Job Openings at AZA Finance

Category: Sales

Job Summary

• As the Sales Enablement Senior Manager, your responsibility will be creating programs, sales collaterals, training and learning materials to help support AZA’s Sales and Account Management teams to drive growth and success.
• You will collaborate closely with the Revenue Leadership, Sales Team, Account Management Team, Product Team and Marketing team to identify strategies and collaterals needed to help support the teams and meet AZA’s strategic goals.
• You will be responsible for new sales team members onboarding and own the sales onboarding program for them to ensure an efficient start to their AZA careers.
• You will also be responsible for the continuous growth of the skills within the Sales Organization, coaching them on a regular basis and ensuring they have the right skills to achieve their goals.
• This is an exciting opportunity to help take Africa’s leading digital FX company to the next level.

Responsibilities
In the role, you will:

• Work with Revenue Division leadership to develop an enablement program to help achieve AZA’s strategic goals
• Determine sales enablement priorities with sales stakeholders
• Communicate enablement strategy and KPIs to stakeholders
• Facilitate content creation and use with sales and marketing teams
• Build a trusted relationship with sales reps
• Serve as a liaison between sales, marketing and product teams
• Create effective onboarding and training programs for sales reps
• Coordinate educational content for ongoing training
• Gather and relay feedback to continuously iterate on the enablement strategy
• Use performance data to identify knowledge or skill gaps across the sales team
• Implement and maintain sales enablement software to ensure it is easily accessible and provides the capabilities sellers need
• Display a high level of emotional intelligence and step into a leadership role when required

Requirements

• Ambitious and passionate professional with a minimum of 8 years experience in a high-performance sales organization in sales, enablement, or learning and development.
• A strong understanding of the sales environment, including sales content, tools and training
• Experience with content management and learning management systems
• Able to build internal relationships with sales and marketing
• Fast learner
• Ability to understand and help promote customer-centric vision at AZA Finance.
• Excellent interpersonal, communications (written and oral), public speaking, presentation, and listening skills.
• Creative problem solver with the ability to work independently with minimal guidance.
• Passionate about our mission to develop innovative digital payment and treasury management solutions to help businesses scale in frontier markets.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Casual work environment
• Great work-life balance
• We value autonomy
• Environmental-friendly (we try to use as less paper as possible!)
• Opportunity for growth for all our employees and more!

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Category: Analytics

Job Summary

• We are passionate technologists who believe in making a difference in the lives of those living in emerging markets. We aim to change the landscape of finance and remittance.
• Our development team is a group of skilled self-reliant data engineers that have the ability to work together to solve complex problems and provide simple solutions for our business teams.
• We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in one of our offices.

Responsibilities

• Is in charge of maintaining the business’s physical and logical data models, reflective of the current business environments. In this position, the Senior Data Engineer effectively manages the department’s time and resources, drafting clear time schedules to be applied by the junior Data Warehousing department.
• Provides technical assistance in the identification, evaluation, and development of data warehousing systems and procedures.
• Contributes in the interview process alongside senior analytics management and helps ensure the successful onboarding of suitable employees in the department.
• Tasked with leading data related technical projects for the business across platforms and participate in project planning and the analysis of the business’s data requirements and solutions.
• The Senior Data Warehouse Engineer also designs review sessions and ensures that all solutions are predefined and aligned to architectural specifications. This is in addition to developing ETL pipelines that target specific requirements as well as creating and updating technical documentation.
• Utilises data warehousing methodology and best practices in creating and supporting analysis service cubes that assist in query performance. In this capacity, the Engineer also monitors, troubleshoots, and develops actionable/lasting solutions for data warehouse servers.
• Lead the creation of quality control, data validation, change management and cleansing processes to new and existing data models and ETL pipelines.
• Work with data infrastructure to triage infra issues and drive to resolution.
• Conduct design and code reviews
• Communicate findings clearly to a broad range of stakeholders.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in the data warehousing space, custom ETL design, implementation and maintenance
• 7+ years of experience in SQL as well as other data manipulation & visualization languages in this space such as Python & R
• Must be highly experienced in developing schema data models in a data warehouse environment and be well versed in full implementation of system development life-cycle (SDLC).
• Must be highly experienced in working with ETL concepts of data integration, consolidation, enrichment, and aggregation. Candidates should demonstrate a strong understanding of dimensional modelling and similar data warehousing techniques as well as having experience working with relational or multidimensional databases and business intelligence architectures.
• Must be able to demonstrate knowledge of database concepts of data mapping and modelling inclusive of normalisation, referential integrity, dimensionality, keys, indexes, partitions, metadata, and master data management.
• Must be able to demonstrate expertise working with both relational and non-relational database systems such as SQL, Redshift, PostgreSQL or Vertica. (Typically large data sets)
• Must possess a sharp business acumen and ability to communicate clearly and effectively while engaging non-technical personnel.
• Good knowledge of source control using Git.
• Preference to participate in pair-programming and using GitHub pull requests to review code of others.
• Familiarity with the agile development methodology specifically Scrum.

