Senior Manager: Integrated Reporting

Purpose:

The
Senior Manager: Integrated Reporting
is accountable for leading a cross-campus team responsible for the delivery, optimisation, and innovation of enterprise-wide business insights through routine and ad hoc reporting.

The role ensures the business receives timely, trusted, and actionable analytical products that underpin operational and strategic decision-making. This includes defining and executing a strategic roadmap, building collaborative partnerships across the organisation, and driving innovation in reporting practices to enhance delivery, usability, and value over time. The incumbent acts as a key driver of self-service enablement, optimisation, and improved user experience across the reporting value chain.

Key Performance Areas:

• Integrated Reporting Delivery Oversight:
  Lead the delivery of routine and ad hoc reporting across business domains, ensuring alignment to business cadence, quality standards, and decision-making needs. Oversee delivery workflows, manage prioritisation, and ensure consistent, high-impact outputs
• Stakeholder Engagement and Service Value Alignment:
  Act as a strategic partner to business stakeholders by shaping expectations, translating operational and customer experience needs into analytical products, and managing intake and prioritisation through structured demand management processes
• Strategic Roadmap and Product Enablement:
  Define and maintain a strategic roadmap for enterprise reporting, modernising reporting practices through automation, self-service, and scalable processes to drive efficiency and reduced reliance on manual effort. Ensure roadmap execution is guided by structured demand intake and aligned to stakeholder value, operational cadence, and product lifecycle principles
• Reporting Quality, Governance, and Optimisation:
  Embed reporting lifecycle management practices, ensuring standardisation, documentation, and quality assurance across all deliverables. Identify opportunities for efficiency gains, process optimisation, and delivery consistency across reporting products
• Team Leadership and Capability Enablement:
  Lead, develop and support the performance, cohesion, and professional growth of a cross-campus reporting team between Johannesburg and Cape Town, fostering a high-performance, values-aligned culture. Champion collaborative delivery and shared problem-solving
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  Collaborate with the Data Product, Platform Enablement, and other Advanced Insights teams to develop scalable, integrated, and governed analytical products aligned to enterprise data strategy and architecture.

Outputs:

• Reliable, timely, and strategically aligned delivery
  of enterprise-wide business insights, routine and ad hoc reports, supporting both operational execution and strategic decision-making.
• Prioritised and actively managed reporting roadmap
  that balances business demand, modernisation opportunities, and available team capacity to drive automation, self-service, and efficiency.
• Consistent, high-quality reporting outputs
  supported by robust documentation, lifecycle management, and adherence to data governance, standardisation, and QA practices.
• Visible stakeholder engagement and alignment
  , including participation in governance forums, business prioritisation discussions, and value-based progress reporting.
• Improved reporting efficiency and user experience
  through automation, optimisation, and self-service enablement, reducing manual effort and increasing business responsiveness.
• Collaborative, high-performing team culture
  across Johannesburg and Cape Town, with clear delivery ownership, shared problem-solving, and visible development of team capabilities.
• Integrated, scalable reporting products
  developed in collaboration with the Data Product, Platform Enablement, and Advanced Insights teams, aligned to enterprise architecture and product lifecycle practices.

Competencies:

• Strategic Thinking and Product Mindset:
  Understands how to shape a product roadmap that delivers ongoing business value; balances quick wins with long-term priorities.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Influence:
  Builds strong, trusted relationships across business and technical domains, positions reporting team as an enabler.
• Delivery and Execution Discipline:
  Proven ability to manage a high-volume reporting portfolio with rigour; ensures reporting quality and alignment to business cadence.
• Problem Solving and Innovation:
  Able to identify ways to enhance reporting relevance and usability; champions self-service and proactive insights.
• Team Leadership and Coaching:
  Develops a high-performance team culture, fostering collaboration, ownership and accountability.
• Change Enablement and Adaptability:
  Navigates ambiguity, supports new ways of work and drives team adoption (e.g. demand, governance, product-centricity).
• Strong Communication Skills:
  Clearly communicates insight and analytical thinking to diverse audiences.

Knowledge Areas:

• Power BI, SQL, AWS (primary); SAP Business Objects, SAS, Excel automation (secondary)
• Report lifecycle, process optimisation and quality assurance
• Basic data governance and metadata practices
• Agile tooling and ways of work (SAFe, Jira, Confluence)
• Data / analytical products frameworks and self-service enablement
• Automation and efficiency opportunities within BI
• Understanding of healthcare and operational data (advantageous)

Experience and Professional Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with majors in Analytics, Data Science, Operational Research or Mathematical Statistics, Engineering or a relevant quantitative field (required)
• Postgraduate degree or formal leadership qualification (preferred)
• Minimum 8-10 years' experience in reporting, analytics, or business insight roles
• At least 2-3 years' experience in a team lead or delivery leadership role
• Exposure to healthcare, insurance, or financial services industries (advantageous)

Turnaround Time

The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of line managers.

Our Commitment to Transformation

AfroCentric is committed to transformation and embracing diversity. Our Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society as well as people with disabilities.

Should you not hear from us within a month of applying, consider your application unsuccessful.