Chief of Staff at BFREE Africa

BFREE - We are a young, innovative and Nigeria’s foremost ethical debt collection startup. If you want to have fun while working in a fun environment, earn very well when you perform like a rock-star, and be part of a company where your voice matters, then Bfree is the place for you. Because we hate status-quo and we hate mediocre - we founded BFREE to revolutionize debt recovery in Nigeria

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Chief of Staff

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

• The Chief of Staff sits at the center of BFREE’s operations, working directly alongside the founders and leadership team across every vertical of the business. You are not a scheduler or a note-taker.
• You are an operator: someone who takes a problem, structures it, and drives it to a conclusion with limited hand-holding and high standards.
• The portfolio is deliberately broad and will shift with the company’s priorities: one week you might be preparing investor materials and coordinating a data room; the next, you could be on the ground in a new market scoping a launch or sitting in a meeting with a regulator.
• You will be exposed to every dimension of a fast-growing African fintech including strategy, operations, commercial, fundraising, and expansion earlier than almost any other role at your stage would offer.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the founders across strategic priorities including structuring problems, building analyses, and following through on execution so nothing falls through the cracks.
• Own discrete special projects end to end: market entry assessments, operational deep-dives, partnership scoping, process improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to fundraising efforts, building presentations and data packs, researching investors, coordinating logistics, preparing briefing notes ahead of meetings.
• Support BFREE’s pan-African expansion by conducting on-the-ground research, building local relationships, and helping stand up new market operations.
• Step into fires: when something breaks or needs urgent attention, you diagnose quickly, bring structure, and help the team move through it.
• Attend meetings with external stakeholders; banking partners, regulators, shareholders.
• Prepared, attentive, and ready to support follow-through on whatever comes out of them.
• Produce board-quality outputs: concise memos, sharp slide decks, structured analyses that allow leadership to make fast, well-informed decisions.
• Track cross-functional workstreams, flag blockers early, and keep the organisation aligned on what matters most.
• Travel across the continent regularly to support expansion, stakeholder engagement, and wherever the work takes you.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience in a front-office role at a Tier 1 management consulting firm (McKinsey, BCG, Bain, or equivalent), a Tier 1 investment bank, or a Venture Capital / Private Equity firm. You have been trained to think rigorously and work at pace.
• Knowledge of GenAI, prompt coding will be an added advantage.
• Strong analytical and structured thinking skills. You can break down a messy problem, build a clean model or framework around it, and communicate your findings clearly.
• High ownership and follow-through: you do not hand problems back, you do not need constant direction, and you hold yourself accountable for outcomes rather than activities.
• Genuine comfort with ambiguity. The brief will shift, the priorities will change, and you will need to adapt without losing momentum.
• The maturity to engage with senior stakeholders including founders, board members, institutional investors, regulators, professionally and without needing to be managed.
• A willingness to travel extensively across Sub-Saharan Africa as a regular part of the role.
• Fluency in English. French, Arabic or Swahili is an advantage.
• An interest in or existing connection to the African tech and financial services landscape.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: people@bfree.africa using the Job Title as the subject of the email.