Data and Financial Analyst

Lesaka Technologies; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Lesaka Technologies is seeking a Data and Financial Analyst within Commercial Intelligence — Enterprise Division. The role involves working with large transactional datasets, building dashboards, and delivering actionable insights that drive commercial decisions and profitability at multiple levels.

You will reconcile data across systems, support financial modelling, and prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports for senior stakeholders, with strong emphasis on accuracy and timely delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Finance, or related field.
• Minimum 2 years' experience in data analysis, financial reporting, or BI.
• Proficiency in SQL and at least one BI platform (Power BI, Tableau, or similar).
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with large transactional datasets in fintech/payments/telecoms is advantageous.
• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving ability.

Responsibilities

• Extract, clean, and analyse large transactional datasets from multiple content categories including airtime, data, bill payments, electricity, and vouchers.
• Build and maintain Power BI, Tableau, DataStudio or equivalent dashboards that provide real-time visibility into key commercial metrics.
• Produce standard weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting packs for the Manager: Commercial Performance and Business Intelligence and Head of Commercial Intelligence and senior stakeholders.
• Support the commercial assessment process by providing historical performance data, trend analysis, and financial modelling inputs.
• Assist in reconciling financial data between operational systems and the organisation's finance reporting environment.
• Identify data quality issues and work with technology teams to resolve upstream data problems.
• Respond to ad hoc data and analysis requests from the procurement, product, and growth management teams.

Skills

SQL

Data analysis

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Communication

Excel proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Finance, or related field

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Excel

Job description

Job Description

Commercial Intelligence — Enterprise Division

Direct reports: None

Division: Commercial Intelligence — Enterprise Division

ROLE PURPOSE

The Data and Financial Analyst supports the Manager: Commercial Performance and Business Intelligence in developing and maintaining the analytical outputs that drive commercial decision-making across the Commercial Intelligence function. The role involves working with large transactional datasets, building and maintaining dashboards, and producing financial and operational reports that give leadership real-time visibility into channel, supplier, product and content performance and profitability, stock positions, customer and supplier activity and profitability of the Commercial function at a customer, supplier, product, etc. level. The analyst plays a critical role in ensuring that data used across the Commercial Intelligence function is accurate, timely, and presented in a format that is actionable.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Extract, clean, and analyse large transactional datasets from multiple content categories including airtime, data, bill payments, electricity, and vouchers.
• Build and maintain Power BI, Tableau, DataStudio or equivalent dashboards that provide real-time visibility into key commercial metrics.
• Produce standard weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting packs for the Manager: Commercial Performance and Business Intelligence and Head of Commercial Intelligence and senior stakeholders.
• Support the commercial assessment process by providing historical performance data, trend analysis, and financial modelling inputs.
• Assist in reconciling financial data between operational systems and the organisation's finance reporting environment.
• Identify data quality issues and work with technology teams to resolve upstream data problems.
• Respond to ad hoc data and analysis requests from the procurement, product, and growth management teams.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Finance, or a related field.
• Minimum 2 years' experience in a data analysis, financial reporting, or BI role.
• Proficiency in SQL and at least one BI platform (Power BI, Tableau, or similar).
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience working with large transactional datasets in a fintech, payments, or telecoms environment is advantageous.
• Strong attention to detail with good problem-solving ability.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Data extraction, transformation, and analysis
• BI dashboard development and maintenance
• Financial and operational reporting
• Data quality managementCommunication of insights to non-technical stakeholders
• Collaborative and proactive work ethic