Fintech Specialist at Kennedia Consulting Limited (KCL)

At Kennedia Consulting, our work is shaped by real-world experience across people, growth, and operations. We partner with organizations at different stages of maturity, from fast-growing SMEs to established corporates, helping them solve complex workforce and business challenges with clarity and precision.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Fintech Specialist

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Description

• Hands-on product + operations specialist who owns payments, integrations, transaction monitoring and onboarding flows.
• You’ll bridge product, engineering and compliance to deliver secure, reliable fintech services that scale.

Key responsibilities

• Lead partner integrations with payment gateways, banks, KYC/identity providers and other third-party APIs.
• Design and operate webhook, reconciliation and settlement flows; ensure end-to-end transaction integrity.
• Own transaction monitoring, incident triage and remediation; define SLOs/SLA targets.
• Work with product and engineering to translate business requirements into production-ready specifications and runbooks.
• Collaborate with compliance to embed KYC/AML controls and support audits.
• Produce operational documentation, runbooks and training for operations teams.
• Analyse transaction and adoption metrics; recommend product and process improvements.
• Support go-to-market partner onboarding and post-launch stabilization.

KPIs / success measures

• Integration time-to-production and go-live success rate.
• Transaction reconciliation accuracy and time-to-settlement.
• Incident MTTR for payment failures.
• Onboarding conversion and onboarding SLA adherence.

Requirements

• BSc / HND qualification in Finance, Computer Science, Economics, or related fields
• 3 - 6 years experience in fintech, payments, wallets, or financial operations with demonstrated ownership of integrations or reconciliation.
• Practical experience with REST APIs/webhooks, payment gateways/PSPs, and reconciliation logic.
• Strong stakeholder skills — comfortable working on-site with engineering and compliance teams.
• Basic SQL or data-analysis skills to interpret transaction reports.
• Excellent written communication and documentation ability.

Salary
N1,200,000 - N1,700,000 monthly.

Application Closing Date
6th April, 2026.