Job Description

• Provide dedicated analytical, reporting, and project coordination support directly to the CEO across all strategic and operational priorities.
• Prepare board papers, Executive Committee materials, investor updates, and CEO presentations, complete with supporting data, analysis, and clear recommendations.
• Track progress and prepare periodic status reports for all major ongoing projects, including the Tier 1 Microfinance Bank license application, the Fintech Farm digital banking partnership, LMS/CBS implementation, and branch expansion projects in Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Mwanza, and other locations.
• Build and maintain financial models for budgeting, forecasting, and scenario analysis, including three-year projections, stress testing, and sensitivity analyses for new products, partnerships, and capital planning initiatives.
• Conduct comparative ratio analyses and competitive benchmarking against peer institutions, including Tier 1 and Tier 2 Microfinance Banks across Tanzania and East Africa.
• Prepare budget-versus-actual variance reports, portfolio quality reports (including delinquency, provisioning, debtor ageing, and PAR), as well as monthly management dashboards for the CEO and Executive Committee.
• Prepare regulatory and internal compliance reports, including IFRS 9 ECL model outputs, BOT returns, PDPA 2022 compliance tracking, AML/CFT monitoring summaries, and capital adequacy assessments.
• Conduct market research and feasibility studies, and prepare comprehensive business cases for new products and propositions, including savings instruments, credit cards, BNPL solutions, payment services, and digital banking offerings.
• Support the CEO in BOT regulatory engagements by preparing position papers, impact assessments, and application dossiers for the Tier 1 MFB license, BOT Regulatory Sandbox participation, and payment instrument approvals under the NPS Act.
• Translate complex business requirements from Credit, Operations, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and IT into structured documentation, functional specifications, process maps, and acceptance criteria.
• Act as the central point of coordination for CEO-priority cross-functional initiatives by driving deliverables, following up with stakeholders, tracking action items, and ensuring timely closure.
• Support vendor evaluation processes, conduct RFP analyses, and provide commercial negotiation inputs for strategic partnerships.
• Analyze portfolio performance, customer segmentation, credit risk trends, disbursement and collection patterns, and provide actionable insights and recommendations to the CEO and business owners.
• Deliver ad hoc analyses on matters requiring urgent executive decisions, including pricing, product changes, partnership structures, capital allocation, and regulatory responses.
• Maintain a structured, audit-ready repository of analyses, models, presentations, and reports prepared for the CEO, ensuring institutional memory and data integrity.
• Support investor relations activities, due diligence responses, and shareholder information requests under strict confidentiality, while exercising discretion and commercial sensitivity at all times.

Skills Required

• Spreadsheets (e.g. Excel, Google Sheets, etc)
• Word Processing and Desktop Publishing Tools (MS Office, Google Docs, etc)

• Provide dedicated analytical, reporting, and project coordination support directly to the CEO across all strategic and operational priorities.
• Prepare board papers, Executive Committee materials, investor updates, and CEO presentations, complete with supporting data, analysis, and clear recommendations.
• Track progress and prepare periodic status reports for all major ongoing projects, including the Tier 1 Microfinance Bank license application, the Fintech Farm digital banking partnership, LMS/CBS implementation, and branch expansion projects in Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Mwanza, and other locations.
• Build and maintain financial models for budgeting, forecasting, and scenario analysis, including three-year projections, stress testing, and sensitivity analyses for new products, partnerships, and capital planning initiatives.
• Conduct comparative ratio analyses and competitive benchmarking against peer institutions, including Tier 1 and Tier 2 Microfinance Banks across Tanzania and East Africa.
• Prepare budget-versus-actual variance reports, portfolio quality reports (including delinquency, provisioning, debtor ageing, and PAR), as well as monthly management dashboards for the CEO and Executive Committee.
• Prepare regulatory and internal compliance reports, including IFRS 9 ECL model outputs, BOT returns, PDPA 2022 compliance tracking, AML/CFT monitoring summaries, and capital adequacy assessments.
• Conduct market research and feasibility studies, and prepare comprehensive business cases for new products and propositions, including savings instruments, credit cards, BNPL solutions, payment services, and digital banking offerings.
• Support the CEO in BOT regulatory engagements by preparing position papers, impact assessments, and application dossiers for the Tier 1 MFB license, BOT Fintech Regulatory Sandbox participation, and payment instrument approvals under the NPS Act.
• Translate complex business requirements from Credit, Operations, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and IT into structured documentation, functional specifications, process maps, and acceptance criteria.
• Act as the central point of coordination for CEO-priority cross-functional initiatives by driving deliverables, following up with stakeholders, tracking action items, and ensuring timely closure.
• Support vendor evaluation processes, conduct RFP analyses, and provide commercial negotiation inputs for strategic partnerships.
• Analyze portfolio performance, customer segmentation, credit risk trends, disbursement and collection patterns, and provide actionable insights and recommendations to the CEO and business owners.
• Deliver ad hoc analyses on matters requiring urgent executive decisions, including pricing, product changes, partnership structures, capital allocation, and regulatory responses.
• Maintain a structured, audit-ready repository of analyses, models, presentations, and reports prepared for the CEO, ensuring institutional memory and data integrity.
• Support investor relations activities, due diligence responses, and shareholder information requests under strict confidentiality, while exercising discretion and commercial sensitivity at all times.

• Spreadsheets (e.g. Excel, Google Sheets, etc)
• Word Processing and Desktop Publishing Tools (MS Office, Google Docs, etc)