Financial Manager at FNB South Africa

Job Description

• To provide support to the CFO in various aspects including: finance leadership, instilling best practice and enhancing business profitability through provision of information and insight in key strategic meetings
• Hello Future Senior Financial Manager
• 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 team in FNB Wealth and Investments, 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:

• Provide advice and guidance on the content of business performance reports and the causes of variances
• Cultivate and manage technical working relationships with colleagues and finance professionals across the business and group to share insights, experience and best practice
• Maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and provision of proactive advice and solutions to relevant stakeholders
• Monitor and coach behaviours that ensure a service culture which builds rewarding relationships, proposes innovations and allows others to provide exceptional client service
• Manage and monitor risk to ensure that all processes fall within the risk and audit guidelines. Investigate and implement measures to correct audit findings
• Design and implement a control framework to ensure the integrity of operations, financial and accounting practices. Anticipate and apply and policies/procedures to manage and control both financial and non-financial risks to which the business unit(s) might be exposed

You will be an ideal candidate if you can:

• Benchmark business performance internally and externally; deliver benchmark management information to specific needs to allow decision-making that pushes performance boundaries
• Translate business strategy into financial targets and tactical plans, and support execution. Interpret and make effective management decisions using benchmarking, trends, and other planning and forecasting methods; develop and implement improvements to the planning processes
• Analyse, plan and manage costs (including product pricing or supply chain analysis) to support implementation of business strategies
• Apply and monitor governance to ensure that all processes and documentation on model rules and assumptions are aligned with technical committee and costing steerco guidance and methodologies
• Define and implement internal and external financial reporting processes and documentation requirements for both individual entities and groups according to professional financial accounting and reporting standards
• Establish and ensure effective and consistent modelling, planning and forecasting processes across business unit(s) and identify and implement best practices in these processes

You will have access to: 

• Opportunities to network and collaborate
• A challenging working environment
• Opportunities to innovate

We can be a match if you:

• Have a Bcom Accounting or similar degree with an Honours qualification
• Have a minimum of 5 years Financial Management experience
• Define, develop and maintain policies, procedures, standards and frameworks to efficiently manage practice and provide thought leadership
• Manage end to end finance projects involving a segment, business unit, function or country/region from strategy articulation through to systems / programme design and implementation
• Manage the preparation and assessment of tax returns and issues; provide advice, particularly around technical tax issues that are non-routine and/or complex and interpret and evaluate the implications of new tax legislation and of existing legislation to new business situations
• Continuously assess own performance, seek timely and clear feedback and request training where appropriate
• Actively coach team through providing advice about subject matter, solutions, principles and processes with the aim to improve business performance
• Plan and manage performance, skills development, employment equity, talent and culture of team in order to improve innovation and achieve efficiencies