Financial Analyst at Standard Bank Group

Job Details

Finance: Budgeting and forecasting, creating interim and annual financial statements, facilitating internal mergers and acquisitions, as well as dealing with analysts and investors.

Job Purpose

• To ensure the overall integrity and accuracy of the General Ledger as the basis for the preparation of financial and management reports
• Custodian of the General Ledger (GL) and Chart of accounts
• Preparation of the financial reports

Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• Strategy
  
  • Challenge the formulation strategy through leadership
  • Participate in the setting of Business Unit Finance strategy and execution of overall Business unit strategy.
  • Understand macroeconomics and external factors affecting the business strategies adopted and markets serviced by the bank.
  • Steer the annual budget process, revised estimates and forecast estimates.
• Monitor risk and ensure compliance
• Enforce the group guidelines and policies around financial management and financial control.
• Ensure that all risk issues are managed properly, and incidents are reported timeously with all relevant stakeholders.
• Partner and comply with relevant risk and compliance regulatory frameworks for all finance activities.
• Ensure reputation and business risk is managed.
• Ensure that mandatory compliance training in finance is driven effectively.
• Direct, monitor, manage and support the team in delivering on agreed performance and strategic goals
• Participate in departmental goal.
• Proactively drive own development plans.
• Direct, monitor and support your team in delivering agreed performance goals
• Be a trusted advisor to the business
  
  • Develop and implement reporting of key business unit management information ensuring data integrity and timely communication to relevant managers.
  • Design, evaluate and advise on the organisation performance measures to ensure alignment with corporate strategy
  • Able to develop, analyse and monitor operational plans and budgets and recommend corrective actions as required.
  • Identify, assess and advise on information required for management decision making.
  • Able to recommend organisational improvements based on results from management accounting systems.
  • Understand business information needs between group and country and the realignment.
  • Provide technical advice and accounting support to other business unit functions

Preferred Qualification and Experience

• First Degree in Finance and Accounting
• 3-4 Years experience in Finance and accounting
• Professional membership- ACCA/CPA (K)