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Job Description

• Liquidity and treasury management, overseeing Klasha's financial resources to help meet wider business objectives.
• Provide financial reports and interpret financial information to managerial staff while recommending further courses of action.
• Analyse costs, pricing, variable contributions, sales results, and the company’s actual performance compared to the business plans.
• Develop trends and projections for Klasha's finances.
• Conduct reviews and evaluations for cost-reduction/optimisation opportunities.
• Oversee operations of the Finance department, set goals and objectives, and design a framework for these to be met.
• Manage the preparation of the company’s budget.
• Liaise with auditors to ensure the appropriate monitoring of Company finances is maintained
• Confident oversight and delivery of Central bank reporting 
• Personable and business facing 
• Partnerships and relationship building 
• Managing the output and nurturing the development of a Finance Executive 

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related course 
• Deep domain understanding of the African payments ecosystem 
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience, preferably in payments and/or fintech 
• CIMA or equivalently certified 
• Significant exposure to Treasury Management, FP&A and reconciliation 
• Experience working globally 
• Automation savvy, with proficiency in analytics and wider tooling. 
• Ability to execute root cause analysis 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to identify and defend data-driven recommendations. 
• A charismatic relationship builder, able to win the trust of external and internal partners alike 
• High level of determination and tenacity.
• Good understanding of compliance activities in financial services.

Benefits

• All the latest technology you need to do your role.
• Employee stock option scheme.
• Private health insurance.
• Mental health wellness benefits; Headspace app subscription and Spill mental health support.
• Budget for French language classes.
• Diesel and wifi allowance for remote working.
• Work-from-anywhere weeks; work from anywhere for three weeks in a year.
• Paid birthday day off.
• Team building events.
• Paid parental leave.
• Learning and development budget.

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Responsibilities

• Own and lead the integration of new payment methods across multiple countries on our gateway.
• Work with external payment providers and card networks to drive cost efficiency and optimise payment solutions.
• Partner with legal, network compliance, regulatory and risk stakeholders to effectively manage risks and confirm compliance.
• Analyse projections and forecasts and come up with opportunities to move the metrics and influence strategy.
• The ability to work around existing external infrastructure bottlenecks and country outages is key.
• Analyse and leverage data across various signal sources to drive decision-making ex: Posthog, UXcam, Appsflyer, Firebase, Google Analytics and others.
• Understanding app release trajectories and how to leverage them to continuously achieve double-digit growth on a monthly basis.
• Be very comfortable running user research, prototyping, and other product discovery work to build the right product for our users. Our potential customer base in Nigeria boasts a huge variance in terms of user needs, behaviours, and characteristics.
• Assist in growth initiatives alongside our marketing, content, and engineering teams.
• Drive product launches including working with the marketing team and other product management team members.
• Understand your product’s P&L and drive it as you deem fit.
• Deliver value and impact, regardless of tools and processes. PMs at Klasha are not a ticketing system for engineering but someone who owns their responsibilities and leads teams to solid outcomes.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in any business-related course, computer science, engineering, or equivalent preferred.
• Solid understanding of local and cross-border payment landscape.
• Minimum four (4) years of experience managing B2B SaaS-based products and services, particularly payment products.
• Have built and grown a successful payment gateway before.
• Ability to read and understand payment APIs and workflows, experience gathering business requirements and turning them into detailed technical requirements.
• Solid understanding of the local and global payment regulatory landscape.
• Ability to prioritise and work independently as well as in a team environment
• Automation savvy, with proficiency in analytics and wider tooling.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to identify and defend data-driven recommendations.
• High level of determination and tenacity.

Benefits

Our people are the heart of the business, so we prioritise welfare and offer a wide range of competitive benefits including but not limited to:

• All the latest technology you need to do your role.
• Employee stock option scheme.
• Private health insurance.
• Mental health wellness benefits
• Budget for French language classes.
• Hybrid; remote + office hours and flexible working conditions.
• Diesel and wifi allowance for remote working.
• Work-from-anywhere weeks; work from anywhere for three weeks in a year.
• Paid birthday day off.
• Team building events.
• Paid parental leave.
• Learning and development budget

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What you will be doing:

• Assist in managing client relationships by maintaining regular communication and addressing client inquiries or concerns.
• Support account managers in identifying and understanding client needs and objectives.
• Collaborate with the account management team to develop strategies for enhancing client satisfaction and retention.
• Assist in the coordination and execution of client projects, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to project goals and objectives.
• Work closely with internal teams (e.g., sales, marketing, operations) to ensure seamless project execution.
• Monitor project progress and provide regular updates to account managers and clients.
• Assist in analyzing client data and performance metrics to identify trends, insights, and areas for improvement.
• Prepare reports and presentations summarizing key findings and recommendations for the account management team.
• Support in tracking and documenting client interactions, project milestones, and deliverables.
• Provide administrative assistance, such as scheduling meetings, preparing agendas, and organizing client-related documents.
• Assist in preparing contracts, proposals, and other client-facing documents as required.
• Handle general administrative tasks to ensure the smooth operation of the account management department.

You should apply if you:

• A degree holder from any field.
• Can-do attitude and eagerness to learn.
• Organised, detail-oriented, and able to manage 30+ clients at once.
• Demonstrated ability to work both collaboratively as part of a team and independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong problem-resolution skills and proven ability to engage and interact with internal teams to resolve client issues.
• Work logically to diagnose and resolve basic to intermediate issues and recognize circumstances that require escalation.
• Comfortable using and learning software: Google Sheet, CRM, Sales enablement tools etc.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, coupled with strong empathy for customers and their success.

Benefits

Our Klashans are the heart of the business, so we prioritize welfare and offer a wide range of competitive benefits including but not limited to:

• All the latest technology you need to do your role.
• Employee stock option scheme.
• Private health insurance.
• Mental health wellness benefits.
• Budget for French language classes.
• One-time home office set-up allowance.
• Hybrid; remote + office hours and flexible working conditions.
• Fuel and wifi allowance for remote working.
• Work-from-anywhere weeks; work from anywhere for three weeks in a year.
• Paid birthday day off.
• Team building events.
• Paid parental leave.
• Learning and development budget.