Finance Analyst

Wave Mobile Money; Canada; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Wave Mobile Money is looking for a Finance Analyst to join their finance team in Canada. The role involves building financial models and dashboards to support financial decision-making, as well as performing data analyses to evaluate financial efficiency. This is an opportunity to contribute to a mission-driven organization focused on making Africa cashless, with competitive salaries and excellent benefits.

Benefits

Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents

Flexible vacation time

$10,000 annual charitable donation matching

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, or corporate finance.
• Strong financial modeling skills.
• Fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Create financial models for decision-making.
• Build dashboards and reports in EPM tool.
• Analyze financial performance across countries.

Skills

Financial modeling

Attention to detail

Problem-solving

Tools

EPM tools

Job description

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Our mission

We're making Africa the first cashless continent.

Our mission

We're making Africa the first cashless continent.

In 2017, over half the population in Sub-Saharan Africa had no bank account. That's for good reason—the fees are too high, the closest branch can be miles away, and nobody takes cards. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash.

We're solving this by building financial services that just work: no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads don't always work, you can still send money with Wave. In 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. Now, we have millions of users across six countries and are growing fast.

Our goal is to make Africa the first cashless continent and that's where you come in...

How You'll Help Us Achieve It

Wave is now one of the largest financial institutions in Senegal, with over 7 million users. And, we're still in the early days of our product roadmap and potential impact on people's everyday lives.

We are seeking a financial analyst to join our dynamic finance team. You will be responsible for building robust financial models and dashboards to track financial performance metrics across our markets.

In this role, you'll;

• 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.
  
  

Key details

• You can work remotely from the US, UK, Spain, or Canada.
• Wave covers travel once per year to one of our operating countries in Africa, and a yearly stipend of $1200 to meet with coworkers.
• Our salaries are competitive and are calculated using a transparent formula.
• Major benefits:
• Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country.
• 6 months fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance.
• Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 21-30 days exclusive of statutory holidays.
• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching.

Requirements

• 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.
  
  

You might be a good fit if you

• 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.
  
  

Our team

• We have a rapidly growing in-country team in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, and Uganda, plus remote team members spread across the world.
• We're deeply passionate about our mission of bringing radically affordable financial services to the people who need them most.
• We foster autonomy for our employees. You'll own your projects at every stage, from understanding the problem to monitoring your solution in production.
• We raised the largest Series A in Africa in 2021. Our world-class investors, include Founders Fund, Sequoia Heritage, Stripe, Ribbit Capital, Y Combinator, and Partech Africa.
• We are on Y Combinator's top companies by revenue .
  
  

How to apply

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.

Wave is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Seniority level

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Job function

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