Director of Debt Capital Management

**At M-KOPA, We Finance Progress.
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.

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**About this role**

**Finance at M-KOPA**

Careers in Finance at M-KOPA span business partnering, technical accounting, investor reporting, tax, payroll, procurement, treasury, pricing, financial planning and analysis and systems, and data analysis. We encourage everyone within Finance to seek out the career path that is right for them and ensures they achieve their full potential. In fact, many of us on the team have done just that, broadening our experiences and growing our careers at M-KOPA.

We're looking for a Director of Debt Capital to report into Chief Financial Officer

This role can be based in the UK, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa - role will be remote with some international travel. Working within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3).

**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 v hard currency, secured v 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 8+ 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**:

- Great compensation package
- Bonus
- Remote working #LI-Remote
- Equity

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.