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M-KOPA

M-KOPA

www.m-kopa.com

4 Jobs

2,891 Employees

About the Company


M-KOPA is a UK-headquartered emerging market fintech that provides affordable smartphone and e-motorbike financing and smartphone embedded digital financial services. With operations in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda, the company has extended over $2 billion in credit to more than 7 million customers. Using an innovative financing model based on daily repayments, M-KOPA provides affordable smartphones embedded with financial services that fit with the cash flow of millions of every day earners who earn their income daily.

By leveraging rich payments data and proprietary AI-driven analytics, M-KOPA builds a credit record for each customer, which forms the foundation for a long-term financial relationship for digital loans, affordable data subscriptions, and insurance.

The company employs over 3,000 staff and 30,000 sales agents across its African markets.

M-KOPA has been recognised by the Financial Times as one of Africa's Fastest Growing Companies for the past 4 years, featured by CNBC for its impact and growth in financial inclusion, and named twice by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Companies globally.

Listed Jobs

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M-KOPA
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Senior Product Analyst - Credit Eligibility
Job Description
**Job Title:** Senior Product Analyst – Credit Eligibility **Role Summary:** Lead data‑driven development and continuous improvement of loan underwriting frameworks to expand credit access while managing risk and margin. Partner cross‑functionally with engineering, data science, product, growth, and commercial teams across multiple regions. **Expectations:** - Several years of professional experience in analytical roles with strong statistical modeling. - Proven ability to translate complex data insights into actionable business strategies. - Effective communication and collaboration with multidisciplinary stakeholders. - Ability to work independently in a fast‑changing environment and prioritize high‑impact analyses. **Key Responsibilities:** - Analyze repayment and ancillary data to refine loan eligibility criteria and pricing. - Test new loan products, assess customer demand, and evaluate credit performance. - Monitor credit risk indicators, detect shifts, and quantify margin impact. - Evaluate predictive power of new data sources for eligibility decisions. - Develop and maintain analytical pipelines using Python, SQL, and related tools. - Collaborate with data scientists to integrate machine‑learning models into underwriting processes. - Produce clear written, oral, and visual reports to communicate findings and recommendations. **Required Skills:** - Advanced statistical modeling and quantitative analysis. - Proficiency in Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit‑learn, etc.) and SQL. - Data manipulation, cleaning, and analysis of structured and unstructured datasets. - Experience with data visualization (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, matplotlib). - Strong business acumen for translating analytics into strategy. - Excellent written, oral, and visual communication skills. - Strong interpersonal and cross‑functional collaboration abilities. - (Preferred) Knowledge of credit, underwriting, or lending analytics. **Required Education & Certifications:** - Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field. - Advanced degree (e.g., Master’s) or relevant certifications (e.g., CFA, FRM, data‑science certificates) are a plus but not mandatory.
London, United kingdom
On site
Senior
17-02-2026
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M-KOPA
Job Title
Senior Business Analyst - Credit Eligibility
Job Description
**Job Title:** Senior Business Analyst – Credit Eligibility **Role Summary:** Senior Business Analyst responsible for developing and refining underwriting frameworks to expand loan access while controlling credit risk. Leads data-driven enhancements of loan eligibility, pricing, and performance monitoring across multiple markets, collaborating with product, engineering, data science, and commercial stakeholders. **Expectations:** - Deliver actionable insights from complex, unstructured repayment and behavioral data. - Own end‑to‑end credit model lifecycle: data acquisition, variable selection, scoring, and validation. - Translate analytical findings into business strategies that balance growth, margin, and risk. - Advocate data‑driven decisions within cross‑functional teams and influence product roadmap. **Key Responsibilities:** 1. Analyse repayment, transaction, and external data to optimize eligibility criteria and credit limits. 2. Refine loan pricing models by integrating customer behavior, risk signals, and market dynamics. 3. Design and run experiments on new loan offerings; assess demand and credit performance. 4. Monitor credit metrics, detect risk shifts, and quantify margin impact. 