Vacancies at Cellulant Corporation

Role Overview: 

As Principal : Treasury Operations, you will oversee daily back-office treasury operations across multiple African regions with diverse economic and regulatory environments. You will ensure smooth and timely execution of all treasury-related activities, linking back-office operations with regional teams and external financial institutions.

What You'll do:

Settlement Management & Reconciliation

• Liaise with Merchants Operations team to obtain daily settlement amounts, ensuring all transactions are accurately recorded and processed on time.
• Upload manual settlements as per settlement files, verify transactions, and ensure bank charges are correctly applied.
• Ensure timely liquidation and reconciliation of funds from alternative payment methods, mobile money platforms, and aggregators.
• Support settlements across the group, coordinating with internal teams and external financial institutions to ensure accurate merchant transaction settlement.

 Liquidity & Cash Flow Management

• Update and maintain daily cash position files, ensuring all cash balances and outstanding settlements are accurately captured.
• Monitor and manage daily liquidity requirements to ensure sufficient funds for operations and merchant settlements across multiple regions.
• Assist in developing and maintaining merchant liquidity forecasts to meet obligations.
• Execute operational foreign exchange transactions required for settlements and liquidity management.
• Optimize cash flow management, ensuring efficient use of funds without holding excessive idle cash.
• Prepare reports supporting cash flow forecasting and financial planning.

 Treasury Operations & Execution

• Manage back-office treasury functions, including fund transfers, bank account management, and transaction reconciliation.
• Implement and maintain processes to ensure accuracy and compliance in treasury operations.
• Implement and maintain processes to ensure accuracy and compliance in treasury activities, including participating in operational automation projects (e.g., settlements, reconciliations, and fund transfers)

 Banking & External Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary contact for banking partners, engaging daily to resolve treasury-related operational issues and maintain seamless financial operations.
• Assist in updating and maintaining bank mandates within the region, ensuring all authorizations align with regulatory and internal compliance requirements.

 Governance, Compliance & Risk Management

• Ensure compliance with financial policies, identify potential risks, and propose mitigation strategies to strengthen treasury controls.
• Oversee documentation and adherence to internal policies and external regulatory requirements.

 Reporting & Financial Analysis

• Analyze and report key treasury metrics to the Head of Treasury Operations.
• Prepare and review treasury reports, including liquidity positions, foreign exchange exposures, and settlement progress.
• Maintain accurate records of client interactions and transactions for audit and compliance purposes.

 Process Improvement & Automation

• Participate in treasury-wide process improvement and automation initiatives to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and overall operational effectiveness.

 Regional & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with regional teams to understand local financial regulations and ensure seamless cross-border fund transfers and settlements.
• Foster collaboration between back-office treasury teams and other departments as needed.

 Team Support & Development

• Provide support and mentorship to treasury analysts and other staff, helping them develop their skills and ensuring accuracy and efficiency in their work.

What we are looking for:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• Knowledge of banking, treasury and payments products and processes.
• Experience: 7-10 years of hands-on experience in treasury operations, back-office processing, or a related field preferably within the fintech industry.
• Strong understanding of treasury functions, financial markets, and banking operations.
• Familiarity with African financial markets and regulatory frameworks.
• Thorough knowledge of African currency markets and regulatory frameworks.
• Strong communication skills and an ability to build and leverage cross-functional relationships.
• Strong knowledge of finance and accounting principles within a multi-currency, multi-subsidiary environment.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets for data analysis and reporting.
• Experience with Treasury Management Systems (Kyriba) or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software is a plus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Proactive, results-oriented, and adaptable to change.

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Role Overview: 

The Senior Manager: Technology Governance, Resilience & Corporate IT is responsible for end-to-end execution of technology governance, security-by-design, operational resilience, and corporate IT services across the Cellulant Group.

Reporting directly to the Head of Platform Engineering , the role ensures that:

• Technology platforms and corporate IT services are secure, reliable, compliant, and resilient
• Governance and control frameworks are embedded into daily technology operations
• Corporate IT services enable productivity, efficiency, and a strong employee experience across all market, 
• Leads the implementation and adoption of controls, principles and guidelines of our current and future ISO certifications across the organization. 

This role combines strong operational leadership with disciplined governance execution, acting as a bridge between strategy, engineering execution, compliance requirements, and end-user technology services.

