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About Candidate
1. Achieve Technical Mastery: Deepen expertise in IFRS, tax legislation, and audit practices relevant to your current role. Gain Industry-Specific Experience, especially outside the financial services.
2. Specialize to enhance your value and strategic insight.
3. Develop Leadership Skills: Take on supervisory roles or lead projects to build experience managing teams and driving outcomes.
4. Expand Professional Network: Engage in mentorship programs to build a strong professional reputation and network.
5. Progress to positions such as Chief Financial Officer, Financial Director. Transition into a Strategic Role. Contribute beyond finance—supporting business strategy, mergers and acquisitions, or operational transformation.
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Education
Higher Diploma in accountants is a postgraduate diploma that is required by the South African Institute of Chartered Accounts to have access to write the qualifying board exams . Subjects are Financial Accounting, Management Accounting and Finance, Auditing and Taxation.
Undergraduate degree in finance, Auditing, Taxation and Management Finance and Finance
Work & Experience
● Provide comprehensive support to the CFO of the business bank, enabling effective decision-making and achieving strategic objectives by presenting key financial insights and trends. ● Prepare monthly review reports and presentation packs, assisting in the evaluation of both short- and long-term financial goals, while analyzing business risks and delivering strategic risk management solutions aligned with best practices. ● Ensure the timely and accurate completion of the month-end closing process, meeting the Group’s reporting deadlines. ● Possess strong expertise in financial consolidation, management accounting, and IFRS technical matters related to swaps, modification gains, leases, and related parties. ● Analyze and assess the economic and operating environment, evaluating its impact on business bank operations and market risk. ● Oversee and review the budgeting process, managing the rolling forecast and month-end variance analysis, providing insightful recommendations to support strategic decision-making. ● Communicate the group’s plan and provide strategic guidance to the Executive Committee, offering detailed reports at the strategic level. ● Collaborate with business bank executives, auditors, and cross-functional teams to plan, prepare, and manage directed financial output. ● Update financial statements and resolve issues related to financial impacts, offering problem-solving insights. ● Oversee the implementation and maintenance of robust financial controls, ensuring compliance with IFRS, regulatory requirements, and internal policies ● Drive group-wide financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting processes, aligning financial performance with the organization's long-term strategy and operational goals.
• Provide comprehensive financial and strategic support to business partners, enabling effective decision-making and achieving organizational goals. • Report directly to the Executive Committee and CFO, preparing monthly review presentations and assisting in the evaluation of short- and long-term financial objectives. • Lead and mentor a team, ensuring proficiency in technical accounting concepts and financial reporting. • Maintain and enforce systems of internal control in line with company standards, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and accounting principles. • Oversee the budgeting process, including the management of three-year forecasts, rolling forecasts, and monthly variance analysis. • Collaborate with business partners to review reporting presentations for IT and project progress, aligning financial costing with group strategies. • Identify and implement business improvement and optimization opportunities that enhance performance and operational efficiency. • Analyze, monitor, and advise on investments, CAPEX, revenues, and costs, providing insights into anticipated risks and performance opportunities. • Consolidate month-end financial data, including budget updates, and provide group-level commentary on variances and trends. • Present month-end financial results and analysis to the Executive Committee