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Business Development Manager, Ghana

We’re recruiting a smart-working, passionate, financial services professional, who will play an important role to help grow Bloom Impact. You are driven to innovate and will enjoy leading the efforts with financial institution partners on the ground in Ghana.

Helping further financial inclusion by building partnerships with critical eco-system players in the delivery of financial services, such as banks, digital banks, MFIs, credit bureaus, P2P crowdfunders, insurance companies, fintech and government organisations. The main role will be to sign on suitable financial service providers to our platform, ensure those relationships are successful and help further evolve our service.

WE OFFER

  • A great opportunity on the ground floor of a Fintech startup
  • Salary, Stock options.
  • A chance to disrupt the financial services sector.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR

  • Passionate, self-driven, committed business development, financial services expert with passion for digital financial services, mobile technology & innovation.
  • Ability to take ownership, drive business on the ground. Persistent in completing what needs to get done and driving relationships.
  • Minimum 10 years experience in financial services, MSME product and service expertise and developing business with a variety of actors.
  • Confident, diplomatic and experienced working with C-suite management and government.
  • Ability to contract Financial institution partners; research, planning, execution of biz dev activities with FIs. Identify and understand all market FIs and MSME product offerings. Promote, explain the Bloom Impact marketplace, evaluate product offerings, negotiate, finalise partner contracts.
  • Provide superior FI partner support to drive conversion.
  • Identify and build ecosystem partnerships.
  • Conduct market research; develop research activity plan and coordinate activities.
  • Support product testing, identifying business requirements and development.
  • Other activities such as representation of Bloom Impact at local events.

BONUS POINTS

  • Experience and knowledge with credit & risk scoring for financial services
  • Previous Fintech or startup experience
  • A chance to disrupt the financial services sector.

EXCITED?

Please send us your CV : support@bloomimpact.net

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Africa Fintech Intern - Machine Learning/AI

We are looking for a Machine Learning/AI intern with a passion for delivering innovative financial apps in emerging markets. As a short-term Summer intern, you will be helping us further financial inclusion by technologically advancing how we serve small business owners that use our service.

WE OFFER

  • A great opportunity at the early stage of an African Fintech startup.
  • Fantastic learning experience.
  • Chance to disrupt the financial services sector.
  • Location is remote or onsite in Ghana depending on stipends/budget.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR

  • Use predictive modeling, statistics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Mining, and other data analysis techniques to collect, explore, and extract insights from structured and unstructured financial data.
  • Develop software, algorithms and applications to apply mathematics to data, perform large scale experimentation and build data driven apps to translate data into risk assessment intelligence. Assists business with causal inferences & observations with finding patterns and relationships in data.
  • Must be a current student enrolled into an university pursuing a M.S or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Machine Learning, Operation Research, and Statistics or equivalent expertise.
  • Expertise in relational database structures, research methods, machine learning (building/training models), Cloud based technologies, Big Data technologies i.e. Hadoop, HBase, Lucene/Solr, analytics packages i.e. R, Mahout, Matlab, Octave, Weka,
  • Expertise in scripting/programming languages i.e. Python, Perl, PHP, Java, C/C++, SQL.
  • Comfortable working independently and virtually collaborating with colleagues.
  • Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude
  • BSc degree in Computer Science or relevant field.

BONUS POINTS

  • Experience and knowledge with financial services, small business and/or mobile Apps
  • Previous Fintech or startup experience.
  • Location to be discussed

EXCITED?

Please send us your CV : support@bloomimpact.net

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Bloom Impact Agent

We are looking for a Bloom Impact Agent to help us with growth of our mobile application.