Specialist Reporting Analyst – Enterprise Functions

Absa Group LimitedZA

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Job title : Specialist Reporting Analyst – Enterprise Functions

Job Location : Gauteng,

Deadline : November 30, 2025

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Specialist Reporting Analyst is responsible to analyse financial performance, create management information reports, and ensure compliance with applicable financial regulations and internal controls. The role involves interpreting and translating financial data into understandable reports and presentations, supporting management, to understand performance, identify risks, and make strategic choices.

Specific Role Purpose : The role will be focused on building and maintaining the management information reporting suite for the business area including applicable Regulatory and Tax reporting with considerate stakeholder engagements.

The incumbent will be required to perform financial reconciliations’, analysis, and reporting in an accurate, complete and timely manner; and continuously seeks to improve operations by scaling automated financial processes to doing deep dives and trend analyses, to crafting financial solutions aligned to all appropriate controls and business financial health.

Job Description

Commercial Finance Execution Accountabilities

Serve as a subject matter expert on financial data integrity, accounting processes, reconciliations’, analysis and management information reporting in 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.

Focus on information-driven performance improvement and formulate data into easy access standardised views.

Create unprecedented, seamless customer experiences via finance BU enablement.

Embrace our distinctive brand aspiration and infuse in business.

Identify and innovate operating practices to optimize the function. Embrace digital solutions.

Drive continuous process efficiency, financial rigor and controls.

Adopt 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.

Maintain stewardship and excellence which drives performance and sustainable growth through preservation of financial integrity.

Contribute to BCM & cybersecurity processes relevant to the BU and finance execution.

Financial Reporting Accountabilities

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 exceptions.

Develop and implement control procedures as deficiencies or exceptions are identified which support the production of error-free reports. Assess and drive improvement of business accounting practices and policies.

Take a commercial view on business and provide contextual insights into performance reports.

Integrate advanced modelling and analysis capability to provide actionable intelligence, beyond data within the function.

Generate finance narratives and insights driving business; and build pioneering new propositions.

Ensure appropriate, quality and timeous delivery of accurate financial and non-financial management information to support business objectives and expectations, including appropriate financial and non-financial metrics, valid and insightful comments and packaging the information in a relevant and appropriate manner.

Deliver reporting reflecting deep commercial, holistic understanding, coherency, clarity, and contextualisation. Tell the story with passion and conviction.

Provide thought-leadership, insight, influence and challenge on evolving stakeholder information requirements and reporting processes to deliver analytics.

Align to processes around month-end, year-end and planning cycles across the finance community and BU based on the requirements from Group.

Manage the production of regular, high quality, standardised financial and non-financial reporting and analytics to Business and Finance; and focus on effective collaborative stakeholder hand-offs in the production.

People Investment Accountabilities

Peer responsibility : Coach, inspire, engage, mentor and develop finance and business savvy leaders.

Network with finance colleagues across ABSA and create awareness of challenges, opportunities and issues and encourage collaboration

Focus on Finance skills evolution and remaining relevant.

Embrace the value of finance partnership in Management Information, Advanced Analytics, business growth opportunities, and partnerships into the core of our business.

Role / Person Specification

Minimum holding of a Post Graduate Degree (NQF level no.8+), CA (SA) or CIMA or MBA qualification preferred, but not essential.

2+ years professional financial management experience (including articles if applicable)

1+ years Banking Experience desirable

Knowledge and skills :

Experience in executing finance processes.

Experience in building financial models and an advanced Excel user

Experience in financial planning and risk assessment

Broad Finance including strategic, commercial, legal, risk and operational aspects

Understanding of the financial services sector within a professional business environment

Knowledge of building collaborative work environments

Basic knowledge of SAP and Hyperion preferred

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas : Financial Sciences (Required)

End Date : November 4, 2025

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