Senior Financial Decision Support Specialist

4 days ago


City of Johannesburg Gauteng, South Africa Tracking Talent Full time

The role will be responsible for designing, testing, and implementing financial reporting and financial decision support capabilities for the company so that the business objectives of users of the information are fully enabled within the prescribed service, cost, and quality mandates. The incumbent will also be deployed on projects as and when required by the business, working in and leading feature teams on strategic projects. The role is highly analytical and will require a fair amount of technical accounting knowledge specific to the Banking and Insurance sectors.

**Qualifications & Experience**:

- Qualified Chartered Accountant - CA(SA) or any finance related qualification with experience in Investment banking.
- Minimum of 5 years related work experience
- Advanced Microsoft Office Skills Essential
- Exposure to RPA, Microsoft Power Tools, Qlikview, SQL would be an advantage
- Must have experience with the configuration and maintenance of trading, accounting, and reporting systems
- Must have a good understanding of financial products in the South African market
- Exposure to the insurance industry and experience with financial derivatives would be beneficial
- Knowledge of financial accounting principles, Balance Sheet Substantiation and Profit & Loss validation principles and deliverables.
- Knowledge of IFRS
- Knowledge of information management and provision to internal and external clients
- Knowledge of data control and validation processes and procedures to ensure heightened data quality
- Capital management reporting
- SAP, Oracle or other sub-ledger and general ledger tools
- Microsoft Power Tools and Qlikview

**Duties & responsibilities**:

- The development and ongoing maintenance of a financial accounting and information environment to support the Finance team reporting capabilities
- Provide Finance business requirements to develop/configure front end and back-end portions of accounting and financial reporting systems used by the Finance team
- Participate in the rapid development of financial and business performance dashboards risk tools
- Ensure data sourcing and control processes and procedures are developed, implemented, and maintained in accordance with the highest quality standards
- Manage quality and consistency across all the data attributes within the information database to endure consistent, on-time and robust information is available to all users
- Monthly Management reporting with Ad hoc Analytics, proactive and innovative MI delivery


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