Finance Business Partnering Manager - South Africa, Johannesburg

Finance Business Partnering Manager 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.

As a senior Finance Business Partner in your own right, you will provide strategic financial counsel to leaders across commercial, operations, and technology. You will challenge and support leaders simultaneously, bringing rigorous financial analysis, scenario modelling, and forward‑looking insight to decisions that shape how the business grows and where it invests.

Responsibilities

Run planning and budgeting cycles with your team, ensuring submissions across all cost centres are commercially grounded and defensible under scrutiny.

Develop performance frameworks– dashboards, KPIs, variance analysis – that drive genuine accountability rather than retrospective comfort.

Build business cases for strategic investments, new market initiatives, and product launches across the organization.

Translate financial analyses into compelling narratives for non‑finance audiences.

Conduct coaching conversations and performance reviews to build careers, not just capabilities.

Create standardised best practices across markets so that the quality of partnering does not depend on which Business Partner a cost centre owner has.

Qualifications

Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with a strong post‑qualification track record in business partnering, FP&A or commercial finance, and demonstrable experience leading and developing finance teams.

Proven ability to partner with senior stakeholders, translating financial complexity into clear strategic recommendations that influence decisions at the highest levels.

Extensive experience across budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and financial modelling in complex, multi‑entity environments – with the commercial acumen to connect financial data to business performance drivers.

Equal Opportunity M‑KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. 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 or charge any fee as part of the recruitment process.

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