Senior Data Analyst, Wave
Financial services for small business owners
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Financial services for small business owners
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create a future where small business owners can manage their finances fearlessly.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in Analytics, including the application of statistical analysis, experimental design, and modeling/forecasting
- Advanced SQL skills with experience querying large and complex datasets
- Experience using dbt to transform data
- Experience working with dimensional models (i.e. star schemas)
- Experience with Python for data analysis
- Expertise in developing reports and dashboards with Looker (or equivalent data visualization platforms)
- Experience with analytics applied to business problems: creating lifecycle metrics, retention/churn analysis, correlation/regression, time series forecasting, etc
- 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 ideation and execution of key projects
- Possesses business acumen to identify and evaluate key performance indicators and provide recommendations that drive decision-making and propel business value
Desirable
- Experience with event stream processing via Apache Flink (or similar frameworks)
- Experience with third-party data tools Segment, Amplitude
- Experience with multiple-product environments or diverse business models
- Fintech experience, especially with Accounting, Banking or Payroll industries
What the job involves
- The Senior Data Analyst is responsible for advancing the maturity of Data Analytics at Wave, combining strong business acumen with analytical expertise
- They bridge the gap between technical and non-technical audiences, delivering insights and leveraging data to inform strategy and decision-making for Wave
- Ownership of analytics needs for specific product line(s) for Wave
- Working with stakeholders to understand their challenges and goals, identifying data analysis opportunities, and developing solutions to drive decision-making
- Partnering with fellow data analysts and data scientists to develop new analysis tools
- Delivering documentation that guides other team members toward understanding of critical domain knowledge
- Improving the Data Analytics team’s practices by identifying areas of friction and implementing solutions
- Facilitating 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
- Extracting and transforming data for use by stakeholders, ensuring data integrity where necessary in partnership with Data Operations
- Enriching data and applying advanced analytics to projects where appropriate in partnership with Machine Learning
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
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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 values
- Believe in small business owners
- Reimagine the possible, together
- Do fewer things, simply and beautifully
- Care deeply and challenge directly
- Achieve extraordinary results
Company HQ
Leslieville, Toronto, ON
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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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