Leads bank financial reporting and financial control processes, including month-end and year-end close, financial statement preparation, account reconciliations, balance sheet attestations, audits, IFRS implementation, technical accounting advice, and cross-functional coordination.
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Job Summary
To lead and oversee the Bank’s financial reporting and financial control processes, ensuring that financial results are complete, accurate, appropriately substantiated and delivered within prescribed timelines and in accordance with IFRS, local statutory and regulatory requirements, and Group Accounting and Financial Control policies.Job Description
- Own and coordinate month-end, quarter-end, hard close and year-end close processes, ensuring the Trial Balance is closed accurately and within the approved reporting timetable.
- Lead the end-to-end preparation and review of annual and interim financial statements, including primary statements, notes, disclosure schedules and supporting working papers.
- Lead account ownership, reconciliation and balance sheet attestation processes, ensuring all general ledger accounts are appropriately substantiated, reviewed and attested within policy timelines.
- Coordinate internal and external audit deliverables, including allocation and tracking of requests, provision of audit evidence, resolution of accounting matters and closure of findings.
- Maintain a strong technical understanding of IFRS standards and lead implementation projects for new or amended standards, including impact assessments, accounting papers, systems, data, controls, disclosures and training.
- Provide technical accounting advice on complex transactions, new products, accounting judgements, estimates, classifications and disclosure requirements
- Build effective working relationships across Finance, Risk, Treasury, Tax, Operations, Technology, Internal Audit, external auditors and Group stakeholders.
Education
Bachelor's Degree: Accounting (Required)Similar Jobs
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