Finance Business Partner at RMB - Rand Merchant Bank

Job Description
To analyse individual business' financial results by ensuring adherence to financial controls. 

To perform financial partnering activities with including financial planning and reporting, data analysis, and assisting leadership with overall strategy.

• Perform daily reconciliations and reconcile discrepancies to minimize losses.  Monitors accounts payable to ensure that all payments are up to date.  Produce accurate and complete business reports on a monthly basis.
• Initiate dialogue to build professional working relationships with all stakeholders displaying excellent abilities to listen advise influence to negotiate and present at all levels.
• Integrate opinions and information provided by various sources to make strategic decisions.
• Provide input for reporting of financial information.
• Obtain data for stakeholders on status of projects.
• Compile reports for submission to various boards
• Analyse month-on-month movements of the data and interpret and provide reasons for the movements.
• Provide commentary on income statement and balance sheet items.
• Explain deviations from forecast and targeted income, all once-offs (unexpected income) and losses.
• Analyse and break down GL entries by preparing additional schedules.
• Identify ways to enhance reporting and, as the business changes, adapt reporting accordingly.
• Prepare budget information in conjunction with relevant stakeholders.
• Interact with Business and Finance to obtain anticipated budgets, and consolidate information received in prescribed format.
• Interact with Finance to merge all financial performance and position components and have a complete view within deadline.
• Assist with budget presentation for various stakeholders for approval.
• Perform relevant analysis and advise to stakeholders.
• Ensure that all reports and presentations are taken through the appropriate review mechanisms and are submitted timeously.
• Mitigate and manage audit findings and operational risk events and provide input into the scope of individual audits.
• Continuously identify gaps and enhance the overall control environment.
• Ensure the team is abreast of any changes to regulations and deadlines and manage and monitor compliance to regulations.
• Track any audit findings until they are resolved and report the status of audit findings to various committees.
• Take full responsibility for performance management of all direct reports managing their performance in relation to quality standards and agreed benchmarks and objectives focusing on all aspects of sound people management.
• Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained.