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 closeReconciliationCompletion of Supplementary informationConsolidation and Internal eliminationsTaxAccounting FunctionsSupport to Process Owners on resolution of issues and requests from stakeholders including:Cluster Financial ControllerCluster CFO/BP&A team membersOther Financial Control functionsManaging/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 & Skills: Exceptional interpersonal and team-working skillsAbility to identify control gaps and weaknessesAbility to interpret the end-to-end flow of financial dataStrong problem-solving skillsAnalytical skillsNegotiation skillsThe 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 experienceBusiness experience in a Banking environment gained from a Finance, ProductExperience in SAP advantageous Competencies: Deciding and initiating actionEntrepreneurial and commercial thinkingRelating and networkingAdapting and responding to changePersuading and influencingCreating and highly innovating Education Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: 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.
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