Website M-KOPA Solar
M-KOPA’s mission is to make high quality energy affordable to everyone. OUR GROWTH SO FAR… M-KOPA has connected more than 400,000 homes in Kenya,Tanzania and Uganda to solar power with over 550 new homes being added every day. Each 8W battery powered-system comes with three lights, m… read moreobile phone-charging and a solar powered radio. Customers can now opt for a 20W system with digital TV. As of July 2016, M-KOPA has connected over 400,000 homes to affordable solar power. Current customers will make projected savings of US$ 300 Million over the next four years. M-KOPA’s customers will enjoy 50 million hours of kerosene-free lighting per month. Total employment created in East Africa is 2,500. In March 2016, M-KOPA emerged boldest at Financial Times Arcelor Mittal- Boldness in Business Awards in the Developing Markets category. In February 2016, M-KOPA was recognised as the Best Mobile Innovation for Emerging Markets at the Global Mobile Awards. In 2015, M-KOPA was recognised by Fortune Magazine as one of the Top 50 Companies Changing The World and won the Zayed Energy Future Prize. M-KOPA has also won the 2014 Bloomberg Pioneer Award and 2013 FT/IFC Excellence in Sustainable Finance Award.
What this role actually is
This is a hands-on, high-ownership position. You will be the finance lead for a standalone entity — the person responsible for the monthly management reporting pack, the CFO-level executive commentary, the IFRS 9 Expected Credit Loss model, the lender and treasury compliance, and the unit economics that inform commercial decisions across multiple OEM brands.
You’ll manage the end-to-end monthly close: accruals, prepayments, intercompany, depreciation, FX. You’ll produce the variance analysis that isolates brand-mix effects from one-off items. You’ll monitor the loan book, analyse repayment behaviour by cohort, and own provisioning and bad debt trends. You’ll lead lender reporting and covenant compliance, manage drawdown documentation, and support due diligence processes.
And then — because this is Mobility — you’ll also be a commercial partner. You’ll sit alongside the commercial team to interrogate OEM economics, model new product launches, assess new supply agreements, and build the financial cases for board presentations and grant proposals.
This is not a role where the strategy happens upstairs and the finance team keeps score. You’ll shape both.
What makes it different
Most finance roles at this level have inherited structures, established processes, and reporting cadences that largely run themselves. This one doesn’t. The tools, the workbooks, the ways of working — these are yours to design. You’ll identify automation opportunities, build controls from scratch, and ensure IFRS compliance in areas where judgement genuinely matters: IFRS 9, IFRS 16, IAS 21, revenue recognition, IFRS 18 readiness.
You’ll also have direct exposure to development finance and climate finance — two fast-growing fields where M-KOPA’s electric mobility business sits at an increasingly interesting intersection. Lender relationships here aren’t purely commercial. They span impact investors, development finance institutions, and climate finance structures. That’s a professional education you can’t buy.
What you bring
Qualified Chartered Accountant (CPA(K), ACCA, CA or equivalent), with a demonstrable track record in finance management or a senior finance role, including hands-on ownership of statutory and management reporting cycles.
Deep, applied IFRS knowledge — particularly IFRS 9, IFRS 16, IAS 21, and revenue recognition — and proven ability to manage audit processes end-to-end, from file preparation to auditor queries.
Exceptional financial modelling and communication skills: you can build a complex multi-scenario model in Excel and present its conclusions clearly to a CFO or a lender in the same week.
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