Finance Analyst, Wave
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Financial services for underbanked communities
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Financial services for underbanked communities
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make Africa the first cashless continent.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, corporate finance, etc. (public accounting, transaction advisory, investment banking, strategy consulting, or other relevant fields)
- Strong financial modeling skills
- Experience with or willingness to learn EPM or FP&A tools like Pigment, Anaplan, Aleph, Mosaic, Abacum, etc
- Attention to detail – We are looking for individuals who are problem-solvers and demonstrate strong attention to detail
- Comfortable rolling up sleeves to improve existing processes and implement new processes
- Comfortable working with a broad range of stakeholders across the company
- Demonstrated experience owning projects independently to completion
- Fluent in English
Desirable
- Have prior experience with financial planning systems or similar tools like Pigment, Anaplan, etc
- Have effective communication skills to work with both finance and non-finance stakeholders
- Have a proactive mindset and an eagerness to solve problems independently
- Are curious and excited about fintech in Africa
What the job involves
- You will be responsible for building robust financial models and dashboards to track financial performance metrics across our markets
- Create financial models to drive better decision-making
- Build dashboards and reports in our EPM tool (Pigment)
- Work with operations leads on financial planning
- Perform ad hoc financial and operational data analyses to answer questions for the finance team, operation leads, and management
- Analyze financial performance across countries and divisions to evaluate financial efficiency
- Ensure data accuracy, reliability, and accessibility
- Collaborate with internal teams to create new data resources and improve existing ones
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 and reach unicorn status. It also continues to enhance product development and engineering efforts, as well as shore up business operations. Despite challenger companies emerging, Wave has a considerable head start on the competition.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
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 HQ
Mermoz Sacre-coeur, Dakar, Dakar Region
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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