Technical Project Manager (Audits)

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 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 the largest financial institution 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.

As our organization continues to expand into multiple markets, we are increasingly subject to a diverse array of laws, regulations, and industry standards. With this growth, the complexity and volume of our audit requirements have multiplied, encompassing financial, compliance, IT, and other operational areas.

To effectively manage these growing demands and ensure that we consistently meet our obligations, we are hiring a Technical Project Manager (Audits), who will play a key role in maintaining our commitment to transparency, accuracy, and regulatory compliance, as our business continues to scale.

In this role you’ll

• Work directly with auditors, managing most of our interactions with them.
• Deeply understand the auditors’ requests and ensure our answers match their expectations as closely as possible – matching their vocabulary and frame of reference.
• Answer technical questions about our internal systems, by liaising with relevant internal teams and translating them accordingly and accurately.
• Identify opportunities to improve our processes and where possible automate information retrieval.
• Define and build a library of documents and answers to increasingly speed up future audits.
• Build dashboards and simple scripts to quickly retrieve data, or work together with data analysts and engineers where needed.
• Work closely with, and effectively support our Internal Compliance and Finance teams, providing data needed for internal audits.

Key Details

• Location: You’ll work from our office in Dakar, with semi-frequent travels to our other operating countries.
• You must have work authorization in Senegal
• This is a permanent role.
• Our salaries are competitive and calculated using a transparent formula. We run performance reviews twice a year and award bonuses to strong performers who have been with the company for more than 6 months.
• We run Performance Reviews twice a year and give bonuses or promotions to exceptional performers who have been at the company for more than 6 months.
• We offer generous health insurance for yourself and your dependents.
• We support working parents – (we offer 26 weeks for mothers and 4 weeks for fathers) and subsidized child care when you return to work.
• We help you live your fullest life now – we subsidize gym memberships and fitness classes.
• Airtime reimbursement.
• Free food and a beautiful office space.

Requirements

• Fluent in English & French.
• Strong experience in a technical role within a compliance environment, or previous experience as a technical auditor.
• Good technical background: ability to write SQL, read code and write simple scripts.
• Experience in organizing and maintaining a comprehensive document library.
• Accounting or finance background would be a plus.

You might be a good fit if you

• Have previous auditing experience.
• Can efficiently engage with auditors and understand their requirements.
• Have exceptional strategic thinking skills, proactive execution abilities, and skilled in creating detailed reports.
• Are at ease in a boardroom giving presentations or preparing audits in French or English.
• Are enthusiastic about Wave’s mission and excited to do what needs to be done to achieve it.
• Like teamwork, but you also know how to work well autonomously.
• Have demonstrated tenacity and a willingness to go the distance to get something done.
• Are very detail-oriented and seek to achieve excellence in everything you do.

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.
• In 2023, we were on Y Combinator’s top 50 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.