Lesaka empowers underserviced Southern African consumers and merchants to fulfil their potential by delivering innovative financial services and other business services focussed on their specific needs.
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Role Overview
Lesaka is seeking an experienced and strategic Head of Data to lead data capabilities across the Group, with a dual mandate:
- At Group level: Act as Head of Data Engineering, defining and operating shared data platforms, architecture, and engineering standards across Consumer, Enterprise, and Merchant businesses.
- At Enterprise level: Own the end-to-end data function, including Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Data Analytics, and Data Science, driving insight, innovation, and measurable business value.
This role is critical to enabling data-driven decision-making, scalable platforms, and advanced analytics across Lesakaʼs diverse and high-volume businesses.
Key Responsibilities
Group Responsibilities (Consumer, Enterprise, Merchant)
Serve as Group Head of Data Engineering, accountable for:
- Data platform strategy, architecture, and tooling
- Reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency of data platforms
- Define and enforce group-wide data engineering standards, best practices, and governance
- Build and maintain shared data infrastructure supporting high-volume transactional systems
- Partner with Group Technology, Security, and Architecture teams to ensure compliance, security, and resilience
- Enable self-service analytics and data access across all business units
- Lead and develop senior data engineering leaders across the Group
Enterprise Responsibilities (Full Data Ownership)
Act as Head of Data for the Enterprise business, with full accountability for:
- Data Engineering
- Analytics Engineering
- Data Analytics / BI
- Data Science
- Translate enterprise strategy into a data and analytics roadmap
- Drive adoption of modern analytics practices (semantic layers, metrics, experimentation, ML)
- Partner closely with Enterprise leadership (Product, Sales, Finance, Operations)
Deliver actionable insights that improve:
- Revenue growth
- Customer acquisition & retention
- Operational efficiency
- Oversee advanced analytics and data science use cases, including predictive modeling and optimization
- Own data quality, trust, and business usability within Enterprise
Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Lead, mentor, and scale high-performing multi-disciplinary data teams
- Influence senior executives with clear, outcome-focused data narratives
- Balance short-term delivery with long-term platform evolution
- Act as a key advisor on data, analytics, and AI strategy
- Manage vendors, partners, and third-party platforms where applicable
Governance, Risk & Compliance
- Ensure compliance with regulatory and data privacy requirements (e.g., POPIA)
- Implement strong data governance, lineage, and quality frameworks
- Partner with Risk and Compliance teams to ensure responsible data usage
Required Experience & Skills
Experience
- 10+ years in data roles, with significant leadership experience
- Proven experience leading data teams at scale
- Experience owning end-to-end data functions (engineering → analytics → data science)
- Background in complex, high-volume environments (payments, fintech, financial services preferred)
- Experience operating in multi-business or group structures
Technical & Functional Skills
- Modern data platforms (cloud data warehouses, streaming, orchestration)
- Strong understanding of analytics engineering and BI best practices
- Familiarity with data science and machine learning lifecycle
- Data governance, quality, and security frameworks
- Ability to translate business problems into data solutions
Leadership & Personal Attributes
- Strategic thinker with strong execution capability
- Excellent communicator across technical and non-technical audiences
- Comfortable operating at executive level
- Pragmatic, outcome-driven, and commercially aware
- Strong people leader with a track record of building senior teams
Closing Date 06 February 2026
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Job Description
Key Performance Areas
- To acquire and educate for sales and service. drive digital migration, ensure activation and cross complementary products
Customer
- Takes accountability in customer engagement to identify customer’s needs.
- Use the systems to establish the authenticity of the customer and avoid dealing with and compromising information to unauthorized persons.
- Performs the regulatory checks for the customer, FICA, POPI and NCR
- Aid customers in account servicing and account origination.
- Handles client serving like issuing of card, answering to client queries
- Referring matters outside the operational mandate to the team leader
People
- Adheres to principles of teamwork
- Allows to be led by the senior
Finance
- Ensure that revenue is generated by meeting the agreed sales target
- Retain customers by providing client service and resolving complaints and queries timeously
- Prevent account closures and operational losses by following laid down procedures on compliance
Process, Risk, Regulatory & Compliance
- Comply with FAIS guidelines (Honesty and Integrity)
- Operates within the code of conduct
- Adhere to Treat Customer fairly, FICA, POPI and NCR guidelines
- Refers any matters outside the laid down scoring to the team leader
- Operate within the stipulated Levels and Limits
- Collate information regarding systems, clients and process to aid an improvement of the overall client experience
Responsibilities
- Leads identified converted into successful sales.
- Ensure activities support cost containment and reduction.
- Educate customers on correct digital channels to maximize channel optimisation.
- Connect with our customers by living up to our brand promise of “HIGH FIVE” at all times. Converse with our customers in a way that they fully understand and provide helpful solutions and products based on their needs.
- Make sure ACTIVATION is PRIORITY on onboarding
- Always conduct themselves in an ethical manner.
- Adhere to the TCF (Treating Customer fairly) principles in all that you do.
- Optimize every customer interaction to migrate cash transactions and/or convert customer to digital channels and self-service channels.
- Resolve all customer queries efficiently, and within agreed timelines.
- Achievement of Sales and Service client retention by managing the breakdown activities as listed in the Sales and Service Operation requirements.
- Always comply with procedures and processes contained in the relevant business guidelines and understand the risk associated with decisions.
- Fulfilling transactions above the benchmark set and providing an exceptional customer experience.
- Demonstrates behaviour in support of the organizational values.
- Takes accountability for own performance, personal and career development.
- Maintain an ability to adapt to ever changing business and customer needs.
- Contribute to the overall effectiveness and success of the team.
- Improve knowledge and competencies by completing role specific training.
