Job Vacancies at Pezesha

Responsibilities:

• Owning the delinquent portfolio assigned to you, including constant management and follow-ups of repayments. Using Pipedrive software to manage your portfolio.
• Able to respond to caller concerns and difficulties with a sense of empathy and understanding, but also able to firmly request that each borrower make his or her due payment or make some arrangements to begin paying off the delinquent account.
• Keeping our databases, dashboards and spreadsheets up-to-date with the status of the loan records.
• Being the bridge between the customer and Pezesha by seeking feedback from the customer and suggesting product and process improvements.

Skills, Qualifications and Experiences:

• At least 1 year of work experience in the collections department.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills are essential.
• Must be able to set up payment plans based on information provided by the borrower.
• Flexibility towards working hours as sometimes calls and visits may need to be done on weekends.
• High level of interpersonal maturity, hardworking, and professionalism.
• Excellent time management and personal organization.
• Team player who demonstrates a positive attitude, energy, dedication to collaboration and patience and works with the highest levels of integrity.
• Comfortable and effective in managing and communicating with team members and stakeholders based remotely or in different time zones.
• Good MS Office skills and able to adapt to new technology.

We are seeking enthusiastic and skilled upcoming Data Scientists and Data Engineers to join our team. In this role, you will provide valuable insights to support our products, portfolios, and leadership teams through comprehensive data analysis. The ideal candidate excels at utilizing diverse data sets to identify opportunities for product and process optimization and is proficient in developing models to evaluate different strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify data gaps and implement solutions to address them.
• Provide actionable data insights to the products team for scaling and optimization.
• Monitor and report on experiment results and impact analyses.
• Develop state-of-the-art solutions to present data insights to the management team on-demand.
• Analyze scoring and repayment data to identify patterns that inform customer behavior.
• Develop and validate credit scoring models.
• Deploy scoring models using REST APIs.
• Document deployed code thoroughly.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science or Computer Engineering; a Master’s degree is a plus.
• Over 1 year of relevant experience in the data science field.
• Proficiency in machine learning algorithms, such as tree-based methods and logistic regression.
• Strong Python skills, especially in data analytics and science (e.g., pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, matplotlib, seaborn).
• Expertise in SQL database operations.
• Experience with experimental design, statistical analysis, and interpretation of both qualitative and quantitative data.
• Solid understanding of statistical tests and analysis.
• Ability to communicate model outputs and analyses to stakeholders with varying levels of technical expertise.
• Experience deploying predictive models at scale.
• Keen attention to detail and a methodical approach to data investigation.
• Collaborative and thrives in a team environment.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies (GCP, AWS).
• Knowledge of parallel processing technologies such as Spark and Dask.
• Bonus: Experience working with financial data or credit scoring models.

Primary Roles & responsibilities

• Maintain accounts for the company and any subsidiaries or countries we operate as per international financial reporting standards (IFRS and IAS).
• Perform month-end close activities, including preparation of journal entries and reconciliations for various balance sheet and income statement accounts
• Perform financial statement analysis and document meaningful explanations for fluctuations
• Performing risk management by analyzing the organization’s liabilities and investments
• Ensure all accounting processes are streamlined and in accordance with the respective jurisdiction.
• Liaise with external auditors to facilitate annual audits.
• Reconcile transactions on the dashboard, mobile money statements and other statements and liaise with the Tech team to resolve any irregularities.
• Liaise with all other business units to challenge the status quo, implement new ideas, investigate and implement more efficient solutions and treasury processes
• Daily administration responsibilities

Your skills and experience

• At least 1 years of relevant accounting experience
• Lateral experiences within a corporate finance, investments & transactions, or comparable role will be favored.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Sound analytical skills and advanced skills using Microsoft Excel.
• Understanding of IFRS
• Professional qualification: CPA or ACCA or CFA certified  or an equivalent certified

• We are looking for a Software developer Interns to join our Rockstar tech team in supporting different teams in the day to day operations by;
• Transform technical designs and notes into secure code building applications, APIs and integrations into and out of our platforms.
• Collaborate with our existing team in implementing and managing our end to end credit & data platforms.
• Be a primary line of support for technical solutions issues
• Documentation of tech processes.
• Quality assurance and testing
• Collaborate with data and operations teams in ensuring our customer needs are met
• Technical training to teams and partners

Required Skills and Experience 

• Enthusiasm for technology and a strong willingness to learn and grow as a developer.
• Pursuing or recently graduated with a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Basic understanding of object-oriented programming concepts and familiarity with at least one programming language (e.g., PHP, Java, Python, etc.).
• Knowledge or exposure to backend development frameworks such as Laravel, Spring Boot, or Gin(Golang) will be a plus, but not mandatory.
• Solid problem-solving skills and the ability to think analytically.
• A positive attitude, strong work ethic, and a collaborative mindset to thrive in a team-based environment.
• Excellent communication skills and a keenness to actively participate in discussions.

Qualifications 

• Integrity- upholds high degree of honesty and values to be trusted with high value transactions processing and support
• Leader – Take ownership and responsibility of tasks
• Detailed – Think through the proposed design (solution) approach and documentation before coding
• Disciplined – Estimate and communicate the duration of time to complete tasks
• Agile – Move quickly and easily to resolve issues. Look at short-term approaches that satisfy immediate needs and plan for long term approaches that are more robust
• Humble – Willing to listen and learn

• We are looking for a Software developer Interns to join our rockstar tech team in supporting different teams in the day to day operations by;
• Transform technical designs and notes into secure code building applications, APIs and integrations into and out of our platforms.
• Collaborate with our existing team in implementing and managing our end to end credit & data platforms.
• Be a primary line of support for technical solutions issues
• Documentation of tech processes.
• Quality assurance and testing
• Collaborate with data and operations teams in ensuring our customer needs are met
• Technical training to teams and partners

Required Skills and Experience 

• Enthusiasm for technology and a strong willingness to learn and grow as a developer.
• Pursuing or recently graduated with a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Basic understanding of object-oriented programming concepts and familiarity with at least one programming language (e.g., PHP, Java, Python, etc.).
• Knowledge or exposure to backend development frameworks such as Laravel, Spring Boot, or Gin(Golang) will be a plus, but not mandatory.
• Solid problem-solving skills and the ability to think analytically.
• A positive attitude, strong work ethic, and a collaborative mindset to thrive in a team-based environment.
• Excellent communication skills and a keenness to actively participate in discussions.

Qualifications 

• Integrity- upholds high degree of honesty and values to be trusted with high value transactions processing and support
• Leader – Take ownership and responsibility of tasks
• Detailed – Think through the proposed design (solution) approach and documentation before coding
• Disciplined – Estimate and communicate the duration of time to complete tasks
• Agile – Move quickly and easily to resolve issues. Look at short-term approaches that satisfy immediate needs and plan for long term approaches that are more robust
• Humble – Willing to listen and learn

Please send your CVs and cover letter to jobs@pezesha.com. Kindly indicate the title of the job on the subject header of the email

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