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BF Agent Liquidity Regional Lead
Wave Mobile Money
Posted 4 months agoOuagadougou, Burkina Faso
Location
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Sales
Job Description
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...
We’re looking for an Agent Liquidity Regional Lead to deputize the Agent Liquidity Lead in the assigned region. The role holder will be responsible for structuring and deploying strategies across the region to deliver optimized cash flow solutions and anticipate liquidity demand to support the optimal operation of the money transfer product. This is a data-driven position, and the candidate is expected to be very conversant with spreadsheets, graphs, and charts, and cash management tools.
In this role, you will;
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Education: Equivalent of a Bachelor's Degree - A secondary degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Management or a comparable field.
Understand the liquidity challenge in a rapidly scaling agent network and the approaches to ensuring adequate liquidity.
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 bringi
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Requirements
- Previous experience in team management, preferably an experience in cash movements/cash-in-transit.
- 2+ years of experience as a liquidity manager.
- Willingness to travel 50% of the time within Burkina Faso.
- Proficiency in Excel / Google Sheets.
- Have strong analytical skills.
- Are good at process documentation and effective at knowledge transfer.
- Are adaptable and creative thinkers, and willing to iterate and fail quickly.
- Communicate effectively and often, both in writing and in person, to the point of over-communication.
- Have led a team whose role was to ensure the efficient day-to-day running of an agent network.
- Demonstrate tenacity and a willingness to go the distance to get something done.
- Have wide experience in Cash in Transit and management of mobile money liquidity in the field.
- #LI-MS1
- We are on Y Combinator's top companies by revenue.
- We review applications frequently and recommend that you apply to the role that most closely aligns with your skills,
Responsibilities
- Develop relationships with our bank partners.
- Identify priority areas and develop innovative solutions to Wave’s liquidity needs.
- Coordinate and lead the team to implement the strategy and achieve planned OKRs in agent ops across the assigned regions.
- Build and lead a skilled team capable of responding to the fast-growing Wave environment.
- Develop the necessary materials for a sustainable, structured liquidity department.
- Be on top of the liquidity status nationwide, especially in the assigned region.