About Cellulant:
Cellulant is Africa’s leading payments company, providing seamless, secure and innovative solutions that empower businesses, banks, and global brands to thrive in a fast-changing global economy.
With a presence in over 24 countries and 200+ payment methods across cards, bank transfer and mobile money, our single API payment platform, Tingg, simplifies collections, disbursements, and reconciliations. It processes over 1 million transactions daily for market leaders in various sectors, such as Airlines, Telecoms, E-commerce, Ride-Hailing, Retail, and Remittances. By simplifying how people pay and get paid, we drive trust, commerce and scale – and connect companies to their ambitions.
Our Story:
Across Africa, payments are more than transactions. They are gateways to prosperity, connecting people, businesses and communities to opportunities and growth.
From enabling a logistics company in Lusaka to pay suppliers across borders, to enabling a hospitality brand in Lagos to scale effortlessly, to supporting an airline in Nairobi to reconcile payments from multiple platforms, Cellulant is the bridge that makes it all possible.
Through trusted technology and customer-centric innovation, we build connections that inspire progress, strengthen economies and transform payments into a tool for progress.
Since our founding in 2003, we've continuously adapted and grown, leveraging our experiences to simplify payments for businesses. We are driven by an unshakable belief that seamless people-centred payments are the key to unlocking prosperity.
Today, Cellulant powers online and offline payment processing, allowing businesses to collect payments, send payouts, and accelerate business growth.
Our Mission:
To deliver seamless, secure and innovative payment solutions for businesses.
Our Vision:
To create a connected world where businesses move money as easily as they share ideas.
Role Summary:
We are seeking a high-calibre FP&A professional with strong commercial instincts, analytical depth, and the ambition to operate at the core of a fast-scaling fintech.
You will run critical planning, forecasting, and performance insight processes while acting as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders across finance, product, and commercial teams.
This role sits at the centre of that transformation, partnering directly with the CFO and senior leadership to drive performance, insight, and value creation across the business with willingness to travel periodically to Nairobi and other African Markets.
What you'll do:
1. Financial Planning, Forecasting, and Analysis
- Lead budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning across the group.
- Develop driver-based financial models to support decision-making and scenario analysis.
- Deliver clear performance reporting with actionable commercial insight.
- Identify risks, opportunities, and value-creation levers across markets and products.
2. Performance Insight and Board Reporting
- Produce monthly executive packs and Board-level materials.
- Translate complex financial data into concise strategic narratives.
- Track KPIs across revenue, margin, unit economics, and cash performance.
3. Commercial Finance and Business Partnering
- Partner with commercial, product, and operations leaders on:
- Pricing corridors and margin optimisation.
- Investment cases and expected project ROI.
- Market entry analysis and strategic initiatives.
- Support disciplined capital allocation across the portfolio.
4. Fundraising and Strategic Support
- Assist in capital raising processes including investor materials, financial models, and due diligence.
- Contribute to strategic planning, M&A evaluation, and long-term value creation initiatives.
5. AI-Enabled Finance and Process Excellence
- Leverage modern AI and automation tools to improve:
- Forecast accuracy.
- Reporting efficiency.
- Data integrity and insight generation.
- Champion best-in-class FP&A tooling and analytical methodologies.
What we are looking for:
- 4+ years of FP&A, commercial finance, or transaction-driven finance experience.
- Background in fintech, payments, technology, or high-growth environments preferred.
- Exposure to Board reporting, forecasting, and business partnering strongly desirable.
- Exceptionally strong analytical and financial modelling skills.
- Commercially astute with the ability to connect numbers to strategy.
- Clear communicator capable of influencing senior stakeholders.
- Highly driven, intellectually curious, and comfortable operating in ambiguity.
- Motivated to build in a fast-growth African fintech context.
- Energised by working directly with executive leadership.
- Passion for using AI and modern tools to transform finance.
Why this role matters:
This is a rare opportunity to:
- Work directly with a new CFO shaping the future of the finance function.
- Operate at the heart of a pan-African fintech growth story.
- Gain exposure to strategy, fundraising, and executive decision-making early in your career.
- Help build a modern, AI-enabled FP&A capability from the ground up.
Why Work for Us?
At Cellulant, we are more than a payments company: we are bridge-builders. We believe that by simplifying the way people pay and get paid, we are connecting companies to their ambitions, people to opportunities, and Africa to the global economy. Our work goes beyond payments—it’s about what people, businesses, and communities can do when the movement of money becomes more dependable, seamless, and secure.
Some exciting things about us...
- We have an extensive footprint: We have an office presence in 10 countries, and our products serve 24 countries across Africa, with a global workforce of about 300 employees.
- We believe innovation is at the heart of Fintech: Thousands of market leaders and top enterprises trust our technology to power their payments. Our customers are in various sectors, including financial services, travel and hospitality, telecom, e-commerce, remittance companies, SaaS, and the gig economy.
- We support a diverse and inclusive workforce: We focus on the growth and development of our employees through well-developed, individualised career paths, ensuring you reach your full potential in a supportive and delivery-oriented environment.
- We put our employees first: At Cellulant, your contribution is rewarded competitively. We use clear career levels and role titles, and benchmark our base pay against data and a well-established internal process. Your actual salary will reflect your experience, skills, impact and the scope of the role, as well as our business needs and prevailing market conditions. We also offer generous personal time off, and medical and life insurance benefits (markets permitting).
- We seek collaborative builders: At Cellulant, we believe that great ideas happen when we come together. Therefore, we nurture a collaborative work environment that challenges, engages, and empowers each person to contribute to the growth and success of the business.
- We solve Africa's digital economy: We’re solving payment challenges on the continent to create opportunities and accelerate economic growth for all of Africa.
