Specialist AC Process Executor – Consol and Interdiv Eliminations
Location: Johannesburg
Remote Type: Hybrid
Time Type: Full time
Posted on: Posted 2 Days Ago
End Date: October 8, 2024 (3 days left to apply)
Job Requisition ID: R-15968009
Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together…one story at a time.
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
Financial Control is responsible for ensuring that Absa Africa fulfils its financial, statutory and regulatory reporting requirements, while ensuring compliance with accounting, regulatory and balance sheet control policy. Financial Control comprises the following areas: Accounting Control, Reporting & Analytics, Policy Governance & Controls, Technology Enablement, Cluster Control and Technical Accounting. Financial Control serves as the Group's primary interface with the auditors and regulators.
Job Description
Key Accountabilities
Accountability: Manage financial information completion process (60%)
Act as a process executor for completion of financial information, including the accountability for the following key processes:
Journals and month-end close
Reconciliation
Completion of Supplementary information
Consolidation and Internal eliminations
Tax
Accounting Functions
Support to Subject Matter Expert (SME) on processes, resolution of issues and ad hoc requests from stakeholders including:
Cluster Financial Controller
Cluster CFO/BP&A team members
Other Financial Control functions
Support SME on obtaining TAG opinions and ad hoc queries on accounting issues.
Act as the process executor for implementation of new standardised processes where relevant.
Provide feedback to stakeholders on results reflected in the financial accounting system, as well as issues identified where there are potential risks to numbers.
Act pro-actively in correcting issues and implement a sustainable process.
Ensure that principles of the Financial Control Operating Model are complied with and sustained.
Maintain and enhance processes:
Identify areas of improvement in completion, review and or submission processes to drive and implement a sustainable and effective process in support of quality and accuracy.
Identify synergies between different reporting processes and implement new and or enhanced processes.
Accountability: Provide support to other process executors through motivation and employee engagement (20%)
Understanding and managing team dynamics to maximize performance.
Escalate issues around allocation of resources to process architects tasks to ensure delivery of team objectives.
Ensure continued development of resources, through coaching and mentoring, to empower value added delivery of tasks.
Accountability: Process Execution (20%)
Execution of processes as designed.
Constantly review, improve and maintain own activities to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of processes.
Recommend areas for improvement in order to reduce cycle times, improve productivity, create capacity and improve process reliability and customer satisfaction.
Assist in the implementation of new and/or enhanced processes.
Identify activity-specific risks and work with Process Owner / Process Architect to mitigate risks.
Maintain awareness of own activities and the impact thereof on related / interdependent activities.
Role/Person Specification
Knowledge and Skills:
Exceptional interpersonal and team-working skills
Ability to identify control gaps and weaknesses
Ability to interpret the end-to-end flow of financial data
Strong problem-solving skills
Analytical skills
Negotiation skills
The ability to work in a pressured and unstructured environment and to cope with the demands of working to tight deadlines
Education and Experience Required:
CA(SA) newly qualified/1 to 2 years PQE experience
Business experience in a Banking environment gained from a Finance, Product
Group consolidations experience will be an advantage
Experience in SAP
Competencies:
Deciding and initiating action
Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
Relating and networking
Adapting and responding to change
Persuading and influencing
Creating and highly innovating
Education
Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (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 offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, a Technology Hub in Prague, and insurance operations in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.
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