Specialist AC Process Executor – Consol and Interdiv Eliminations

Financial Control is responsible for ensuring that Absa Africa fulfills its financial, statutory and regulatory reporting requirements, while ensuring compliance with accounting, regulatory and balance sheet control policy. Financial Control comprises the following areas: Accounting Control, Reporting & Analytics, Policy Governance & Controls, Technology Enablement, Cluster Control and Technical Accounting. Financial Control serves as the Group’s primary interface with the auditors and regulators.

• Act as a process executor for completion of financial information, including the accountability for the following key processes:
• Journals and month-end close
• Reconciliations
• Internals
• Completion of Supplementary information
• Consolidation and Internal eliminations
• Tax
• Accounting Functions
• Support to Subject Matter Expert (SME) on processes, resolution of issues and ad hoc requests from stakeholders including:
• Cluster Financial Controller
• Cluster CFO/BP&A team members
• Other Financial Control functions
• Support SME on obtaining TAG opinions and ad hoc queries on accounting issues.
• Act as the process executor for implementation of new standardised processes where relevant.
• Provide feedback to stakeholders on results reflected in the financial accounting system, as well as issues identified where there are potential risks to numbers.
• Act pro-actively in correcting issues and implement a sustainable process.
• Ensure that principles of the Financial Control Operating Model are complied with and sustained.
• Maintain and enhance processes:
• Identify areas of improvement in completion, review and or submission processes to drive and implement a sustainable and effective process in support of quality and accuracy.
• Identify synergies between different reporting processes and implement new and or enhanced processes.

• CA(SA) newly qualified/2 to 3 years PQE experience
• Business experience in a Banking environment gained from a Finance, Product
• Group consolidations experience will be an advantage
• Experience in SAP
• Exceptional interpersonal and team-working skills
• Ability to identify control gaps and weaknesses
• Ability to interpret the end-to-end flow of financial data
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Analytical skills
• Negotiation skills
• The ability to work in a pressured and unstructured environment and to cope with the demands of working to tight deadlines