Senior Specialist: Accounting Control (Tax) at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Key responsibilities

Accountability: Managing end to end process across clusters (70%)

• Ensure alignment of process with organisational strategy; take accountability for relevant processes within area of responsibility and ensure delivery and maintenance of standardised processes and controls;
• Owner of the end-to-end business process including defining the goals, objectives and KPI's, and performance management thereof;
• Plan, implement and develop operating procedures for relevant area and updating process documentation;
• Agree hand-ins and hand-offs with other process owners across FC;
• Constantly review and improve processes (automation included) to drive and implement a sustainable and effective process in support of quality and accuracy;
• Drive sustainable cost and processing efficiencies through continuous innovation, industry benchmarking and alignment to best practices;
• Act as escalation and decision point for operational decisions related to specific process, including issue resolution;
• Ensure cluster SMEs are aware of any issues in BAU process;
• Ownership of accounting control responsibilities for key FC initiatives that impact process;
• Work with Absa Group Tax to ensure all tax requirements are adequately recorded in the ledger.
• Management of relevant executors of processes within ambit of control including co-ordination and management of capability and performance;
• Change Management including facilitating change in process within scope of deliverables;
• Identify process-specific risks and work with Process Architect to mitigate risks;

 Accountability: Lead a team of individuals to drive performance through motivation and employee engagement (30%)

• Act as the process lead for Accounting Control Tax;
• Manage effective delivery of outputs to ensure high quality and efficient process.
• Work with process owners to unpack and redesign processes to obtain optimal efficiency in Accounting Control and Financial Control;
• Oversee execution and review of AC processes;
• Resolve issues and attend meetings related to process;
• Represent accounting control on operations committee for projects related to process;
• Support head of Accounting Control with strategic view for the function;

Knowledge & Skills

• IFRS, accounting and reporting
• Proven senior stakeholder management
• SAP or similar ERP system
• Basic understanding of accounting data flows
• Problem solving
• Interpersonal skills
• Management and leadership

Education and experience

• Honours/Masters-degree in (Accounting) (NQF level 7);
• CA SA
• Previous experience in a tax role will be beneficial
• Experience managing financial statement and disclosure processes and process improvement;
• Control environment understanding and monitoring experience;
• Previous people management experience will be beneficial;
• 5–6-year post articles with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in leadership or management position;

Competencies:

• Deciding and initiating action
• Agile and organized
• Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
• Relating and networking
• Adapting and responding to change
• Persuading and influencing
• Creating and innovating
• Proactive and confident 

Education

• Postgraduate Degrees and Professional Qualifications: Financial Sciences (Required)

End Date: January 24, 2026