Key performance measure
- Service compliments and complaints
- Adhere to Compliance requirements
- Operational losses and attrition
Qualifications
- Minimum Qualification: NQF 4 Qualification
- Preferred Qualification: Relevant NQF 5 qualification as prescribed by the Financial Services Board
- Regulatory Exam qualification
- An appropriate recognised business Diploma or Higher Certificate at NQF level 6
- Microsoft office Computer Literate
Experience
- Experience: 1-2 years related experience
- FAIS – Yes
The successful applicant must:
- Leadership competencies - Manager of Self
- Meeting customers’ needs: I make every effort to understand and fulfil the needs of my internal and external customers. The relationships I establish help customers to feel valued and appreciated and reflect good business practices.
- Handling upset customers: I handle upset customers by hearing them out, empathizing, apologizing, and taking personal responsibility for resolving their problems/issues
- Accepting development opportunities: I accept responsibility for my own development so that I can reach my full potential; and I jointly determine appropriate developmental activities with my manager; OR
- Inspiring others to develop I instil in others a curiosity for new knowledge, experiences, and challenges, and help team members to create development opportunities for the achievement of their full potential
- Anticipating changes: I anticipate changes in work tasks, situations, and the environment, and actively use new situations as opportunities to achieve results
- Considering impact: When attempting to improve my work outputs, I consider the people and systems that will be impacted by my actions
- Working interdependently: My best results are achieved when working with or through my team and, where applicable, several diverse teams across the Net1
- Valuing teams: I value the talents of others, demonstrate commitment to my team, share important or relevant information, and contribute to the achievement of our goals
- Having the confidence to achieve ambitious goals: I strive for the achievement of ambitious goals, as an individual and within teams. I ensure that my actions and decisions demonstrate a commercial mindset.
- Celebrating success: I celebrate success but guard against complacency, do not undermine or discredit others, or become arrogant.
- Building relationships: I actively build trusting and productive relationships with people at work, regardless of their cultural backgrounds, backgrounds, or viewpoints.
- Being true to myself: I always do what I say I will do, even when I am under pressure.
- Demonstrating integrity: I work in an open, transparent and respectful way and I uphold the rights and feelings of all those I work with, especially our customers.
- Understanding regulatory requirements: I demonstrate a full knowledge and understanding of all regulatory rules and principles relevant to my role. I adhere to both the letter and the spirit of applicable regulatory rules and principles. I comply with internal policies and procedures and escalate or whistle-blow potential risks and concerns when I identify them.
Closing Date 12 February 2026
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Job Description
Key Performance Areas
- To acquire and educate for sales and service. drive digital migration, ensure activation and cross complementary products
Customer
- Takes accountability in customer engagement to identify customer’s needs.
- Use the systems to establish the authenticity of the customer and avoid dealing with and compromising information to unauthorized persons.
- Performs the regulatory checks for the customer, FICA, POPI and NCR
- Aid customers in account servicing and account origination.
- Handles client serving like issuing of card, answering to client queries
- Referring matters outside the operational mandate to the team leader
People
- Adheres to principles of teamwork
- Allows to be led by the senior
Finance
- Ensure that revenue is generated by meeting the agreed sales target
- Retain customers by providing client service and resolving complaints and queries timeously
- Prevent account closures and operational losses by following laid down procedures on compliance
Process, Risk, Regulatory & Compliance
- Comply with FAIS guidelines (Honesty and Integrity)
- Operates within the code of conduct
- Adhere to Treat Customer fairly, FICA, POPI and NCR guidelines
- Refers any matters outside the laid down scoring to the team leader
- Operate within the stipulated Levels and Limits
- Collate information regarding systems, clients and process to aid an improvement of the overall client experience
Responsibilities
- Leads identified converted into successful sales.
- Ensure activities support cost containment and reduction.
- Educate customers on correct digital channels to maximize channel optimisation.
- Connect with our customers by living up to our brand promise of “HIGH FIVE” at all times. Converse with our customers in a way that they fully understand and provide helpful solutions and products based on their needs.
- Make sure ACTIVATION is PRIORITY on onboarding
- Always conduct themselves in an ethical manner.
- Adhere to the TCF (Treating Customer fairly) principles in all that you do.
- Optimize every customer interaction to migrate cash transactions and/or convert customer to digital channels and self-service channels.
- Resolve all customer queries efficiently, and within agreed timelines.
- Achievement of Sales and Service client retention by managing the breakdown activities as listed in the Sales and Service Operation requirements.
- Always comply with procedures and processes contained in the relevant business guidelines and understand the risk associated with decisions.
- Fulfilling transactions above the benchmark set and providing an exceptional customer experience.
- Demonstrates behaviour in support of the organizational values.
- Takes accountability for own performance, personal and career development.
- Maintain an ability to adapt to ever changing business and customer needs.
- Contribute to the overall effectiveness and success of the team.
- Improve knowledge and competencies by completing role specific training.
Key performance measure
- Meet stipulated target
- Service compliments and complaints
- Adhere to Compliance requirements
- Operational losses and attrition
Qualifications
- Minimum Qualification: NQF 4 Qualification
- Preferred Qualification: Relevant NQF 5 qualification as prescribed by the Financial Services Board
- Regulatory Exam qualification
- An appropriate recognised business Diploma or Higher Certificate at NQF level 6
- Microsoft office Computer Literate
Experience
- Experience: 1-2 years related experience
- FAIS – Yes
The successful applicant must:
- Leadership competencies - Manager of Self
- Meeting customers’ needs: I make every effort to understand and fulfil the needs of my internal and external customers. The relationships I establish help customers to feel valued and appreciated and reflect good business practices.
- Handling upset customers: I handle upset customers by hearing them out, empathizing, apologizing, and taking personal responsibility for resolving their problems/issues
- Accepting development opportunities: I accept responsibility for my own development so that I can reach my full potential; and I jointly determine appropriate developmental activities with my manager; OR
- Inspiring others to develop I instil in others a curiosity for new knowledge, experiences, and challenges, and help team members to create development opportunities for the achievement of their full potential
- Anticipating changes: I anticipate changes in work tasks, situations, and the environment, and actively use new situations as opportunities to achieve results
- Considering impact: When attempting to improve my work outputs, I consider the people and systems that will be impacted by my actions
- Working interdependently: My best results are achieved when working with or through my team and, where applicable, several diverse teams across the Net1
- Valuing teams: I value the talents of others, demonstrate commitment to my team, share important or relevant information, and contribute to the achievement of our goals
- Having the confidence to achieve ambitious goals: I strive for the achievement of ambitious goals, as an individual and within teams. I ensure that my actions and decisions demonstrate a commercial mindset.
- Celebrating success: I celebrate success but guard against complacency, do not undermine or discredit others, or become arrogant.
- Building relationships: I actively build trusting and productive relationships with people at work, regardless of their cultural backgrounds, backgrounds, or viewpoints.
- Being true to myself: I always do what I say I will do, even when I am under pressure.
- Demonstrating integrity: I work in an open, transparent and respectful way and I uphold the rights and feelings of all those I work with, especially our customers.
- Understanding regulatory requirements: I demonstrate a full knowledge and understanding of all regulatory rules and principles relevant to my role. I adhere to both the letter and the spirit of applicable regulatory rules and principles. I comply with internal policies and procedures and escalate or whistle-blow potential risks and concerns when I identify them.
Closing Date 12 February 2026
go to method of application »
Job Description
Key Performance Areas
- To acquire and educate for sales and service. drive digital migration, ensure activation and cross complementary products
Customer
- Takes accountability in customer engagement to identify customer’s needs.
- Use the systems to establish the authenticity of the customer and avoid dealing with and compromising information to unauthorized persons.
- Performs the regulatory checks for the customer, FICA, POPI and NCR
- Aid customers in account servicing and account origination.
- Handles client serving like issuing of card, answering to client queries
- Referring matters outside the operational mandate to the team leader
People
- Adheres to principles of teamwork
- Allows to be led by the senior
Finance
- Ensure that revenue is generated by meeting the agreed sales target
- Retain customers by providing client service and resolving complaints and queries timeously
- Prevent account closures and operational losses by following laid down procedures on compliance
Process, Risk, Regulatory & Compliance
- Comply with FAIS guidelines (Honesty and Integrity)
- Operates within the code of conduct
- Adhere to Treat Customer fairly, FICA, POPI and NCR guidelines
- Refers any matters outside the laid down scoring to the team leader
- Operate within the stipulated Levels and Limits
- Collate information regarding systems, clients and process to aid an improvement of the overall client experience
Responsibilities
- Leads identified converted into successful sales.
- Ensure activities support cost containment and reduction.
- Educate customers on correct digital channels to maximize channel optimisation.
- Connect with our customers by living up to our brand promise of “HIGH FIVE” at all times. Converse with our customers in a way that they fully understand and provide helpful solutions and products based on their needs.
- Make sure ACTIVATION is PRIORITY on onboarding
- Always conduct themselves in an ethical manner.
- Adhere to the TCF (Treating Customer fairly) principles in all that you do.
- Optimize every customer interaction to migrate cash transactions and/or convert customer to digital channels and self-service channels.
- Resolve all customer queries efficiently, and within agreed timelines.
- Achievement of Sales and Service client retention by managing the breakdown activities as listed in the Sales and Service Operation requirements.
- Always comply with procedures and processes contained in the relevant business guidelines and understand the risk associated with decisions.
- Fulfilling transactions above the benchmark set and providing an exceptional customer experience.
- Demonstrates behaviour in support of the organizational values.
- Takes accountability for own performance, personal and career development.
- Maintain an ability to adapt to ever changing business and customer needs.
- Contribute to the overall effectiveness and success of the team.
- Improve knowledge and competencies by completing role specific training.
Key performance measure
- Meet stipulated target
- Service compliments and complaints
- Adhere to Compliance requirements
- Operational losses and attrition
Qualifications
- Minimum Qualification: NQF 4 Qualification
- Preferred Qualification: Relevant NQF 5 qualification as prescribed by the Financial Services Board
- Regulatory Exam qualification
- An appropriate recognised business Diploma or Higher Certificate at NQF level 6
- Microsoft office Computer Literate
Experience
- Experience: 1-2 years related experience
- FAIS – Yes
The successful applicant must:
- Leadership competencies - Manager of Self
- Meeting customers’ needs: I make every effort to understand and fulfil the needs of my internal and external customers. The relationships I establish help customers to feel valued and appreciated and reflect good business practices.
- Handling upset customers: I handle upset customers by hearing them out, empathizing, apologizing, and taking personal responsibility for resolving their problems/issues
- Accepting development opportunities: I accept responsibility for my own development so that I can reach my full potential; and I jointly determine appropriate developmental activities with my manager; OR
- Inspiring others to develop I instil in others a curiosity for new knowledge, experiences, and challenges, and help team members to create development opportunities for the achievement of their full potential
- Anticipating changes: I anticipate changes in work tasks, situations, and the environment, and actively use new situations as opportunities to achieve results
- Considering impact: When attempting to improve my work outputs, I consider the people and systems that will be impacted by my actions
- Working interdependently: My best results are achieved when working with or through my team and, where applicable, several diverse teams across the Net1
- Valuing teams: I value the talents of others, demonstrate commitment to my team, share important or relevant information, and contribute to the achievement of our goals
- Having the confidence to achieve ambitious goals: I strive for the achievement of ambitious goals, as an individual and within teams. I ensure that my actions and decisions demonstrate a commercial mindset.
- Celebrating success: I celebrate success but guard against complacency, do not undermine or discredit others, or become arrogant.
- Building relationships: I actively build trusting and productive relationships with people at work, regardless of their cultural backgrounds, backgrounds, or viewpoints.
- Being true to myself: I always do what I say I will do, even when I am under pressure.
- Demonstrating integrity: I work in an open, transparent and respectful way and I uphold the rights and feelings of all those I work with, especially our customers.
- Understanding regulatory requirements: I demonstrate a full knowledge and understanding of all regulatory rules and principles relevant to my role. I adhere to both the letter and the spirit of applicable regulatory rules and principles. I comply with internal policies and procedures and escalate or whistle-blow potential risks and concerns when I identify them.
