Senior Analyst: Executive & Business Operations

About Cellulant:

Cellulant is Africa’s leading payments company, providing seamless, secure and innovative solutions that empower businesses, banks, and global brands to thrive in a fast-changing global economy. 

With a presence in over 24 countries and 200+ payment methods across cards, bank transfer and mobile money, our single API payment platform, Tingg, simplifies collections, disbursements, and reconciliations. It processes over 1 million transactions daily for market leaders across sectors such as Airlines, Telecoms, E-commerce, Ride-Hailing, Retail, and Remittances. 

By simplifying how people pay and get paid, we drive trust, commerce and scale – and connect companies to their ambitions.

Our Mission:

To deliver seamless, secure and innovative payment solutions for businesses. 

Our Vision: 

To create a connected world where businesses move money as easily as they share ideas. 

Our Story:

Across Africa, payments are more than transactions. They are gateways to prosperity, connecting people, businesses and communities to opportunities and growth. 

From enabling a logistics company in Lusaka to pay suppliers across borders, to enabling a hospitality brand in Lagos to scale effortlessly, to supporting an airline in Nairobi to reconcile payments from multiple platforms, Cellulant is the bridge that makes it all possible. 

Through trusted technology and customer-centric innovation, we build connections that inspire progress, strengthen economies and transform payments into a tool for progress.

Since our founding in 2003, we've continuously adapted and grown, leveraging our experiences to simplify payments for businesses. We are driven by an unshakable belief that seamless people-centred payments are the key to unlocking prosperity. 

Today, Cellulant powers online and offline payment processing, allowing businesses to collect payments, send payouts, and accelerate business growth.

Role Overview: 

Cellulant is looking for a high calibre professional to join the Office of the CEO in a high-exposure role with a Chief of Staff–style remit. You will work closely with the CEO and Executive Committee on the decisions, priorities and cross-functional challenges that shape a pan-African fintech operating across multiple markets.

This opportunity is designed for someone who has developed strong analytical and commercial discipline in management consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, transaction services or another demanding environment-and now wants to move closer to enterprise leadership and execution. It will be particularly relevant to African diaspora professionals considering a move to the continent, and to MBA or other postgraduate candidates completing their studies who bring meaningful professional experience and want their next chapter to have direct African impact.

What You'll do:

• Shape and run the Executive Committee’s operating rhythm: identify the decisions and issues requiring executive attention, design focused agendas, challenge the quality of pre-reads, capture decisions and drive actions through to closure.

• Develop and quality-assure Executive Committee, Board and investor materials, turning financial, commercial and operational information into a coherent enterprise narrative while supporting Finance’s ownership of investor relations.

• Maintain an integrated view of the CEO’s priorities, company objectives and critical cross-functional initiatives; test progress, identify slippage or dependencies early and coordinate resolution with the accountable executive.

• Undertake structured analysis and rapid problem-solving on questions commissioned by the CEO, synthesising competing perspectives and incomplete information into clear options, recommendations and decision briefs.

• Lead selected strategic projects and time-bound interventions from the CEO’s office, establishing the workplan, bringing the right leaders together, maintaining momentum and enabling delivery without displacing functional ownership.

• Act as a trusted filter and force multiplier for the CEO: anticipate information needs, distinguish decisions from updates, ensure issues arrive with context and options, and protect executive attention for matters requiring CEO judgement.

• Support the corporate governance cycle through forward planning, Board preparation, executive rehearsals, accurate records of commitments and disciplined follow-through on Board and investor actions.

• Represent the CEO’s office in selected forums and working sessions, clarify intent, connect related work across functions and escalate material choices or risks within a clearly agreed mandate.

• Maintain a reliable enterprise view of performance, priorities, risks and key decisions, and use it to support leadership reporting, organisational communication and periodic strategy reviews.

What we are looking for:

• A bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, engineering, data or another analytically rigorous