Senior Commercial Performance & BI Lead

Lesaka Technologies; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Lesaka Technologies seeks a Manager: Commercial Performance and Business Intelligence to lead analytics across commercial and procurement, translating large datasets into actionable insights. You will develop dashboards, support decision-making, and govern data quality while guiding two analysts.

You will collaborate with finance, procurement and senior leadership to drive GP, stock management, pricing insights and performance metrics across content categories.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a data/finance related field.
• 5+ years in BI, data analytics or financial reporting.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain BI dashboards for content performance, stock, GP, and treasury.
• Analyze transactional data across categories to spot trends and opportunities.
• Support gate decisions with financial modelling and scenario analysis.
• Evaluate initiatives against GP targets, WACC and margins.
• Create standardized weekly/monthly/quarterly reporting packs.
• Produce P&L reports by customer, supplier and category.
• Collaborate with Procurement to deliver supplier analytics and pricing insights.
• Maintain data integrity and align BI with finance and operations.
• Lead and develop a two-analyst team.
• Champion data governance and improve data pipelines and integrations.
• Deliver ad hoc analyses for leadership.
• Monitor market trends across MNOs, aggregators, electricity distributors, and voucher providers.

Education

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

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Excel

Job description

Lesaka Technologies seeks a Manager: Commercial Performance and Business Intelligence to lead analytics across commercial and procurement, translating large datasets into actionable insights. You will develop dashboards, support decision-making, and govern data quality while guiding two analysts.

You will collaborate with finance, procurement and senior leadership to drive GP, stock management, pricing insights and performance metrics across content categories.