Legal & Compliance Manager - West Africa
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M-KOPA is hiring a Legal & Compliance Manager to lead legal and compliance work across Nigeria and Ghana. The role covers regulatory engagement with the Bank of Ghana and Central Bank of Nigeria, corporate governance, commercial contracting, data privacy, and compliance programme management. Candidates need post-call-to-bar experience, an LLB degree, and strong contract and regulatory skills.
- Primary legal and compliance lead for Nigeria and Ghana operations
- Covers regulatory licensing, corporate governance, and commercial contracts
- Includes Data Privacy Officer responsibilities for West Africa
- Requires post-call-to-bar experience and an LLB degree
- Banking, finance, or fintech exposure is an advantage
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Job Description
We are looking for a Legal & Compliance Manager – West Africa to join our Legal group; as we scale up and drive digital and financial inclusion across our markets.
The full legal and compliance brief for two of Africa's most significant markets
Nigeria and Ghana. Two regulatory bodies for banking supervision. Two corporate governance frameworks — CAMA 2020 and the Companies Act 2019. Two sets of statutory filing obligations. One role that carries accountability for all of it, plus commercial contracting, data privacy, compliance programme management, and investor reporting.
For a lawyer who wants genuine breadth — not a narrow lane in a large legal team — this is a rare brief.
M-KOPA has extended more than $2 billion in credit to over 10 million customers across seven markets, with 55% accessing formal financial products for the first time. In West Africa, the legal and compliance infrastructure that supports that mission sits with this role.
What the work covers
The role is the primary legal and compliance resource for M-KOPA's Nigeria and Ghana operations, reporting to the Head of Department. The scope spans regulatory licensing and engagement with the Bank of Ghana and Central Bank of Nigeria; corporate governance and secretarial matters for both entities; drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial agreements including vendor contracts, service agreements, and technology licences; and management of the external counsel panel across both markets.
The role also carries designation as Data Privacy Officer for West Africa, with responsibility for compliance with applicable data privacy legislation across the region, supported by the global privacy team. On the compliance side, it includes maintaining the full suite of compliance tools — obligations register, training calendar, incident register, and risk register — coordinating training programmes, and supporting ESMS implementation and ESG investor reporting.
What this role requires
A proven track record in a legal or compliance function, with post-call-to-bar
Experience
in a regulated or commercially active environment; banking, finance, or fintech exposure is an advantage.
Demonstrable
in contract negotiation, regulatory engagement, and corporate governance, with working knowledge of compliance standards and risk management frameworks.
An undergraduate LLB degree; prior exposure to structured finance, capital markets, or data privacy is an added advantage.
Why this, and why now
In private practice, you serve the client's brief. In a specialist in-house role, you own one function. Here, you are the legal and compliance lead for a growing fintech across two consequential West African markets — with the range, the relationships, and the commercial exposure that comes with it.
Why M-KOPA?
At M-KOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritize well-being, and embrace flexibility.
Join us in shaping the future of M-KOPA as we grow together. Explore more at
m-kopa.com
.
Recognized four times by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026), named on CNBC's World’s Top Fintech Companies 2025 & 2026 and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024 , we've served over 10 million customers, unlocking $2 billion in cumulative credit for the everyday earners across Africa, in addition to over 10,000 e-bikes financed in Kenya.
Important Notice
M-KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
M-KOPA explicitly prohibits the use of Forced or Child Labour and respects the rights of its employees to agree to terms and conditions of employment voluntarily, without coercion, and freely terminate their employment on appropriate notice. M-KOPA shall ensure that its Employees are of legal working age and shall comply with local laws for youth employment or student work, such as internships or apprenticeships.
M-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’, or any other kind of money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process.
Applications for this position will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Shortlisting and interviews will take place at any stage during the recruitment process. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a suitable candidate is selected before the advertised closing date.
If your application is successful M-KOPA undertakes pre-employment background checks as part of its recruitment process, these include; criminal records, identification verification, academic qualifications, employment dates and employer references.
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M-KOPA
Fintech / Asset Financing & Digital Financial Services
M-KOPA is a pan-African fintech company that provides asset financing and digital financial services to underserved, everyday earners across Africa. It lets customers pay for smartphones, and other essential products through small deposits and affordable daily or weekly micro-instalments, while also offering embedded digital loans, health cover, and data bundles. In Ghana, M-KOPA operates as M-KOPA Ghana Ltd, based in Accra, as part of the group's operations spanning Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana.
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