Finance Business Partner

4 weeks 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

Specific Role Purpose: Role will be focused on the reporting and planning of all financial and management information within CIB Technology.

Analysing and reporting of financial information in an accurate, complete and timely manner and providing business with meaningful insights and value-add perspective to enable decision making.

Preparing Management accounts and relevant submissions on a monthly and quarterly basis to Business Partners.

Cost control and reporting within the CIB Technology finance function.

Continuously seeking ways to improve operations and provide valuable business insights through financial analysis, performing deep dives and trend analyses.

**Job Description**:
Key Accountabilities

Financial Reporting & Execution Accountabilities
- Ensure appropriate, quality and timeous delivery of accurate financial and non-financial management information to support business objectives and expectations, including appropriate financial and non-financial metrics, valid and insightful comments and packaging the information in a relevant and appropriate manner.
- 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 ensuring alignment to the agreed accounting principles, methodologies and underlying data.
- Cost control and reporting for product related costs (direct and TP costs)
- Own the process of delivery of high-quality information for regular and ad-hoc enhanced reporting to agreed requirements, timelines, and standards.
- Contribute to the effectiveness of Finance processes for CIB Technology Finance and In business Finance (annual planning, forecasting, and reporting).
- Develop and implement control procedures as required as deficiencies or exceptions are identified which support the production of error-free reports. Assess and drive improvement of business accounting practices and policies.
- Validate all financial and management reporting information for flash results, month end financial results and utilisation and reporting of various key metrics.
- Generate finance narratives and insights driving business.
- Take a commercial view on business and provide contextual insights into performance reports.
- Present financial results to business highlighting performance against plans, prior performance and providing meaningful insights on possible risks and opportunities for the near future.
- Align to processes around month-end, year-end and planning cycles across the GCF and CIB finance community based on the requirements from Group. Prepare for all cycles in advance and ensure adequate engagement with the relevant finance and BU teams.
- Act in line with the correct governance and control frameworks across the Finance function, proactively assisting in addressing any deficiencies and exceptions where relevant.
- Ensure that the CFO is appraised of key financial issues and any identified risks & opportunities within the business that may need to be raised with executive leadership to enable timely management.
- Know BU financial ambitions, growth aspirations and strategy as well as that of Tech and CIB to ensure alignment of performance reporting and planning targets.
- Responsible for continuous operational excellence and real-time responsiveness of finance to enable business to achieve growth and profitability objectives.
- Focus on information-driven performance improvement and formulate data into easy access standardised views. Maintain stewardship and excellence which assists in driving performance and sustainable growth through the preservation of financial integrity.

Financial Planning Accountabilities
- Assist finance manager in developing processes and controls to ensure that the planning process is effective, supports business strategies and completed within the required timelines with the appropriate level of detail.
- Assist in maintaining the system financial planning product model, capturing and completion of relevant forecasts as required within the required timelines.
- Understand, assist in formulating and review assumptions provided by business to support the forecast.
- Provide accurate, complete and timeous reporting of the forecast to relevant stakeholders.
- Prepare for all cycles in advance and ensure adequate engagement with the relevant finance and business teams.
- Transform and evolve Finance planning, tracking and control processes as required.
- Perform regular Revised Annual Forecast (RAF’s) during the year as required, identify and track any business risks and opportunities, considering the

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