Financial Accountant at FNB South Africa

Job Description

• To provide support to the business unit by applying accounting principles in monitoring  and analysing financial data, maintaining accurate records of financial transactions, and providing accurate accounting information to the business unit to support business decisions

Hello, Future Financial Accountant

• Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen.
• As part of our talent team, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change.

Are you someone who can:

• Promotes teamwork amongst peers and team members
• Manages and reports on cost usage that reflects delivery of planned work within agreed parameters 
• Creates solutions to meet customer demands
• Ensures continuous process improvement to enable effective operational processes
• Executes monthly financial accounting function, gathering, analysing and interpreting information
• Management Accounting to provide line managers with information to improve decision-making
• Processes month-end management and cost centre allocations
• Identifies risks and proposes solutions to management
• Ensures accurate and on time regulatory reports are submitted
• Generates Board Compliance and Manpower Reports against rules in the system
• Participates in projects in the capacity required
• Analyses opportunities for continuous improvement in operational processes
• Consults to business on variance report analysis and related information
• Participates in planned activities that are appropriate for own development
• Manages people performance in the area of responsibility

You will be an ideal candidate if you have: 

• Degree in Accounting, Finance or similar field
• Experience level: Minimum 1 year experience.

Experience required:

• General ledger accounting: Experience with journal entries, accruals, and period end closing processes.
• Reconciliations: Strong understanding of bank, intercompany and control account reconciliations often requiring attention to detail and analytical review.
• Invoicing and Billing: Exposure to revenue processes. Sales orders and ensuring compliance with accounting standards.
• Income Statement and Balance Sheet Reviews: Ability to interpret financial information, identify unusual movements or errors and provide commentary with regards to the variances.
• Preparation of Committee reports: Skill in preparing internal management reports, suggesting experience in management accounting and using tools like excel, ERP systems (Oracle).
• Journal Entry Posting: Requires a working knowledge of double entry bookkeeping, accrual accounting, and often some understanding of IFRS.
• Mandates maintenance: Maintaining Bank mandates and authority matrices
• Experience with payment authorization processes.

You will have access to: 

• Opportunities to network and collaborate.
• Challenging Working
• Opportunities to innovate.

We can be a match if you are:  

• Curious & courageous - you are driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you are brave enough to
• Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it.