A new kind of money transfer for Africans worldwide.
Join the movement and start using NALA #BuildOurAfrica
Y-Combinator (W'19)

NALA

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NALA is an international money transfer app that facilitates fast, reliable, and secure cross-border money transfers from the UK, US, and Europe to various African countries including Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, and more. With over 500,000 trusted users, NALA provides some of the most competitive exchange rates on the market and allows for real-time financial management via its user-friendly mobile app. Known for its transparency and exceptional customer service, NALA ensures 95% of its transfers are delivered within minutes, catering especially to the global diaspora. The company also integrates with major payment platforms like Google Pay and Apple Pay, enhancing convenience for users.

A new kind of money transfer for Africans worldwide. Join the movement and start using NALA #BuildOurAfrica

Y-Combinator (W'19)

👋 About UsNALA is building Payments for the Next Billion. Faster, smarter, and fairer transfers for everyone. Since 2022, we've grown our business 120x, grown the team from 9 to 150+, raised $50M+ from top-tier investors, and were named to the Forbes Fintech 50 in 2025.

We operate two core products:

- NALA, our consumer app making cross-border payments cheaper, faster and more reliable for the global diaspora. Allowing users to send money from the UK, US and EU to Africa and Asia.
- Rafiki, our B2B payments infrastructure, is powering global payments.

Our team includes alumni from Wise, Stripe, Monzo, Revolut, and CashApp — operators who’ve scaled world-class products. We act with urgency, think deeply, and put our customers first always.

At NALA, this isn’t just a job. It’s ownership, impact, and the chance to change global payments forever.

Join us in building Payments for the Next Billion.

🙌 Your MissionYour mission is to lead NALA’s financial planning and analysis efforts. You will ensure we make data-driven strategic decisions and maintain a high level of fiscal responsibility as we scale.

🎯 Your Responsibilities in this Role**Forecasting & Budgeting**

- Own preparation of company-wide forecasts across revenue, opex, and cash
- Maintain and update company runway model

- Work with departments to investigate and explain budget vs actuals performance
- Develop and manage sales incentives scheme and performance-based bonuses

**Board & Investor Reporting**

- Prepare and iterate board materials in partnership with the Head of Finance and the CFO
- Support investor updates, KPIs, and data rooms for fundraising and due diligence

**Expansion & New Markets**

- Partner with expansion and product teams on new launches
- Build market-entry business cases and forecasts (revenue, CAC, payback, breakeven timing)
- Track forecast vs. actual post-launch and identify course corrections

**Pricing & Unit Economics**

- Collaborate with pricing team to build corridor-level unit economics models
- Set margin guardrails and performance targets for Growth


Financial Planning and Analysis Lead

Lead financial planning and analysis at NALA, a fintech startup focusing on global payments. Ensure data-driven strategic decisions as the company scales.

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• Lead the design and delivery of next-generation B2B collections and treasury products that give businesses seamless access to multi-currency accounts, cross-border payments, and efficient reconciliation.
• Build embedded financial services that reduce friction, optimise cash flows, and allow our clients to operate as if they had a global bank account.
• Act as the central driver aligning product, engineering, finance, operations, risk, and regulatory partners to bring this vision to life.
• Bring a sense of urgency to your work and inspire the team to unite under your leadership to deliver an incredible product
• Work with a team of engineers to develop our collections and treasury in line with customer demand, business needs and technology capabilities.
• Take full ownership to drive the product and business-planning process across cross-functional teams of the company.
• Drive the execution of all product lifecycle processes for products, including product research, market research, competitive analysis, planning, positioning, roadmap development, requirements development, and product launch.
• Develop product positioning and messaging that differentiates Rafiki and its features across primary market segments.
• Collaborate with design, engineering, research, legal, and compliance teams to refine your plan and execute it effectively.
• You’ll be speaking to customers on a near daily basis to understand needs and ultimately sticking to our ethos of “customer first, always”.
• Assess current competitor offerings to seek opportunities for differentiation.
• Develop an understanding of our users at a deep level and gauge customer needs to propose prospective solutions.
• Define initial product proposition and go-to-market strategies for new expansion markets.
• Meeting with the C-suite to discuss financial data and ways to improve business operations.

Senior Product Manager, Treasury and Collections

Lead Product Management for B2B collections and treasury products at NALA. Shaping global payments via innovation and customer-focused solutions with a collaborative team.

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• Drive the next generation of payout products that enable businesses to move money securely, reliably, and at scale.
• Define and deliver payout experiences that are fast, compliant, and globally scalable.
• Lead the strategy for our payouts platform — ensuring every release strengthens our ability to move funds safely and seamlessly across markets.
• Drive operational excellence by partnering closely with our back office and operations teams to streamline payout processes and resolve friction points.
• Enhance compliance and controls, embedding regulatory requirements directly into product design and workflows.
• Increase reliability and resilience, ensuring payouts perform consistently at scale.
• Optimize cost efficiency by analyzing transaction flows and settlement networks.
• Collaborate across functions to ensure the product meets technical and regulatory standards.
• Champion the customer voice by engaging with users to understand payout pain points.
• Own the full product lifecycle, from ideation to execution and iteration.
• Stay ahead of market and regulatory trends to inform product evolution.

Product Manager, Payments – Compliance

Product Manager leading payout product strategies in compliance and payments for a fintech startup. Collaborating with teams to drive operational excellence and user-centric solutions.

A new kind of money transfer for Africans worldwide. Join the movement and start using NALA #BuildOurAfrica Y-Combinator (W'19)

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