Financial Manager – First National Bank Namibia
Job Description
To provide support to the CFO in various aspects including: finance leadership, instilling best practice and enhancing business profitability through provision of information and insight in key strategic meetings
Are you someone who can:
- Partner with the business in the provision of financial advice and support to increase operational quality, through the execution of financial services as per agreed standard operating procedures.
- Prepare and report on business operations and financial conditions.
- Ensure management accounts are compiled and take responsibility for the integrity of the information to ensure accurate reporting on financial results of the business.
- Maintain appropriate supporting documentation according to professional financial accounting and reporting standards.
- Develop and implement a framework to control financial performance against operational and cost targets and manage the escalation process to prevent potential risks that may lead to increased costs.
- Manage costs or expenses within approved budget to achieve cost efficiencies and deliver against operational and cost targets.
- Prioritise resource allocation to minimise and reduce wastage.
- Monitor and report on variances.
- Provide regular reports on delivery of services against agreed service level agreements and overall customer targets.
- Collate, analyse, and evaluate data and information to forecast expenditure and cash flow trends and make recommendations to improve budgets.
- Provide segments and wider stakeholders with relevant information to keep them informed of performance against forecast and budget.
- Take all necessary actions to ensure compliance with relevant statutory, legislative, policy, and governance requirements in area of accountability.
- Ensure implementation of relevant policies, governance, and practice standards across the Commercial Finance department and wider bank.
- Maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices, and internal compliance procedures and requirements.
- Improve business decisions by providing accurate and reliable business intelligence together with analysing trends and data.
- Accumulate information to review work progress that provides input to reporting, decision making, and identification of improvement opportunities.
- Define, develop, and maintain policies, procedures, standards, and frameworks to efficiently manage area of specialization.
You will be an ideal candidate if you:
- Are a Qualified Chartered Accountant.
- Have 3 to 5 years’ experience, inclusive of completed articles, ideally within the financial services industry.
- Have strong numerical reasoning and analytical skills.
- Possess excellent negotiation and communication abilities with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Work well in a team environment and under pressure to meet deadlines.
- Are assertive, proactive, and detail-oriented.
You will have access to:
- Opportunities to network and collaborate
- Challenging Work
- Opportunities to innovate
We can be a match if you are:
- Always doing the right thing – Fight for ethical conduct and transparency, both inside and outside
- Curious – Believe in insight, creativity, and its power to unlock value
- Deeply Invested – Take initiative and be a leader in your own right
- Valuing differences – Be inclusive, gracious, decent, and humble
- Building Trust not Territory – Crete a culture of sharing
- Courageous – We’ve built a culture of bravery by speaking our minds and encouraging others to do the same
The company ONLY accept applications via their career portal. Interested candidates can apply via the link below:
Apply online via: FNB Career Portal
