Finance Team Leader – FNB Namibia (First National Bank

Job Description

Role Overview

To partner with the business in the provision of financial expertise and advice, and to develop supporting processes that continuously enhance the delivery of financial services.

Key Responsibilities

• Convert financial analysis into actionable business insight. Move beyond explaining historic performance by identifying what the numbers mean for the business, what decisions are required, and what trade-offs management should consider.
• Provide forward-looking performance steering. Use predictive analytics to anticipate pressure points in income, costs, impairments, capital, liquidity and profitability before they materialise.
• Build and challenge budgets, forecasts, and scenario plans, including stress-testing assumptions and linking financial outcomes to key business drivers.
• Manage and track group cost performance by analysing cost drivers and product, customer, and channel profitability, and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and returns.
• Own performance dashboards. Assist with the development and maintainence of dashboards that track both financial and non-financial drivers of performance, including revenue momentum, cost-to-income trends, JAWS, customer behaviour, productivity, risk indicators and strategic initiative delivery.
• Embed digital and AI-enabled finance ways of working independently. Use emerging AI capabilities to improve the speed, accuracy and usefulness of finance output.
• Maintain expert knowledge of relevant legislative amendments, IFRS technical accounting principals, industry best practice, and internal compliance procedures and requirements.
• Support the reporting team with year-end external reporting deliverables, including Board reporting and the preparation of annual financial statements.
• Enhance data governance and insight quality. Ensure finance data is accurate, well-controlled, reconciled, consistently defined and suitable for decision-making across business units and reporting cycles.
• Contribute to a development-focused culture where successes, issues, trends, and ideas are actively shared.

Requirements

• Hold a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting
• Have completed articles (advantageous)
• Have management accounting experience
• Have at least two years’ experience as an Accountant
• Have experience in process automation and data analysis

How to Apply

To apply, please visit: firstrand.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com

Closing Date: 2026-09-10