Finance Business Partner - CIB

Key Role Responsibilities Serve as a subject matter expert on financial data integrity, accounting processes, reconciliations’, analysis and reporting for end-to-end Financial Planning and Management in the business area. Develop and sustain knowledge and experience on the end to end processes, including relevant systems within scope of work. Responsible for continuous operational excellence and real-time responsiveness of finance to enable business to achieve growth and profitability objectives. Prepare for all cycles in advance and ensure adequate engagement with the relevant finance and business teams. Focus on information-driven performance improvement and formulate data into easy access standardised views. Ensure that stakeholders are  appraised of key financial issues that need to be raised with executive leadership to enable integrity and timely management the BU. Identify and innovate operating practices to optimize the function. Embrace digital solutions and ddopt what’s ‘best for absa’ approach in finance practices. Have a holistic eco-system view of business, that is, geography, customer, channel and product in developing information views of business. Book of work contribution: Build innovative finance business case financial information, insights and benefits tracking’s’ solutions to continuously inform management decisions. Transform and evolve Finance planning, tracking and control processes. Know BU financial ambitions and balance sheet aspirations of CIB in performance reporting. Contribute to the effectiveness of the core finance processes for CIB Finance (annual planning, forecasting, and reporting). Understand and integrate Treasury, Risk, and Finance data from a BU perspective, where appropriate. Maintain stewardship and excellence which drives performance and sustainable growth through preservation of financial integrity. Be an active force for good in society through business execution. Contribute to BCM & cybersecurity processes relevant to the BU and finance execution. Build trust in the finance function through the creation of a single source of financial information which is corroborated by related management information sources and alignment to the agreed accounting principles, methodologies, and underlying data are correctly applied. Generate innovative easy to comprehend progress reports for leaders on their strategic agenda, short-term and long-term plans and investments, operational success metrics, efficiencies, risks and mitigations. Interact with the stakeholders to agree minimum quality standards, as well as an agreed method of communicating and resolving any identified quality deficiencies in the reporting process. Own the process of delivery of high-quality information for regular and ad-hoc enhanced reporting to agreed requirements, timelines, and standards. Act in line with the correct governance and control frameworks across the Finance team, as well as for proactively addressing any deficiencies and excep