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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:
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
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Job Summary
The MI/BI team has grown and stretched together with our Home Loans business as we have continued to show up in the market to house the nation!
We are pleased to be bringing to the market this exciting role that will help the team to implement various initiatives to effectively leverage our vast datasets by employing the most suitable data storage technologies, writing robust code to automate ETL processes and support our operational / regulatory reporting processes. This will help to empower downstream consumers of data and management information, while ensuring that we stay on the cutting edge of data management best practice.
Essentially, we need a strong technical candidate (expert in multiple coding languages) who is an exceptional team player, is open to input from team members to continuously improve data quality / processes and has a never say die attitude when it comes to creating and implementing robust code!
While we have a healthy book of work and plenty of problems to intellectually challenge our newest team member, we maintain much-needed flexibility for analysts and leaders alike to take on projects that they identify in the business as well!
Job Description
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Engage with internal business and technical stakeholders to understand requirements and ensure objectives, priorities and key requirements are agreed and understood. Interpret data and identify issues, risks and opportunities and relay results and insights to business users
- Provide risk, governance, compliance and broader regulatory reporting as required and contribute to these processes as a data expert
- Build the infrastructure that will enable the data pipeline to be utilized to reliably communicate key business metrics and insights to business stakeholders
- Improve the quality and turnaround times of key deliverables through the automation of tasks through the use of appropriate tools / scripting technologies and debugging new /existing scripts and code
- Leverage best practice to build and continually improve on high quality data collection, transformation, storage and retrieval. This includes keeping abreast with existing and emerging techniques and technologies in the data value-chain to identify key pivot points for the business
- Understand the technical landscape and bank-wide architecture that is connected to or dependent on the business to effectively collaborate with teams embedding solutions that impact the Home Loans data value-chain
- Build towards a high performance team environment through continually building towards mastery in a way that is aligned to the team’s purpose
- Conduct peer reviews within the broader analytics community and contribute to the building of an analytics team capability in the use of data solutions
- Proactively partner with the data architecture and data science teams in applying relevant best practice to actively shape the data landscape in the business, with the aim of improving upstream and downstream data processes to support the business
- Stay ahead of the curve on data architecture, engineering and governance trends, tools and techniques to help transition the team and the organization as required
EDUCATION AND REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor (Honours) degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Science or equivalent NQF level 8 qualification
- At least 5 years’ postgraduate work experience in a technology / digital / analytics role
- At least 3 years’ work experience in SAS and SQL development, with a view of learning additional tools as required (e.g. Spark)
- Expert knowledge of data warehousing and data architecture solutions and processes
- Expert knowledge of data services, data discovery and visualization tools: DaaS, SSIS, PowerBI
Education
Bachelor Honours Degree: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)
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