Fintech Consultant – Finance Engine Build Lead
NFT Consult
Job overview
Recruitment agency: NFT Consult
Hiring company: Confidential automotive and mobility-sector client
Position: Fintech Consultant – Finance Engine Build Lead
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Engagement type: Consultancy
Number of vacancies: One
Experience required: 5–8 years
Salary or consultancy fee: Not disclosed
Application deadline: 13 September 2026
Jobspace Uganda vacancy summary
NFT Consult is recruiting a senior Fintech Consultant to design, build and operationalise the finance engine of a confidential automotive and mobility company. The assignment covers an existing motorcycle asset-finance portfolio and a new smartphone-financing operation. The consultant will take responsibility for credit policies, customer onboarding, billing, collections, recovery, loan-management-system workflows, mobile-money integration, reporting and team structures. This is a specialised implementation role for someone who has directly built or managed device-financing operations and can move from strategy to working systems, documented procedures and a trained permanent team.
About the hiring company
The confidential client operates in Uganda’s motorcycle, automotive and mobility market. Its activities include motorcycle and spare-parts distribution, retail, after-sales support, local assembly and asset financing. The company is also developing a smartphone-financing business that will combine customer credit, digital payments and device-control technology.
Who should apply?
This assignment may suit professionals who:
- Have directly worked for a smartphone, device or asset-financing company.
- Have built or managed customer onboarding, billing, collections and device-locking systems.
- Understand credit risk, loan recovery and portfolio-performance controls.
- Can work confidently with developers, mobile-money providers and LMS vendors.
- Have designed operating models, workflows and standard operating procedures.
- Can recruit, train and hand over operations to a permanent internal team.
Purpose of the assignment
The consultant will build an integrated finance operating model covering credit, customer onboarding, collections, recovery, technology workflows, reporting, staffing and customer journeys. The expected outcome is a scalable operation that can continue functioning effectively after the consultancy ends.
Motorcycle asset finance responsibilities
- Redesign the credit policy and branch-level loan-origination process.
- Strengthen credit assessment and approval controls.
- Build an effective collections structure covering field and call-centre operations.
- Improve repossession, recovery and risk-management workflows.
- Configure the loan-management system to support operational processes.
- Introduce portfolio analysis for identifying collection weaknesses and financial leakage.
- Design the complete customer journey and supporting process flows.
- Review existing workflows and determine suitable staffing structures.
- Prepare recovery procedures and standard operating procedures.
- Train loan officers and other personnel involved in finance operations.
Smartphone-finance responsibilities
- Build the customer-onboarding, billing and mobile-money integration processes.
- Work with the device-locking provider and determine the appropriate locking approach.
- Define the staff roles and team structure needed for the new operation.
- Develop the complete smartphone-finance customer journey.
- Design operational workflows and suitable business models.
- Coordinate developers, LMS providers, mobile-money partners and device-locking providers.
- Develop the credit policy for the smartphone-finance portfolio.
- Build dealer-network, collections and customer-support processes.
- Define the application features and reporting systems required by the business.
- Establish controls that enable the operation to launch and function effectively.
Team development and handover
- Identify the people, systems and controls required across both finance businesses.
- Recruit and train the permanent Finance Head and supporting team.
- Document critical processes, controls and standard operating procedures.
- Transfer operational knowledge to the permanent team.
- Ensure that the finance operations can continue after the consultant’s departure.
Qualifications and experience
- Five to eight years of direct experience within smartphone, device or asset financing.
- Relevant experience from organisations such as M-KOPA, Watu Simu, Sun King or a comparable business model.
- Practical experience building or managing onboarding, billing, device locking and collections.
- Strong knowledge of credit, recovery, loan-management systems and portfolio monitoring.
- Experience integrating mobile-money services into customer and repayment workflows.
- Ability to work directly with software developers and external technology providers.
- Experience designing end-to-end customer journeys, operating models and procedures.
- A demonstrated ability to build teams and train staff to operate new systems.
Education requirement: The supplied advert does not specify a compulsory academic qualification. Applicants should follow the requirements shown on NFT Consult’s application portal.
Required skills and competencies
- Fintech and device-finance operations.
- Credit-policy and lending-process design.
- Collections, repossession and recovery management.
- Loan-management-system workflow design.
- Mobile-money and device-locking integration.
- Portfolio analysis and operational reporting.
- Process mapping and SOP development.
- Team design, recruitment and training.
- Strong implementation and problem-solving ability.
Application procedure
- Open the NFT Consult vacancy page using the button below.
- Review the complete assignment details and application requirements.
- Create or sign in to your candidate profile if requested.
- Complete all mandatory application fields.
- Upload your updated CV and any other requested documents.
- Review the application carefully before submitting it.
Application deadline: 13 September 2026.
Before submitting your application
- Clearly name the device or asset-financing businesses where you gained experience.
- Describe finance systems or operating models that you personally built or improved.
- Highlight experience with LMS, mobile-money and device-locking integrations.
- Show measurable results in collections, recovery or portfolio performance.
- Explain your experience recruiting, training and handing over to permanent teams.
Job-scam warning
Do not pay anyone for this vacancy, an interview or engagement. Submit information only through NFT Consult’s recognised recruitment platform and verify unexpected instructions directly with the recruiter.
Date posted: 7 September 2026
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