Finance Manager - Business Partnering at Stanbic Bank

Job Purpose description

To partner with the Head, Business & Commercial Clients ( BCC), in developing & implementing the strategy through the establishment of sound financial management, accounting, procurements, provisioning & internal control systems & processes, in compliance with relevant legislative requirements for the efficient operations. To provide financial analysis & performance on product performance across BCC.

Financial Management

• Analyze & interpret financial & accounting reports to provide financial insights to the business.
• Collaborate with Head, BCC & key stakeholders in ensuring the financial preparation, reconciliation & reporting within the business in alignments with financial reporting, compliance & business requirements & adhere to all accounting policies, processes & procedures.
• Development and implementation of reporting using Digital tools like Power BI, SAP analytics Cloud.

Strategy

• Develop & implement in partnership with the business Finance strategy in order to enable the achievement of BCC objectives.
• Prepare & analyze the financial results for BCC, identifying problem areas & potential for improvements by means of understanding the macro-economic landscape & understanding the impact on BCC business performance, highlight potential risks & opportunities.

Data

• Assist in the preparation of the BCC reports & documents, that is tabled at the respective Leaderships Councils on Group & country specific levels, on a monthly basis
• Prepare monthly, quarterly & annual deliverables & reports in alignment with reporting cycles, as well as ad-hoc weekly projects deliverable reports. Review budgetary planning & performance measurement controls for BCC to ensures reporting is effectively done in the Cube.

Risk, Regulatory, Prudential & Compliance

• Review the budgetary planning & performance measurement control for BCC, to ensure that budgets are completed within the set timelines & specific country regulatory & geographical requirements for compliance purposes.

Product

• Review & maintain NIR mapping & product structure blueprints on a regular basis & alignment by country, by collaborating & leveraging from product teams to understand pricing, volumes & use information to provide financial analysis & insight.
• Identify & develop new product structures to be set up & facilitate the process implementation by supporting BCC, specifically regarding new accounting initiatives & business case template support.

Technology & Architecture

• Identify GAPs in product automated mapping that will improve the financial & MIS reporting capabilities, working with GBM & core banking teams, initiate recommendations for improvement & manage the implementation of recommendations.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Type of Qualification Field of Study
• Post Graduate Degree Finance and Accounting
• Other Minimum Qualifications, certifications or professional memberships
• CPA (K) finalist or equivalent
• Preferred Qualifications

Type of Qualification Field of Study

• Masters Degree Finance and Accounting
• Experience Required
• 4-5 years experience in advising business leaders on financial aspects & relevant stakeholders on decision making processes & strategic objectives in a financial services environment.
• 5 years experience in running income statement to identify problems with general ledger entries & familiar with financial controls & practices in a large corporate, Managing FTP & NIM's in multiple geographies, across Africa continent preferable. Management Accounting reporting wi