- Location
- Plot 54362, First Place Botswana, Gaborone, 12345
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Finance
- Seniority
- C-Level
- Category
- Finance
- Role type
- People Manager
- Environment
- Office
- Closing date
- 3 weeks ago
- Source
- Workday
Description
Job Description
To Lead and manage the overall finance portfolio/s for the Segment / Complex BU, ensuring professional and ethical financial standards, practices and governance, and a cohesive finance service offering that is aligned to Segment / BU and Group finance strategies.To determine and direct financial strategy for the Segment / BU in partnership with the CEO and Exco.
To serve as an active member of the senior-management team, providing specialist support and advice to advance appropriate decision making, financial efficiencies and growth of the Segment, and to manage exposure to risks related to reputation, regulation, operations, financial volatility, new technologies and competitors.
- Ensure that the functional strategy is adequately budgeted for through the development and implementation of a suitable budget.
- Positively influence and enable financial control, governance and compliance to prevent and reduce financial costs.
- Establish and maintain an exceptional service culture.
- Define financial frameworks / structures which ensure control and governance.
- Formulate and implement finance strategies, objectives, policies and procedures for the business, effectively cascading these down to ensure achievement of financial objectives.
- Direct and oversee the end-to-end finance function and operations, ensuring healthy financial management and balancing short-term delivery, such as managing liquidity and profitability, with long-term vision and sustainable business success.
- Provide insights and analysis to support the business strategic planning.
- Ensure business decisions are grounded in sound financial criteria.
- Articulate the underlying assumptions and drivers that guide estimates of future performance.
- Represent the business’s progress on strategic goals.
- Develop effective partnerships with relevant stakeholders, creating a common vision and view of organisational performance, challenges and opportunities.
- Ensure the effective management of processes for financial forecasting, budgets, consolidation and reporting.
- Ensure credibility of the relevant area/function by providing timely and accurate analysis of budgets, financial trends and forecasts.
- Lead key projects and initiatives in relevant area/function that support overall strategic goals.
- Ensure efficient and productive use of information systems, processes and controls.
- Develop understanding the critical business issues, drivers and business model in order to align the relevant area/function's strategy to business strategy for growth and efficiencies.
- Sign-off on Business Unit priorities for account plans.
- Set and communicate segment strategy and business plans.
- Ensure relevant and useful internal and external business reporting, financial and non-financial.
- Apply knowledge of budgeting and forecasting in order to deliver effective and insightful guidance on cost management and earnings.
- Understanding relevant technical accounting, financial reporting, taxation, audit and other pertinent matters
- Stewardship of financial resources
- Influence and guide effective risk management and internal control systems / processes
- Practice effective governance and corporate responsibility, and ensure that the business conducts itself in accordance with relevant legal and regulatory requirements, particularly as these pertain to different accounting, tax and treasury, regulatory and legal environments across multiple jurisdictions
- Participate in annual risk-based audit plan that appropriately identifies and considers the relevant and evolving business risks facing the organisation.
- Demonstrate ethical leadership and business integrity
- Continuously assess own performance, seek timely and clear feedback and request training and development where appropriate.
- Demonstrate leadership by providing strategic direction in meeting business’s vision, goals and maximise employee potential.
- Plan and manage performance, talent, succession and culture of team in order to improve employee performance.
Important Closing Date Note
Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.
25/06/26All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group’s Employment Equity plan. The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfill this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties.