As a Data and Financial Analyst at Lesaka Technologies, you'll support commercial decision-making by analyzing large datasets and creating insightful dashboards. Your work will help the team understand performance metrics and improve profitability across various channels.
Dynamic and data-driven, with a focus on commercial intelligence.
**Job Description** *Commercial Intelligence — Enterprise Division* **Direct reports:** None **Division:** Commercial Intelligence — Enterprise Division **ROLE PURPOSE** The Data and Financial Analyst supports the Manager: Commercial Performance and Business Intelligence in developing and maintaining the analytical outputs that drive commercial decision\-making across the Commercial Intelligence function. The role involves working with large transactional datasets, building and maintaining dashboards, and producing financial and operational reports that give leadership real\-time visibility into channel, supplier, product and content performance and profitability, stock positions, customer and supplier activity and profitability of the Commercial function at a customer, supplier, product, etc. level. The analyst plays a critical role in ensuring that data used across the Commercial Intelligence function is accurate, timely, and presented in a format that is actionable. **KEY RESPONSIBILITIES** * Extract, clean, and analyse large transactional datasets from multiple content categories including airtime, data, bill payments, electricity, and vouchers. * Build and maintain Power BI, Tableau, DataStudio or equivalent dashboards that provide real\-time visibility into key commercial metrics. * Produce standard weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting packs for the Manager: Commercial Performance and Business Intelligence and Head of Commercial Intelligence and senior stakeholders. * Support the commercial assessment process by providing historical performance data, trend analysis, and financial modelling inputs. * Assist in reconciling financial data between operational systems and the organisation's finance reporting environment. * Identify data quality issues and work with technology teams to resolve upstream data problems. * Respond to ad hoc data and analysis requests from the procurement, product, and growth management teams. **MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS** * Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Finance, or a related field. * Minimum 2 years' experience in a data analysis, financial reporting, or BI role. * Proficiency in SQL and at least one BI platform (Power BI, Tableau, or similar). * Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel. * Experience working with large transactional datasets in a fintech, payments, or telecoms environment is advantageous. * Strong attention to detail with good problem\-solving ability. **CORE COMPETENCIES** * Data extraction, transformation, and analysis * BI dashboard development and maintenance * Financial and operational reporting * Data quality management * Communication of insights to non\-technical stakeholders * Collaborative and proactive work ethic
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