Finance MI Analyst

### **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 provide specialist advise and support in the maintenance and analysis of financial data in order to provide accurate reports and information to relevant business stakeholders, through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed SOPs. **Job Description** **Business Performance Management -** - Development and running of the Ml in the Finance environment. - Produce daily, weekly and monthly reports which will cover all the pieces of credit cycle including acquisition performance, portfolio performance (up to the segment profitability level) and operational related reports. - To understand the key drivers of income & cost and develop and report financial and other performance measures required by local management & BA Finance to monitor profitability of major products and of individual functions. - To monitor actual performance of ABSL against target, analyze 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 the Head of BP & A and FD. - Cover for the Accounts Payable and General Ledger Control Officer should it be required - To help produce the financial business case for investment projects in BBS and to monitor benefits by gathering data and calculating costs, benefits and returns. - To provide support and analysis on a range of issues in connection with the Financial and Management Accounts e.g. variance/trend analysis (actuals v/s budget) makeup of specific income, costs, assets, liabilities. **Decision Support -** - To provide support in providing 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/s 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 -** - Assist in providing information for key elements of strategic management activity, involving the identification of how value is created, destroyed and driven in the function - To provide support to the Line Manager in the MTP/STP/RAF process. - Support management in identifying areas of opportunities, threats, risks & challenges within Banki…