Director of Debt Capital Management at M-KOPA Nigeria

Posted on Thu 26th Jan, 2023 - www.hotnigerianjobs.com --- (0 comments)

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.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online