Manager Analytics Financial Control

Manager Analytics Financial Control
Apply remote type: Hybrid
Location: Sandton
Time type: Full time
Posted on: Posted Yesterday
Job requisition id: R-15967598
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Job Summary
The role is a senior, full scope financial management role for the Absa Regional Operations (ARO) cluster. Stakeholder engagement and commercial understanding are key success factors and the successful applicant will support financial decision making and execute on internal and external reporting. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to upskill and learn about these more specialized businesses.
The successful applicant will also be expected to understand and contribute to the wider Financial Control strategy threads of process improvement and credible reporting. Credible, quality reporting will be a minimum business as usual expectation in the role. Alignment and participation in Financial Control's continuing functionalization and process improvement imperatives will also be critical deliverables in the role.
Job Description
Overall Job Purpose
The role is a senior, full scope financial management role for the Absa Regional Operations (ARO) cluster. Stakeholder engagement and commercial understanding are key success factors and the successful applicant will support financial decision making and execute on internal and external reporting. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to upskill and learn about these more specialized businesses.
The successful applicant will also be expected to understand and contribute to the wider Financial Control strategy threads of process improvement and credible reporting. Credible, quality reporting will be a minimum business as usual expectation in the role. Alignment and participation in Financial Control's continuing functionalization and process improvement imperatives will also be critical deliverables in the role.
Key Accountabilities
Accountability: Analytics
Analytics accountabilities for the role span both internal and external reporting. The role will support senior internal stakeholders in the ARO business and the successful applicant will be expected to provide analytic insight based on commercial business understanding to senior stakeholders. Stakeholders include senior management of the ARO business (in-country and center) and the Financial Controller for the ARO Cluster.
Specific accountabilities include:

Designing, developing and implementing analytical tools which will provide comfort that internal and external reporting is accurate (including scenario analyses to anticipate and challenge reporting results)
Ensuring that team members have a detailed understanding of products and businesses to enable relevant design and interpretation of analytics to enable accurate timeous commentary on reporting
Provide input into external reporting deliverables using business knowledge obtained through analytical processes
Provide commentary on external or internal reporting
To assist the Financial Controllers to continuously evaluate the control framework in Financial Control and to enhance it as appropriate

Accountability: Reporting
The reporting function for the role is supported by various teams. However, the successful applicant will have certain business as usual reporting responsibilities.

Designing, developing and implementing processes and systems which will provide comfort that external reporting is accurate
Responsible for ensuring that all external reporting is delivered on time and is accurate
Reviewing internal and external reporting and commentary to ensure that reporting is accurate
Assisting with the implementation of best practice financial disclosures and presentation

Accountability: Product and Process Management

Successfully manage and deliver major projects from commencement to completion within the scope, budget and time agreed to
Manage project resources internally or externally to ensure that timelines are being met
Ensure quality of project implementation
Ensure that adequate documentation is delivered as part of the implementation to sustain the process
Responsibilities would include the coordination of different groups of people, from varying disciplines associated with the project

Accountability: Project & Staff Management

Providing leadership to junior team members in the area of strategically improving reporting processes
Ensure that assigned projects are planned, staffed accordingly and successfully implemented within agreed timelines. Communicate if risks arise to successful implementation of assigned projects, and finalize and propose alternatives
Help execute the people management strategy for Financial Control
Assist in embedding formal Performance Development and informal coaching in the team
Review training needs of team members and ensuring that team members receive the relevant training
Assist in the interviewing of junior team members

Education and Experience Required

Chartered Accountant (Financial Services/Insurance experience preferred)
Given the technical nature of insurance accounting/valuations, additional postgraduate qualifications focused on insurance and/or additional quantitative qualifications are preferred
4 - 6 Years of relevant reporting, analytics and or project management experience
Very strong academic track record

Knowledge & Skills: (Maximum of 6)

Strong problem-solving skills
Strong data analytical skills
Banking Product Knowledge
Strong technical accounting skills
Experience designing and implementing calculation tools
Exceptional interpersonal and team-working skills and the ability to communicate at all levels
The ability to work in a pressured and unstructured environment and to cope with the demands of working to tight deadlines

Competencies: (Maximum of 8 competencies)

Analysis skills & technical ability
Judgment / decision making – demonstrates logic, rationality and objectivity in decision making whilst balancing speed vs. thorough approach
Integrity – consistent, earns trust, fights fair, uses the facts
Team player – approachable, establishes collaborative relationships
Oral and Written Communications - fluency, clarity, precise, well-organized communications
Resourcefulness – action-oriented, goes "beyond the call of duty" to solve problems
Adaptability – adapts quickly to change and copes well with complexity
Experience – Designing and implementing project or system solutions

Education
Postgraduate Degrees and Professional Qualifications: Financial Sciences (Required)
Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised.
About Us
Truly African
We are a diversified standalone African financial services group, delivering an integrated set of products and services across personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth, investment management and insurance.
Absa Group Limited is listed on the JSE and is one of Africa's largest diversified financial services groups with a presence in 12 countries across the continent and around 41,000 employees.
We own majority stakes in banks in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania (ABSA Bank in Tanzania and National Bank of Commerce), Uganda and Zambia. We also have representative offices in Namibia and Nigeria, as well as insurance operations in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.
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