Senior Corporate Performance Management & Reporting Specialist at Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)

Job Description

• The Senior Corporate Performance Management & Reporting Specialist is responsible for leading the design, execution, and continuous enhancement of corporate performance reporting. This role is responsible for ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of all performance-related reporting to both internal and external stakeholders. A critical aspect
• includes leading the end-to-end coordination and development of the Bank’s Integrated Annual Report (IAR) and Sustainability Review Report in alignment with legislative, regulatory, and audit requirements.
• The incumbent oversees strategic performance monitoring, scenario tracking, B-BBEE reporting, and the reporting of key strategic initiatives to ensure alignment with the Bank’s strategic objectives and performance targets.
• The role also focuses on strengthening internal reporting capabilities and frameworks, embedding best practices and ensuring compliance with relevant standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Corporate Performance Reporting
• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the Bank’s corporate performance reporting
• management and reporting frameworks.
• Maintain compliance with all legislative, regulatory, and internal governance requirements related to performance reporting.
• Deliver timely, accurate, analytical and insightful performance reports for Exco, Board Committees, the Shareholder, and other stakeholders.
• Translate performance data, including BSC indicators, into actionable insights and strategic recommendations.
• Conduct benchmarking, trend analysis and strategic reviews to inform long-term planning and corporate priorities.
• Oversee and deliver timely and high-quality presentations and reports for Exco, the Board, Board Sub-committees the Shareholder, Parliament and other external stakeholders.
• Long-Term Strategy & Scenario Tracking
• Conceptualise and guide the application of relevant tools and instruments for monitoring and measuring strategy implementation throughout the Bank.
• Monitor and report on DBSA’s long-term strategy outcomes and scenario planning outputs.
• Provide detailed analysis and recommendations for strategy review based on the monitoring results.
• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting on strategy execution.
• Design and maintain dashboards and reporting systems to track implementation efforts.
• Obtaining and evaluating information about industry and market trends, competitive threats and possible business opportunities to inform strategy/ies.
• Collaborate with Risk, Economics, and Sector Specialists to integrate scenario insights into strategic tracking.
• Develop sector deep dive reports and make recommendations on sectoral focus.

Integrated Annual / Mid-term Reporting Coordination

• Develop internal capabilities, frameworks and systems to produce the DBSA’s Integrated Annual Report.
• Lead the planning, coordination, and production of the Bank’s Integrated Annual and Mid-term Reporting in line with the relevant framework, including the PFMA, IIRC Framework, King IV, and relevant ESG standards.
• Lead the compilation of a Sustainability Review Report in line with the relevant standards.
• Contribute to the development and finalisation of the Annual Financial Statements (AFS) in collaboration with
• Finance and ensure alignment with the Annual Performance Report.
• Confirm that all reporting outputs are audit-ready, compliant with PFMA, IFRS, and other regulatory standards.
• Develop internal reporting frameworks and guidelines to support annual and mid-term reporting cycles.
• Facilitate cohesive and high-quality input from all business units through clear guidance and project management.
• Strategic Initiatives Monitoring and Reporting
• Drive tracking and performance reporting of strategic initiatives and flagship projects.
• Maintain alignment between strategic initiative outcomes and corporate objectives.
• Analyse performance against key milestones and recommend interventions where required.
• Inform future-year strategic initiative planning based on historical performance data and strategic priorities.

B-BBEE Performance Reporting

• Prepare comprehensive performance reports aligned to B-BBEE compliance requirements, and submit to the BEE Commission within prescribed timeframes.
• Track and report on B-BBEE performance across divisions, identifying areas for improvement.
• Support the implementation and monitoring of B-BBEE improvement plans to ensure measurable impact.
• Provide strategic guidance to business units on compliance and performance enhancements.

Audit & Regulatory Reporting Coordination

• Manage and ensure that all statutory reporting is audit-compliant and delivered within prescribed timelines.
• Serve as liaison between Strategy, Finance, Internal Audit, relevant Divisions and External Auditors to address
• queries related to performance and integrated reporting.
• Oversee the collation and submission of documentation required for performance-related audit processes.
• Maintain an up-to-date repository of reports, policies, and evidence to support audit readiness.

People Management

• Lead and develop team members by setting clear objectives, providing constructive feedback, and fostering a
• supportive and collaborative work environment.
• Recognising individual strengths, facilitating professional growth, and aligning team efforts with organisational
• goals to enhance overall performance and engagement.
• Provide technical assistance and mentorship to subordinates.
• Facilitate training and capacity building within the team on corporate performance management and reporting.

Key Measurements of Outputs

• Quality, accuracy, and timeliness of performance and strategic reporting.
• Successful and compliant submission of the Integrated Annual Report and Annual Financial Statements.
• Level of engagement and satisfaction from internal and external stakeholders (Board, Exco, Auditors, Shareholder).
• Effective implementation tracking of strategic initiatives.
• Compliance with regulatory, ESG, B-BBEE, and audit requirements.
• Quality and relevance of strategic insights provided to the executive team.
• Achievement of B-BBEE improvement targets and measurable transformation outcomes.
• Expertise & Technical Competencies

Reporting

• Designs, reviews and improves reporting processes and provides guidance.
• Leads production of complex reports, takes an editorial role, determines content and level of detail, and ensures consistent messaging and branding.

