Senior Data Analyst, Performance Management

Sanlam; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 350,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company in Cape Town is seeking a data analyst to enhance performance management. The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of experience in data analytics, strong SQL skills, and experience with BI tools like Tableau or PowerBI. You will work with various business leaders to develop actionable insights and impactful metrics to drive decision-making.

Benefits

Learning from seasoned professionals

High ownership and autonomy

Engaging projects impacting millions

Qualifications

• 3+ years in insights producing role as a data scientist/analyst.
• Proven track record of defining KPIs/metrics that influenced decision-making.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with at least one BI/visualisation tool.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and deliver KPIs for performance management.
• Work with business leaders to ensure metrics are actionable.
• Deliver curated performance metrics visualisations.

Skills

SQL

Data storytelling

Communication skills

Business insights

Education

3+ years in insights producing role

Tools

Tableau

PowerBI

Job description

Sanlam Fintech is a newly established digital first business within the Sanlam Group on a mission to democratize financial advice and solutions for everyone across the African continent. We exist to pioneer inclusive financial confidence helping people build strong foundations to bridge the gap in generational wealth.

As a data analyst, your work is a canvas for change, painted with the data you explore and the insights you uncover. You're not just joining a team; you're embarking on a mission to reshape the financial landscape for all Africans, making tomorrow not just different, but better.

Position Overview

This is a data analyst role in the Performance Management capability. This role is central to how leaders at Sanlam Fintech measure success, understand drivers, and intervene to achieve success. You will design, maintain, and deliver a consistent set of KPIs and drivers that power performance management across SFT.

You will work with business, product, commercial, and operations leaders to ensure metrics are well-defined, trusted, and actionable, and bring them to life through insightful dashboards and performance stories.

What you’ll achieve in the first 12 months

• Develop a trusted and aligned metrics framework across key pillars: Work with Exco and business units (BU) leaders to co-define success metrics and their drivers.
• Deliver curated performance metric visualisations that connect SFT top-level KPIs to their drivers.
• Embed Performance Management in leadership rhythms: Partner with Exco and BUs to ensure that Performance Management capability becomes the foundation of cluster-wide performance discussions and OKR reviews.
• Generate interventions that change outcomes: Performance facts fuel deeper investigation and learning loops conducted by data scientists and analyst within BUs and targeted interventions.

What you'll have

• 3+ years in insights producing role as a data scientist/analyst
• Proven track record of defining KPIs/metrics that influenced decision-making
• Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with at least one BI/visualisation tool (Tableau, PowerBI)
• Experience partnering with senior business stakeholders
• Strong data storytelling and communication skills, comfortable engaging with non-technical executives.

How you’ll think

You focus on outcomes, not outputs. Ensuring metrics drive interventions that improve customer and business results. You’re high agency, looking for ways to do, instead of reasons not to.

What you’ll enjoy

• Storytelling with data, moving leaders from numbers to actions
• Being in a high ownership, high ambiguity, high autonomy environment where the impact of your work matters.
• Learn from the best. Get guidance from some of the most seasoned professionals around.
• Diving into projects that touch the lives of millions. Making a real difference in how people manage their money and plan their lives.
• Working with modern technologies, from Snowflake to DBT, Airflow and Tableau
• A chance to be one of the first data analysts in a newly formed domain team!

Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things.

Our commitment to transformation

The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa.