Business Analyst – Office of the Group Managing Director

Lascom Management Systems; Germiston; Sur place; ZAR 600 000 - 850 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Lascom Management Systems in Germiston seeks a Business Analyst for the Office of the Group Managing Director. The role blends analysis, governance and executive support to drive performance across branches and categories.

Requirements include a numerate degree and 3–5 years in analytical or finance roles; advanced Excel, Power BI/Tableau, SQL and ERP reporting are preferred. Domestic travel may be required.

Qualifications

• A completed three or four-year degree in a numerate discipline — BCom, BSc, engineering, actuarial, statistics, economics.
• Honours, CA(SA), CIMA, industrial engineering, or a part-time MBA or postgraduate diploma in progress.
• Three to five years post-graduation in analytical, commercial, consulting or finance roles.
• Exposure to multi-branch, multi-site or distribution businesses preferred.
• Advanced Excel with ability to build executive slide packs.
• Power BI/Tableau, SQL, Power Query, ERP reporting experience preferred.
• Self-motivated, discreet, and able to challenge executives with evidence.

Responsabilités

• Executive reporting: monthly group flash commentary and BCP packs; ensure completeness.
• Performance analysis: branch, category, and rep-level margin and expense reviews.
• Process diagnostics: root-cause analysis of lead times and order flow with quantified recommendations.
• Project follow-through: track exco commitments to a dated close-out; escalate slippage.
• Commercial support: provide analysis for pricing, campaigns, tenders and profitability.
• Governance: prepare right packs and numbers for MD engagements.
• Executive administration: diary, travel, inbox triage and gatekeeping at a high standard.

Connaissances

Advanced Excel

Power BI

SQL

Power Query

ERP reporting

Formation

BCom / BSc / engineering (numerate)

Honours / CA(SA) / CIMA (preferred)

Outils

Tableau

SQL Server

Description du poste

Business Analyst – Office of the Group Managing Director

Location: Germiston
Type: Permanent
Remuneration: R600K - R850K CTC per annum

Introduction

South Africa’s premier supplier of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Cleaning Chemicals, Paper Products, Industrial Consumable Supplies and Workwear is looking for a Business Analyst – Office of the Group Managing Director to join their successful team.

Scope:

This is a chief-of-staff role carrying a business analyst title. The holder is the Group MD’s second pair of hands on the thinking, not primarily on the diary.

Roughly:

• 60–70% analysis, reporting and project follow-through — branch and category performance, margin and mix analysis, lead-time and process diagnostics, preparation of group flash commentary and BCP-facing packs, chasing exco commitments to closure.
• 20–30% agenda and governance — running the MD’s operating rhythm, preparing him for BCP, board and customer engagements, ensuring nothing agreed in a meeting quietly dies.
• 10–20% classic PA work — diary, travel, inbox triage, gatekeeping. Real, but not the centre of gravity.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Executive reporting:
  • Prepare and quality-assure the monthly group flash commentary and BCP-facing packs to a fixed structure and page limit.
  • Own the calendar and the data-gathering behind them.

  Performance analysis

  • Branch, category and rep-level analysis of sales, gross margin, mix and expenses.
  • Explain variances in one page, not twenty slides.

  Process diagnostics

  • Root-cause work on operational lead times and order flow — quote-to-invoice, open order ageing, factory throughput — with quantified recommendations.

  Project follow-through

  • Track every commitment made in exco and MD-level meetings to a dated close-out. Escalate slippage early.

  Commercial support

  • Build the analysis behind pricing, campaign, tender and customer-profitability decisions.

  Governance and preparation

  • Ensure the MD walks into every engagement with the right pack, the right numbers and the right two questions.

  Executive administration

  • Diary, travel, inbox triage and gatekeeping, at a standard that never becomes the MD’s problem.

Desired Experience & Qualification

Qualification:

• A completed three or four-year degree in a numerate discipline — BCom, BSc, engineering, actuarial, statistics, economics.

Preferred

• Honours, CA(SA), CIMA, industrial engineering, or a part-time MBA or postgraduate diploma in progress.

Experience:

• Three to five years post-graduation in an analytical, commercial, consulting or finance role.

Preferred

Exposure to a multi-branch, multi-site or distribution business.

Technical:

• Advanced Excel. Confident building an executive slide pack.
• Able to work with raw system extracts.

Preferred

• Power BI or Tableau, SQL, Power Query, ERP reporting experience.

Behavioural:

• Self-starting, resilient under pressure, comfortable challenging senior people with evidence, absolutely discreet.

Preferred

• Prior experience working directly to an executive or partner.

Practical:

• Valid driver’s licence and own transport. Willing to travel domestically.

Preferred

• Valid passport and willingness to travel to Eswatini and Zambia.

Language:

• Business-level English, written and spoken, to executive standard.

Preferred

• A second South African language.
• Numerate to a professional standard. Can decompose a margin movement into price, volume and mix without being prompted.
• Writes for an executive. One page, conclusion first, no adjectives doing the work of evidence.
• Advanced Excel as a working tool, Pivot tables, lookups, and enough Power Query or SQL to handle a system extract without asking IT.
• Self-starting. Can take a three-line brief, come back with a one-paragraph interpretation and a checkpoint date, and then deliver.
• Discreet. Will sit inside every sensitive conversation in the business, including remuneration, restructuring and disputes.
• Willing to be on a branch floor and in a factory, not only in a spreadsheet.