Closing Date 17 February 2026
go to method of application »
Job Description
Key Performance Areas
- To acquire and educate for sales and service. drive digital migration, ensure activation and cross complementary products
Customer
- Takes accountability in customer engagement to identify customer’s needs.
- Use the systems to establish the authenticity of the customer and avoid dealing with and compromising information to unauthorized persons.
- Performs the regulatory checks for the customer, FICA, POPI and NCR
- Aid customers in account servicing and account origination.
- Handles client serving like issuing of card, answering to client queries
- Referring matters outside the operational mandate to the team leader
People
- Adheres to principles of teamwork
- Allows to be led by the senior
Finance
- Ensure that revenue is generated by meeting the agreed sales target
- Retain customers by providing client service and resolving complaints and queries timeously
- Prevent account closures and operational losses by following laid down procedures on compliance
Process, Risk, Regulatory & Compliance
- Comply with FAIS guidelines (Honesty and Integrity)
- Operates within the code of conduct
- Adhere to Treat Customer fairly, FICA, POPI and NCR guidelines
- Refers any matters outside the laid down scoring to the team leader
- Operate within the stipulated Levels and Limits
- Collate information regarding systems, clients and process to aid an improvement of the overall client experience
Responsibilities
- Leads identified converted into successful sales.
- Ensure activities support cost containment and reduction.
- Educate customers on correct digital channels to maximize channel optimisation.
- Connect with our customers by living up to our brand promise of “HIGH FIVE” at all times. Converse with our customers in a way that they fully understand and provide helpful solutions and products based on their needs.
- Make sure ACTIVATION is PRIORITY on onboarding
- Always conduct themselves in an ethical manner.
- Adhere to the TCF (Treating Customer fairly) principles in all that you do.
- Optimize every customer interaction to migrate cash transactions and/or convert customer to digital channels and self-service channels.
- Resolve all customer queries efficiently, and within agreed timelines.
- Achievement of Sales and Service client retention by managing the breakdown activities as listed in the Sales and Service Operation requirements.
- Always comply with procedures and processes contained in the relevant business guidelines and understand the risk associated with decisions.
- Fulfilling transactions above the benchmark set and providing an exceptional customer experience.
- Demonstrates behaviour in support of the organizational values.
- Takes accountability for own performance, personal and career development.
- Maintain an ability to adapt to ever changing business and customer needs.
- Contribute to the overall effectiveness and success of the team.
- Improve knowledge and competencies by completing role specific training.
Key performance measure
- Meet stipulated target
- Service compliments and complaints
- Adhere to Compliance requirements
- Operational losses and attrition
Qualifications
- Minimum Qualification: NQF 4 Qualification
- Preferred Qualification: Relevant NQF 5 qualification as prescribed by the Financial Services Board
- Regulatory Exam qualification
- An appropriate recognised business Diploma or Higher Certificate at NQF level 6
- Microsoft office Computer Literate
Experience
- Experience: 1-2 years related experience
- FAIS – Yes
The successful applicant must:
- Leadership competencies - Manager of Self
- Meeting customers’ needs: I make every effort to understand and fulfil the needs of my internal and external customers. The relationships I establish help customers to feel valued and appreciated and reflect good business practices.
- Handling upset customers: I handle upset customers by hearing them out, empathizing, apologizing, and taking personal responsibility for resolving their problems/issues
- Accepting development opportunities: I accept responsibility for my own development so that I can reach my full potential; and I jointly determine appropriate developmental activities with my manager; OR
- Inspiring others to develop I instil in others a curiosity for new knowledge, experiences, and challenges, and help team members to create development opportunities for the achievement of their full potential
- Anticipating changes: I anticipate changes in work tasks, situations, and the environment, and actively use new situations as opportunities to achieve results
- Considering impact: When attempting to improve my work outputs, I consider the people and systems that will be impacted by my actions
- Working interdependently: My best results are achieved when working with or through my team and, where applicable, several diverse teams across the Net1
- Valuing teams: I value the talents of others, demonstrate commitment to my team, share important or relevant information, and contribute to the achievement of our goals
- Having the confidence to achieve ambitious goals: I strive for the achievement of ambitious goals, as an individual and within teams. I ensure that my actions and decisions demonstrate a commercial mindset.
- Celebrating success: I celebrate success but guard against complacency, do not undermine or discredit others, or become arrogant.
- Building relationships: I actively build trusting and productive relationships with people at work, regardless of their cultural backgrounds, backgrounds, or viewpoints.
- Being true to myself: I always do what I say I will do, even when I am under pressure.
- Demonstrating integrity: I work in an open, transparent and respectful way and I uphold the rights and feelings of all those I work with, especially our customers.
- Understanding regulatory requirements: I demonstrate a full knowledge and understanding of all regulatory rules and principles relevant to my role. I adhere to both the letter and the spirit of applicable regulatory rules and principles. I comply with internal policies and procedures and escalate or whistle-blow potential risks and concerns when I identify them.
Closing Date 12 February 2026
go to method of application »
Job Description
Key Performance Areas
- To acquire and educate for sales and service. drive digital migration, ensure activation and cross complementary products
Customer
- Takes accountability in customer engagement to identify customer’s needs.
- Use the systems to establish the authenticity of the customer and avoid dealing with and compromising information to unauthorized persons.
- Performs the regulatory checks for the customer, FICA, POPI and NCR
- Aid customers in account servicing and account origination.
- Handles client serving like issuing of card, answering to client queries
- Referring matters outside the operational mandate to the team leader
People
- Adheres to principles of teamwork
- Allows to be led by the senior
Finance
- Ensure that revenue is generated by meeting the agreed sales target
- Retain customers by providing client service and resolving complaints and queries timeously
- Prevent account closures and operational losses by following laid down procedures on compliance
Process, Risk, Regulatory & Compliance
- Comply with FAIS guidelines (Honesty and Integrity)
- Operates within the code of conduct
- Adhere to Treat Customer fairly, FICA, POPI and NCR guidelines
- Refers any matters outside the laid down scoring to the team leader
- Operate within the stipulated Levels and Limits
- Collate information regarding systems, clients and process to aid an improvement of the overall client experience
Responsibilities
- Leads identified converted into successful sales.