Desired (Good to have):

• Experience in data maturity assessment as well as defining and signing off data maturity roadmaps for an organization.
• Experience in building data warehousing capabilities and ETL processes from scratch. I.e From Spreadsheets to highly optimised BI platforms.
• Experience working in PostgreSQL & AWS environments.
• Familiarity with Apache Superset (Visualization tool). Ability to maintain the superset build would be a plus.
• Familiarity with either or both of the following (ETL/ELT/T) tools; DBT & Synatic. Experience using these tools would be a plus.
• Experience solving analytical issues through quantitative approaches and machine learning methods as well using advanced statistical methods, data mining techniques.

Benefits

• A competitive salary and benefits package.
• Global / regional network / exposure in FinTech / Blockchain industry.
• One of the hottest, fastest scaling startups in Africa.
• Casual work environment.
• Great work-life balance.
• We value autonomy.
• Opportunity for growth for all employees.
• Opportunity to work hard and play hard and more!!

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Category: Engineering

Job Summary

• We are passionate technologists who believe in making a difference in the lives of those living in emerging markets. We aim to change the landscape of finance and remittance.
• Our technical team is a group of skilled self-reliant engineers that have the ability to work together to solve complex problems and provide simple solutions for our customers. We are looking for a QA Automation Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in one of our offices.

Key Responsibilities
How your skills and passion will come to life at AZA:

• Identify testing requirements for development workloads.
• Testing software to identify defects and help troubleshoot issues.
• Produce and execute test plans, scripts, cases, acceptance criteria and scenarios.
• Ensure high quality and accuracy is maintained throughout the development lifecycle.
• Identify the opportunities for automated testing and implementing tests applicably for user testing, end-to-end integration testing and unit testing.

Requirements
What we are looking for:

• Significant experience in a similar role.
• Experience with programming languages like Javascript or Ruby.
• Experience with technical testing frameworks such as Cypress and Selenium, and tools like Postman.
• Extensive experience developing and implementing both UI and API test automation.
• Experience with QA processes (bug tracking/reporting, documentation, black-box testing, security testing, non-functional testing, etc)
• Interest in performing manual and automated testing.
• The ingenuity to think of new ways to test and break the product.
• A strong and flexible work ethic.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Striving to learn new skills.

Desired:

• Working knowledge of both Javascript and Ruby.
• Good knowledge of source control using Git.
• Good knowledge of cloud providers, especially AWS.
• Familiarity with container frameworks, especially Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with implementing test automation in Travis CI and AWS CodePipeline.
• Familiarity with the agile development methodology, specifically Scrum.
• Good knowledge of software deployment tooling and orchestration.
• Good knowledge of databases systems, especially PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with deploying and managing applications on the cloud.

