Finance Business Partner

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Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together...one story at a time. With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group. Job Summary Specific Role Purpose: Role will be focused on financial reporting, planning and analysis of all financial and management information within finance. Analysing and reporting of financial and management information in an accurate, complete and timely manner and providing business with meaningful insights and value-add perspective to enable decision making Enabling business to achieve the operational objectives of the business by building an agile finance enablement to transform, to bring stewardship, financial integrity & insights to the current state of the business & its future possibilities to deliver on the operating model and to achieve the business objectives. Continuously seeking ways to improve operations by scaling automated financial processes, performing deep dives on several topics and trend analyses. Crafting financial solutions aligned to all appropriate controls, business financial health and growth objectives. Job Description Commercial Finance Execution Accountabilities Serve as a subject matter expert on financial data integrity, accounting processes, reconciliations', analysis and reporting for end-to-end Financial Management in business area. Develop and sustain knowledge and experience on the end-to-end processes, including relevant systems within scope of work. Develop and implement robust and efficient MI reporting processes through a deep understanding of business strategy, ensuring accurate reporting and alignment across various areas of the bank. First line of operational support to internal and external auditors within scope of work; and all queries addressed effectively and efficiently. 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 the CFO is appraised of key financial issues that need to be raised with executive leadership to enable integrity and timely management the BU. Create unprecedented, seamless customer experiences via finance BU enablement. Embrace our distinctive brand aspiration and infuse in business. Identify and innovate operating practices to optimize the function. Embrace digital solutions. Drive continuous process efficiency, financial rigor and controls. 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. Book of work contribution: 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 PBW in performance reporting. Contribute to the effectiveness of the core finance processes for PBW Finance (annual planning, forecasting, spend trajectory 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. Financial Reporting Accountabilities 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 identifi

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