Head of Tax (West Africa)

You've spent years doing the difficult, detail-intensive work of Nigerian tax well. You understand CIT, VAT, and WHT not as abstract compliance obligations but as levers with real business consequences. You've sat across the table from the FIRS, defended positions that matter, and built the kind of technical credibility that earns trust from both finance leadership and external authorities. You're accomplished. Probably respected. And likely working in an environment where your expertise is deployed within a structure that someone else built. Here's the question worth sitting with: what would it look like to build that structure yourself? M-KOPA is creating its first dedicated in-house tax lead for West Africa — and this isn't a role that slots into an existing function. This is a founding role. The person who takes it will build the tax capability for our Nigerian and Ghanaian entities from the ground up, embed tax discipline into commercial decision-making at the highest level, and serve as the region's primary interface with the NRS and GRA. If the prospect of building something significant — from the inside, with real authority — doesn't appeal to you, this probably isn't the right move. If it does, keep reading. M-KOPA has now served more than 7 million customers across Africa, unlocked over $2 billion in credit, and reached 55% of customers who are accessing formal financial services for the very first time. We're growing toward 10 million customers — deliberately, market by market — and Nigeria and Ghana are central to that trajectory. That growth creates tax complexity of real consequence: multi-entity structures, intercompany flows, device import strategies, high-volume consumer transactions, and an evolving legislative landscape that includes Nigeria's Tax Reform Bills. None of this is routine. All of it requires someone who can hold the technical detail and translate it into business-ready advice — and who can do so without the safety net of a Big 4 team standing behind them. This is M-KOPA's first in-house tax hire for the region. That means the frameworks, the relationships, the audit-readiness posture, and the internal controls — you'll design them. That's an unusual level of ownership for a role at this level. It's also what makes it worth considering. You'll own end-to-end tax compliance for Nigeria and Ghana: CIT provisioning, capital allowance schedules, tax loss utilisation and annual filings, VAT treatment across hardware, service fees,