Strategic Analytics Lead — Insights & Reporting

Network Recruitment; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Network Recruitment has a leading analytics role in a major financial services organisation. We are seeking an Analytics and Reporting Lead to drive business performance through advanced analytics, reporting, and insight generation.

The successful candidate will lead analytics and reporting solutions, partner with multiple business areas, and mentor a team to deliver high-quality insights that inform data-led decision-making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, information systems, analytics, statistics, data science, actuarial science or related field.
• 6+ years in analytics, reporting, BI, data analytics or similar.
• 3–4 years leading analytics teams in financial services or data-intensive environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of analytics and reporting solutions for strategic and operational decision-making.
• Translate requirements into actionable insights, metrics, and reporting frameworks.
• Develop dashboards, scorecards, KPI tracking, and management reporting.
• Analyze performance data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Ensure accuracy, governance, and integrity of outputs.
• Oversee data extraction, validation, transformation, and preparation for reporting.
• Partner with business, finance, risk, tech, and data teams to deliver insights.
• Present findings and recommendations to leadership.
• Establish and maintain reporting standards and cadence.
• Lead and mentor analytics team members to ensure high-quality delivery.
• Drive automation and process improvement in reporting and analytics.

Skills

SQL

BI/Data Visualization

KPI Frameworks

Leadership

Stakeholder Engagement

Data Warehousing

UAT Support

Data Governance

Education

Bachelor's Degree in IT/Analytics/Data/Quantitative Field

Tools

Power BI/Tableau

Data Warehousing Tools

Job description

Network Recruitment has a leading analytics role in a major financial services organisation. We are seeking an Analytics and Reporting Lead to drive business performance through advanced analytics, reporting, and insight generation.

The successful candidate will lead analytics and reporting solutions, partner with multiple business areas, and mentor a team to deliver high-quality insights that inform data-led decision-making.