Finance Business Partner

### **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. [My Career Development Portal](https://absahr.service-now.com/careerdevelopmentportal): **Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility.** **Job Summary** To prepare financial information for all stakeholders of the business for informed decision making and to support the business. **Job Description** **Business Performance Management:** - To monitor actual performance of ABSL against target, analyse variances, both on an entity and on a functional basis. - To provide country & functional financial management information to function heads, including commentaries on variances to ensure business functions are accountable for their performance. - To respond to routine and ad hoc information requests from Finance Management/ Function head regarding business performance. - To work on scenarios to produce reports that enable the quantification of impact of changes in economic variables (interest, exchange, inflation) on our performance - To recommend actions to management on how to improve performance and cost reduction, where necessary. - To support the business in the production of specific technical elements of Management Accounts including Regulatory & Statutory Reporting and the provision of core ongoing accounting operations, like monitoring the recharges, accrual process and General Ledger control. - To provide an updated annual/half yearly/one-month forecast of performance against budget - To help in any Finance related activities as and when directed by FD and AR FDS. **Decision Support:** - To help produce the financial business case for investment projects in ABSL and to monitor benefits by gathering data and calculating costs, benefits and returns. - To provide support and analysis on a range of technical issues in connection with the Financial and Management Accounts e.g. variance/trend analysis (actuals v budget) makeup of specific income, costs, assets, liabilities etc, and their key drivers, identify and raise management concern on areas of concern/ pressure points. **Strategy & Planning:** - Undertake key elements of strategic management activity, involving the identification of how value is created, destroyed and driven in the function. - To take ownership of MTP/STP/RAF process. - Support management in identifying areas of opportunities, threats, risks & challenges within Banking & competitor environment, by providing both financial & non-financial information. **Financial Control** - To challenge plans to commit costs, identifying areas for cost efficiency and managing the delivery of benefits - Participate/challenge on FTP, cost allocation and cost apportionment process and methodologies to ensure a fair distribution of economic benefits & costs across functions. - Support audit process by reviewing audit schedules and liaise with auditors regarding performance & financial statements. - Support finance management in initiatives for improvement in control within the dept by helping in DRCAs and Process Map reviews. **Staff Management** - Develop financial skills and business knowledge of Finance Analysts through coaching and on-the-job training. - Keep up to date with changes in financial environment and standards by attending training sessions, workshops and conferences. **Education** Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Financial Sciences (Required)