Absa Group

Finance Business Partner

Absa Group

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Absa Headquarters • Kenya

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Cyber Security

About the role

  • Serve as a subject matter expert on financial data integrity, accounting processes, reconciliations’, analysis and reporting for end-to-end Financial Planning and Management in the business area
  • Develop and sustain knowledge and experience on the end to end processes, including relevant systems within scope of work
  • Responsible for continuous operational excellence and real-time responsiveness of finance to enable business to achieve growth and profitability objectives
  • Prepare for all cycles in advance and ensure adequate engagement with the relevant finance and business teams
  • Focus on information-driven performance improvement and formulate data into easy access standardised views
  • Ensure that stakeholders are appraised of key financial issues that need to be raised with executive leadership to enable integrity and timely management the BU
  • Identify and innovate operating practices to optimize the function
  • Embrace digital solutions and adopt what’s ‘best for absa’ approach in finance practices
  • Have a holistic eco-system view of business, that is, geography, customer, channel and product in developing information views of business
  • Build innovative finance business case financial information, insights and benefits tracking’s’ solutions to continuously inform management decisions
  • Transform and evolve Finance planning, tracking and control processes
  • Know BU financial ambitions and balance sheet aspirations of CIB in performance reporting
  • Contribute to the effectiveness of the core finance processes for CIB Finance (annual planning, forecasting, and reporting)
  • Understand and integrate Treasury, Risk, and Finance data from a BU perspective, where appropriate
  • Maintain stewardship and excellence which drives performance and sustainable growth through preservation of financial integrity
  • Be an active force for good in society through business execution
  • Contribute to BCM & cybersecurity processes relevant to the BU and finance execution
  • Build trust in the finance function through the creation of a single source of financial information which is corroborated by related management information sources and alignment to the agreed accounting principles, methodologies, and underlying data are correctly applied
  • Generate innovative easy to comprehend progress reports for leaders on their strategic agenda, short-term and long-term plans and investments, operational success metrics, efficiencies, risks and mitigations
  • Interact with the stakeholders to agree minimum quality standards, as well as an agreed method of communicating and resolving any identified quality deficiencies in the reporting process
  • Own the process of delivery of high-quality information for regular and ad-hoc enhanced reporting to agreed requirements, timelines, and standards
  • Act in line with the correct governance and control frameworks across the Finance team, as well as for proactively addressing any deficiencies and exceptions
  • Develop and implement control procedures as deficiencies or exceptions are identified which support the production of error-free reports
  • Assess and drive improvement of business accounting practices and policies
  • Take a commercial view on business and provide contextual insights into performance reports
  • Generate finance narratives and insights driving business; and build pioneering new propositions
  • Ensure appropriate, quality and timeous delivery of accurate financial and non-financial management information to support business objectives and expectations, including appropriate financial and non-financial metrics, valid and insightful comments and packaging the information in a relevant and appropriate manner
  • Deliver reporting reflecting deep commercial, holistic understanding, coherency, clarity, and contextualisation
  • Tell the story with passion and conviction
  • Provide thought-leadership, insight, influence and challenge on evolving stakeholder information requirements and reporting processes to deliver analytics
  • Align to processes around month-end, year-end and planning cycles across the CIB finance community and BU based on the requirements from Group
  • Manage the production of regular, high quality, standardised financial and non-financial reporting and analytics to Business and Finance; and focus on effective collaborative stakeholder hand-offs in the production
  • Network with finance colleagues across GFD and create awareness of challenges, opportunities and issues and encourage collaboration
  • Focus on Finance skills evolution and remaining relevant

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree and CPA (K)
  • Proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint essential
  • Compass system and Power BI experience is advantageous
  • Experience in executing finance processes (e.g. Reporting, Planning, Analysis etc)
  • Experience in innovative commercial environments
  • Knowledge of Absa accounting policies and procedures
  • Good understanding of business strategic objectives
  • Good understanding of business processes and activities and the underlying cost driver
  • Financial Modelling
  • Banking experience
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
financial data integrityaccounting processesreconciliationsfinancial planningfinancial reportingfinancial modelingperformance improvementoperational excellencedata analysisbusiness accounting practices
Soft Skills
stakeholder engagementcommunicationleadershipinnovationcollaborationproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingtrust buildinginfluenceadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeCPA (K)