- Ensure activities support cost containment and reduction.
- Educate customers on correct digital channels to maximize channel optimisation.
- Connect with our customers by living up to our brand promise of “HIGH FIVE” at all times. Converse with our customers in a way that they fully understand and provide helpful solutions and products based on their needs.
- Make sure ACTIVATION is PRIORITY on onboarding
- Always conduct themselves in an ethical manner.
- Adhere to the TCF (Treating Customer fairly) principles in all that you do.
- Optimize every customer interaction to migrate cash transactions and/or convert customer to digital channels and self-service channels.
- Resolve all customer queries efficiently, and within agreed timelines.
- Achievement of Sales and Service client retention by managing the breakdown activities as listed in the Sales and Service Operation requirements.
- Always comply with procedures and processes contained in the relevant business guidelines and understand the risk associated with decisions.
- Fulfilling transactions above the benchmark set and providing an exceptional customer experience.
- Demonstrates behaviour in support of the organizational values.
- Takes accountability for own performance, personal and career development.
- Maintain an ability to adapt to ever changing business and customer needs.
- Contribute to the overall effectiveness and success of the team.
- Improve knowledge and competencies by completing role specific training.
Key performance measure
- Meet stipulated target
- Service compliments and complaints
- Adhere to Compliance requirements
- Operational losses and attrition
Qualifications
- Minimum Qualification: NQF 4 Qualification
- Preferred Qualification: Relevant NQF 5 qualification as prescribed by the Financial Services Board
- Regulatory Exam qualification
- An appropriate recognised business Diploma or Higher Certificate at NQF level 6
- Microsoft office Computer Literate
Experience
- Experience: 1-2 years related experience
- FAIS – Yes
The successful applicant must:
- Leadership competencies - Manager of Self
- Meeting customers’ needs: I make every effort to understand and fulfil the needs of my internal and external customers. The relationships I establish help customers to feel valued and appreciated and reflect good business practices.
- Handling upset customers: I handle upset customers by hearing them out, empathizing, apologizing, and taking personal responsibility for resolving their problems/issues
- Accepting development opportunities: I accept responsibility for my own development so that I can reach my full potential; and I jointly determine appropriate developmental activities with my manager; OR
- Inspiring others to develop I instil in others a curiosity for new knowledge, experiences, and challenges, and help team members to create development opportunities for the achievement of their full potential
- Anticipating changes: I anticipate changes in work tasks, situations, and the environment, and actively use new situations as opportunities to achieve results
- Considering impact: When attempting to improve my work outputs, I consider the people and systems that will be impacted by my actions
- Working interdependently: My best results are achieved when working with or through my team and, where applicable, several diverse teams across the Net1
- Valuing teams: I value the talents of others, demonstrate commitment to my team, share important or relevant information, and contribute to the achievement of our goals
- Having the confidence to achieve ambitious goals: I strive for the achievement of ambitious goals, as an individual and within teams. I ensure that my actions and decisions demonstrate a commercial mindset.
- Celebrating success: I celebrate success but guard against complacency, do not undermine or discredit others, or become arrogant.
- Building relationships: I actively build trusting and productive relationships with people at work, regardless of their cultural backgrounds, backgrounds, or viewpoints.
- Being true to myself: I always do what I say I will do, even when I am under pressure.
- Demonstrating integrity: I work in an open, transparent and respectful way and I uphold the rights and feelings of all those I work with, especially our customers.
- Understanding regulatory requirements: I demonstrate a full knowledge and understanding of all regulatory rules and principles relevant to my role. I adhere to both the letter and the spirit of applicable regulatory rules and principles. I comply with internal policies and procedures and escalate or whistle-blow potential risks and concerns when I identify them.
Closing Date 12 February 2026
go to method of application »
Job Description
Key Performance Areas
- To acquire and educate for sales and service. drive digital migration, ensure activation and cross complementary products
Customer
- Takes accountability in customer engagement to identify customer’s needs.
- Use the systems to establish the authenticity of the customer and avoid dealing with and compromising information to unauthorized persons.
- Performs the regulatory checks for the customer, FICA, POPI and NCR
- Aid customers in account servicing and account origination.
- Handles client serving like issuing of card, answering to client queries
- Referring matters outside the operational mandate to the team leader
People
- Adheres to principles of teamwork
- Allows to be led by the senior
Finance
- Ensure that revenue is generated by meeting the agreed sales target
- Retain customers by providing client service and resolving complaints and queries timeously
- Prevent account closures and operational losses by following laid down procedures on compliance
Process, Risk, Regulatory & Compliance
- Comply with FAIS guidelines (Honesty and Integrity)
- Operates within the code of conduct
- Adhere to Treat Customer fairly, FICA, POPI and NCR guidelines
- Refers any matters outside the laid down scoring to the team leader
- Operate within the stipulated Levels and Limits
- Collate information regarding systems, clients and process to aid an improvement of the overall client experience
Responsibilities
- Leads identified converted into successful sales.
- Ensure activities support cost containment and reduction.
- Educate customers on correct digital channels to maximize channel optimisation.
- Connect with our customers by living up to our brand promise of “HIGH FIVE” at all times. Converse with our customers in a way that they fully understand and provide helpful solutions and products based on their needs.
- Make sure ACTIVATION is PRIORITY on onboarding
- Always conduct themselves in an ethical manner.
- Adhere to the TCF (Treating Customer fairly) principles in all that you do.
- Optimize every customer interaction to migrate cash transactions and/or convert customer to digital channels and self-service channels.
- Resolve all customer queries efficiently, and within agreed timelines.
- Achievement of Sales and Service client retention by managing the breakdown activities as listed in the Sales and Service Operation requirements.
- Always comply with procedures and processes contained in the relevant business guidelines and understand the risk associated with decisions.
- Fulfilling transactions above the benchmark set and providing an exceptional customer experience.
- Demonstrates behaviour in support of the organizational values.
