Financial Manager at Nedbank

Job Purpose
To analyse; interpret; collate and present financial and non-financial information in order to drive strategy; enable decision making and support Nedbank Business Units.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.)
• 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.
• Enable business to achieve results by providing insights to enable strategic; operational and tactical decision making.
• Meet financial objectives by coordinating activities in line with budget requirements.
• Minimise costs by considering efficiencies and reducing unnecessary expenditure.
• Minimise financial and reputational risk by responding to customer related issues in a client centric way.
• Ensure research accuracy by validating results.
• Improve productivity by planning tasks; reviewing and taking corrective action when necessary.
• Evaluate vendor contracts by monitoring and ensuring compliance to Nedbank requirements.
• Managing market research database by compiling and updating client; industry and competitor information.
• Ensure compliance by adhering to internal and external regulatory requirements; governance and policies.
• Meet internal client briefs by generating and implementing communications plans.
• Contribute to reports by providing relevant information on market research activities.
• Keep abreast of legislation and other industry changes that impacts 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.
• Improve personal capability and stay abreast of developments in field of expertise by identifying training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from managers 
• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities by ensuring all learning activities are completed; experience practiced, and certifications obtained and/or maintained within specified time frames.
• Ensure information is provided correctly to stakeholders by maintaining knowledge sharing with team.
• Support internal stakeholder’s decision making by delivering market research results; industry analysis and insights.
• Support business to meet client needs through research; communication and follow-up.
• Understand and meet stakeholder needs by identifying; building and maintaining relationships.
• Meet business objectives by facilitating and managing vendor relationships.

Essential Qualifications

• Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree

Preferred Qualification

• Chartered Accountant

Minimum Experience Level

• 2 - 3 years experience in an accounting role
• Newly qualified CA (SA)’s with financial services experience or 2-3 year experience outside of Financial Services.
• Strong understanding of IFRS and financial instruments would be beneficial to the role.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Banking procedures
• Business principles
• Business writing
• Cluster specific operations
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Principles of financial management
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Research methodology
• Decision-making process

Behavioural Competencies

• Applied Learning
• Communication
• Decision Making
• Work Standards
• Managing Work
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills