FINANCE MANAGER – Absa Bank Botswana 1114 views

Absa Bank Botswana has exciting career opportunities for strategic, high-performing, and self-driven individuals. We are looking to fill the following role.
Finance Manager

Overall job purpose
Finance Manager will be responsible for providing a sound financial strategy execution together with a sound financial governance and control environment to ensure the delivery of strategic agenda items and a stable control environment that is predictive and preventative.

Main Accountabilities

⦁ Execute Finance strategic initiatives by ensuring there is adequate oversight over the financial reporting processes.
⦁ Ensure the periodic circulation of reports and preparation of strategic performance analytic decks including board and other external analyst reports.
⦁ Drive business performance and ensure oversight and execution over optimization and efficiency strategies and deliver maximum business value
⦁ Drive risk management strategies through policy development and implementation, system effectiveness and process improvement initiatives/re-engineering, and adequate monitoring of principal risks.
⦁ Ensure adequate end-to-end flow of business transactions and that the financial reports reflect the underlying performance of the business and that key business processes are embedded.
⦁ Focal point for regulatory affairs to ensure a one-stop point for all external and internal critical stakeholder reporting e.g. Absa Group, External/internal auditors, regulators and listing requirements.

Education and experience required

⦁ Chartered Accountant (CA) with at least 10 years post-qualification experience in the financial services sector.
⦁ Seasoned Finance Professional with at least 5-10 years of experience with a strong understanding of the operation of a banking financial control framework and significant experience in a financial services institution.
⦁ Finance/Accounting Degree

Competencies

⦁ Proven strategic commercial awareness
⦁ Expertise/proven experience in financial controls and reporting, relevant and applicable regulation and risk management strategies.
⦁ Stakeholder management – both internal and external.