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Job Purpose:

• To direct; add value and enable business decisions through effective consolidated financial analysis; reporting and controls across a range of business functions or companies; in line with client business strategy.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead a diverse and multi-disciplinary team across Financial Operations in support of the objectives of the client.
• Develop strategic goals for the team and finance operations that enables financial consolidation to reporting standards are financial consolidation principles and practise.
• Provide meaningful recommendations, explanations and highlights of concerns or anomalies by analysing and interrogating financial information.
• Ensure accurate and timeous budgets are submitted and reviewed by ensuring that they align with key economic indicators and group strategic initiatives.
• Ensure accurate financial results by reviewing reconciliations and following up on unreconciled items.
• Maintain high standards of analysis and reporting within defined timeframes by planning, organising and monitoring workflow.
• Compile Financial statements by complying with IFRS and relevant regulatory frameworks.
• Stay aligned with latest technology updates and industry trends and adoption of AI to improve and optimise workflow and processes.
• Contribute to intellectual capital development by providing continuous motivation, mentoring, coaching and on the job skills training.
• Meet deadlines and targets through prioritising effectively, planning and communicating.
• Ensure relevant, best practice analysis and reporting by providing ongoing guidance and coaching to the team.
• Develop financial controls in conjunction with risk, ethics and IFRS to ensure that audit and regulatory requirements are established and adhered to.
• Consolidate financial reports and make value added recommendations by using information from various sources.
• Assist in the achievement of group collaboration initiatives by identifying opportunities to create beneficial partnerships and synergies.
• Understand and meet stakeholder requirements through ongoing engagement.
• Comply with relevant legislation by reviewing and submitting statutory returns timeously.
• Achieve business objectives within a specific timeframe by scheduling and coordinating activities and identifying appropriate resources to perform these activities.
• Manage defined risks in the finance function and risk categories at targeted levels by adhering to internal and external guidelines/policies/ procedures/business rules/ compliance and governance requirements.
• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values by reviewing the clients and Business Unit Plan and ensuring delivered systems, process, services and solutions are aligned.
• Identify training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from management.
• Ensure all personal development plan activities are completed within specified timeframe.
• Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction.
• Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations.
• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Client Culture building initiatives.
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy.
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to the client.
   

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Job Description

• Our client is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to support digital transformation initiatives by analysing business processes, financial data and reporting environments. You will work closely with business stakeholders and technical teams to deliver data-driven insights, reporting solutions and process improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse business processes, financial systems and reporting environments.
• Gather and document business and data requirements.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications.
• Analyse large datasets to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Perform data profiling, data quality assessments and root cause analysis.
• Develop financial and operational reporting solutions.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, developers, BI teams and project teams.
• Identify process improvements and support digital transformation initiatives.
• Ensure the accuracy and quality of data and reporting deliverables.

Requirements

• 5–8 years' experience as a Data Analyst.
• Experience with financial systems and system integrations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with large datasets.
• Knowledge of data warehousing concepts.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Banking or financial services experience is advantageous.
   

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Job Description

• We are seeking a Senior Financial Manager to direct, add value to, and enable business decisions through effective consolidated financial analysis, reporting and controls across a range of business functions or companies, in line with the business strategy.

Job Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day asset maintenance activities to ensure critical banking assets remain available, reliable, safe and fit for purpose.
• Maintain accurate asset records, registers and control information to support ownership, traceability, valuation, depreciation and lifecycle decision-making.
• Enable financial performance against targets by identifying deviations and recommending corrective action or providing justification.
• Ensure asset maintenance activities comply with Group policies, procurement requirements, regulatory obligations, health and safety standards, risk controls and audit expectations.
• Partner with Finance, Procurement, Technology, Facilities, Risk, Compliance and business units to plan asset refresh, replacement, disposal and investment decisions.
• Identify opportunities to optimise asset lifecycle cost, improve maintenance productivity, standardise processes and reduce avoidable spend.
• Provide timely reporting on asset condition, maintenance backlog, service levels, risk exposure, spend, exceptions and improvement initiatives.
• Embed a client-centric and operationally resilient culture by ensuring asset maintenance supports branch, campus, data centre, ATM, workplace and business service requirements.
• Build a capable, high-performing team by setting clear objectives, managing performance, developing technical capability and promoting continuous improvement.
• Ensure business continuity by having processes and systems in place to support all activities.
• Meet internal customer requirements to ensure adherence to service level agreements.
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders through regular engagement.
• Mitigate financial risk by staying abreast of and aligning to changes in accounting standards, policies and regulatory requirements.
• Plan, co-ordinate and manage team to achieve deliverables.
• Enhance productivity by identifying, implementing and supporting process improvements.