Head of Agri Financing

About Nile.ag

Nile's mission is to enhance the livelihoods of both farmers and consumers throughout Africa. By providing a digital ecosystem that streamlines trading and transactions, we help farmers improve their economic viability while ensuring food remains affordable for consumers. Our all-in-one application allows farmers to sell produce, access funds, and manage input procurement and financing.

We are a high-growth company backed by institutional investors, including Naspers and the Dutch Development Bank (FMO). Our founding team brings together experience from world-class organisations such as Amazon, J.P. Morgan, and Luno. Learn more about us e.ag/about

We are committed to building a high-performing team that is passionate about fundamentally transforming Africa's food systems. Nile's work environment is fast-paced, modern, and fun, reflecting the nature of our high-growth business. We operate daily based on our core values, which form the foundation of all our decisions.

This particular team is young, energetic and building something from scratch — we need someone with real fire in the belly: comfortable with ambiguity, happy to get hands dirty on both the analytical and the deal-making side, and driven by seeing producers succeed because we structured the right solution for them.

At Nile, we view roles as opportunities for personal development; as our business evolves, so will your role. We are seeking an Agri Finance & Credit Solutions Manager to help us build out a newly established business unit focused on helping producers efficiently bridge working capital gaps through innovative financing solutions across the agri value chain. This is a prominent role in the business unit — you will help shape the credit approach, the deal pipeline and the team as we scale.

The successful applicant will take ownership of the following:

• New Business Unit Build:
  Play a central role in establishing the business unit — helping define its credit approach, processes, systems and early team structure alongside leadership.
• Credit Model Development:
  Design, build and continuously refine credit models and scoring frameworks tailored to producers and the agri value chain, accounting for seasonality, crop cycles, commodity price risk and cash-flow patterns unique to agriculture.
• Deal Evaluation & Structuring:
  Evaluate finance proposals from producers and partners, prepare data-driven credit memos and risk mitigation recommendations, and structure innovative, right-sized financing solutions to close working-capital gaps.
• Portfolio & Risk Monitoring:
  Monitor the performance of the financing portfolio, build management information and early-warning dashboards, and proactively flag and manage risk to keep the book healthy as it scales.
• Business Development:
  Originate and grow relationships with producers, cooperatives, input suppliers and value-chain partners, positioning Nile's sustainable, mutually beneficial business model as the go-to source of working capital in the sector.
• Stakeholder Coordination:
  Work closely with Nile's commercial, risk and finance teams internally, and with funders, auditors and legal advisors externally, to keep deals moving and governance sound.
• Continuous Improvement:
  Bring a data- and technology-first mindset to underwriting and portfolio management, using automation and AI where it makes the credit process faster and sharper.

• Education:
  
  A degree in Finance, Accounting, Agricultural Economics, or a related field.
• Experience:
  
  We are open on years of experience and prioritise fit over a fixed number — what matters is demonstrable exposure to credit analysis, structured finance, or agri-finance, and the drive to build a business unit from the ground up. Experience with production credit, trade finance, or input financing within agriculture is a strong advantage.
• Credit & Analytical
  
  Skills:
  
  Proven ability to build and interpret credit models, read financial statements, and translate analysis into a clear, defensible lending decision.
• Agri Value Chain Understanding: A genuine interest in (and ideally direct exposure to) how producers manage cash flow, seasonality and input costs — or a fast willingness to learn it deeply.
• Commercial Instinct:
  Comfortable being both analyst and dealmaker — able to originate a relationship, structure a solution, and defend it through a credit process.
• Energy & Drive:
  Young-at-heart, energetic and entrepreneurial. This role needs fire in the belly: someone who wants to build, not maintain.
• Adaptability:
  An open-minded approach to embracing new ways of working, including the application of AI to drive efficiency.

• Nile offers competitive remuneration, with opportunities to advance your career within a fast-growing company.
• We offer a vibrant work environment where you get to collaborate with highly motivated team members.