Job Description

• To provide operational financial direction to business units
• To implement and enhance the accounting workflow systems and processes within business while ensuring financial controls and procedures are followed and adhered to for various internal and external stakeholders
• To compile statutory, regulatory and management reporting for corporate bank
• Compile suspense accounts age analysis on a monthly basis
• Manage ICP’s
• Monitor and reconcile internal bank accounts i.e. volunteer bank accounts on a monthly basis
• Balance information received to what was submitted on the system for mandates, workflow proving, GL upload, cost company journals upload and internal bank account sweeping journals
• Attend SteerCo when required to discuss reconciled pack
• Compile and present a monthly governance report which focuses on B S items, highlighting potential issues
• Analyse, review and question the ageing of suspense accounts as well as accounts receivable and payable
• Highlight month on month variances and movements
• Sample testing and review
• Understand the GL structure and maintenance and ensure alignment with the reporting
• Compile and submit timeous monthly financial reports
• Ensure monthly dashboard is accurate and submitted to business
• Adhere to reporting guidelines for FAS and Tax  Packs
• Resolve monthly audit and reporting queries
• Ensure that operational counting in terms of processes, restructuring of business, recoveries, allocation, VAT etc. are dealt with on a monthly basis
• Compile monthly management reports and send to relevant stakeholders in order to add business insights to numbers
• Track and analyse performance across the board
• Compile presentations for relevant stakeholders to present
• Proactively highlight issues, both strategic and material, in report by early identification and engagement across finance and business teams
• Review reports to streamline and propose report enhancements where possible
• Compile and reconcile CB consolidated headcount template on a monthly basis
• Update rolling monthly forecast in alignment with business expectation
• Ensure that Essbase system is updated accordingly
• Provide input into the generic budget guidelines document with principles
• Adhere to budget timelines in terms of SLAs loaded for each subfunction of the budget process
• Provide ongoing communication around external cost changes i.e., SLA and interdivisional
• Ensure all Essbase loads are loaded within deadline
• Ensure SLA recoveries are amended when budget changes are received
• Ensure recover document is amended a SLA recoveries are amended
• Submit monthly commentary on budget variances
• Ensure headcount templates updated and consolidated
• Submit budget headcount allocation to align with business restructures
• Present budget to various stakeholders i.e., business enablement and other stakeholders
• Upload budgets onto HFM and ensure alignment with business sign off
• Compile all management reporting and presentations for corporate bank budgets
• Manage consolidated Capex
• Monitor completeness of budget results throughout process against business expectation – highlight issues and concerns for discussion and resolution
• Compile the CB budget and Essbase document
• Maintain chart of accounts, mappings, new companies and cost centres
• Ensure that Essbase numbers reconcile to HFM for both monthly and budget numbers
• Maintain Essbase for special roll-up created and propose changes where identified
• Forecast budgets on Essbase on a monthly basis
• Act as the central point for all GL maintenance forms and submit to FNB FAS
• Contact point for CB with FNB, RMB and FirstRand central finance teams around structure and monthly results
• Complete FAS packs and schedules on HFM on a monthly basis
• Load ICP’s on HFM for corporate bank
• Clear all validations on the schedules and promote HFM packs
• Upload forecasts on HFM and promote
• Coordinate business commentary in order to enable team to explain variances
• Proactively manage deadlines by providing monthly deadlines schedule to GMCB finance teams
• Ensure statutory view is always aligned to management view i.e., reconciled, able to explain different views etc.
• Promote BA returns on HFM input analysis schedules onto returns accurately
• Clear validations and promote BA returns
• Coordinate and consolidate business commentary in order to explain monthly variances to RMB and FirstRand regulatory
• Calculate monthly credit provisioning numbers
• Conduct monthly capital split workings
• Raise provisions on a monthly basis based on business input
• Distribute to various stakeholders
• Highlight material monthly and annual movement in provisioning and capital schedules – appropriate commentary provided
• Assist with the completion of the BA200
• Monitor bad debts schedule for NPLs
• Complete quarterly reports timeously and accurately, and complete interim and annual reports timeously and accurately
• Manage external auditors at year end regarding any issues and group queries
• Engage auditors on potential issues to resolve during audit process or escalate to central level for resolution
• Contribute to projects as and when required
• Interact with impacted parties and formulate a solution for approval and implementation
• Build and maintain professional working relationships with all stakeholders displaying excellent abilities to initiate dialogue listen advise influence and negotiate to achieve win win outcomes
• Initiate meetings with key stakeholders to track progress manage expectations and ensure stakeholders requirements are delivered
• Preserve relationships despite airing conflicting views and seeks mutual gains when addressing conflicts
• Anticipate consequences and adapts problem solving based on continual feedback
• Act speedily to resolve problems queries and complaints
• Adapt communication styles to meet the needs of different audiences
• Demonstrate pride in the organisations brand services and products by consistently delivering on the brands promise
• Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained
• Stay relevant and up to date with legislations and new developments
• Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback
• Handle stress in ways that do not negatively impact others
• Plan and manage own workflow anticipating obstacles juggling priorities and following through on objectives within agreed time frames and according to quality standards
• Take ownership of personal career development leveraging formal and informal opportunities
• Read situations and organisational realities
• Set aside personal agenda for the greater good
• Act in an ethical transparent and morally defensible manner including highlighting unethical practices
• Share debate and communicate learnings
• Flag and debate issues constructively
• Promote a friendly cooperative climate