
Data Analyst
Overview
Wave is making Africa the first cashless continent by providing financial services that are no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere.
Job Description
Wave is a financial services company focused on making Africa the first cashless continent. They launched a mobile app in Senegal in 2017 and now have millions of users across 9 countries. Wave is the largest financial institution in Senegal with over 7 million users.
Responsibilities
- - Be embedded in a product team where you will work closely with a product manager, engineers and operations leads
- - Help find, test and implement process improvements to make our operations more efficient
- - Derive insights from financial data, visualize and communicate these in ways that improve user and business outcomes
- - Take full ownership of the analytics process - from project scoping and design through communicating findings to stakeholders
- - Be excited and open to supporting areas such as improving budget planning and developing frameworks and insights for more accurate revenue forecasting
Required Skills
- - 3+ years experience as a product analyst, data analyst, data scientist or similar role
- - Experience working in large operational settings (example: support/call centers, fleet management, supply chain operations, retail operations etc)
- - Experience working with analytics platforms such as Tableau, Looker, Periscope, Sigma etc
- - Fluency in English. French is a plus
- - Strong SQL skills (experience with dbt is a plus)
- - Strong demonstrable experience in discovery, hypothesis testing and inference over fuzzy problems and large data sets
- - A baseline understanding of designing, running and evaluating A/B tests
- - Strong data visualization and communication skills
Benefits
- - Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country)
- - 6 months of 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
About the company
We’re on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where over half the population has no bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere!
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