5. Evaluate new data sources and feature sets for predictive models. 6. Build and maintain analytic pipelines using Python, SQL, and related tools. 7. Collaborate with data science to incorporate machine learning into eligibility decisions. **Required Skills:** - Advanced statistical modeling and quantitative analysis of unstructured data. - Proficiency in Python (Pandas, NumPy, scikit‑learn) and SQL; familiarity with version control (Git). - Experience translating analytical insights into actionable business recommendations. - Strong written, oral, and visual communication; ability to present complex findings clearly. - Proven cross‑functional collaboration with product, engineering, and commercial teams. - Excellent interpersonal and team‑working skills. - (Preferred) Background in credit, underwriting, or lending analytics. **Required Education & Certifications:** - Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred). - Relevant certifications in data analytics, statistics, or credit risk (e.g., CFA Level II, FRM, or equivalent) are a plus.
London, United kingdom
On site
Senior
17-02-2026
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Company Name
M-KOPA
Job Title
Senior Data Analyst - Credit Eligibility
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Data Analyst – Credit Eligibility Role Summary: Lead data-driven development and refinement of underwriting frameworks to expand credit reach while controlling risk and margins for a large-scale lending platform. Expectations: Deliver clear, actionable insights that inform eligibility criteria and pricing; collaborate across product, engineering, and commercial teams to validate models and monitor credit performance; continuously iterate on loan offerings to enhance customer uptake and profitability. Key Responsibilities: • Analyze repayment and external data to improve loan eligibility models. • Refine loan pricing using credit analysis and consumer behavior metrics. • Test and evaluate new loan products for demand and credit risk. • Monitor portfolio performance, identify risk shifts, and quantify margin impact. • Assess predictive value of emerging data sets for eligibility decisions. • Employ Python, SQL, and other analytical tools to extract insights. • Work with data scientists to integrate machine‑learning models into underwriting logic. Required Skills: • Advanced statistical modeling and quantitative analysis. • Proficiency in Python, SQL, and data manipulation/visualization libraries. • Ability to translate complex analytical findings into business strategies. • Strong written, oral, and visual data communication. • Cross‑functional collaboration and stakeholder management. Required Education & Certifications: • Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, or related field. • Proven experience in data analysis roles; credit, underwriting, or lending analytics experience preferred.
London, United kingdom
On site
Senior
17-02-2026
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M-KOPA
Job Title
AI Operations Lead
Job Description
**Job title** AI Operations Lead **Role Summary** Lead and grow a high‑impact AI Operations team that designs, builds, and scales internal automation and AI‑agent solutions to improve productivity across a global organization. Own delivery, prioritize cross‑team requests, and model best practices for AI tooling adoption. **Expectations** * Deliver measurable automation improvements for 2,500+ employees. * Demonstrate rapid value with two initial engineers and scale the function. * Act as an internal consultant, guiding Engineering on AI integration for customer‑facing products. * Maintain a healthy, scalable AI tooling stack and stay current on emerging AI platform relevance. **Key Responsibilities** * Lead two AI Ops Engineers, owning their delivery, development, and daily work. * Prioritize competing requests using a clear framework and refine it over time. * Build, ship, and maintain automations and AI agents that improve internal workflows. * Keep AI tooling (Claude, LangChain, MCP, Anthropic, Vercel, Railway, Entra, Notion, HiBob) healthy as usage scales. * Evaluate emerging AI tools and determine practical value versus hype. * Refine and share AI training for broader engineering and internal teams. **Required Skills** * Proven experience building automations with scripting, workflow tools, or AI‑assisted development. * Hands‑on expertise building agents using LangChain, MCP, Google ADK, or similar frameworks. * Background in enterprise tooling: rapid prototyping (Vercel/Railway), identity automation (Entra), internal platforms. * People‑leadership experience: mentoring engineers, owning team delivery, and development. * Strong product‑focused mindset – treat internal teams as customers and build functional tooling. **Required Education & Certifications** * Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field. * Professional certifications in AI, automation, or relevant enterprise tools are advantageous but not mandatory.
Belfast, United kingdom
Remote
Senior
10-03-2026