Specialist Management Accountant

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

Reporting and planning of all financial and management information on Transfer pricing.
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
Continuously seeking ways to improve operations by scaling automated financial processes, performing deep dives on Transfer pricing allocation methodologies and trend analyses.
Crafting financial solutions aligned to all appropriate controls, business financial health and growth objectives.

Job Description

Financial Reporting Accountabilities

• 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 alignment to the agreed accounting principles, methodologies, and underlying data are correctly applied.
• 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.
• Own the process of delivery of high-quality information for regular and ad-hoc enhanced reporting to agreed requirements, timelines, and standards.
• Own and co-ordinate the core finance processes for transfer pricing and contribute to the effectiveness of these processes for PPB and Group Finance (annual planning, forecasting, spend trajectory and reporting).
• Develop and implement control procedures as deficiencies or exceptions are identified which support the production of error-free reports. Assess and drive improvement of business accounting practices and policies and principles.
• Validate all financial and management reporting information for flash results, month end financial results and utilisation and reporting of transfer pricing.
• Generate finance narratives and insights driving business; and build pioneering new propositions.
• 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 PPB finance community and BU based on the requirements from Group. Prepare for all cycles in advance and ensure adequate engagement with the relevant finance and BU teams.
• Interact with the stakeholders to agree minimum quality standards, as well as an agreed method of communicating and resolving any identified quality deficiencies in the reporting process.
• Act in line with the correct governance and control frameworks across the Finance team, as well as for proactively addressing any deficiencies and exceptions.
• Ensure that the Finance manager and CFO is appraised of key financial issues that need to be raised with executive leadership to enable integrity and timely management the BU.
• Contribute to BCM & cybersecurity processes relevant to the BU and finance execution.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on financial data integrity, accounting processes, reconciliations', analysis and reporting for end-to-end Financial Management in business area.
• Responsible for continuous operational excellence and real-time responsiveness of finance to enable business to achieve growth and STP objectives.
• Focus on information-driven performance improvement and formulate data into easy access standardised views.
• Maintain stewardship and excellence which drives performance and sustainable growth through preservation of financial integrity.

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Financial Sciences (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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