Benefits / Compensation

• A competitive salary and benefits package.
• Global / regional network / exposure in FinTech / Blockchain industry.
• One of the hottest, fastest scaling startups in Africa.
• Casual work environment.
• Great work-life balance.
• We value autonomy.
• Opportunity for growth for all employees.
• Opportunity to work hard and play hard and more!!

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Category: Legal & Compliance

Job Summary

• As the Partner Due Diligence Analyst, you will be conducting KYC/CDD /EDD reviews and refreshments for new and existing partners who are financial/non-banking institutions/corporate customers etc. within a specified TAT.
• Partner due diligence is critical to our business growth and a key component of our Compliance Risk Management Framework at AZA; so we are looking for an AML analyst who is diligent, flexible, innovative, broad-minded with the relevant experience and skills, to help build the vision for excellent standards in KYC/CDD/EDD.
• This is an exciting opportunity to help take Africa’s leading digital F/X company to the next level.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct KYC review of new customer information and documentation in line with AZA requirements and best practice
• Identify all financial crimes risk issues inherent in a customer as onboarding and escalate same for mitigation prior to approving a new customer
• Support and improve the entire customer journey from customer request to completion of DD and mutual DD where required
• Ensure effective and efficient record keeping of all documentation and information utilized for internal and external audit requirements
• Respond to inquiries from internal and external stakeholders within defined SLAs
• Effectively collaborate with key internal stakeholders - Sales, Lead Generators, Onboarders, Compliance, Legal, Account Mgt, Product etc
• Adhere to the SOPs and compliance standards set internally
• Help identify and fix inefficiencies in current workflows and processes
• Display a high level of emotional intelligence, good communication & interpersonal skills.

Requirements

• First Degree in Banking / Financial Institution or any related field
• Working knowledge of AML and sanctions screening process
• At least 2 years of experience in KYC/CDD in a banking or financial institution
• Evidence of ACAMS/ICA/ACFCS certification of training.
• Excellent organizational, record keeping and time management skills.

Benefits

• A competitive salary and benefits package.
• Global / regional network / exposure in FinTech / Blockchain industry.
• Casual work environment.
• Great work-life balance.
• We value autonomy.
• Opportunity for growth for all employees.
• Opportunity to work hard and play hard.

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Category: Legal & Compliance

Job Summary

• As the Customer Due Diligence Analyst, you will conducting KYC/CDD reviews and refresh for new and existing customers within a specified TAT.
• Compliance onboarding is critical to our business as well as our compliance customer risk management program so we’re looking for an AML analyst who is diligent, flexible , innovative, broad-minded with the relevant experience and skills, to help build the vision for excellent standards in KYC/CDD/EDD.
• This is an exciting opportunity to help take Africa’s leading digital F/X company to the next level.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct KYC review of new customer information and documentation in line with AZA requirements and best practice
• Identify all financial crimes risk issues inherent in a customer as onboarding and escalate same for mitigation prior to approving a new customer
• Support and improve the entire customer journey from onboarding to first transaction
• Respond to inquiries from internal and external stakeholders within defined SLAs
• Effectively collaborate with key internal stakeholders - Sales, Lead Generators, Onboarders, Compliance, Legal, Account Mgt, Product etc
• Adhere to the SOPs and compliance standards set internally
• Help identify and fix inefficiencies in current workflows and processes
• Display a high level of emotional intelligence, good communication & interpersonal skills

Requirements

• First Degree in Banking / Finance or any related field
• Working knowledge of AML and sanctions screening process
• At least 2 years of experience in KYC/CDD in a banking or financial institution
• Evidence of ACAMS/ICA/ACFCS certification of training.

Benefits

• A competitive salary and benefits package.
• Global / regional network / exposure in FinTech / Blockchain industry.
• Casual work environment.
• Great work-life balance.
• We value autonomy.
• Opportunity for growth for all employees.
• Opportunity to work hard and play hard.