Why this Role Matters:

Operating across multiple regulated markets requires consistent, well-executed technology controls and dependable corporate IT services. This role exists to:

• Drive proactive, embedded, IT security,  technology governance and resilience.
• Move the organisation from reactive audit remediation to disciplined execution.
• Provide clear visibility into technology risk, service performance, and operational health.
• Ensure corporate IT services scale securely and efficiently as the business grows.

Key Stakeholders:

• CPTO: Strategic alignment, escalation of material risks, execution reporting
• Engineering & Platform Teams: Secure design, resilience patterns, operational standards
• Information Security & Compliance: Control requirements, audits, regulatory alignment
• Corporate IT Teams & Vendors: End-user service delivery
• Finance & People & Culture: Budgeting, onboarding/offboarding, workforce enablement
• Risk & Audit Forums: Technology risk posture and remediation progress

What You'll do:

Technology Governance & Risk Execution

• Implement and maintain the Technology Risk & Governance Framework across platforms and corporate IT.
• Translate standards and regulations (ISO 27001, ISO 20000, ISO 22301, ISO 27701, PCI-DSS, GDPR) into:
  • Engineering and operational standards
  • Platform and infrastructure guardrails
  • Repeatable control procedures
• Track technology risks, audit findings, and remediation actions, escalating material risks to the CPTO.
• Is the single DRI to spearhead  internal and external audits, regulatory reviews, and assurance activities from a Technology execution perspective.

 Security by Design & Control Implementation

• Drive effective implementation of security controls across:
  • Identity & Access Management lifecycle
  • Endpoint and device security
  • Cloud and platform environments
• Govern the lifecycle, adoption, and effectiveness of security tooling within Technology.
• Coordinate technology-led incident response and post-incident reviews, ensuring remediation actions are delivered and sustained.

 Operational Resilience & Service Management

• Lead and mature IT Service Management (ITSM) processes including Incident, Problem, Change, Asset, and Capacity Management.
• Monitor and report on service availability, reliability, MTTR, and change success rates across platforms and corporate IT.
• Own disaster recovery planning, testing, and business continuity readiness for technology services.
• Drive standardisation and automation to improve service quality, resilience, and operational efficiency.

Corporate Information Technology & End-User Services

• Provide operational leadership for Corporate IT and end-user technology services across all regions.
• Ensure secure, efficient, and auditable onboarding and offboarding processes in partnership with People & Culture.
• Oversee collaboration tools (Google Workspace / Microsoft 365), endpoint management, and workplace technology services.
• Standardise and optimise corporate IT services to deliver a consistent employee experience across countries.
• Plan, implement and operate the corporate IT budget ensuring that IT provides state of the art end user services in a cost effective manner. 

Vendor, Financial & Stakeholder Management

• Manage IT vendors and service providers, ensuring SLA adherence, cost effectiveness, and service quality.
• Own Corporate IT budgets and contribute to technology cost optimisation initiatives.
• Partner with Finance on forecasting, spend tracking, and ROI visibility.
• Engage senior stakeholders to align technology services, governance priorities, and business needs.

Team Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead and develop corporate IT and governance-focused technology teams across multiple countries.
• Foster a culture of accountability, documentation, continuous improvement, and operational discipline.
• Build strong working relationships with Engineering, Platform, Security, and Compliance teams.
• Contribute to the strategic evolution of technology by bringing key insight and strategic input to the wider product and technology strategy.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; a Master’s degree is a plus.
• Relevant professional certifications such as:
  • IT Governance/Security: Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC).
  • IT Service Management: ITIL v4 Expert or Master certification.
  • Compliance: Certifications or extensive practical experience with ISO standards (27001, 22301, 20000) and regulatory frameworks like PCI-DSS and GDPR

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Role Overview: 

We are hiring a Principal: AI & Product Engineer to lead the development and deployment of AI-driven product experiences across our B2B payments platform, with an initial focus on reconciliation and merchant onboarding workflows. This role is responsible for building production-grade AI features leveraging LLMs, embeddings, agent orchestration frameworks, and secure cloud-native architectures.

The role begins as a hands-on Principal IC focused on delivering AI features, and evolves into the founding engineer and lead for our internal AI Platform, including prompt gateways, vector search infrastructure, agent orchestration, and reusable AI APIs for all product squads.

