Position: Finance and Business Development manager at Fintech Farm
Company: Fintech Farm
Category: Other
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-09-01T00:00:00+03:00

About Fintech Farm

We are a UK fintech creating neobanks in emerging markets through partnerships with traditional banks.
Our success builds upon a best-in-class product, customer experience, emotional engagement, viral marketing and unique credit decisioning expertise.
One of our founders had previously co-founded a highly successful Eastern European neobank with a multi million customer base.
We have recently launched our first market with Leobank in Azerbaijan, which has gained great momentum. The next markets on our list are Vietnam and Nigeria. Another several markets across Africa and Asia are coming soon.

We are looking to scale our team to support the growth plan.


Why Fintech Farm is a great place to be

Our culture. 
Common sense rather than formal policies prevail in all what we do. For example, we don’t set holiday allowance. Our offices are spread across London, Kyiv and Dnipro and you could work remotely. Just do it the way it’s efficient for you.


Share options. We envisage several rounds of investments to support our growth plans and should become a unicorn 🦄 in a few years down the road. We offer an attractive share option scheme so you will own a part of the business.



Your role
You will be a part of our new markets launch team, and drive our market entries across a number of emerging markets in Asia and Africa.


Responsibilities

 - Project-manage new market entries and partnership leads: 1) screen potential partners, 2) develop a business plan and a financial model for a particular market jointly with the local partner bank, 3) run due diligence process on Fintech Farm by the partner bank, and 3) input commercials into transaction documentation (term-sheets, partnership agreements)
 - Support existing markets: update business plans and financial models, assess commercials of new product launches and contracts with local payment and banking infrastructure counterparties

Who you are
 - A self starter, who doesn’t take “No” as an answer, results-oriented and enjoy solving problems
 - Have a high energy level and positive attitude :)
 - Think structurally, very technical and attentive to detail
 - Enjoy operating at speed and hate missing deadlines
 - Open and honest

Your experience
 - 3+ years of experience at an investment bank, global management consultancy or M&A advisory at Big-4
 - Sound banking financial modelling and analysis skills, understanding accounting and regulatory ratios in a banking context
 - Sector experience in consumer banking / financial technology / payments
 - Experience in launching new markets / working with international clients
 - 2+ years of UK or international (English-speaking environment) experience
 - Preferably experience in a start-up / fast-paced environment
 - Master/Bachelor degree from a top-tier university
 - Fluent in English and Ukrainian / Russian

What we are offering
- Competitive salary negotiable depending on the candidate level
 - Share options are available
 - We are still a start-up and more benefits are on the way

You will report directly to our finance director and work closely with co-founders who are London-based. Our operating team (business leads, developers) is spread across Ukraine and Europe, our partner banks are overseas and so you will be a vital bridge between these worlds. You could work remotely.