How you’ll help us achieve it

As a Treasury Launcher, you will play a pivotal role in launching, structuring, and stabilising treasury operations across new Wave markets. This is not a steady-state operational role. It is a build-and-transfer position that requires strong execution capabilities, high autonomy, and the ability to operate effectively in early-stage, complex environments. You will be accountable for building treasury operations from the ground up in new markets, designing and implementing banking and funding frameworks, ensuring full regulatory and operational readiness at launch, and transferring ownership to local Treasury Managers once markets reach stability.

In this role, you’ll:

Country Treasury Setup & Market Launch

• Lead end-to-end treasury setup in new countries, including banking, funding flows, and controls.
• Partner closely with Legal, Compliance, Finance, and Operations teams to ensure readiness before and after market launch.
• Define and implement local treasury operating procedures aligned with Wave regional hub standards.
• Coordinate with field teams to manage liquidity agents and cash rebalancing activities.
• Act as the primary treasury point of contact throughout the launch and ramp-up phases.

Banking Relationships & Regulatory Readiness

• Open, structure, and manage local bank accounts (operational, trust, and settlement).
• Negotiate and implement banking services, including wires, cash management tools, fees, and service-level agreements.
• Ensure treasury operations comply with local banking regulations and central bank requirements.
• Support regulatory filings, approvals, and documentation related to treasury activities.
• Enable smooth and compliant financial operations for cross-border transactions across multiple regions.

Funding Architecture & Liquidity Management

• Design and implement initial funding models, including local and cross-border structures.
• Execute and oversee early-stage funding operations until steady-state processes are established.
• Monitor liquidity risks closely and ensure operational continuity during ramp-up periods.
• Coordinate cross-border funding with headquarters, regional hubs, or other markets as required.

Daily Reconciliation & Funding Validation

• Ensure accurate daily reconciliation of partner funding transactions, with a strong focus on precision and compliance.
• Validate all funding activities promptly, maintaining complete and auditable documentation.
• Oversee partner funding reconciliations in collaboration with the Treasury team, resolving discrepancies efficiently.

Team Enablement & Knowledge Transfer

• Train and onboard local treasury staff or incoming Treasury Managers.
• Document treasury processes, internal controls, and country-specific constraints.
• Ensure a structured and effective handover to permanent Treasury Managers once markets stabilise.
• Provide post-handover support as needed to ensure continuity.
• Define and track stabilisation milestones, including banking reliability, reconciliation accuracy, and reporting autonomy.
• Gradually transition from hands-on execution to oversight as local teams mature.

Key details

• Location is flexible (home country: Ivory Coast with extended stays in launch markets).
• Travel: High-sustained field presence required during launch phases.
• This is a permanent position with mission-based deployments.
• 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 offer generous health insurance for yourself and your dependents.
• We support working parents - we offer 26 weeks of parental leave for mothers and 4 weeks for fathers, in addition to subsidized child care when they return to work.
• Airtime reimbursement.
• Free food and a beautiful office space.

Requirements

• Full professional proficiency in English and French.
• Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a comparable role with a strong professional background in Treasury, Finance, or Accounting, with hands-on experience in: Banking operations, Funding mechanisms, Reconciliations, and internal controls.
• Solid understanding of accounting fundamentals and banking procedures.

You might be a good fit if you

• Are comfortable operating in early-stage environments with limited structure and high ambiguity.
• Have strong hands-on experience in bookkeeping and accounting fundamentals.
• Take full ownership of outcomes, not just assigned tasks.
• Are confident working with numbers and financial data and demonstrate exceptional attention to detail.
• Are proficient with technology, including Google Sheets, Excel, and similar tools.
• Communicate clearly and effectively, both in writing and verbally.
• Operate with a high level of autonomy, resilience, and sound judgment in ambiguous environments.
• Thrive in collaborative, team-oriented settings and work well with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Have experience working in emerging or complex markets.
• Have exposure to multi-country or cross-border treasury operations.
• Are familiar with regulatory stakeholders such as Central Banks or auditors.
• Are willing to temporarily relocate for mission-based assignments.