Head of BI & Analytics — AI-Driven Insight Leader

Kuda; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 1,300,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Career development

Paid leave

Medical insurance

Hybrid work

Job summary

Kuda is seeking a Head of BI & Analytics to lead our BI & Analytics function, delivering trusted reporting and product insights that drive decisions across the business. You will lead a BI Engineering team scaling our semantic layer as the single source of truth and an Analytics team embedded in product squads delivering deeper product insight and advanced analytics.

You will champion the next‑generation BI platform, expand self‑serve data access and AI use across the organisation, and set the

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading data teams including managers, engineers and analysts.
• Strong SQL and data warehousing foundations for trusted reporting.
• Experience designing or scaling a semantic layer and KPI definitions.
• Forecasting and modelling experience to inform decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead BI Engineering and analytics teams across product squads.
• Own BI strategy, semantic layer and gold data sources.
• Drive AI adoption and self-serve data across the business.
• Define KPIs and ownership across functions.
• Support forecasting and financial modelling.

Skills

Leadership experience

SQL

Data warehousing

Semantic layer

Forecasting

Product analytics

Stakeholder management

AI in BI

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

BigQuery

Looker

Dataform/dbt

Job description

Kuda is seeking a Head of BI & Analytics to lead our BI & Analytics function, delivering trusted reporting and product insights that drive decisions across the business. You will lead a BI Engineering team scaling our semantic layer as the single source of truth and an Analytics team embedded in product squads delivering deeper product insight and advanced analytics.

You will champion the next‑generation BI platform, expand self‑serve data access and AI use across the organisation, and set the