Join M-KOPA as a Customer Performance Intern and help drive our growing e-mobility business in Africa! You’ll play a key role in managing customer relationships, ensuring smooth loan repayments, and optimizing fleet performance within our Mobility Operations team.
M-KOPA is a leading African fintech platform providing asset financing and digital financial services, primarily offering “pay-as-you-go” smartphones, electric motorbikes, and cash loans to underbanked “Every Day Earners”.
”This role offers the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in fintech operations at the intersection of mobility and financial inclusion. You’ll support customer outreach, debt collection, and fleet management activities that help thousands of customers build credit while accessing income-generating assets, working alongside experienced professionals in collections, operations, and customer success”
Role Summary
We foster a culture where operational excellence meets genuine care for customer outcomes. Our team values data-driven decision-making, collaborative problem-solving, and processes that balance business performance with customer dignity. You’ll gain practical experience in how collections, fleet management, and customer performance tracking directly contribute to both business sustainability and financial inclusion, working at the intersection of fintech and e-mobility.
What you’ll do
At M-KOPA, our Mobility business isn’t just about asset financing—it’s about enabling economic opportunity through responsible lending and customer support that helps people succeed.
In this role, you would be responsible for:
- Assisting in monitoring assigned customer accounts and supporting efforts to keep the collection portfolio within set limits
- Supporting customer contact initiatives including preparing call lists, draft messages, and participating in supervised outreach to implement repayment schedules
- Helping provide information to customers about timely repayments and the implications of non-payment, under guidance from senior team members
- Assisting with tracking customer issues that impact loan repayments, such as accidents or insurance claims, by gathering documentation and escalating appropriately
- Maintaining accurate records of customer interactions and repayment updates in company systems (M-KOPA-net, Freshdesk)
- Supporting fleet driver monitoring to help ensure performance targets are met, under guidance from senior colleagues
- Assisting with routine driver-related issues and helping facilitate communication with external stakeholders
- Helping identify and track customers with overdue payments and supporting documentation for recommended actions
- Assisting with planning and coordinating field visits for payment or asset recovery, including communication with local authorities
- Contributing to daily and weekly reporting by compiling basic analysis on collections and recovery activities
- Following company policies and guidelines in all collections, asset recovery, and customer interactions while maintaining professionalism and legal compliance
This is an internship role based in Mombasa, Kenya.
About you
Your application should demonstrate:
- Proven experience in collections, fleet management, or customer performance roles
- Strong communication skills, especially in handling difficult customer interactions with empathy and professionalism
- Ability to manage field operations, including interacting with local law enforcement and community leaders
- Proficiency with data tracking systems and reporting tools (e.g., Excel, Freshdesk)
- High attention to detail and ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
- Willingness to travel and work flexible hours as operational needs require
- Familiarity with motorbike financing, e-mobility sector, or ride-hailing fleet operations is an added advantage
- Understanding of or interest in fintech and financial inclusion is desirable
Why M-KOPA?
At M-KOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritize well-being, and embrace flexibility.
Join us in shaping the future of M-KOPA as we grow together. Explore more at m-kopa.com.
Recognized four times by the Financial Times as one Africa’s fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025) and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024 , we’ve served over 6 million customers, unlocking $1.5 billion in cumulative credit for the unbanked across Africa.
If the above is of interest to you, please apply.
