Senior Data Analyst, Wave
$114.2-134.4k
Plus equity
More information about location
Financial services for underbanked communities
Open for applications
Financial services for underbanked communities
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$114.2-134.4k
Plus equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make Africa the first cashless continent.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience as a product analyst, data analyst, data scientist or similar role
- Strong demonstrable experience in discovery, hypothesis testing and inference over fuzzy problems and large data sets
- Experience running experiments with a preference for candidates who have run both digital and field experiements
- Experience working with data visualization platforms (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, Looker)
- Preference for candidates who have worked on growth teams or functions that have gone through a strong growth phase
- Fluency in English. French is a plus
- Strong SQL skills with expertise in querying, manipulating and analyzing data
- Proficiency in statistical analysis, data cleaning and preparation and data manipulation in Python
- Familiarity with data visualization libraries
Desirable
- You have worked on a cross functional product team
- You are able to work fairly independently. This role is a senior role in one of the fastest growing parts of Wave. An expectation is that you’ll be able to lead and run with a problem (with support of the broader team)
- You can communicate clearly with your colleagues in different roles (PM, engineers, operational leads, senior management)
- You have run a bunch of experiments and know what to do when things do not go as planned
- You excel at choosing the right complexity of analysis for any given business problem, from simple SQL queries to complex experimentation
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Analyst to join our product teams
- Be embedded in a product team where you will work closely with a product manager, engineers and in some cases operational teams
- Derive insights from customer and merchant data, visualize and communicate these in ways that improve user and business outcomes
- Help find, test and implement process improvements to make our operations more efficient
- Navigate large data sets to identify growth drivers and generate testable hypotheses
- Design, develop, implement and analyze experiments related to product features and operational processes
- Take full ownership of the analytics process - from project scoping and design through communicating findings to stakeholders
Application process
- Fill out the form below, and upload a resume in English and a cover letter describing your interest in Wave and the role
- We review applications frequently and recommend that you apply to the role that most closely aligns with your skills, experience and career goals
Our take
Because of things like high fees and a lack of local branches, about half of the adults in Africa still do not have a bank account. Although this is an improvement on past estimates, the continent is still significantly underbanked - which is what Wave helps to combat.
Wave addresses this banking gap with technology, offering a straightforward and cost-effective tool accessible via mobile. The impact has been substantial. A 2021 GSMA report suggested over 500 million mobile money accounts were registered in Africa, facilitating transactions valued at nearly $500 billion.
Wave has already established its presence in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Gambia and Mali, using steady investment to expand its footprint. It also continues to enhance product development and engineering efforts, as well as shore up business operations.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2022
$10m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$200m
SERIES A
Total funding: $210m
Company benefits
- Subsidised health insurance for you and your dependents (vary from country to country)
- 6 months fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
- Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 30-40 days per year
- $10,000 annual charitable donation matching
- Retirement contributions (vary from country to country)
- Yearly travel to one of our African operating countries
Company values
- We’re egolessly mission driven
- We focus ruthlessly on the most important thing
- We’re embarrassingly honest to stay aligned and move quickly
- We don’t wait – we live our fullest lives now
- We maximize our rate of learning
Company HQ
Mermoz Sacre-coeur, Dakar, Dakar Region
Articles
Leadership
Drew Durbin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founder and CEO at Sendwave (International Remittance).
Lincoln Quirk
(Co-Founder)Previously co-founder and CTO at Newsbrane, Engineer at Demiurge Studios and co-founder of Sendwave (International Remittance).
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