Liquidity Lead
Wave Mobile Money is a financial technology company providing affordable mobile money services across Africa.
Funding history
About Wave Mobile Money Inc.
Wave Mobile Money builds and operates a mobile financial network intended to help make Africa the first cashless continent. Its consumer services enable users to deposit and withdraw money, send funds, pay bills, buy airtime, and access customer support through mobile applications and agents. Wave Business provides bulk payments, in-person merchant payments, cash collection tools, a business portal, and checkout APIs. The company serves consumers, agents, merchants, businesses, and other clients across multiple African countries.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will manage agent liquidity and cash operations across Malawi, coordinate cash-in-transit providers and bank cash collection, maintain premium agencies, and lead field teams. You will improve liquidity processes, policies, security standards, and service-level adherence while identifying solutions to nationwide liquidity needs.
Requirements
- Fluency in English and a local language
- 5+ years of experience managing liquidity in mobile money operations, retail commercial banks, cash movements, cash-in-transit, or treasury
- At least 2 years of experience building, leading, and managing field-based teams
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Management, or a comparable field
- Proficiency in Excel and/or Google Sheets
- Willingness to travel 70% of the time within Malawi
- Customer relationship management experience
- Knowledge of agent network management and negotiation skills
- Work authorization in Malawi
Responsibilities
- Manage the country agent network while minimizing liquidity distress
- Manage agent rebalancing and coordinate bank cash pickups
- Coordinate cash-in-transit firm operations and ensure SLA adherence
- Set up and maintain Premium Agencies and Premium Master Agents
- Build and lead a team to implement liquidity strategy and achieve planned goals
- Develop team capabilities, policies, processes, and strategies for liquidity needs
- Monitor nationwide liquidity status
- Identify priority areas and coordinate projects, processes, and tools to improve liquidity operations
- Provide expert input for policy reviews and process documentation
- Lead knowledge-transfer sessions with affiliate country operations
- Follow security standards and promptly report challenges
- Perform other duties assigned by the line manager
Benefits
- Health insurance for you and your dependents
- 26 weeks of parental leave for mothers
- 4 weeks of parental leave for fathers
- Subsidized child care for returning parents
- Airtime reimbursement
- Free food
- Office space