Head of Network
RemoteAbidjan, Abidjan Autonomous District, Ivory Coast or Dakar, Dakar, Senegal
Job Summary
Optimize existing payment corridors by negotiating terms with collectors and banking partners, compressing treasury delays, and fixing operational bottlenecks. Lead expansion into new African markets by identifying partners, setting entry terms, and building infrastructure from scratch. Manage concentration risk across partner groups while maintaining SLAs for the full fund flow. Operate with high autonomy in close coordination with the CEO, treasury, and operations teams, requiring regular travel across francophone Africa. This commercial, operational role sits on the critical path of the company's economics, driving faster, more transparent cross-border payments for African businesses.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years in banking, payments, treasury, correspondent banking, or PSP/mobile-money operations in francophone Africa, with a track record of managing and negotiating partner relationships
- Deep, practical understanding of how funds move in the UEMOA (XOF) and CEMAC (XAF) zones: collectors, local banks, SWIFT messaging (MT103/MT900), correspondent flows, and settlement mechanics
- A commercial operator who can sit across the table from a bank or collector and move terms, and then make the process work day to day
- Comfortable with data: you can read a partner-performance dataset and turn it into priorities and a negotiation plan
- Fluent French and professional English
- Willing to travel regularly across the region
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