Specialist: Financial Analysis and Planning

17 hours ago

Sandton, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

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

To develop tactical strategy and delivery plans, formulate associated practice and to ensure operational implementation and adoption across a single practice i.t.o. Finance methodology, governance and delivery objectives.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

Financial Reporting
- Prepare and analyse financial reports, both management and adhoc, by coordinating the execution of the day to day and general accounting functions in order to enable decision making.
- Present monthly reports by ensuring the completeness, accuracy and relevance of the information to be presented to enable Group Finance Management Team to make informed decisions.
- Prepare, sign off and discuss the short term plan (STP), medium term plan (MTP) and rolling forecast (RAF) and budgets with the relevant stakeholders to enable consolidation into Finance forecast and budget. Work with the team to consolidate the financial plans generated by MTP, STP and RAF and sense check the consolidations prior to recommending 2 approval by the Head of Group Finance

Business Planning
- Work with the Finance Business Partners and participate in the forecasting and scenario planning processes by providing a view on the financial impact on the cluster of changing internal financial strategies and transfer pricing methodologies.
- Advise Finance Business Partners on the process and requirements during the MTP (Medium Term Planning), STP (Short-term/budget planning) and RAF (Revised Annual Forecast) cycles.
- Ensure that their commitment and thorough input is obtained for these activities and support them with translating strategy into financial objectives on request
- Prepare budget/transfer pricing presentations to be presented to key stakeholders in the planning cycle.
- Manage and review the consolidated financial plans generated by MTP, STP and RAF prepared by the team and quality check the consolidations prior to recommending approval to the Cluster CFO.
- Partner with the departments and the BU line managers to complete sound annual financial plans (MTP and RAF) within the agreed timeframes.

Advisory Support
- Provide advice and support to management on financial risks that might have an impact on profitability by discussing at regular intervals all financial related matters

Financial Control and Compliance
- Sign off on the monthly and quarterly supplementary schedules and attestation to Group Finance prepared by the relevant staff in the prescribed format. Maintain appropriate internal controls in line with Absa group policy by reviewing regularly all variance reports and other reports where applicable.
- Interact with the Internal and External Audit team and provide necessary information as and when required Ensure cost centre Managers comply with all regulations and policies when reflecting the financial position of the business

Stakeholder Management
- Communicate financial policies, procedures, standards and guidelines to the Senior Business Manager and Group Finance Management Team.
- Support projects by developing the financial component of the business case that is created by the management team to actively track and change benefits and costs of the project.
- Provide strong support to the operational team by having regular meetings with to share financial performance.

People management
- Talent Retention and performance management
- Coaching and mentoring

Role/Person Specification

Education:

- Financial Accounting degree
- CA(SA) is strongly preferred
- Technical IT knowledge is advantageous

Knowledge and Skills:

- Analysis and Interpretation
- Writing and Reporting
- Presentation skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent communication skill
- Deciding and initiating action
- Learning and researching
- Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
- Relating and networking
- Adapting and responding to change
- Persuading and influencing
- Creating and innovating
- Understanding of systems used
- Good understanding of the policies and strategies
- Understanding of corporate controls

Education

Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Financial Sciences (required)
- Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_

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