Job description
Senior Anaplan Model Builder
Remote Friendly | Global Opportunity
Function: Financial Planning & Analysis / Business Systems
You’ve built the models. You’ve navigated the complexity. You’ve turned financial chaos into clarity for organizations that depend on your technical precision. And if you’re reading this, you’re likely doing it well—whether that’s at a Big Four consultancy, a multinational corporation, or a fast-scaling technology company that’s already benefited from your expertise.
But here’s the question: are you building something that matters beyond the spreadsheet?
M-KOPA is one of Africa’s fastest-growing fintechs, and we’re not just processing transactions—we’re providing financial access to everyday earners across an entire continent. Over 5 million customers. Multiple countries. A business model that’s rewriting the rules of financial inclusion. And right now, as we scale exponentially, we’re building the enterprise-grade planning infrastructure that will power the next chapter of that growth.
This isn’t about maintaining someone else’s models. This is about architecting the planning ecosystem from the ground up for a company that’s reshaping an industry. You’ll own the Anaplan environment that drives budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, and operational decision-making across our entire African footprint—working directly with finance leadership, commercial teams, and operations executives who are making decisions that affect millions of lives.
If you’re a certified Anaplan Model Builder (Level 2+) with 5+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling complex models, and you’ve been looking for the rare opportunity where technical excellence meets genuine social impact, this conversation is worth having.
What This Role Actually Means
You’ll be the technical architect behind M-KOPA’s financial planning transformation. That means:
Designing, building, and owning robust Anaplan models that support everything from annual budgeting and long-range planning to rolling forecasts and scenario modeling across multiple business units and geographies. You’ll ensure these models scale, perform, and align with Anaplan best practices—because when you’re operating at our velocity, architecture matters.
Owning the integrations between Anaplan and our ERP, CRM, and data lake, ensuring seamless data flow and real-time insights. You’ll establish model governance, documentation standards, version control protocols, and security controls that make the platform sustainable as we grow. You’ll identify every opportunity for automation, optimization, and continuous improvement—because you understand that great models evolve.
Partnering directly with Finance, Commercial, and Operations teams to understand business needs and translate them into scalable solutions. You’ll lead user training and onboarding, driving platform adoption and ensuring teams become empowered and self-sufficient. You’ll work with internal stakeholders and external consultants across time zones and cultures, aligning on design and implementation best practices. You’ll explore opportunities to integrate AI and advanced analytics into the roadmap, future-proofing the platform as the business evolves.
This is a core role in M-KOPA’s broader finance digital transformation journey. You won’t be isolated in a technical silo—you’ll be working alongside senior finance leadership who understand that modern planning infrastructure is strategic, not administrative. Your work will directly enable faster decision-making, better resource allocation, and smarter growth strategies in one of the world’s most dynamic emerging markets.
What We Need You to Bring:
Certified Anaplan Model Builder (Level 2 or higher)—and if you’re a Master Anaplanner, even better.
5+ years of hands-on experience developing and scaling complex Anaplan models, ideally in fast-growing fintechs, telecoms, or global multi-country environments where complexity is the baseline.
Strong financial planning knowledge—P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, driver-based forecasting—because you can’t model what you don’t understand.
Advanced Excel and data modeling capabilities and proven experience integrating Anaplan with ERP and data systems through APIs, ETL tools, or middleware.
Experience in an Anaplan-focused consulting role serving companies like ours, or as the internal builder implementing Anaplan in a high-growth organization. You’ve managed or worked alongside external implementation partners. You’ve collaborated across cultures and time zones.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to translate technical complexity into business value.
If you’ve worked with Microsoft Dynamics or BI tools like Power BI or Tableau, that’s valuable context. But what we’re really looking for is someone who combines technical mastery with business judgment—someone who understands that the best models aren’t just mathematically correct, they’re useful. Someone who can work independently in a remote environment, take ownership of outcomes, and raise the bar for what planning infrastructure can accomplish.
Why This Opportunity Is Different
Remote work isn’t a perk here—it’s how we operate. You’ll work from wherever you’re most effective, whether that’s India, Nairobi, London, New York, or anywhere in between. But you’ll be leading the design of a next-generation planning environment for a company whose mission is financial inclusion at scale, supported by competitive compensation and benefits structured for global talent.
You’ll be joining a team that’s collaborative, ambitious, and mission-driven, where your technical work has immediate, visible impact on strategic decisions. And because we’re scaling rapidly across multiple countries, the complexity will challenge you—but the growth opportunities, both for the platform and your career, are significant.
If you’ve been waiting for the right combination of technical challenge, strategic influence, and meaningful mission, this might be it.
M-KOPA is a certified B Corporation committed to financial inclusion across Africa.
Why M-KOPA?
At M-KOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritize well-being, and embrace flexibility.
Join us in shaping the future of M-KOPA as we grow together. Explore more at m-kopa.com.
Recognized four times by the Financial Times as one Africa’s fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025) and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024 , we’ve served over 5 million customers, unlocking $1.5 billion in cumulative credit for the unbanked across Africa.
Important Notice
M-KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. 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/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’, or any other kind of money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process.
Applications for this position will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Shortlisting and interviews will take place at any stage during the recruitment process. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a suitable candidate is selected before the advertised closing date.
