About Rise
Rise is a digital wealth manager that offers users access to a portfolio of dollar investments managed by experts. We are on a mission to help people build wealth by making investing simple, accessible, and transparent. Through intuitive tools, expert-managed portfolios, and strong financial education, we’re enabling individuals across Africa to invest in global and local assets that build long-term financial freedom.
Job Description and profile
We are looking for a highly analytical, detail-oriented Financial Analyst with 2–3 years of experience to join our Finance team. In this role, you'll carry out equity research on both foreign and Nigerian public companies and support strategic financial planning, performance analysis, and investor reporting. You’ll support key business decisions, monitor market trends, and generate reports that influence both internal strategy and customer-facing investment content.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct equity research and build models for publicly listed foreign and local stocks
- Generate stock reports, market commentaries, and performance summaries used by the investment team and shared with users.
- Assist with preparing weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports for internal leadership and external stakeholders.
- Stay up-to-date with relevant news, earnings reports, macroeconomic events, and industry trends
- Collaborate with the product and content teams to ensure investment insights are translated into user-facing content (where needed).
- Support fund and investment performance tracking, including yield, returns, and fee structures.
- Contribute to building internal financial SOPs and automation improvements.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
- 2–3 years of experience in financial analysis, equity research, or investment management.
- Solid understanding of financial statements, valuation techniques, and market analysis
- Strong Excel/Google Sheets skills and proficiency in building financial models
- Familiarity with public markets (NSE & US markets) and experience using data platforms like Bloomberg, TradingView, or Yahoo Finance.
- Strong attention to detail and high standards for accuracy and insight.
- Experience using BI tools like Power BI, Tableau, or Looker is a plus.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment.
You’ll thrive in this role if you:
- Enjoy breaking down company fundamentals and making complex information easy to understand.
- Can balance rigorous analysis with strategic storytelling.
- Are proactive, curious, and passionate about helping others make smarter investment decisions.
- Are excited to be part of a mission-driven company redefining wealth-building for Africans.
Why Rise?
You’ll have the opportunity to be part of something impactful and meaningful. You’ll be working in a company with a strong mission and a team that is fun, ambitious, and results-driven.
We also offer:
- Competitive salary.
- Flexible working hours and a hybrid work model
- Health insurance.
- 30 days annual paid leave, flexible sick leave and days off.
- Pension contribution
- Maternity & Paternity Leave
- Training and career development opportunity
- Opportunity to grow with a mission-driven fintech solving real problems at scale.
Rise is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.