Standard Bank Group Officer, Finance Job

Job Purpose

This role is responsible for the following accounting functions: accounts payable, accounts receivable, reconciliation of vendor/control accounts and functions relating to the maintenance of a complete and accurate general ledger

Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for transactional financial data and information integrity through gathering, analysing, interpreting and reporting of financial information.
• Review transactional financial data and information integrity to ensure they accurately reflect the operating results of the business.
• Analyse and interpret data in order to provide financial management information to business stakeholders for decision making.
• Prepare and process all accounting journals and verify that supporting documentation to journals is available.
• Analyse and motivate for approval expenditure and in line with supporting documentation. Identify deviations from policy and escalate to finance manager.
• Perform a reasonability test on statutory payments due and verifying records against transactional information by performing calculations using specific formulae and procedures
• Undertake all functions associated with confirming recording and payment of both internal and external vendors
• Ensure that all payments are recorded, authorized and properly paid in accordance with Bank Policies, tax guidelines and in a timely manner.
• Responding to payment queries in a timely manner
• Preparation of payment runs in the system.
• Processing of foreign currency payments.
• Processing of staff claims for payments.
• Ensure secure and appropriate filling for all documents and vouchers.
• Preparation of supplier payment reconciliations

Qualifications

• First Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or Economics (Second class upper and above)
• Recognized professional certification (CPA (K)/ACCA/CIFA) is a plus.