Agent Liquidity Regional Lead

The role

The Agent Liquidity Regional Lead will structure and deploy strategies to deliver optimized cash flow solutions and anticipate liquidity demand. This person will lead a team to support the money transfer product through data-driven cash management.

What you will do

• Build and lead a skilled team
• Develop materials for a sustainable, structured liquidity department
• Monitor liquidity status nationwide in the assigned region
• Develop relationships with bank partners
• Identify priority areas and develop innovative solutions to liquidity needs
• Coordinate and lead the team to implement strategy and achieve planned OKRs
• Supervise Premium Cash Officers and Premium Cash Assistants
• Participate in recruitment and onboarding of staff
• Monitor team daily to detect wrongdoing or theft
• Prepare weekly and monthly performance reports

Required qualifications

• Previous experience in team management
• 3+ years of experience as a liquidity manager
• Willingness to travel 50% of the time within the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Equivalent of a Bachelor's Degree - A secondary degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Management or a comparable field
• Proficiency in Excel / Google Sheets

Nice to have

• Experience in cash movements/cash-in-transit
• Understand the liquidity challenge in a rapidly scaling agent network and the approaches to ensuring adequate liquidity
• Strong analytical skills
• Good at process documentation and effective at knowledge transfer
• Adaptable and creative thinkers, and willing to iterate and fail quickly
• Communicate effectively and often, both in writing and in person
• 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
• Wide experience in Cash in Transit and management of mobile money liquidity in the field

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Bonuses to strong performers who have been with the company for more than 6 months
• 90% health insurance for yourself and your dependents
• 26 weeks of parental leave for mothers
• 4 weeks for fathers
• Subsidized child care when returning to work
• Airtime reimbursement
• Free food
• Beautiful office space

Before you apply

• Work authorization in Congo is required
• Upload a resume in English and a cover letter

About the company

Wave is building financial services to make Africa the first cashless continent. They provide mobile app services for cash deposit, withdrawal, and payments across 9 countries.