Senior Financial Controller

**Senior Financial Controller - South Africa**:
**Shape Financial Excellence Across Africa's Digital Revolution**:
At M-KOPA, we’re redefining economic inclusion across Africa. As our **Senior Financial Controller** for South Africa, you will drive financial excellence in one of the continent’s most dynamic fintech environments, where your expertise directly impacts millions of lives.

You will oversee the **financial heartbeat of our South African operations**, ensuring every rand reflects accuracy, compliance, and strategic insight. Working closely with the Senior Finance Manager and regional leadership, you will translate complex financial data into actionable intelligence that guides how we scale our impact across Southern Africa. Your **rock-solid IFRS expertise, particularly in IFRS 9 and IFRS 15**, will be critical in upholding our financial integrity, while your knowledge of the **South African tax landscape and VAT compliance** ensures smooth and compliant operations.

In this role, you will balance **precision and strategy**—from ensuring VAT compliance with the South African Revenue Service to crafting management reports that shape group-wide decisions. You will lead finance professionals, developing their capabilities while maintaining the high standards that make M-KOPA a trusted partner to millions across Africa.

This role is more than financial management—it is **meaningful work with measurable impact**. Every reconciliation, tax filing, and report contributes to expanding financial access for underserved communities. Your analytical rigor and attention to detail will do more than satisfy auditors—they will help build the financial infrastructure powering Africa’s digital transformation.

We seek someone who thrives under pressure, maintains accuracy, works independently, and fosters team collaboration, all while seeing beyond numbers to their real-world impact. Your ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders—from our South African General Manager to the Chief Financial Officer —will be as critical as your technical expertise.

This is your opportunity to join Africa’s most exciting fintech story. At M-KOPA, your expertise doesn’t just advance your career—it advances the economic potential of an entire continent.

**_ Ready to transform your career while transforming lives? Join us in building Africa’s financial future._**_._**:
**Why M-KOPA?**:
At M-KOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritize well-being, and embrace flexibility.
- Recognized four times by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025) and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024, we've served over 5 million customers, unlocking $1.5 billion in cumulative credit for the unbanked across Africa._

**_ Important Notice_**
- M-KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply._
- M-KOPA explicitly prohibits the use of Forced or Child Labour and respects the rights of its employees to agree to terms and conditions of employment voluntarily, without coercion, and freely terminate their employment on appropriate notice. M-KOPA shall ensure that its Employees are of legal working age and shall comply with local laws for youth employment or student work, such as internships or apprenticeships._
- M-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’, or any other kind of money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process._