Company Introduction

At ZOLA iNTELLIGENCE (ZOLAi), we are addressing an immense challenge head on: nearly 3 billion people still lack reliable, affordable energy—a barrier that has fueled inequality in income, healthcare, and education for centuries. This problem is simple, the lack of any automation layer in energy delivery. We are redefining what’s possible in emerging markets by building the Agentic AI Automation Layer for the world’s most critical and inefficient energy infrastructure.

Building on 15 years of experience automating complex workflow & data as pioneers in distributed energy, ZOLAi is driving Agentic Automation into energy delivery across Emerging Markets.

Our Agentic Ai energy platform bridges intelligent hardware, humans, and autonomous AI agents—managing all of our enterprise customer’s workflow from energy management to sales, financing, and fleet management. We empower our customers, Energy Service Providers, to scale resilient networks with unprecedented efficiency, deliver incredible customer outcomes and business ROI.

ZOLAi's technology has already impacted millions of lives across 100,000+ networked facilities, 6 countries, and 2 continents ensuring energy independence and opportunities for generations to come. If you're ready to tackle this challenge with cutting-edge AI technology, join us.

Always PAMOJA—one team, one mission.

Role Overview

ZOLAi is seeking a Vice President of Finance who combines financial discipline with strategic and technological vision. This leader will own FP&A, capital markets, and other strategic initiatives while ensuring world-class reporting, compliance, and control.

We welcome candidates with less traditional experience if you bring deep finance domain expertise, are mission-driven, and demonstrate strong curiosity and engagement with AI as a tool for insight, automation, and leverage. This role is for a builder—someone eager to help design the financial architecture and capital strategy of a rapidly scaling enterprise technology company addressing energy inequality across the Global South and beyond.

The ideal candidate operates like an agentic leader—using AI, data, and automation to deliver extraordinary results with a lean, high-output team. This is not a back-office position; it’s a strategic, front-line role that will shape how ZOLAi scales the business, drives efficiency, raises capital, and embeds intelligence across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

• Lead all budgeting, forecasting, and performance management processes, embedding automation and predictive analytics into day-to-day workflows.
• Build dynamic models linking pricing, project and unit economics, capital allocation, and Intelligent Technology platform business growth to corporate financials and returns.
• Deliver actionable insights to guide pricing, capital allocation, and market expansion.
• Develop intelligent dashboards and decision tools that enable real-time leadership visibility.

2. Capital Markets & Strategic Finance

• Partner directly with the Founder & CEO to raise and structure capital across equity, debt, and blended finance.
• Manage investor relations, due diligence, and financial storytelling for institutional and strategic investors.
• Design innovative financing structures that align with ZOLAi’s energy, connectivity, and fintech initiatives.
• Build relationships with venture and impact investors, financial institutions, development institutions, infrastructure investors to unlock capital and scale ZOLAi and our Industry.

3. Reporting, Compliance & Control

• Oversee all global accounting, treasury, and reporting operations.
• Manage monthly and quarterly closes and external audits with rigor, accuracy, and speed.
• Lead development of financial risk frameworks (ECL, IFRS9, etc.) and credit performance analytics.
• Implement AI-enabled reporting systems that reduce manual effort and enhance decision quality.
• Ensure strong governance and internal controls across subsidiaries and markets.

4. AI-Driven Finance Transformation

• Architect our Ai Finance strategy and build an agentic, AI-empowered finance function that integrates automation and intelligence into every process.
• Deploy AI tools across forecasting, reporting, and capital planning to increase accuracy and velocity.
• Cultivate a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement powered by human + machine collaboration.

Requirements:

• 7–15 years of relevant experience across FP&A, corporate finance, capital markets,
• Experience in Ai Software, SaaS, Hardware.
• Ability to support raising and structuring capital and engage directly with investors and boards.
• Global perspective and comfort operating across emerging markets and working with an off-shore team
• Deep understanding of financial modeling, valuation, and capital efficiency metrics.
• AI-curious: adept at leveraging technology to build smarter, leaner, more predictive systems.
• Advanced degree (MBA, CFA, or CPA) preferred but not required.

What Success Looks Like

• ZOLAi’s financial and capital strategies and organization executing with speed, precision, and creativity.
• FP&A evolves into a real-time, predictive intelligence function.
• Finance becomes an agentic, AI-driven growth engine for the business.
• The VP of Finance is a key strategic partner to the CEO and Leadership Team and is a visible driver of innovation, performance, and impact.

Why Join ZOLAi?

You aren't just taking a job, you are taking a strategic seat at the table. You will collaborate with a brilliantly diverse, global team of visionaries, diving headfirst into an unmatched learning curve that will challenge you to do the best work of your life. Here, your voice drives innovation, your growth is limitless, and your relentless dedication is recognized with a competitive package and high ownership.

Ready to apply?

We can’t wait to meet people who are passionate, driven, and inspired by what we’re building. Apply now and help us shape the future of energy access.