Vice President

2 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa MFS Africa Full time

**Who We Are**

At MFS Africa, we believe that the only currency that matters is access. Our mission is to make borders matter less by connecting Africans to each other and to the world, giving them access to the global digital economy.

We are Africa's leading omnichannel payments platform, enabling real-time cross border cross scheme and cross currency payment within, from and to the continent digitally and offline. We partner with mobile network operators, mobile transfer operators, global enterprises, and financial institutions to connect over 320 million mobile money users to a world of limitless possibilities.

As a fintech company, we strive toward elegance and simplicity in everything we do. Our mission is to make borders matter less, and our values are to simplify, care, and be revolutionary. Our people are talented, curious, passionate, and the reason our company does exceptional things. Excellence in nurturing our people and their passions is foundational to our success as a business. The MFS Africa team has doubled in the past year and continues to grow rapidly.

Our offices include Abidjan, Accra, Johannesburg, Kampala, Lagos, London, Nairobi and Port - Louis and many employees work remotely from locations where we do not have offices.

We pride ourselves on world-class team and world class operations. We are regulated by the FSC in Mauritius, BoG in Ghana, BoT in Tanzania, BCC in the DRC, and FCA in the UK.

**The Role**

We are recruiting a VP Partnerships, Crypto to join the Banks and Non-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFIs) who will be responsible for shaping the crypto business vertical within MFS Africa Group. He/she will serve as MFS Africa’s expert in the crypto space and lead all crypto-related initiatives across the markets MFS Africa serves. As a core member of the NBFIs team, the VP Partnerships, Crypto will report to the Head of Business Development and work closely with various internal and external stakeholders to ensure growth of the financial institutions’ ecosystem connected to the MFS Africa payments platform.

Strong location preference is one of our offices, however, this may be negotiable within time zone that is within +/- 3 hours of GMT.

**You will be a good fit if you are**:

- Experienced in working with crypto exchanges (preferred)
- Self-driven with a high degree of resilience
- Highly goal and results orientation
- A solid relationship builder with cross-cultural competency
- Commercially astute with excellent negotiation skills and the ability to present and influence deals at senior management level

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Shape the short-term and long-term crypto strategy for MFS Africa
- Build and oversee a strong pipeline of crypto-related opportunities, namely with crypto exchanges, digital currency wallets, and blockchain payment platforms
- Manage and grow strategic partnerships with key crypto players at C-level
- Understand market trends, client needs and develop strategies to close the resulting opportunities
- Oversee the business development process from lead development to contracting to account growth
- Work closely with the Head of Business Development to develop and execute account plans and strategies
- Provide market feedback and knowledge to the Product team
- Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Business Management, Finance, or any other relevant field
- Post graduate qualification would be an added advantage
- Minimum 12 years of experience in the financial industry or digital payments space, with at least 6 years spent in business development or product strategy roles in blockchain / crypto.
- Cross-cultural exposure, ideally with experience working with the African market

**Why work for us**:

- We are the cutting edge of fintech in Africa
- Ranked by Fast Company as Second Most Innovative Company in Africa
- Attractive package including flexible benefits and competitive remuneration
- Diverse, inclusive, gender-balanced company culture representing >28 nationalities and speaking >20 languages
- Massive growth potential
- We operate a flexible remote working and unlimited leave policy
- We solve relevant problems for Africa and the world to create access for the millions of users who also believe in what we do

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