Specialist FC Systems and Reporting
Job Location: Johannesburg Sandton
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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
The purpose of the role is to manage the support, development and maintenance of the financial aspects of the Financial Reporting Systems and General Ledgers as well as participate in research, design, development and testing of improvements or new solutions to ensure financial data integrity. Assist with strategy and business requirements for FC Systems, manage and deliver financial and management reports to FC and other Group functions. Provide leadership, training and support to stakeholders and team.
Job Description
Accountability: Maintain financial data integrity
Contribute towards financial systems data alignment and integration.
Establish and execution of sufficient controls for the balancing process of financial systems.
Execution of the balancing process of financial systems.
Identifying opportunities to streamline the use of financial data and system functionality.
Establish and enforce a stable environment for the maintenance/enhancement of financial processes.
Accountability: Manage Finance System operations
Co-ordinate all maintenance and operational activities performed on the finance system to ensure accuracy and completeness.
Establish and consistently enforce sound system and internal controls to ensure that procedures are correct.
Propose Metadata changes to simplify reporting.
Create and maintain standard and specific financial and management reports. (Focus on SAP4 HANA Business Warehouse (BW), Hyperion Planning, CDM and HFR Reporting but not limited to these Reporting Tools)
Support and ensure accuracy of specific financial and management reports
Accountability: User Support, Reporting and Access
With strong operational knowledge be able to provide guidance to new users in utilising the finance application systems correctly
Assist users with queries regarding transactions processed to the financial systems
Providing user support relating to system problems and or errors
Escalate any problems/errors that need IT attention
Fulfil administrator role to manage and provide user access and support to the reporting engine.
Build custom reports as required
Accountability: Stakeholder management
Build strong relationships with key role players in order to have a clear understanding of their business requirements
Understand the impact of the changes and inform business of any risks or impact as a result of changes
Escalate stakeholder dissatisfaction / issues to line manager for follow up and resolution
Provide direction and input to enable Business Units to manage and resolve issues
Track and report against customer experience metrics
Accountability: Business direction and support
Ensure that the solution complies with existing policies and controls frameworks.
Assist with the management of the day to day operations of the business area
Ensure the satisfaction of the customer (internal or external) needs by responding efficiently, ensuring high quality of work and by meeting the required deadlines
Agree and manage service offerings and SLAs with internal customers (agree annually and measure on a monthly basis)
Accountability: Risk management, compliance and controls
Ensure that the team understands applicable risk management, compliance and control (RCSA) requirements, including required compliance training
Participate in the development of the Business Continuity Plan by reviewing and ensuring the critical financial processes are adequately covered and tested
Assist external and internal audit.
Perform proper maintenance of all actions needed for the completion of DEA (Design Effectiveness Assessment) and OET (Operating Effectiveness Testing)
Assist with compliance testing.
Assist with any audit findings raised and work to close out these in the required time frame
Perform relevant attestation to controls as per distributed plan and timelines
Provide input to risk and control assessments to ensure that all risks are controlled
Accountability: People and talent management
Exhibits Absa’s purpose and values and champions them in the team towards development of a corporate culture
Supports a culture that acknowledges the diversity of the members
Training requirements to be identified and applied for on a timely basis and handed to team leader for approval
Accountability: Process management
As Process Executor:
Execution of processes as designed
Constantly review, improve and maintain own activities to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of processes
Recommend areas for improvement in order to reduce cycle times, improve productivity, create capacity and improve process reliability and customer satisfaction
Assist in the implementation of new and/or enhanced processes
Identify activity-specific risks and work with Process Owner / Process Architect to mitigate risks
Maintain awareness of own activities and the impact thereof on related / inter-dependent activities
Education & Experience:
Education:
B Degree in Commerce or Advanced Diploma in Accounting or Advanced Diploma/B Tech in Information Technology (NQF Level 7).
Experience:
3 – 5 Years’ experience in support, development, and maintenance of financial reporting tools
Intermediate exposure and understanding of SAP4 HANA BW and Hyperion Planning concepts
Intermediate skill in the development of Business Objects Web Intelligence reports and Dashboards.
5 – 8 Years’ experience in banking/financial and financial systems
Preferred - Understanding of information systems and technology
Knowledge & Skills:
Quantitative finance skills
Risk knowledge (credit and market risk)
Negotiation
Report writing
Presentation skills
Conflict Management
Coaching
Problem-solving
Interpersonal skills
Management and leadership
Competencies:
Deciding and initiating action
Learning and researching
Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
Relating and networking
Adapting and responding to change
Persuading and influencing
Creating and innovating
Education
Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Financial Sciences (Required)Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised
