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Summary
**Finance Business Partner at Absa**
**Overview**
• Empowering Africa`s tomorrow, together...one story at a time.
• With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey.
**Key Responsibilities**
• Drive finance business performance and analytics for Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB – Global Markets) and Treasury.
• Deliver critical financial insights to the Head of BP&A, Director of Corporate, Director of Markets, and Country Treasury.
• Ensure ongoing revenue assurance through effective month end processes, product profitability analysis, and the accurate recognition of revenue, costs, and balance sheet items.
• Provide objective and analytical insight into business and product performance, highlighting areas of risk and opportunities for the business.
• Collaborate with the strategy team to ensure alignment of strategic agenda and financial impact.
• Participate in the "New products and governance committee" by providing a financial perspective and monitoring benefits realization for all new products and other initiatives.
• Resolve problems with internal business customers and ensure financial information is accurate and complete for decision making.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis as requested by senior management.
**Requirements**
• Planning and Performance Management (20%):
• Assist in the preparation of the targets and proactively monitor achievement.
• Collaborate with business to identify risk factors that could impact our ability to deliver targets and corresponding corrective actions.
• Provide mid-months outlook/flash to enable business/Management to accelerate actions and behaviors linked to high performance.
• Provide business support in understanding and analyzing key drivers of the various cost lines vis a vis budgets.
• Report financial and other performance measures (metrics) to Absa Africa.
• Competitive analysis & Other Macro factors (10%):
• Collect and analyse market data and competitive trends, pertaining to CIB and are likely to affect the business performance and its competitive advantage, and make recommendations to enhance product profitability.
• Analysis of publicly available data, such as Macros and different BOT reports that could inform market trends.
• Perform market Intelligence to inform the strategic directions, Including key trends observed from competitors.
**Benefits**
No information provided.
**Deadline**
No information provided.
**Job Type**
Full-time.
How to apply
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