Job Description

• Launch Your Career with the Lesaka Technologies Internship Programme!
• 12-month paid internship –  Ready to Launch Your Sales Career?
• Are you a recent graduate eager to make a meaningful impact in the fintech industry? The Lesaka Technologies Internship Programme offers you the opportunity to gain hands-on experience, mentorship, and skills development in a leading South African fintech company.

Ready to Launch Your Sales Career?

• Are you ambitious, confident, and hungry to win?
• Do you want real sales exposure in a high growth fintech environment and not admin work disguised as experience?
• This is your opportunity to step into the field, build commercial muscle, and learn directly from high-performing sales professionals who close real deals and drive measurable impact.
• We are looking for bold, energetic, and target-driven young professionals to join our Sales Team. This is not a desk-bound internship.

What You’ll Be Doing

You will be in the field, learning the real mechanics of sales success.

You will:

• Support Account Sales Executives in driving new business growth
• Engage directly with merchants and business owners
• Promote prepaid products, digital payment solutions, and value-added services
• Assist with onboarding new clients
• Conduct field visits within allocated territories
• Build relationships and strengthen client retention
• Learn how to manage targets, pipelines, and sales performance metrics
• Participate in sales training and development sessions
• You will gain exposure to real targets, real customers, and real impact.

Minimum Requirements 

• Be between 18 – 29 years old
• Be a South African citizen
• Currently unemployed
• Hold a Matric (Grade 12) certificate
• A Diploma or Degree in Sales, Business Management, BCOM or related field will be advantageous

If you enjoy speaking to people, closing deals, and working in a fast-paced environment — this is for you.

What We’re Looking For

• Confident communicators
• Energetic and self-driven individuals
• Resilient and target-focused personalities
• Professional and well-presented candidates
• Basic computer literacy
• Willingness to travel
• Valid driver’s license and own vehicle (advantageous)

If you enjoy speaking to people, closing deals, and working in a fast-paced environment — this is for you.

What You’ll Gain

• 12 months of structured, hands-on workplace experience
• Practical exposure to client acquisition and merchant onboarding
• Real-world territory management and field sales execution
• Experience selling innovative prepaid and digital payment solutions
• Direct involvement in achieving targets and driving revenue growth
• Skills in building strong, sustainable client relationships
• Practical sales, negotiation, and objection-handling capability
• Insight into the fast-growing fintech and digital commerce sector
• Mentorship and coaching from experienced sales leaders
• A credible, high-impact addition to your CV
• A solid foundation for launching a long-term career in sales