Financial Analyst

Payjoy; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 650,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Health Insurance for employee

Pension Fund

Life and disability insurance

20 days vacation, unlimited sick leave

Co-working Travel perk

Professional Development perk

Home office equipment allowance

Catered Lunch

Job summary

PayJoy South Africa is seeking a Financial Analyst to join the accounting and FP&A teams. You will work with the data warehouse to build, validate, and automate reports that underpin month-end, year-end close, and audit processes.

The role requires strong SQL and Python skills, solid accounting knowledge, and the ability to translate complex data into clear financial insights for stakeholders across finance and management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in relevant quantitative field.
• 1–3 years in financial analysis, reporting, or accounting-support role.
• Working knowledge of accruals, amortisation, depreciation, provisioning/impairment, reconciliations.
• Experience with lending, credit, or asset-financing is an advantage.
• Proficient in SQL and Python for data analysis and reporting.
• Experience with Excel for financial modelling and analysis.
• Experience with Hex, Looker, Power BI or Tableau is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Extract, clean, and transform data from the data warehouse to produce reports for accounting and finance.
• Build and maintain month-end and year-end close reports including portfolio roll-forwards and impairment schedules.
• Support depreciation and amortisation modelling and reconciliation to accounting records.
• Assist with schedules and documentation for audits with data lineage explanations.
• Reconcile warehouse outputs to general ledger and investigate discrepancies.
• Develop dashboards and automated reporting pipelines to reduce manual effort and improve accuracy.
• Document data sources and report logic for auditable, repeatable outputs.
• Support portfolio analytics and KPI reporting for finance and management.
• Respond to ad hoc data requests with well-documented outputs.
• Flag data quality issues and coordinate with data/engineering to fix at source.

Skills

SQL

Python

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Time management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Data Science, Statistics, or a related quantitative field

Tools

Hex

Looker

Power BI

Tableau

Excel

Job description

About PayJoy

PayJoy, a Public Benefit Corporation, is a mission-first credit provider dedicated to helping under-served customers in emerging markets to achieve financial stability and success. Our patented technology for secured credit provides an on-ramp for new customers to enter the credit system. Through PayJoy’s point-of-sale financing and card offerings, customers gain access to a modern quality of life. PayJoy’s credit also allows our customers to seize opportunities as micro‑entrepreneurs, and acts as insurance for tough times. Through our cutting‑edge machine learning, data science, and anti‑fraud AI, we have served over 18 million customers as of 2025 while achieving solid profitability for sustainable growth.

This role

The Financial Analyst will work directly with PayJoy South Africa’s data warehouse to build, maintain, and improve the reporting that underpins the accounting function. The role bridges raw transactional and portfolio data with the financial statements, working closely with accounting, financial reporting, and audit stakeholders to ensure that reports are accurate, well‑controlled, and delivered on time. This is a hands‑on analytical role requiring strong SQL/Python skills and a working understanding of accounting and lending concepts (e.g. amortisation, depreciation, charge‑offs, provisioning).

Responsibilities

• Extract, clean, and transform data from the company’s data warehouse (via Hex, SQL, and Python) to produce recurring and ad hoc reports for the accounting and finance teams.
• Build and maintain reports that directly support month‑end and year‑end close, including portfolio roll‑forwards, charge‑off and write‑off analysis, and provisioning/impairment schedules.
• Support depreciation and amortisation modelling for financed devices, including EIR (effective interest rate) calculations and reconciliation to accounting records.
• Assist with preparation of schedules and supporting documentation for internal and external audits, ensuring data lineage and calculations can be clearly explained and reproduced.
• Reconcile data warehouse outputs to the general ledger and investigate/resolve discrepancies in collaboration with the accounting team.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and automated reporting pipelines (Hex/Python) to reduce manual effort and improve accuracy and consistency of recurring reports.
• Document data sources, definitions, and report logic so that reports are auditable, repeatable, and understandable to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Support portfolio analytics, including delinquency, MAU (monthly active user), and other KPI reporting used by finance and management.
• Respond to ad hoc data and analysis requests from accounting, FP&A, and management with accurate, well‑documented outputs.
• Flag data quality issues in the warehouse and work with data/engineering teams to get them corrected at source.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Data Science, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.
• 1‑3 years of experience in a financial analysis, reporting, or accounting‑support role, ideally within financial services, fintech, or a data‑intensive environment.
• Working knowledge of basic financial and accounting concepts (accruals, amortisation, depreciation, provisioning/impairment, reconciliations).
• Exposure to lending, credit, or asset‑financing businesses is an advantage but not essential.
• Proficient in SQL for querying and manipulating data in a warehouse environment.
• Working proficiency in Python for data analysis (e.g. pandas) and report automation.
• Experience with Excel for financial modelling and analysis (formulas, pivot tables; VBA is a plus).
• Experience with Hex, or similar notebook/BI tools (e.g. Looker, Power BI, Tableau), is an advantage.
• Comfortable working with large, sometimes imperfect datasets, and able to reconcile data across systems.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with a methodical approach to investigating discrepancies.
• High attention to detail and accuracy, particularly given the reports feed into audited financial statements.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical/data concepts simply to accounting and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Strong personal organisation, able to manage multiple deliverables and meet month‑end/audit deadlines.
• A collaborative, ownership‑driven mindset, comfortable working across finance, accounting, and data/engineering teams.
• Accounting team – primary internal customer for recurring reports and audit support.
• Finance/FP&A team – collaboration on forecasting, portfolio analytics, and management reporting.
• Data/engineering team – escalation point for data quality and warehouse issues.
• External auditors – as a source of supporting schedules and explanations during audit cycles (via the accounting team).

Benefits

• 100% Company Funded : Private Health Insurance for employee and immediate family
• Pension Fund
• Company‑funded employee life and disability insurance
• 20 days vacation, unlimited sick leave
• $2,000 USD annual Co‑working Travel perk
• $2,000 USD annual Professional Development perk
• Phone Finance, headphone benefit, home office equipment allowance and wellness perks
• Catered Lunch

Equal Employment Opportunity

PayJoy is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and we welcome and encourage people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Company Principles

Finance for the next billion * Ownership * Break Through Walls * Live Communication * Transparency & Directness * Focus on Scale * Work‑Life Balance * Embrace Diversity * Speed * Active Listening