Biz Dev & FX Manager

You will be a member of the Global Business Development team - with a focus on payout and FX Partnerships at Zepz Francophone Africa. The role holder will be responsible for new regional FX deals as well as supporting business development opportunities & partnership management across the region. The role will also support new markets & products launch and will contribute to the regional expansion of Zepz in the region.

The role will also entail looking into future potential markets driving forward business development.

As a member of the Zepz team you will aim high embrace challenges and always do what’s right; acting with integrity and building trust as you contribute to the company’s strategy and long term decision making.

Your key focus areas

Partner management

• Support the business development and FX teams with partner relationship management in existing regional markets across banks telcos fintechs and aggregators

• Assist in irregular operational escalations ( Recon Compliance funding…) to ensure service continuity work with internal and external stakeholders to solve issues and unblock situations impacting QoS.

• Prioritise new partners onboarding and track progress regularly.

Deal making

• Identify and select key regional partners to unlock untapped opportunities or improve service delivery and profitability

• Source structure and negotiate commercial partnership arrangements (Payout Fx & banking deals)

• Optimise existing deals and work with partners to identify ways to grow together while ensuring that we are compliant with local regulations.

Strategic initiatives

• Support Zepz in implementing the regional strategy

• Work extensively with internal stakeholders to drive new initiatives at regional level

• Ad hoc support to improve operational efficiencies and reduce business complexity

What we need from you

• Act like an owner with a bias to action

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field required.

• 5+ years of relevant experience in payments/remittances required.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and French

• Strong organisational skills attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines.

• Strong initiative and a get-it-done attitude.

• Client focused proactive and results oriented with ability to support clients across multiple locations

• Inclusivity: proven track record of successful cross-functional collaboration to achieve complicated business objectives