Finance Business Partner

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time
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  • 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


The Finance Business Partnering function covers the reporting of all financial and management information, RAFs, MTPs and STP within Corporate Functions Finance.

It involves the analysis and interpretation of this reporting and providing business with meaningful insights to enable decision making. The team provides continuous decision support to BP&A.

  • Specific Role Purpose: Role will be focused on business partnering of Corporate Functions Finance and supporting the financial forecasting and planning process.
  • The Finance Business Partner performs financial analysis, planning, reporting and reconciliations in an accurate, complete and timely way; and continuously seeks to improve operations by scaling automated financial processes to doing deep dive and trend analyses to crafting financial solutions aligned to all appropriate controls, business financial health and growth objectives. The Finance Business Partner equips finance and business leadership with sound financial information to support decision making at all levels.
  • The Finance Business Partner of the business enables achieving the operational objectives of the business by building an agile finance enablement to transform, to bring stewardship, financial integrity & insights to the current state of the business & its future possibilities to deliver on the operating model and to achieve the business objectives.
  • The Finance Business Partner cocreates Finance capabilities required to lead to business effectiveness.

Job Description:

Reporting Packs

  • Prepare monthly deck detailing performance benchmarks such as Budget and RAF.
  • Consult Functional heads to discuss monthly performance and provide analysis on portfolio performance.
  • Preparation and analysis of slide submissions into various internal documents pertaining to cost performance
Projects

  • Participate in projects that are focused on further enhancement of reporting tools
  • Ad hoc decision support projects for finance and areas part of the portfolio
Analysis of data

  • Proactively track and analyse cost
  • Provide analysis on Business performance
Financial Planning and Budgeting

  • Provide analysis and input to business on financial planning and budgeting.
Commercial Finance Execution Accountabilities

  • Develop and sustain knowledge and experience on the endtoend processes, including relevant systems within scope of work.
  • First line of operational support to internal and external auditors within scope of work; and all queries addressed effectively and efficiently.
  • Responsible for continuous operational excellence and realtime responsiveness of finance to enable business to achieve growth and profitability objectives.
  • Prepare for all cycles in advance and ensure adequate engagement with the relevant finance and business teams.
  • Focus on informationdriven performance improvement and formulate data into easy access standardised views.
  • Ensure that the CFO is appraised of key financial issues that need to be raised with executive leadership to enable integrity and timely management the BU.
  • Create unprecedented, seamless customer experiences via finance BU enablement.
  • Embrace our distinctive brand aspiration and infuse in business.
  • Identify and innovate operating practices to optimize the function. Embrace digital solutions.
  • Drive continuous process efficiency, financial rigor and controls.
  • Adopt what's 'best for Absa' approach in finance practices.
  • Have a holistic view of business in developing information views of business.
  • Book of work contribution: Build innovative finance business case financial information, insights and benefits tracking's' solutions to continuously inform management decisions.
  • Transform and evolve Finance planning, tracking and control processes.
  • Know BU financial ambitions and balance sheet aspirations.
  • Contribute to the effectiveness of the core finance processes for Corporate Functions Finance (annual planning, forecasting, spend trajectory and reporting).
  • Understand and integrate Treasury, Risk, and Finance data from a BU perspective, where appropriate.
  • Maintain stewardship and excellence which drives performance and sustainable growth through preservation of financial integrity.
  • Be an active force for good in society through business execution.
  • Contribute to BCM & cybersecurity processes relevant to the BU and finance execution
Financial Reporting Accountabilities

  • Build trust in the finance function through the creation of a single source of financial information which is corroborated by related management information sources and alignment to the agreed acc


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