Data Analyst (Finance)

Black Pen Recruitment; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative solar startup in Cape Town, South Africa, is seeking a Data Analyst to enhance financial integrations. In this hybrid full-time role, you will collaborate directly with the CFO and CTO, with opportunities for career growth into Finance, Commercial, or Data teams. Candidates should have 1-4 years of experience, proficiency in SQL, and skills in data reporting and engagement. The salary ranges from $2,500 to $4,000 per month.

Qualifications

• 1-4 years of experience as a Data Analyst or similar role.
• Experience in understanding systems through data and people engagement.
• Experience gathering, presenting, and reporting on data.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the CFO and CTO on financial integrations.
• Spec and manage the development of further integrations.
• Gain exposure to commercial projects and system architecture.

Skills

Data analysis

SQL

Data reporting

People engagement

Tools

Spark

Hive

Bigquery

Athena

Job description

Our client is an innovative pay-as-you-go solar startup. They make life better for everyday households in Africa where they build amazing tech to help bring access to energy, internet and opportunity to people who otherwise wouldn’t. Our client is a dynamic, hardworking team that values flexibility and focuses on results over office hours. They are resourceful and budget-conscious, whether they are traveling or working. They believe in resilience, self-reliance, and long-term sustainability. With our client your career growth is driven by your ambitions, from expanding your role to exploring new areas of the business.

Role Overview

Our client is a digital only organisation and as such, the accounting is automatically produced by integrations to their source systems for sales, costs, payments, with minor adjustments.

This role will work directly with the CFO and the CTO to produce assurance on these financial integrations, and spec and manage the development of further integrations or migrations. You will have unique exposure to all the commercial projects, operations and system architecture of the business.

As such, this role falls into both their Engineering and Commercial tracks, with potential growth into any of the Finance, Commercial or Data teams.

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Candidate Location: South Africa

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Type: Full time/Permanent

Salary: $2 500 - $4 000 per month

Requirements

• 1-4 years of experience as a Data analyst or similar role
• Experience understanding systems through data and people engagement
• Experience gathering, presenting and reporting on data
• Building data assets in SQL or any on-prem or cloud data manipulation tools (Spark, Hive, Bigquery, Athena etc.)
• Basic understanding of finance and accounting is advantageous