Senior Growth Analyst, Wave
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Financial services for underbanked communities
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Financial services for underbanked communities
1001+ employees
Open for applications
We run performance reviews twice a year and award bonuses to strong performers who have been with the company for more than 6 months
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make Africa the first cashless continent.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for someone analytical, curious, and independent, who will use their data expertise to figure out how to make projects more effective and accelerate Wave’s growth
- 4+ years experience as a Data Analyst, Business Analyst, Product Analyst, Product Operations Analyst or similar
- Strong SQL skills and expertise in manipulating and analyzing data
- Demonstrated experience owning projects independently to completion
- Experience working with operations teams
- Experience with data visualization platforms (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, Looker, etc.)
- Strong analytical thinking and experience extracting and communicating insights to non-technical stakeholders
- Fluent in English. (Fluent in French is a bonus!)
Desirable
- Excel at turning vague business requirements into clear action items, and are fearless in pushing back on requests
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
- Have excellent focus, prioritizing your research and work using an iterative approach (you know when a project is good enough to stop, and you rarely get lost in details)
- Have excelled in owning projects that required extensive coordination with cross-functional teams
- Enjoy creating data visualizations and dashboards that aid discovery using a variety of platforms
- Can apply appropriate statistical models when needed
- Are able to compellingly present your findings to technical and non-technical audiences and make proactive recommendations based on data
- Are excited about working in a culturally diverse environment, helping teams across the organization to make the best use of data
What the job involves
- This is not just a data analyst role – you will be expected to identify opportunities to improve processes and project manage work streams as you lead cross-team and cross-country initiatives
- Be embedded closely with our operations and product teams: derive insights from customer and merchant data, visualise data, and then work with the operations leads and product managers to improve user and business outcomes
- Own every step of the analytics process – from gathering requirements from business stakeholders to shipping your solution to our stakeholders and sharing your findings with others. As a data analyst, this will also include navigating large data sets and carrying out extensive analysis
- Support operational teams with the data that they need to make informed-decisions. You’ll work closely with operational teams to better understand what pain points they face in the field and how better data or data analysis could drive better decisions
- Work from first principles to understand blockers then collaborate with product managers and operational teams to iterate on new processes. You’ll work in rapid iteration cycles, whereby you gather more feedback and improve the process
- Be responsible for taking complex business needs and turning them into more narrow work streams that you project manage
- Build data models and analyze operational data in order to draw conclusions that drive sustainable scaling up of operations
- Document key growth learnings from both the quantitative and qualitative analyses and align relevant teams on the same understanding
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
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
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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