Finance Analyst: Payments and Settlement

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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

This role will provide support to the Head of Product Control Design and Monitoring with regard to the control environment design and implementation; investigations (recons, IT incidents, etc.).
- The Finance Analyst together with the Head of Product Control Design and Monitoring is responsible for financial management, including developing forward-thinking analysis, generating management reports, statutory compliance, scaling automated financial processes, crafting financial strategies aligned to business financial health and growth objectives within his/her function of the BU. The Finance Analyst ensures that business makes sound financial decisions.
- The Finance Analyst is also responsible with Head of Product Control Design and Monitoring for enabling business achieve their operational objectives. By building an agile finance capability able to transform, to bring stewardship, financial integrity & insights to the current state of the business & its future possibilities to deliver on the new operating model and to achieve the business strategy objectives set by Absa Africa United for EB, RB and PS.

**Job Description**:
**Job Description**:
Commercial Finance Execution Accountabilities

Leveraging tactical and practice integration support to optimise the function. Co-accountable with Head and CFO for adequate control environment.

Ensure that Head of Product Control Design and Monitoring is appraised of key financial issues that need to be raised with executive leadership to enable integrity and timely management of the BU.

Deliver on our Customer Promise by creating unprecedented, seamless experiences.

Embrace our distinctive brand aspiration and infuse in business.

Implementation and creating of global best operating practices.

Drive continuous process efficiency, financial rigor and controls. Pioneer and implement Finance best practices, digital solutions and effective change enablement. Build a scalable, digitally-led business.

Drive cost management objectives for function within the BU.

Contribute to functional strategy, create a shared purpose and identity for function; one family doing what’s ‘best for Absa’.

Adopt an eco-system mandate: (geography, customer, channel and product) of business area.

Book of work contribution: Partner with leaders on financial decisions and implications of business strategies, investments, trade-offs, efficiency and scale initiatives, including process and systems transformation. Ensure alignment of core business with future business and technology changes and align vendor roadmaps to ensure the achievement thereof.

Accountable for ensuring an optimal and compliant control environment within business unit that appropriately balances risk appetites and customer demand with the need to grow to achieve the financial ambitions and balance sheet aspirations of EB, RB and PS.

Support all aspects of the core finance processes for Finance (annual planning, forecasting, spend trajectory and reporting), and partner with the business leaders to evaluate the productivity of operations, enable wise resource allocation, and drive intelligent scenario planning.

Stimulate a leadership context of solid understanding of the markets/segments/customers/products to help drive financial growth, performs product and customer profitability analysis to assist with business decisions. Build capability to partner with business to identify opportunities to utilise relevant solutions to innovate new products and services with the intent of driving customer value and revenue.

Whenever necessary, participate in negotiations with partners as well as suppliers or contractors within appropriate role scope.

Foster strong relationships with business units by establishing a customer service culture within the commercial finance team.

Influence integration of Treasury, Risk, and Finance from a BU perspective.

Influence the build of a leading global payments hub, where applicable.

Maintain stewardship and excellence which drives performance and sustainable growth through preservation of financial integrity.

Leverage BU to help shape society by developing innovative solutions to societal challenges; and expand and augment existing capabilities.

Integrate oversight of BCM & cybersecurity strategy for BU into Finance execution.

Financial Reporting Accountabilities

Seek advanced modelling and analysis capability to provide actionable intelligence, beyond data within the function.

Develop finance narratives and insights driving business; and build pioneering new propositions.

Ensure appropriate, quality and timeous delivery of acc