Presentation skills

• Knows how to deliver arguments persuasively by employing a range of advanced presentation techniques (e.g. the appropriate use of body language, how to close a presentation so that the audience continues to think about the subject matter etc.).
• Has knowledge of various feedback mechanisms to check levels of audience understanding.
• Can reinforce key presentation points with examples.
• Business acumen
• Thinks and plans in future-oriented terms.
• Develops annual business plans that consider longer-term activities, issues, problems or opportunities.
• Develops and establishes broad scale, longer-term objectives, goals or projects (e.g., affecting a business, department, or organisation).
• Planning and Organising
• Is relied on to help others plan and organise their workload.
• Uses effectively advance time management processes to deal with high workload and tight deadlines.
• Organises, prioritises and schedules tasks so they can be performed within budget and with the efficient use of time and resources.
• Achieves goals in a timely manner, despite obstacles encountered, by organising, reprioritising and replanning.

Project Management

• Defines plans and manages large and/or strategic projects, including those with a high degree of technical complexity, with impacts across the organisation and/or with national implications.
• Assembles and leads diverse and multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring maximum effective resource utilisation.
• Successfully manages substantial project budgets and reports directly to senior managers on the progress and results of projects.
• Identifies complex issues that need escalation and proposes appropriate corrective actions.
• Solutions Focused
• Identifies complex problems based on a broad range of factors, many of which are ambiguous or difficult to define.
• While remaining guided by organisational values, identifies optimal solutions, thinking first in terms of possible approaches and flexibilities in the system vs. blind adherence to rules or procedures.
• Evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of solutions after they have been implemented and identifies needed changes.
• Detailed Oriented
• Quickly identifies relevant and irrelevant information to support accurate decision making.
• Maps out all the logistics and details of a situation to ensure smooth and flawless implementation.
• Consistently identifies all relevant details that are not obvious in complex situations.
• Requires the highest standards for accuracy and quality for their work.
• Establishes processes to ensure accuracy and quality of services delivered by the team.

Qualifications

• A postgraduate degree in Strategy, Finance, Economics, Business, or a related field.

Experience

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation, corporate performance reporting, strategic execution, and corporate governance within development finance institutions, financial services, or the public sector.
• Proven leadership experience in coordinating and delivering Annual Reports aligned with regulatory and audit requirements.
• Strong knowledge of ESG principles, King IV, the IIRC Framework, B-BBEE Codes, and public finance legislation (e.g., PFMA).
• Skilled in designing and implementing performance management frameworks, reporting systems, and dashboards to support strategic decision-making.
• Experience in developing both internal and external reporting capabilities, with a focus on regulatory compliance and stakeholder alignment.
• Deep understanding of infrastructure development, financial markets, political economy, macroeconomics, and socio-economic challenges and opportunities across South Africa and the African continent.
• Strategic thinker with a demonstrated ability to translate data and analysis into actionable insights that drive organisational performance and transformation.
• Proven ability to successfully lead complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives and corporate reporting projects from planning to execution.
• Demonstrated writing and analytical skills with the ability to produce high-impact reports, strategy documents, and presentations for executive and board audiences.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with experience presenting at executive, board, and shareholder levels.
• Solid understanding of the financial and regulatory landscape relevant to development finance institutions.
• *The KPA’s, competencies and relationships listed in this document, is not exhaustive and the incumbent will be expected to undertake additional duties within their capacity to meet the needs of business and/or the business unit.

Required Personal Attributes

Analytical Thinking

• Identifies multiple elements of a problem and breaks down each of those elements in detail, showing causal relationships between them.
• Uses several analytical techniques to identify several solutions and weighs the value of each.
• Driving Delivery of Results
• Identifies and implements a business opportunity that will have a long-term impact on the business. Monitors progress and adapt the plan if necessary to ensure optimal benefit to the business.
• Makes decisions, sets priorities, or chooses goals based on inputs and outputs: makes explicit considerations of potential profit, return on investment, or cost benefit analysis.
• Based on the cost-benefit analysis, makes decisions of entrepreneurial risk nature.
• Attention to Detail
• Double-checks the accuracy of information or work.
• Ensure that the work produced doesn’t contain any errors.

Achievement Orientation

• Delivers work on time and quality and follows through on agreed commitments.
• Views new work experiences as an opportunity for growth.
• Reacts immediately to overcome setbacks or/and obstacles in order to meet goals.
• Recognises and acts upon current opportunities.

Self-Awareness and Self-Control

• Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations.
• Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress.
• May apply special techniques or plan ahead of time to manage emotions or stress.

Strategic and Innovative Thinking

• Experiments with new approaches, tests scenarios, questions assumptions and challenges conventional thinking.
• Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others, leveraging internal and external sources of information, to build incremental revenue and growth opportunities.

Teamwork and Cooperation

• Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts.
• Creates opportunities for cross-functional working.
• Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience.

Closing date: Novemeber 21, 2025