Financial Services Business Partner

1 week ago

Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

About us, purpose, experience and qualifications

**about us**:
**purpose**:

- To report and track financial performance as well as provide financial information, forecasting, insight, and analysis to help guide and support decision making for a specified portfolio of FCC business units (BUs).**experience and qualifications**:

- Minimum Qualification - Bachelor of Commerce Degree Preferred Qualification - Post Graduate Bachelor of Commerce Degree, CA(SA) or CIMA Experience - 3 to 5 years experience in a similar environment, of which 1 to 2 years ideally at a junior specialist level-
**additional requirements**:
**responsibilities**:

- Organise and provide input into the budgeting process as well as monitor utilisation during the financial year according to the operational plan.
- Produce budget reports to make sure accurately reflect work activity. Prepare and conduct budget presentations for various stakeholders.
- Ensure supporting financial documentation is maintained.
- Escalate potential budget risks that may lead increased costs or financial losses to the relevant FCC BU head.
- Collate, analyse and evaluate data and information to forecast expenditure and cash flow trends and make recommendations to improve the budgeting process.
- Compile and ensure adherence to budget guidelines.
- Hold discussions and agree on budget deliverables with stakeholders on proposed budget.
- Adhere to budget timelines and ensure communication of any challenges in a timely manner.
- Provide insight to and communicate any external cost changes i.e., SLA and inter-divisional on an ongoing basis.
- Engage business on forecast to get input and sign off and update this on a monthly basis.
- Provide input and ongoing amendments of budgets on Essbase.
- Understand and explain final budget numbers.
- Prepare and maintain relevant balance sheet schedules.
- Highlight issues and concerns for discussion and resolution throughout budget process and monthly forecast. Reporting
- Responsibility for submitting group statutory, regulatory and management reporting deliverables.
- Supply relevant reporting commentary.
- Improve business decisions by providing accurate and reliable business intelligence (information) together with analysing trends and data.
- Be the point of contact for business to help interface with local finance on reporting of results, ensuring timely and accurate submissions.
- Ensure monthly GL structure, maintenance and alignment to all stakeholders is adhered to
- Ensure all reporting deadlines are met.
- Conduct ad hoc reporting and handle audit queries as required.
- Compile and submit monthly reports.
- Highlight strategic and material issues early and engage across finance and business teams in order to resolve.
- Streamline and propose report enhancements where possible.
- Monitor reporting and discuss strategic issues highlighted by relevant stakeholders, providing timely feedback and resolution.
- Assist in compiling and reviewing relevant management reports sent to relevant stakeholders for business insights.
- Track and analyse performance across the board (year on year and month on month).
- Complete the interims and year end reports timeously and accurately.
- Engage with the relevant BU head and present at various Steercos if required.
- Reconcile reporting systems (Essbase) to FirstRand reporting platform (HFM) and promote/provide sign-off.
- Compile and manage relevant BU headcount.
- Deliver on reporting-related ad-hoc projects. Financial Control
- Review monthly payroll headcount lists and ensure accuracy is maintained by validating the information with business.
- Communicate any changes to the headcount data to the appropriate payroll function.
- Manage governance around payment processes and ensure that the appropriate level of approvers is in place.
- Liaise with business on invoices not yet paid and gather
- supporting evidence to ensure that accruals are raised in the correct financial period.
- Review and maintain costing model allocations to stakeholders in line with agreed costing principles and drivers.
- Understand and communicate implemented changes or proposed changes to costing methodology.
- Analyse, monitor, and communicate monthly SLA charges and recoveries.
- Collaborate with cost model team regarding principles and ongoing changes including review of output.
- Engage in discussions with business, finance areas and other impacted areas on correctness of what has been applied. Risk and Compliance
- Ensure compliance with relevant statutory, legislative policy and governance requirements in area of accountability.
- Ensure compliance is adopted in terms of systems procedures as laid out by organisation and respond to any audit findings and recommended changes.
- Develop an understanding of risks, identify risks and implement risk management approaches.Relationship Management
- Build and maintain relationships with the relevant BU heads and wider finance team members, by partnering

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