Senior Data Analyst, Wave
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Financial services for underbanked communities
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Financial services for underbanked communities
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make Africa the first cashless continent.
Role
Who you are
- Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree or Master's in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Applied Psychology, Quantitative Social Science, Computer Science or a related discipline
- 5+ years experience as a data analyst, data scientist or similar role
- Strong analytical thinking and experience extracting insights using a statistical approach
- Experience running A/B tests and experiments
- Experience working with data visualization platforms (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, Looker)
- Experience collaborating with and supporting cross-functional teams on data analysis and execution of experiments
- Fluent in English, French is a plus
- Technical skills
- 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
- Are proficient in SQL and Python
- Are a self-starter that excels at exploring problems and collaborating closely with operations teams to drive growth through data
- 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)
- Are able to compellingly present your findings to technical and non-technical audiences and make proactive recommendations based on data
- You excel at choosing the right complexity of analysis for any given business problem, from simple SQL queries to complex experimentation
Desirable
- Advanced knowledge of A/B testing and experimental design including sampling, randomisation, stratification, and clustering
- Advanced knowledge of statistical methods for analyzing experiments (such as regression modeling and heterogeneous treatment effects analysis)
- Advanced knowledge of statistical methods for causal inference with quasi-experimental and time series data (such as propensity score matching, nearest neighbor matching, difference-in-differences, instrumental variable analyses, and structural equation modeling, and other time series methods)
- Experience in building machine learning infrastructure and developing/maintaining models in production
- Experience with statistical methods for network analysis
- Experience leading a team of data analysts and/or scientists
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Analyst to join our User team
- In this role, you will collaborate closely with the product manager and cross-functional teams to analyze user behavior within the app, assess the impact of features and changes, and provide answers to key questions about our user base
- This Senior Data Analyst position is equivalent to a Data Scientist in terms of the level of work and responsibility
- Be embedded closely with our operations and product teams: deriving insights from customer, merchant and agent data, visualizing data, and working with operations leads and product managers to improve user and business outcomes
- 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 ownership of the analytics process - from project scoping and design through communicating findings to stakeholders
- Support building up our data infrastructure together with our engineering team
- You may rotate to other product teams over time
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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