Assistant Financial Officer at Nedbank

Job Purpose

To provide financial management services to stakeholders through effective processing; monitoring; budgeting/forecasting; analysis and reporting; thereby ensuring good governance and financial control across the Nedbank Group.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to business unit's cost saving by operating within agreed targets.
• Contribute to improvement of team performance by partnering with team leaders and giving advice and feedback on how they are performing.
• Maintain client satisfaction by responding to general queries and adhoc requests timeously.
• Contribute to team skills by sharing knowledge and ideas.
• Build and maintain business relationships with internal and external stakeholders by providing and discussing monthly financial packs.
• Review validity of invoices by making sure that they meet policy requirements in terms of signatures, mandates and tax.
• Submit invoices for payment by capturing on the P2P System and select authorisers for approval.
• Manage and monitor asset registers by physically checking asset numbers and verifying them against the asset register.
• Process purchase orders of capex (new or replacement) by allocating reference numbers and ensuring validity of order in terms of signatures and mandates.
• Checking validity of capex request.
• Adhoc related activities related to capex procurement.
• Keep abreast of legislation and other industry changes that impact on role by reading the relevant newsletters, websites and attending sessions.
• Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and demonstrate the values through interaction with team and stakeholders.
• Participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of key business strategies.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance processes, systems and policies and support implementation of new processes, policies and systems.

Minimum Experience Level

• 2-4 years experience with 1-2 years' experience in financial services environment
• 2-4 years Banking systems experience, SAP (Project Systems), ARIBA and MS Excel

Preferred Qualification

• Bachelor of Commerce: Accounting , Bachelor of Commerce: Banking

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Accounting principles
• Administrative procedures and systems
• Banking knowledge
• Business principles
• Cluster specific operations
• Data analysis
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• SAP (Project Systems)
• ARIBA
• Business writing skills
• MS Excel

Behavioural Competencies

• Applied Learning
• Communication
• Decision Making
• Stress Tolerance
• Managing Work
• Quality Orientation
• Attention to detail
• Problem solving