Finance: Budgeting and forecasting, creating interim and annual financial statements, facilitating internal mergers and acquisitions, as well as dealing with analysts and investors.
Job Purpose
•To ensure the overall integrity and accuracy of the General Ledger as the basis for the preparation of financial and management reports
•Custodian of the General Ledger (GL) and Chart of accounts
•Preparation of the financial reports
Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities
Strategy
• Challenge the formulation strategy through leadership
• Participate in the setting of Business Unit Finance strategy and execution of overall Business unit strategy.
• Understand macroeconomics and external factors affecting the business strategies adopted and markets serviced by the bank.
• Steer the annual budget process, revised estimates and forecast estimates.
Monitor risk and ensure compliance
• Enforce the group guidelines and policies around financial management and financial control.
• Ensure that all risk issues are managed properly, and incidents are reported timeously with all relevant stakeholders.
• Partner and comply with relevant risk and compliance regulatory frameworks for all finance activities.
• Ensure reputation and business risk is managed.
• Ensure that mandatory compliance training in finance is driven effectively.
Direct, monitor, manage and support the team in delivering on agreed performance and strategic goals
• Participate in departmental goal.
• Proactively drive own development plans.
• Direct, monitor and support your team in delivering agreed performance goals
Be a trusted advisor to the business
• Develop and implement reporting of key business unit management information ensuring data integrity and timely communication to relevant managers.
• Design, evaluate and advise on the organisation performance measures to ensure alignment with corporate strategy
• Able to develop, analyse and monitor operational plans and budgets and recommend corrective actions as required.
• Identify, assess and advise on information required for management decision making.
• Able to recommend organisational improvements based on results from management accounting systems.
• Understand business information needs between group and country and the realignment.
• Provide technical advice and accounting support to other business unit functions
Preferred Qualification and Experience
First Degree in Finance and Accounting
3-4 Years experience in Finance and accounting
Professional membership- ACCA/CPA (K)
Knowledge/Technical Skills/Expertise
SAP experience an added advantage
Computer literacy and knowledge of personal computers and software packages such as MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access.
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