Reporting & Investment Accountant I ensures compliance with investment accounting policies for financial transactions. Collaborates with asset management and portfolio teams to assist in financial analytics and reporting.
About the role
- Finance Business Partner at Absa managing financial planning and analysis for CIB. The role focuses on delivering insights and governance to drive business decision-making and performance.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a subject matter expert on financial data integrity, accounting processes, reconciliations’, analysis and reporting for end-to-end Financial Planning and Management in the business area
- Develop and sustain knowledge and experience on the end to end processes, including relevant systems within scope of work
- Responsible for continuous operational excellence and real-time responsiveness of finance to enable business to achieve growth and profitability objectives
- Prepare for all cycles in advance and ensure adequate engagement with the relevant finance and business teams
- Focus on information-driven performance improvement and formulate data into easy access standardised views
- Ensure that stakeholders are appraised of key financial issues that need to be raised with executive leadership to enable integrity and timely management the BU
- Identify and innovate operating practices to optimize the function
- Embrace digital solutions and adopt what’s ‘best for absa’ approach in finance practices
- Have a holistic eco-system view of business, that is, geography, customer, channel and product in developing information views of business
- Build innovative finance business case financial information, insights and benefits tracking’s’ solutions to continuously inform management decisions
- Transform and evolve Finance planning, tracking and control processes
- Know BU financial ambitions and balance sheet aspirations of CIB in performance reporting
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the core finance processes for CIB Finance (annual planning, forecasting, and reporting)
- Understand and integrate Treasury, Risk, and Finance data from a BU perspective, where appropriate
- Maintain stewardship and excellence which drives performance and sustainable growth through preservation of financial integrity
- Be an active force for good in society through business execution
- Contribute to BCM & cybersecurity processes relevant to the BU and finance execution
- 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
- Generate innovative easy to comprehend progress reports for leaders on their strategic agenda, short-term and long-term plans and investments, operational success metrics, efficiencies, risks and mitigations
- 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
- Own the process of delivery of high-quality information for regular and ad-hoc enhanced reporting to agreed requirements, timelines, and standards
- Act in line with the correct governance and control frameworks across the Finance team, as well as for proactively addressing any deficiencies and exceptions
- 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
- Take a commercial view on business and provide contextual insights into performance reports
- Generate finance narratives and insights driving business; and build pioneering new propositions
- 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
- Deliver reporting reflecting deep commercial, holistic understanding, coherency, clarity, and contextualisation
- Tell the story with passion and conviction
- Provide thought-leadership, insight, influence and challenge on evolving stakeholder information requirements and reporting processes to deliver analytics
- Align to processes around month-end, year-end and planning cycles across the CIB finance community and BU based on the requirements from Group
- Manage the production of regular, high quality, standardised financial and non-financial reporting and analytics to Business and Finance; and focus on effective collaborative stakeholder hand-offs in the production
- Network with finance colleagues across GFD and create awareness of challenges, opportunities and issues and encourage collaboration
- Focus on Finance skills evolution and remaining relevant
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and CPA (K)
- Proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint essential
- Compass system and Power BI experience is advantageous
- Experience in executing finance processes (e.g. Reporting, Planning, Analysis etc)
- Experience in innovative commercial environments
- Knowledge of Absa accounting policies and procedures
- Good understanding of business strategic objectives
- Good understanding of business processes and activities and the underlying cost driver
- Financial Modelling
- Banking experience
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
- Paid time off
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