Manager: Financial Accounting

Description

• The Manager: Financial Accounting plays a crucial role in leading budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and reporting processes to ensure the Bank achieves its mandate
• Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, the manager oversees the bank’s financial operations, ensuring compliance with regulations and internal policies, while also contributing to the overall financial strategy
• Paterson Grade C3

Duties

• Strategic Management:
• Execute the bank’s strategic initiatives and utilize risk management frameworks to mitigate operational costs and losses
• Lead the annual budgeting and forecasting process through coordinating, interrogating, and preparing detailed budgets
• Operational Management:
• Manage and implement the financial function in area of responsibility through the provision of detailed financial analysis and insight and value-added reporting
• Develop and implement frameworks to control financial performance against operational and cost targets and manage the escalation process to prevent potential risks which may lead to increased costs
• Lead and organize audit preparations, providing technical insights to the audit plan, and facilitating communication with auditors
• Manage month-end and year-end closing processes, including reconciliations, financial statements, financial reporting and journal entries in compliance with IFRS
• Provide ongoing treasury back-office support
• Leadership:
• Lead and coach the financial accounting team, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement
• Set performance standards/ key performance indicators for the team and track daily and/or accordance with the annual performance reviews

Requisites

• An Honours degree in Accounting/Finance (NQF level 8)
• Must be a registered Chartered Accountant – CA (NAM)
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a banking finance environment or similar of which 2 years should be in a supervisory or senior position
• Excellent customer orientation or focus
• Interpersonal relationships and inter cultural intelligence
• Decisiveness, resilience and collaborative approach to working
• Excellent organizational awareness and strategic perspective
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting ability
• Excellent organizing and setting objectives, management and control, delegating and motivating others

Notes

• The DBN offers market related remuneration packages commensurate with experience and qualifications
• Applications will be treated in strictest confidence
• Interested candidates should forward their resumes, which should include three contactable references and certified supporting documents
• Applicants who do not receive any response within three weeks after the closing date must accept that their applications were not considered favourably

How to Apply

1. Documentation

• Cover Letter
• Curriculum Vitae

2. Application

• Send your Documentation to Human Resources at recruitment@dbn.com.na the Subject line “Manager: Financial Accounting”
• Indicate the source of this job post: working.co.na