Accountant: Personal and Business Banking (Fixed Term Contact - 6 Months)

Primary Purpose

The purpose of the role is to support finance managers with daily operations of the department in supporting business. Responsible for overseeing month end reporting, planning, balance sheet reconciliation and keeping clean financial discipline.

Minimum Requirements

Qualifications

• B. Com Accounting or any other related qualification

Experience

• 3 - 5 years prior experience in an accounting role

Competencies

• Ability to identify weaknesses in the control environment and implement change
• Attention to detail
• Financial acumen
• Ability to operate effectively under pressure
• Effective communication skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications

Duties and Responsibilities

FINANCE

• Ensure Journals are processed accurately and completely, within deadlines.
• Ensure month end management accounts are understood and explainable for the products
• Ensure accruals are raised accurately
• Ensure all external files are received and any missing files resolved before month end.
• Meet month end reporting deadlines
• Address queries on P&L from management within required deadline and as much detail as needed
• Process appropriate journals and ensure that any journals are in the correct format and accurately and completely processed
• Ensure all Schemes monthly journals and reporting are timeously.
• Ensure all profit impacting items are in within deadline for flash and any items not in are properly reported to financial manager for flash reporting
• Preparation and management of partner commissions
• Preparation of transactional data and key drivers for reporting.
• Preparation of any other required reports
• Preparation of Budgets and Forecasting in line with budget guideline

CUSTOMER CENTRICITY

• Levels and quality of service delivery as experience by internal & external stakeholders
• Interprets business/customer requirements to provide timeous solutions
• Responsiveness: speed of responses, reaction time, going the extra mile, turnaround time
• Degree of customer satisfaction from customers.
• Participate in building solid business cases for opportunity identification (Cross-sell, upsell, acquisitions, new products, etc). Campaigns Formulation & Tracking.
• Provision of quality insightful client, product, channel and banker analytics.

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

• Robust control environment.
• Clean audit.
• Automation.
• Practical Implementation /collaborating on solving common challenges.
• One version of the truth.

LEARNING AND GROWTH

• Keeping abreast of own development and ensure exposure is gained based on development areas.
• Take ownership for driving own career development

This position is advertised in line with our commitment to Employment Equity.