- Takes accountability for own performance, personal and career development.
- Maintain an ability to adapt to ever changing business and customer needs.
- Contribute to the overall effectiveness and success of the team.
- Improve knowledge and competencies by completing role specific training.
Key performance measure
- Meet stipulated target
- Service compliments and complaints
- Adhere to Compliance requirements
- Operational losses and attrition
Qualifications
- Minimum Qualification: NQF 4 Qualification
- Preferred Qualification: Relevant NQF 5 qualification as prescribed by the Financial Services Board
- Regulatory Exam qualification
- An appropriate recognised business Diploma or Higher Certificate at NQF level 6
- Microsoft office Computer Literate
Experience
- Experience: 1-2 years related experience
- FAIS – Yes
The successful applicant must:
- Leadership competencies - Manager of Self
- Meeting customers’ needs: I make every effort to understand and fulfil the needs of my internal and external customers. The relationships I establish help customers to feel valued and appreciated and reflect good business practices.
- Handling upset customers: I handle upset customers by hearing them out, empathizing, apologizing, and taking personal responsibility for resolving their problems/issues
- Accepting development opportunities: I accept responsibility for my own development so that I can reach my full potential; and I jointly determine appropriate developmental activities with my manager; OR
- Inspiring others to develop I instil in others a curiosity for new knowledge, experiences, and challenges, and help team members to create development opportunities for the achievement of their full potential
- Anticipating changes: I anticipate changes in work tasks, situations, and the environment, and actively use new situations as opportunities to achieve results
- Considering impact: When attempting to improve my work outputs, I consider the people and systems that will be impacted by my actions
- Working interdependently: My best results are achieved when working with or through my team and, where applicable, several diverse teams across the Net1
- Valuing teams: I value the talents of others, demonstrate commitment to my team, share important or relevant information, and contribute to the achievement of our goals
- Having the confidence to achieve ambitious goals: I strive for the achievement of ambitious goals, as an individual and within teams. I ensure that my actions and decisions demonstrate a commercial mindset.
- Celebrating success: I celebrate success but guard against complacency, do not undermine or discredit others, or become arrogant.
- Building relationships: I actively build trusting and productive relationships with people at work, regardless of their cultural backgrounds, backgrounds, or viewpoints.
- Being true to myself: I always do what I say I will do, even when I am under pressure.
- Demonstrating integrity: I work in an open, transparent and respectful way and I uphold the rights and feelings of all those I work with, especially our customers.
- Understanding regulatory requirements: I demonstrate a full knowledge and understanding of all regulatory rules and principles relevant to my role. I adhere to both the letter and the spirit of applicable regulatory rules and principles. I comply with internal policies and procedures and escalate or whistle-blow potential risks and concerns when I identify them.
Closing Date 12 February 2026
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Job Description
Key Performance Areas
- To acquire and educate for sales and service. drive digital migration, ensure activation and cross complementary products
Customer
- Takes accountability in customer engagement to identify customer’s needs.
- Use the systems to establish the authenticity of the customer and avoid dealing with and compromising information to unauthorized persons.
- Performs the regulatory checks for the customer, FICA, POPI and NCR
- Aid customers in account servicing and account origination.
- Handles client serving like issuing of card, answering to client queries
- Referring matters outside the operational mandate to the team leader
People
- Adheres to principles of teamwork
- Allows to be led by the senior
Finance
- Ensure that revenue is generated by meeting the agreed sales target
- Retain customers by providing client service and resolving complaints and queries timeously
- Prevent account closures and operational losses by following laid down procedures on compliance
Process, Risk, Regulatory & Compliance
- Comply with FAIS guidelines (Honesty and Integrity)
- Operates within the code of conduct
- Adhere to Treat Customer fairly, FICA, POPI and NCR guidelines
- Refers any matters outside the laid down scoring to the team leader
- Operate within the stipulated Levels and Limits
- Collate information regarding systems, clients and process to aid an improvement of the overall client experience
Responsibilities
- Leads identified converted into successful sales.
- Ensure activities support cost containment and reduction.
- Educate customers on correct digital channels to maximize channel optimisation.
- Connect with our customers by living up to our brand promise of “HIGH FIVE” at all times. Converse with our customers in a way that they fully understand and provide helpful solutions and products based on their needs.
- Make sure ACTIVATION is PRIORITY on onboarding
- Always conduct themselves in an ethical manner.
- Adhere to the TCF (Treating Customer fairly) principles in all that you do.
- Optimize every customer interaction to migrate cash transactions and/or convert customer to digital channels and self-service channels.
- Resolve all customer queries efficiently, and within agreed timelines.
- Achievement of Sales and Service client retention by managing the breakdown activities as listed in the Sales and Service Operation requirements.
- Always comply with procedures and processes contained in the relevant business guidelines and understand the risk associated with decisions.
- Fulfilling transactions above the benchmark set and providing an exceptional customer experience.
- Demonstrates behaviour in support of the organizational values.
- Takes accountability for own performance, personal and career development.
- Maintain an ability to adapt to ever changing business and customer needs.
- Contribute to the overall effectiveness and success of the team.
- Improve knowledge and competencies by completing role specific training.
Key performance measure
- Meet stipulated target
- Service compliments and complaints
- Adhere to Compliance requirements
- Operational losses and attrition
Qualifications
- Minimum Qualification: NQF 4 Qualification
- Preferred Qualification: Relevant NQF 5 qualification as prescribed by the Financial Services Board
- Regulatory Exam qualification
- An appropriate recognised business Diploma or Higher Certificate at NQF level 6
- Microsoft office Computer Literate
Experience
- Experience: 1-2 years related experience
- FAIS – Yes
The successful applicant must:
- Leadership competencies - Manager of Self
- Meeting customers’ needs: I make every effort to understand and fulfil the needs of my internal and external customers. The relationships I establish help customers to feel valued and appreciated and reflect good business practices.
