SME Financing & Decisioning — Associate / Lead

Musa

Musa

Nairobi, Kenya

Posted on May 12, 2026

Musa is building the orchestration layer for African SME finance. We believe capital isn't scarce—it's misrouted. We are building the decisioning infrastructure to assess fundability, sequence capital, and coordinate multi-financier stacks (Debt, Equity, Mezz, Guarantees).

We need a sharp, structured thinker to help build and test this decisioning engine in the real world.

The Role

This is a hybrid of SME credit analysis, capital structuring, venture finance and systems design. You won’t just analyze deals; you will help define the logic that determines how capital should flow to thousands of businesses.

What You’ll Do
  • Assess Readiness: Review SME financials (QuickBooks, bank statements, tax) to identify cash-flow quality and financing blockers.
  • Design Stacks: Help draft practical financing pathways across multiple lenders and instruments.
  • Encode Logic: Convert recurring financing judgment into structured rules, thresholds, and decision trees for our engine.
  • Validate with Lenders: Work with banks, DFIs, and investors to stress-test our structures against their actual underwriting rules.
Who You Are
  • Experience: 3–7+ years in credit underwriting, audit (e.g., Big 4), transaction advisory, venture finance, or DFI/guarantee structuring.
  • Systems Thinker: You don't just see a spreadsheet; you see the rules and patterns that make a deal work.
  • Analytically Rigorous: Expert in Excel and financial statement analysis; you spot inconsistencies and red flags others miss.
  • Pragmatic: You understand why lenders say "no" and how to structure a "yes."
Why Musa?

You will help define a new category of financial infrastructure. This is a high-visibility role at the core of our product, working directly with founders and senior financiers to unlock capital at scale.

How to Apply

Interested? DM or email us with:

  1. Your CV.
  2. One sentence on the most common reason SMEs are "unbankable" and how you'd structure around it.

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