This is a high-impact role with aggressive timelines—PoC delivery in 45 days and first production AI feature at day 90. The ideal candidate blends deep enterprise engineering experience, cloud native development expertise with strong AI systems intuition and a solid understanding of fintech/payments workflows.

What You'll do:

Deliver AI Features for Reconciliation & Onboarding (Phase 1 Priority)

• Build semi-autonomous AI agents to automate reconciliation workflows, including:
  • Payment method and bank reports/ statement ingestion
  • Transaction matching
  • Discrepancy analysis
  • Exception explanation and routing
  • Report generation
• Develop AI-assisted KYB/KYC extraction tools to accelerate onboarding:
  • Document parsing (IDs, certificates, statements).
  • Entity extraction & validation.
  • Risk flag identification.
• Build necessary API interfaces and Integrate AI services into existing/new microservices and event-driven pipelines.

AI Engineering, LLM Integration & Agent Orchestration

• Integrate with multiple LLM providers through a hybrid model strategy (commercial APIs + open-source models).
• Implement prompt engineering, safety guardrails, and mechanisms to mitigate hallucinations during workflow execution.
• Build and integrate semi-autonomous agents using LangGraph or similar frameworks.
• Design high-quality APIs, SDKs, and internal tooling to allow product squads to embed AI seamlessly.
• Work with vector databases (PGVector, Pinecone, Weaviate—nice to have) for retrieval augmentation, semantic search, and agent memory.

Cloud-Native & Enterprise Engineering Responsibilities

• Deploy cloud-native AI services on AWS using Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and secure infra patterns.
• Build scalable backend services using Spring Boot and event-driven flows via Kafka/RabbitMQ.
• Implement observability for AI systems (tracing, cost monitoring, latency, and prompt logs).
• Ensure strict compliance with:
  • PCI DSS (tokenization boundaries, card-data safety).
  • GDPR / data privacy
  • Sensitive document handling for KYC/KYB and bank/payment method statements.
  • Auditability and traceability for all AI outputs
  • Model governance & safe operations

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Product Influence

• Partner with Product, Data Engineering, Finance Ops, Risk Ops, and Compliance to automate high-impact workflows.
• Translate complex business processes into AI-driven workflows with clear, measurable outcomes.
• Partner with Engineering and Platform teams to design, evolve and build out our next-gen payment architecture ensuring scalability, and AI integration ready design from the get go.
• Contribute (but not own) data ingestion pipelines needed for AI agents (PDF/CSV parsing, structured extraction e.t.c).

AI Platform Evolution (Phase 2 Priority)

After demonstrating initial business value:

• Design and lead the build-out of our internal AI Platform, including:
  • AI gateway for model routing
  • Prompt library & prompt evaluation tooling
  • Retrieval pipelines & vector stores
  • Agent orchestration frameworks
  • Enterprise-grade governance and safety controls.
• Act as the founding member of a future AI Product Engineering team, likely taking on the technical leadership role of the team as the platform expands.
• Educate and coach internal squads on safe and effective use of AI tools.

What we are looking for:

Minimum Qualifications (Required)

AI & LLM Engineering

• Strong experience integrating LLMs into production systems.
• Hands-on prompt engineering, guardrails, and hallucination mitigation experience.
• Experience building cloud-native AI services.

Enterprise Backend Engineering

• 8+ years as a senior/principal engineer building large-scale enterprise systems.
• Deep experience with:
  • Java/Spring Boot
  • REST APIs & microservices
  • Kafka or RabbitMQ
  • AWS + Kubernetes + Docker
  • Postgres or MySQL
  • Redis + Elastic

Fintech /Payments Expertise (Required)

• Experience with:
  • Deep understanding of the end to end payments processing workflows. 
  • Reconciliation flows.
  • Merchant onboarding & KYB/KYC.
  • Settlement & payouts.
  • Exception handling.
  • Payment methods across multiple channels

Security, Governance & Compliance

• Understanding of:
  • PCI DSS boundaries
  • GDPR & data privacy
  • Audit logging & traceability
  • Sensitive document handling.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have)

• LangGraph experience (agent orchestration)
• LangChain / RAG systems
• Vector DB experience (PGVector, Pinecone, Weaviate)
• Multi-agent orchestration
• Model fine-tuning or retrieval-augmented fine-tuning
• Python experience for AI workflows
• Experience scaling AI systems in production environments