Head of Operations & Finance
Bayse Markets
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Job Overview
Location
Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Employment Type
Contract
Work Arrangement
On-site
Sector
Product Management & Operations
Experience Level
Executive (12+ years)
About the Company
Job Description
Bayse Markets is seeking a highly experienced and strategic Head of Operations and Finance to lead critical execution functions within our product-led company. You will be instrumental in aligning product, design, engineering, marketing, and growth teams to ensure timely project delivery, scalable operations, and robust financial discipline.
This is a pivotal, non-back-office role where you will own the operating cadence that drives delivery. You will also lead finance operations, including reconciliations, settlements, cash management, controls, and reporting readiness. Furthermore, you will manage key external stakeholders and partners essential to our business, such as payment providers, banking institutions, KYC services, compliance experts, and auditors.
Success in this position requires exceptional startup execution skills, high personal agency, and the ability to build and refine systems that scale effectively without impeding the team's velocity. You will be at the forefront of ensuring operational integrity and financial soundness for Bayse.
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Required Skills
Key Responsibilities
- Company-wide execution and alignment: Run the operating cadence that aligns product, design, engineering, marketing, and growth, including planning cycles, weekly execution rhythms, OKRs, and delivery tracking.
- Product-led operations: Partner closely with product and engineering to translate strategy into shipped outcomes, unblock teams, manage cross-functional dependencies, and keep execution tight.
- Finance operations and controls: Own reconciliations, settlements, payouts, cash management, vendor payments, expense controls, approvals, and governance tied to funds movement.
- Reporting and financial readiness: Build close processes, reporting routines, and financial hygiene required for audits, investors, and regulatory readiness.
- External stakeholders and partnerships: Own critical partners (payments, banking, KYC, compliance tooling, data providers). Lead onboarding, SLAs, performance reviews, escalations, and relationship health.
- Operational excellence: Build SOPs, eliminate bottlenecks, improve tooling, and drive automation to increase speed, quality, and reliability across the organization.
- Risk and integrity: Design and enforce controls that reduce operational risk, prevent fraud exposure, and ensure correctness across payment, withdrawal, and settlement workflows.
- Customer and trade operations: Own operational workflows that impact user trust directly, especially funds-related escalations, turnaround times, and issue resolution quality.
- Team leadership: Hire, manage, and develop ops and finance ops talent, building a culture of ownership, high agency, and high standards.
Qualifications
- 6+ years experience in operations, finance operations, business operations, or similar roles, ideally in fintech, payments, financial services, marketplaces, or high-growth tech.
- Strong finance experience is essential, especially in reconciliations, settlements, cash management, controls, vendor payments, and operational governance.
- Demonstrated experience operating in a product-led startup environment, aligning cross-functional teams and driving execution across product, design, engineering, and growth.
- Strong external stakeholder and partner management experience, with comfort handling SLAs, escalations, negotiations, and high-stakes conversations.
- Highly detail-oriented with a strong bar for correctness, control, and operational reliability.
- Strong analytical thinking, you can define KPIs, build dashboards, and improve systems using data.
- Excellent communication. You can create clarity, drive accountability, and keep teams moving.
- High ownership and high agency. You take initiative, solve problems end to end, and deliver outcomes consistently.
- Experience supporting audits, regulatory processes, or investor reporting is a strong advantage.
- Experience operating products involving funds movement, trading, or financial risk is a strong advantage.
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As the Head of Operations and Finance at Bayse, you will be central to our execution strategy, ensuring seamless alignment between product, design, engineering, marketing, and growth initiatives. Your role is critical in ensuring projects are delivered on time, operations scale efficiently, and the business maintains robust financial discipline. This is a hands-on position where you will own the operating cadence that drives delivery, manage finance operations including reconciliations and cash management, and oversee key external partnerships.
Posted Date
February 18, 2026
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