- Handling upset customers: I handle upset customers by hearing them out, empathizing, apologizing, and taking personal responsibility for resolving their problems/issues
- Accepting development opportunities: I accept responsibility for my own development so that I can reach my full potential; and I jointly determine appropriate developmental activities with my manager; OR
- Inspiring others to develop I instil in others a curiosity for new knowledge, experiences, and challenges, and help team members to create development opportunities for the achievement of their full potential
- Anticipating changes: I anticipate changes in work tasks, situations, and the environment, and actively use new situations as opportunities to achieve results
- Considering impact: When attempting to improve my work outputs, I consider the people and systems that will be impacted by my actions
- Working interdependently: My best results are achieved when working with or through my team and, where applicable, several diverse teams across the Net1
- Valuing teams: I value the talents of others, demonstrate commitment to my team, share important or relevant information, and contribute to the achievement of our goals
- Having the confidence to achieve ambitious goals: I strive for the achievement of ambitious goals, as an individual and within teams. I ensure that my actions and decisions demonstrate a commercial mindset.
- Celebrating success: I celebrate success but guard against complacency, do not undermine or discredit others, or become arrogant.
- Building relationships: I actively build trusting and productive relationships with people at work, regardless of their cultural backgrounds, backgrounds, or viewpoints.
- Being true to myself: I always do what I say I will do, even when I am under pressure.
- Demonstrating integrity: I work in an open, transparent and respectful way and I uphold the rights and feelings of all those I work with, especially our customers.
- Understanding regulatory requirements: I demonstrate a full knowledge and understanding of all regulatory rules and principles relevant to my role. I adhere to both the letter and the spirit of applicable regulatory rules and principles. I comply with internal policies and procedures and escalate or whistle-blow potential risks and concerns when I identify them.
Closing Date 12 February 2026
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Role Overview
- We are looking for a strategic and customer-obsessed Growth Manager-Key Accounts to own and grow our most valuable enterprise relationships.
- As a KAM, you’ll be responsible for building long-term partnerships with existing clients, driving revenue growth, identifying upsell/cross-sell opportunities, and ensuring client satisfaction and retention.
- You will work closely with Sales, Product, Customer Success, and Marketing teams to deliver tailored solutions and measurable outcomes to our clients.
Key Responsibilities
Account Management & Growth
- Own the commercial relationship with a portfolio of enterprise clients
- Develop and maintain strong, multi-level relationships within each client organisation
- Lead strategic account planning, QBRs, and contract renewals
Sales & Revenue Expansion
- Identify and close upsell and cross-sell opportunities
- Meet or exceed quarterly and annual revenue growth targets
- Collaborate with internal teams to develop and deliver tailored proposals
Client Experience & Retention
- Ensure clients are realising business value and ROI from our solutions
- Proactively resolve issues and track account health
- Partner with Customer Success and Product to ensure client needs are met
Reporting & Insights
- Maintain accurate records in CRM (e.g., HubSpot, Salesforce)
- Report on pipeline, forecasts, and account health metrics
- Provide market and client insights to influence product and sales strategy
Required Skills & Experience
- 4–7 years of B2B Sales or Account Management experience, ideally in fintech, SaaS, or financial services
- Strong relationship-building and negotiation skills
- Proven ability to grow accounts and exceed sales targets
- Understanding of payments, APIs, or digital financial products a strong advantage
- CRM and sales tools proficiency (HubSpot, Salesforce)
- Excellent communication, commercial acumen, and presentation skills
Closing Date 27 February 2026
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Job Description
- A vacancy exists for Sales Executives within the Merchant Division, in Manguang West.
- As the Sales Executive, you will be the driving force behind the success of Kazang. You will be given full autonomy and accountability as if it were your own business. This means that you will be responsible for ensuring the highest level of quality and customer service. You will be instrumental in the growth and success of the company.
Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Able to conduct and achieve sales targets.
- Able to install the devices.
- Willing to engage with informal vendors.
- Establish new business areas.
- Achieve availability/visibility of the company product.
- Achieve average revenue per unit. Review sales performance weekly and plan strategies to ensure that targets are being met.
- Ensure sales reps are looking for opportunities to cross-sell and propose accordingly.
In order to be considered for this position, the following requirements must be met:
- English and at least one other African language.
- 1-2 years of client sales experience.
- A driver’s license is essential.
Technical Competencies:
- Computer literate in Windows, Outlook, and Excel.
Behavioural Competencies:
- Self-starter.
- Self-Management.
- Willing to work in a productive team.
- Excited about new ventures and eager to learn
Closing Date 28 February 2026
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Role Overview
- We are a high growth, listed fintech group operating across multiple product verticals including payments, universal vouchers, electricity, bills, airtime, terminal software, and switching infrastructure. We are seeking a commercially astute, operationally strong Chief Financial Officer to lead the Enterprise Division’s finance function.
- This is a critical executive role with full Exco membership. The CFO will act as a strategic partner to the Divisional CEO while maintaining strong alignment with Group Finance.
- The role requires experience in multi-entity environments, regulatory rigor (including Sarbanes Oxley compliance (SOX)), and the ability to build a future-fit finance organisation in a complex, high-pressure fintech context.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and execute the divisional financial strategy aligned to Enterprise objectives
- Provide strategic financial leadership to the Divisional CEO and Exco, influencing commercial and operational decisions
- Oversee budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and performance management across multiple legal entities
- Ensure robust financial controls, governance, and full regulatory compliance, including SOX requirements
- Lead finance function transformation projects (ERP, FP&A, process automation) in line with group objectives
- Lead divisional reporting, consolidation, and statutory submissions
- Drive financial insight through advanced KPI analysis, dashboards, and performance metrics
- Own cash flow management, capital allocation, and balance sheet optimization, including liaison with Group Treasury
- Lead financial due diligence, valuation, and integration for mergers, acquisitions, and strategic investments
- Build, modernise, and automate finance systems and processes to support scale and efficiency
- Manage senior stakeholder relationships including auditors, regulators, investors, and banking partners
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing finance leadership team, instilling in a real and authentic way the values of the organization
- Build a team that trust, respect and commit to you
Qualifications & Experience
- Chartered Accountant (CA(SA) – mandatory
- 7+ years of progressive senior finance leadership experience, with 3–5 years at CFO or equivalent executive level
- Experience in fintech, financial services, payments, or complex technology-led environments
- Proven capability in multi-entity, multi-product, and matrixed organisational structures
- Compatible in operational relationship with dynamic, Entrepreneurial CEO
- Experience in finance function transformation projects (ERP, FP&A, process automation)
- Strong working knowledge of SOX, listed company governance, and audit requirements
- Demonstrated experience in M&A, group reporting, and consolidation
- Strong people leadership skills, and a passion for mentoring
- Highly analytical, commercially minded, and comfortable operating in high-stakes environments
What Success Looks Like
- A well-governed, future-fit finance function that supports scale and complexity
- High-quality, timely financial insight enabling confident executive and board decision-making
- Strong financial discipline, cost optimisation, and sustainable profitability
- Effective partnership with the Divisional CEO, Group CFO, and broader executive team
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Role Overview
- The Senior Accountant play a key role in the full accounting function for the Enterprise Division with a strong emphasis on day-to-day accounting operations, accurate financial reporting, and a robust month end close.
