Data Analyst, Wave
Risk
CA$84.2-94.2k
+ Bonus
Financial services for small business owners
Be an early applicant
Financial services for small business owners
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
CA$84.2-94.2k
+ Bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create a future where small business owners can manage their finances fearlessly.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience in merchant Fraud & Risk Analytics, with payments fraud experience preferred
- Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Data, or a related quantitative field
- Strong SQL skills with experience querying large and complex datasets
- Working knowledge of fraud and/or credit underwriting/adjudicating, with experience working in a payments or Fintech space
- Financial Services experience, especially with Payments, Payroll, Banking, or Accounting industries
- Previous experience developing reports and dashboards with Looker (or equivalent data visualization platforms)
- Ability to effectively communicate complex matters and requirements between audiences, both visually and verbally
- Proactive, autonomous, and able to partner with business and engineering stakeholders to support the delivery of key projects
- Possess business acumen to identify and evaluate key performance indicators and provide recommendations that drive decision-making and propel business value
- Experience with Python for data analysis is an asset
- Experience using dbt to transform and deploy data models an asset
What the job involves
- The Data Analyst, Risk role is responsible for analysis and reporting that supports our Fraud & Risk Operations team and other business partners across Wave
- In this role, you'll be responsible for using Risk data to deliver reporting, insights and analysis that drive decision- making for our Fraud & Risk Operations at Wave, while developing recommendations to support Wave’s lines of business
- Develop analysis and reporting to track business patterns and trends for our Fraud & Risk Operations team
- Build and deploy rules with our Risk monitoring systems in partnership with the Risk Leadership team to help detect and prevent merchant fraud, credit, and compliance risk
- Work with stakeholders across Fraud & Risk, Financial Service Operations, Customer Success, and Product to understand their challenges and goals, identifying analysis opportunities and tools to support strategic decision-making
- Take the lead on improvements to Wave’s risk infrastructure, processes and procedures to reduce losses and improve the customer experience
- Partner with fellow data analysts and data scientists to develop new analysis tools and to document best practices
- Facilitate the creation of reporting dashboards (via Looker), establishing and interpreting the performance of key metrics, and advocating for experimental best practices as we evolve the analytical maturity of the company
- Partner with Machine Learning engineers to interpret Risk ML models and share insights with business stakeholders
- Extract and transform data for use by stakeholders, ensuring data integrity in partnership with our Data Engineering team
Our take
Over 90% of all businesses in North America are zero to five employee companies. These businesses are organising their finances either by paying an expensive accountant, or relying on traditional spreadsheets.
In response, Wave is democratising access to financial services software. While they are not the first to do this, they have taken the flourishing approach of giving away the invoicing and accounting software 100% for free.
The company instead makes money by embedding financial services products within the software. It's these payments and other revenue streams that the startup is now looking to expand to secure more revenue to scale.
While the company has had success so far with its tools, it will need to build a whole suite of products and services in order to compete with the accounting software giants like Xero.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jun 2018
$3.3m
EARLY VC
May 2017
$32m
SERIES D
Total funding: $81.2m
Company benefits
- Work From Where You Work Best: We will always have a welcoming, energizing, and world-class office (in Toronto) with a space for you. Or, if you’re more comfortable working from home, the choice is yours
- We Care About Future You: You will stretch yourself and you will grow at Wave. You will also be supported on this journey with diverse learning experiences, educational allowances, mentorship, and so much more
- We Support the Full You: We make a serious investment in your health & wellness. When we think about benefits we think about body, mind, & soul and we take this stuff very seriously
- We Take Care of the Fundamentals: Fair compensation, all the office perks you’d want, and the various goodies you’d expect from a growing tech company. This is the obvious stuff, but we don’t want you to think we forgot!
Company HQ
Leslieville, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Zahir Khoja
(CEO, not Founder)Worked at Mastercard as EVP (Global Merchant Solutions and Partnerships) and held several Senior VP positions. Former Vintro Board Member and General Manager (North America) at Afterpay.
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