Treasury Data Analyst

Johannesburg, South Africa

Sendwave

Send money abroad to your loved ones. Fast and secure international money transfers with the Sendwave app. Trusted by one million users around the world.

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About Zepz

Zepz is the group powering two leading global remittance brands: WorldRemit and Sendwave. Since 2010, we have been disrupting an industry previously dominated by offline legacy players with our relentless focus on reducing the cost of remittances and increasing safety and convenience for our users. Every day, our people work to unlock the prosperity of cross-border communities through finance and technology - driven by our vision of a world that celebrates migrants’ impact on prosperity, at home and abroad.

Our brands helped cross-border communities send over $15bn from 50 countries to recipients in 130 countries in 2022. We operate over 5,000 money transfer corridors worldwide and employ over 1,000 people globally. Zepz is a remote-first employer, with team members located across six continents.

 
Our vision is to create a world that celebrates migrants’ impact on prosperity, at home and abroad. Our purpose is to unlock the prosperity of cross-border communities through finance and technology.


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Our Commitments:

  1. We act like owners - We are relentlessly delivering for our users and spending money thoughtfully. 
  2. We embrace embarrassing honesty - We function best when we're open and honest with one another — especially about our challenges and doubts. 
  3. We have a bias to action - We get to first outcomes quickly, iterate and learn. 
  4. We strive to be better - We may make mistakes, but always learn from them.
  5. We are inclusive - to better reflect and serve our users. 

About the role

As a Treasury Data Analyst, you will be responsible for monitoring the funding model and assisting the funding analysts about potential issues on a day-to-day basis. You will take on projects based on requests from different stakeholders, collaboration with Funding Team’s daily work or personal initiatives through creation of reports and dashboards, automation of funding processes as well as querying and analyzing data in our data warehouse.

The role will also entail looking into opportunities to improve the funding model by expanding our database and translating business logic into technical requirements. You will thus collaborate with different parts of the business, working alongside various teams both within and outside the wider Finance team.  

What you will own:

Reporting to the Funding Team Manager, you will:

  • Ensure that the funding model is working correctly and accurately by performing data quality checks and responding to Funding Team’s concerns on a daily basis
  • Respond to ad-hoc requests by analyzing data using SQL in BigQuery/Databricks for different stakeholders
  • Create tables, views and/or scheduled queries in BigQuery/Databricks depending on the needs of Funding Team
  • Prepare reports and dashboards based on requests from different stakeholders (Funding Team, Forecasting Team, Business Development Team, etc.)
  • Collaborate with funding analysts regularly for greater efficiency by streamlining their day-to-day processes through automation of manual work or creation of dashboards
  • Maintain our data warehouse and ensure thorough documentation
  • Work with Funding Team to identify new projects and business opportunities

What you bring to the table: 

  • Strong understanding of SQL in BigQuery/Databricks
  • Familiarity with at least one BI tool (like Tableau, Periscope, Power BI or Mode Analytics) and ability to prepare reports or dashboards from client requests
  • Familiarity with or eagerness to learn automation and modeling is a strong plus (particularly in Python)
  • Can deliver technical programmatic solutions to business problems
  • Ability to communicate complex information effectively to non-technical audience
  • Ability to initiate new projects for improvement of stakeholders’ day-to-day work
  • Analytical and logical approach to problem solving
  • A high level of attention to detail
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

What we offer you: 

Please note that the benefits below will apply to Full-time roles.  

We have five core benefits for our talent in the US, UK, Philippines, Poland, and South Africa. If you're not in one of those regions, don’t worry - the Talent team can let you know what is available for you specifically:

  • Unlimited Annual Leave: Most Zepz team members are eligible for unlimited annual leave. Colleagues in customer-facing roles, receive a competitive holiday allowance and four recharge days a year. Feel free to make the most of your time off and maintain a healthy work-life balance! 

  • Private Medical Cover: ​​You can opt-in to a Private Medical Insurance scheme. This provides you with access to thorough medical coverage, so you can feel confident in your health and well-being.              

  • Retirement: We offer pension schemes to help you plan for and secure your future. 

  • Life Assurance: Life assurance is available to give you peace of mind and protect your loved ones in case of the unexpected.

  • Parental Leave: We offer competitive parental leave schemes to ensure you are spending as much quality time with your new bundle of joy as possible. 

We are also remote-first as an organisation, offering flexibility for you to work where you need to be most productive. In many locations, we have workspaces, which you can use as you desire. Most roles in the Philippines are predominately office-based, with this we offer free meals for those 100% on-site.  

In addition to the above, you will discover that we have a range of secondary perks (such as the cycle-to-work scheme and employee discounts) depending on your location, to help you thrive at Zepz!  

Why choose Zepz? 

  • Our team of over 1,000  employees is fully distributed across the world. We are working from coffee shops, homes, and co-working spaces — making us one of the larger fully distributed growth-stage startups in the world but we also offer workspace in our talent cluster locations - spaces we can meet, collaborate and connect.

  • We are proud parents, community organizers, farmers, band members, yoga teachers, YouTube influencers, former Olympians, and serial entrepreneurs.

  • We collectively speak over twenty languages, including Akuapem, Amharic, Bengali, Ewe, Fante, Ga, Igbo, Kalenjin, Luganda, Oromo, Somali, Swahili, Wolof, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.

  • At Zepz, embodying our commitments binds us together. We are collectively passionate about striving to achieve our vision and purpose -  to continue to provide the best service to our users.

Ready to Apply?

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. If interested, please submit your resume along with a cover letter (optional), highlighting why your experience demonstrates you meet the requirements of the role. Please also indicate the countries in which you have work authorization.

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. Zepz is a place where everyone can thrive. 

So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, and if at all you might need any form of support to make the process as comfortable as possible, please let us know and give us a shot by applying. We want you to be excited to wake up to make an impact every day.

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Tags: BigQuery Databricks Data quality Data warehouse Finance Periscope Power BI Python SQL Tableau

Perks/benefits: Career development Flex vacation Health care Home office stipend Medical leave Parental leave Unlimited paid time off Yoga

Region: Africa
Country: South Africa
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Category: Analyst Jobs

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