Job Purpose

• Moniepoint Group is rapidly digitizing Africa’s real economy, and our lending business plays a critical role in this transformation. We’ve seen significant success and are now scaling even further to expand our impact in 2025.
• To lead our lending organization, we’re seeking an exceptional SVP, Loans. This person will have full ownership of the business strategy and execution, driving growth and innovation across our lending operations.
• They will lead a cross-functional team spanning sales, product, engineering, credit risk, credit analytics, and loan operations.

The ideal candidate must:

• Have hands-on experience in lending, ideally having led a company to build a portfolio in the tens (or hundreds) of billions of Naira;
• Be highly data-driven, with a proven ability to make strategic decisions backed by insights;
• Be a hands-on leader with deep experience in building industry-leading financial products – product management experience is a strict requirement.

About the SVP Role (Generally) at Moniepoint

• At Moniepoint, SVP / Business Leader roles are high-impact positions that combine product depth, business ownership, and cross-functional leadership.
• Each SVP owns a core vertical – such as Loans, POS, Channels, or Payments – and is accountable for building an incredible product which users love, and which get into the hands of customers profitably, while overseeing both P&L performance and end-to-end delivery of and incredible product.

SVPs / BLs must excel in:

• Product Strategy & Execution: Prioritizing what to build and leading the product development lifecycle.
• Systems Thinking: Understanding how products, processes, and teams interact – and designing for scale.
• Clear, Principled Thinking: Applying first principles to make sound, independent decisions.
• Go-To-Market Excellence: Driving sales, distribution, customer success, and market penetration.
• Cultural Leadership: Embodying our values of TECHNICAL DEPTH, CURIOSITY, GRIT, and PASSION.

Key Requirements

• Proven leadership of a lending business at scale (N50B+ portfolio ideally)
• Deep experience in product development and innovation
• Demonstrated P&L ownership and commercial decision-making
• Strong cross-functional leadership across product, sales, risk, ops, and engineering
• Data-driven mindset with the ability to tie strategy to metrics
• Hands-on leadership style with a bias for execution.