Manager Business Integration

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Responsible for the strategy and business requirements of reconciling the General Ledger and associated sub
- systems. Contribute to the effective management within Business Integration by providing leadership, directing activities and business plan developments and to control the integrity of the execution of the Automation, Standardization and Optimization.

**Job Description**:
Key accountabilities

Accountability: Set strategic direction for Business Integration to support the various stakeholders throughout BAGL (30%)
- Develop strategy to ensure that operations, systems and procedures are appropriate and scalable.
- Be pro-active and stay abreast of changes in all environments that impact/influence the reconciliation activities, such as General Ledger Control Framework and source systems etc.
- Liaise and engage with stakeholders on a regular basis to discuss system and technology enhancements in order to increase performance of data integrity.
- Develop a strategy to encourage a culture of customer focus in the team by coaching the team and analysing feedback from the key stakeholders.
- Optimise business processes to support effective and efficient delivery of data integrity
- Oversee the implementation of the business model in order to identify business opportunities to enhance processes.
- Manage and maximise the usage of the reconciliation systems to increase accuracy and quality of data.
- Engage in sustainable relationship building with stakeholders to ensure continuous alignment and discipline.
- Develop and sustain knowledge and experience on the end to end processes, including product systems and general ledgers, in order to support business units with enhanced service delivery.
- Provide management information as required and agreed with stakeholders to support informed decision making.
- Develop and maintain technical knowledge, skills and international benchmarking to keep up to date in specialist areas in order to perform at the requirement standards.
- Partnering and engage with Internal Audit and External Audit in the various audits within scope of responsibility.

Accountability: Develop and implement a strategy to ensure a robust control framework is in place to comply with the Account Ownership and Reconciliation (AO&R) policy with in Accounting Operations. (20%)
- Ensure that processes and procedures in Accounting Operations comply with the AO&R policy requirements.
- Manage the Account Ownership and Reconciliation Attestation process from end to end.
- Review the attestations for quality and investigate and understand the issues raised in the attestation process.
- Aid in the implementation of the KRI's (key risk indicators) for Accounting Operations

Accountability: Oversee the adherence to all the risk and compliance policies (15%)
- Ensure that processes, control requirements and risk management frameworks that impact the area are documented and understood by all members of the team.
- Work with Absa Internal Audit and Management Assurance during the scoping of audits to ensure fair coverage.
- Own and agree corrective action items with Internal Audit and Management Assurance for findings related to the functional area under management.
- Arrange issue assurance for closed audit findings.
- Complete required compliance and SOX attestations and ensure that impacted team members complete their attestations.
- Ensure that the team understands all compliance requirements and call for the area's Compliance Officer to conduct briefing sessions if gaps are identified.
- Ensure that all regulatory requirements are adhered to.
- Ensure that the Business Continuity Tool is updated regularly and signed off annually in consultation with the BCM Co-ordinator. Ensure that the BCM Plan for the area is tested as required and corrective actions executed.
- Working with managers/professionals in the team, develop Detailed Risk and Control Assessments (RCA's) for the function and update at the required intervals (normally quarterly). Complete attestations to testify to the adequacy of controls on request.
- Participate in the development of Key Risk indicators including the determination of likelihood of occurrence and potential impact. Actively work to minimise the amount of economic capital that has to be set aside for operational risk.
- Ensure that managers in the team understand their responsibilities for physical and systems access control and information security requirements.
- Ensure that your area in FSSA has a Health and Safety Rep, Fire Warden and Evacuation representative.
- Participate in the development of the Business Continuity Plan