About Apollo Agriculture:

Apollo Agriculture is a leading agri-fintech platform empowering small-scale farmers across Africa to increase their profits and farm more sustainably. Apollo uses artificial intelligence and automated operations to unlock the massive, untapped small-scale farming market. Apollo enables farmers to access the optimized financing, high-quality farm products, expert digital advice, and risk management solutions they need to invest and scale their businesses. Apollo grew paying customers over 2.5x in 2023 to over 200K small-scale farmers in Kenya and Zambia, increasing revenue to nearly $30M with robust unit economics. Apollo partners with key global agriculture companies like Bayer, OCP and Yara, and is backed by Anthemis, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Flourish Ventures, Leaps by Bayer, and Softbank Vision Fund. Apollo’s team brings together technology, credit and operations experience from The Climate Corporation, Google, Capital One, Revolut, and One Acre Fund.

About the Role:

Apollo Agriculture is seeking an analytically driven professional to take ownership of implementing, monitoring and analyzing credit and fraud risk strategy while managing the required data infrastructure, for financing agricultural inputs and advice for our end consumers (farmers). This role demands acquiring a comprehensive grasp of the business processes and risk-mitigation strategies across the customer lifecycle (acquisitions, customer management and collections). The successful candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams to design and optimize risk mitigation strategies, ensuring that we provide sustainable financial solutions to farmers while protecting the business from fraud and credit risks. You’ll play a key role in shaping our risk strategy, analyzing key metrics, and making data-driven decisions to continuously improve our approach.

Location: Hybrid role based in Lusaka, Zambia.

Management: Reports to Head of Credit Acquisitions and Fraud