- This role ensures the integrity of financial data, drives compliance with internal controls, and supports smooth operational finance processes across the division.
Key Responsibilities
Day-to-Day Accounting Operations
Debtors (Accounts Receivable)
- Oversee and review customer invoicing, credit notes, and adjustments
- Monitor the debtors age analysis and manage overdue accounts and collections
- Perform monthly customer reconciliations and resolve discrepancies
- Ensure correct allocation of receipts and accurate AR reporting.
Creditors (Accounts Payable)
- Oversee the full AP function, ensuring accurate invoice processing and compliance with PO and contract requirements
- Prepare and review supplier reconciliations
- Manage weekly/monthly payment runs and ensure strict approval adherence
- Monitor the AP age analysis and escalate risks or irregularities
Cashbook & Banking
- Maintain daily bank reconciliations across multiple bank accounts
- Process and review receipts, payments, journal entries, and petty cash
- Monitor cash flow activity and ensure integrity of all banking transactions.
Financial Reporting & Month End Close
- Own and execute month-end close activities, ensuring timelines and quality standards are consistently met
- Prepare and review monthly management accounts, including supporting schedules and variance analysis.
- Ensure accurate revenue and cost recognition, accruals, and adjustments in line with accounting policies
- Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations and resolve reconciling items promptly
- Maintain accurate fixed asset registers, including processing of depreciation, disposals, and asset additions
Compliance, Controls & Audit
- Ensure compliance with VAT and all statutory requirements
- Prepare accurate VAT reconciliations and submissions
- Support internal and external audits through preparation of audit files and schedules
- Maintain and improve internal controls across AP, AR, and cashbook
- Assist with updating finance procedures and documentation.
Systems & Process Improvement
- Maintain transactional and reporting accuracy within Accpacc/Sage 300
- Identify opportunities to streamline processes within AP, AR, cashbook, and GL
- Support finance automation and reporting improvements using Excel/Power Query/Power BI (where relevant)
Minimum Requirements
- 3+ years relevant accounting experience, including AP/AR and cashbook exposure
- Strong hands-on experience with Accpacc/Sage 300
- SAIPA accreditation or similar accreditation
- Solid VAT knowledge and statutory compliance experience
- Strong GL, monthend, and financial reporting experience
- Advanced Excel skills (pivots, lookups; Power Query advantageous)
- High accuracy, excellent organisational skills, and deadline driven
Advantageous
- Experience in multi entity or high-volume environments
- Fintech, payments, or services sector experience
- Experience training or mentoring junior team members
- Exposure to automation or system optimisation tools
Competencies
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- High attention to detail with an integrity driven approach
- Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities
- Clear communicator with strong stakeholder engagement skills
- Proactive, reliable, and process-oriented.
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Description
- We are seeking a skilled and dedicated Identity Engineer to join our Group Tech team. The Identity Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining identity and access management solutions to ensure the security and integrity of Lesaka's systems and data. This role requires a strong understanding of identity and access management principles, security best practices, and technical expertise in IAM technologies.
Responsibilities
- Execute Lesaka's IAM strategy in collaboration with management.
- Define policies, standards, and procedures related to identity management and access control.
- Ensure Lesaka’s fundamental identity and access management principles, such as segregation of duties and least privileged access control, is implemented across all business areas and products.
- Design and implement IAM solutions, including user provisioning, authentication, authorization, and identity lifecycle management.
- Ensure access controls align with security policies and compliance requirements including, but not limited to, ensuring SOX IT General Controls related to access management is effectively executed.
- Deploy and configure IAM technologies, such as Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
- Integrate IAM solutions with enterprise applications and systems.
- Monitor IAM systems for security threats and vulnerabilities.
- Participate in security audits and assessments, addressing findings and ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.
- Develop and maintain identity governance processes, including access certification, role management, and entitlement reviews.
- Implement workflows and automation for identity provisioning and deprovisioning.
- Investigate and resolve IAM-related issues and incidents.
- Provide support for end-users and assist in troubleshooting access problems.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of IAM configurations, policies, and procedures.
- Generate reports on IAM activities, access requests, and security incidents.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, compliance, and application owners, to ensure IAM requirements are met.
- Provide training and guidance to employees and teams on IAM best practices.
- Stay current with IAM industry trends, emerging technologies, and security threats.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement and automation within the IAM environment.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
- Microsoft EntraID Certification.
- Proven experience in identity and access management or a related security role.
- Strong technical knowledge of IAM technologies, such as Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP, SSO, and MFA.
- Familiarity with security frameworks and compliance standards (e.g., SOX-ITGC, NIST, ISO 27001).
- Experience with other IAM solutions such as Okta, CyberArk, SailPoint, or Ping Identity is a plus.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal abilities.
- Relevant security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CompTIA Security+) are a plus.
- Strong knowledge in Azure Sentinel and Netwrix AD Auditor is advantageous.
Closing Date 17 February 2026
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