HR Systems Analyst

Wave; United States; Remote; USD 66,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Subsidized health insurance

Retirement contributions

Parental leave (6 months)

Fertility assistance

Unlimited vacation

Charitable donation matching

Job summary

Wave is seeking an HR Systems Analyst to help implement our new HRIS and scale our people technology in a high-growth fintech environment.

The role is fully remote, based in eligible countries with annual travel to Africa for a one-week immersion, and a transparent salary formula.

You’ll configure systems, support migrations, improve data quality, and train teams while ensuring GDPR/CCPA compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, IS, BA, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience administering HRIS platforms.
• Experience managing HR systems across modules including Talent Management, HCM, Compensation and L&D.
• Experience with Workday strongly preferred.
• Proficiency in HRIS configuration, workflows, and reporting tools.
• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills.
• Experience with data privacy and compliance (GDPR/CCPA).
• Experience with BI systems like PowerBI or Looker.

Responsibilities

• Support HRIS migration and data migration with vendor context.
• Configure and customize pre-mapped processes and workflows.
• Implement and scale internal service desk and HR processes.
• Analyze HR systems workflows to reduce manual work and increase automation.
• Support migrations and integrations in Talent, Workforce, and Payroll systems.
• Oversee upgrades, patches, testing in HR systems.
• Train HR team and end-users on HRIS functionalities.
• Serve as primary contact for troubleshooting.

Skills

Fluent in English

PowerBI

Looker

Excel/Google Sheets

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR, IS, BA, or related field

Tools

Workday

Job description

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 9 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 seeking an HR Systems Analyst to help us implement our new HRIS and scale our people technology infrastructure. We’re looking for someone who is excited about solving complex technical challenges in a high‑growth fintech environment.

The HR Systems Analyst will report to the HR Systems lead within the HR Technology team. In this role, you’ll act as a bridge between our People team’s needs and our technical capabilities, configuring systems to handle the complexity of multi‑country operations, different regulatory environments, and varying local requirements.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for:

Supporting our HRIS migration

• We are migrating to a new HRIS platform in 2026 and this role will play a critical part in the new system configuration (ensuring we receive or have full context on the new system configuration from the vendor) and data migration (extracting, transforming, loading, data quality checks, testing).

  • This will require you to build an in‑depth knowledge of our existing processes and data sources, and ensure as much continuity as possible while advising on minimizing interruptions to ongoing operations, and providing a seamless user transition.

• Configure and customize pre‑mapped processes and workflows within the new HRIS to ensure compliance across policies.

Providing core HR Systems support

• Implementing new systems and workflows, or adapt existing ones, according to our ongoing prioritization and roadmap, such as:

  • Helping us roll out and scale an internal service desk
  • Track adherence to and identify deviation from established processes and policies

• Analyzing HR Systems workflows and setups to recommend improvements, specifically in reducing manual or duplicated efforts and increasing automation across systems.

• Supporting anticipated system migrations and integrations in our Talent Management, Workforce Management, and Payroll systems, amongst others.

• Overseeing system upgrades, patches, and testing to ensure seamless functionality when any of our HR Systems issue updates or patches.

• Training HR team members and end‑users on HRIS functionalities and updates.

• Acting as a primary point of contact for troubleshooting system issues and providing technical support.

Driving our HR Data Management and Reporting Quality projects

• Ensuring our HRIS data quality project is running smoothly by managing stakeholder relationships across all of our HR, Talent and Payroll teams.
• Replicating data quality projects across all HR Systems to ensure the same data quality standards from our HRIS are used consistently. Conducting audits to identify and resolve data discrepancies.
• Expanding data quality projects into strategic dashboards or reporting that can support HR and Business decision‑making, in particular linking performance and learning data.
• Managing data privacy and compliance with GDPR, CCPA, or other applicable regulations.

Upholding and strengthening our compliance and risk management approaches

• Monitor and enforce compliance with local, state, and international HR data regulations.
• Maintain documentation for system configurations, processes, and troubleshooting guides.

Key details

• This is a fully remote role. Candidates must be based in one of our talent hub countries (UK, Spain, Kenya and Ghana) or in one of our operating markets in Africa including Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, or Burkina Faso.You can work between UTC -1 and +3 with reliable Internet access as long as you have work authorization.

• Every year, you’ll travel to Africa for a one‑week immersion trip. (Wave covers all costs.)

• Our salaries are competitive and are calculated using a transparent formula. For this role, depending on your level and location, we offer a salary of $66,400-$75,800,plus a generous equity package.

• 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
  • Unlimited vacation with a 20‑day minimum requirement
  • $10,000 annual charitable donation matching

Requirements

• Fluent in English.
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience administering HRIS platforms in an organization with +5,000 employees.
• Experience managing HR systems across a variety of modules, including Talent Management, HCM, Compensation and L&D.
  • Experience with Workday strongly preferred.
• Experience and understanding of HR processes, including payroll, benefits, performance management, talent operations and acquisition, learning & development.
• Experience with end‑to‑end HRIS implementations, upgrades, and integrations.
• Proficiency in HRIS configuration, workflows, and reporting tools.
• Advanced knowledge of data management, analytics, and reporting.
• Experience with Business Intelligence systems like PowerBI or Looker.
• Understanding of system integrations using APIs, middleware, or other tools, demonstrated experience of collaborating with Integrations teams.
• Effective written and verbal communication to collaborate with stakeholders and explain technical information to non‑technical audiences
• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills

You might be a good fit if you

• Speak French
• Are excessively detail‑oriented and seek to achieve excellence in everything you do.
• Are a self‑starter and proactive about achieving ambitious targets.
• Enjoy mastering new tools, solving complex technical puzzles, and retiring manual processes by building sleek automated workflows.

Our team

• We have a rapidly growing in‑country team in Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Uganda, Niger, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon 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.

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