide overall strategic, commercial, operational, and regulatory leadership for the institution.
• The role is responsible for driving growth, profitability, governance excellence, financial inclusion, digital transformation, and long-term institutional value creation.
• The successful candidate will lead the building and scaling of the institution into a leading microfinance bank in Cameroon.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the institution’s strategic plan in line with Board direction and Group objectives.
• Drive sustainable growth, profitability, market expansion, and financial inclusion.
• Identify emerging opportunities and strengthen the institution’s competitiveness in the Cameroonian and CEMAC markets.
• Hold full P&L responsibility for the institution.
• Deliver agreed financial, operational, and social performance targets.
• Drive deposit mobilization, portfolio growth, revenue generation, and operational efficiency.
• Lead the successful establishment and scaling of the institution.
• Oversee operational readiness, systems implementation, and organizational capability development.
• Drive innovation and digital transformation initiatives.
• Establish robust governance, enterprise risk management, and internal control frameworks.
• Safeguard the institution’s assets, reputation, and regulatory standing
• Promote a strong culture of ethics, compliance, and accountability.
• Maintain strong relationships with COBAC, BEAC, government authorities, investors, and strategic partners.
• Ensure full compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements and prudential guidelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Banking, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• Master’s degree or MBA strongly preferred.
• 10 to 15 years of progressive experience in banking, financial services, or microfinance
• At least 5 years in executive leadership, specifically within a Microfinance Bank.
• Demonstrated experience leading institution-building, transformation, or growth initiatives.

Skills and Competencies:

• Strategic leadership and execution.
• Commercial and financial acumen.
• Governance, risk, and compliance leadership.
• Stakeholder and regulatory management.
• Digital transformation and innovation.
• People leadership and change management.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and executive presence.
• Fluency in French and English.

Application Closing Date
31st August, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their resume to: nuwapartnersco@gmail.com using “Managing Director - Cameroon” as the subject of the email.