About Us

Unifi is a fast-growing consumer lending company operating in Zambia, South Africa, Uganda, and Kenya. Unifi delivers personal lending products through online, mobile phone and branch channels. The company is well supported by strong shareholders and a board of directors with vast experience in entrepreneurship and lending. 

Boldly different. Fiercely human. Proudly African. At Unifi, you’ll grow with us, experience humble leadership, and be part of something bigger — where ambition thrives and there’s a continent full of possibilities.

Unifi is looking for a young and energetic individual with leadership ambitions. This role entails assisting the CEO and executive team based in the Stellenbosch, South Africa with professional duties. 

The ideal candidate must be willing to take on a wide range of disparate responsibilities - much like the executives do! Numeric competence is important, along with a passion for people. A healthy spirit of adventure and sense of humour would be helpful.

Responsibilities

• Everything the CEO gets involved in you will be involved in - and some!
  
• Leading specific special projects across the multiple countries
• Diving into operational problems and scoping simple solutions
• Pulling together tech, data and operations to come up with business efficiencies and innovations
• Following up on meeting decisions and outcomes
• Consistent, concise communication across countries
• Format information for internal and external communication – memos, emails, presentations, reports, speeches
• Compiling board and exco packs
• Stakeholder management
• CEO Inbox
• Assisting authorizers with expenditure management
• and other stuff as required

Requirements

• Graduate
• Strong academic background, specifically numerical orientation
• Future leadership potential
• Passion for Africa and willingness to work in the developing world context
• Energised by regular travel
• Willingness to get hands dirty in the details of the business - this is not a boardroom role!