This is a senior leadership position sitting within M-KOPA's Group Finance Business Partnering function, reporting to the Group Head of Finance Business Partnering. You'll lead a team of Finance Business Partners embedded across M-KOPA's cost centres and operating markets — coaching them, developing their commercial capability, and setting the standard for what excellent partnering looks like at scale.
You'll also operate as a senior Business Partner in your own right, providing strategic financial counsel to leaders across commercial, operations, and technology. You'll challenge and support simultaneously — bringing rigorous financial analysis, scenario modelling, and forward-looking insight to decisions that shape how this business grows and where it invests.
Key Responsibilities
Planning & Budgeting: Run planning and budgeting cycles with your team, ensuring submissions across all cost centres are commercially grounded and defensible under scrutiny.
Performance Frameworks: Develop performance frameworks — dashboards, KPIs, variance analysis — that drive genuine accountability rather than retrospective comfort.
Business Cases: Build business cases for strategic investments, new market initiatives, and product launches across M-KOPA's footprint.
Stakeholder Communication: Translate financial insight into compelling narratives for non-finance audiences to drive key business decisions.
Team Development: Conduct coaching conversations and performance reviews that build careers, not just capabilities. Create standardised best practices across markets to ensure consistent quality of partnering.
What You Bring
Professional Qualifications: Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) or academic equivalent (MBA/MSc/MA in a relevant field).
Experience: Strong post-qualification track record in Business Partnering, FP&A, or Commercial Finance, with demonstrable experience leading and developing finance teams.
Strategic Partnering: Proven ability to partner with senior business stakeholders, translating financial complexity into clear strategic recommendations that influence decisions at the highest levels.
Technical Skills: Extensive experience across budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and financial modelling in complex, multi-entity environments.
Commercial Acumen: Strong commercial acumen to connect financial data to business performance drivers.
