Financial Reporting Manager

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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)

About Us

At Absa, our story is not a single narrative. It’s thousands of individual journeys unfolding across Africa and beyond.

From colleagues serving customers in local communities to teams shaping financial solutions across borders, Absa is built on people who bring their lived experiences, ambitions and perspectives into the workplace every day. Whether you’re starting your career, a seasoned leader or somewhere in between, your contribution is seen, valued and connected to something bigger.

Our presence across Africa – which spans personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management, and insurance – exists because of the people who show up in their roles with purpose. Across Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, our colleagues are shaping what Absa becomes in each market.

Beyond the continent, teams in global offices and a technology hub support and extend the stories that prove that African talent can lead, influence and innovate on the global stage.

At Absa, your story matters because progress is driven by human experience, not hierarchy. When people are enabled to bring their whole selves to work, they don’t just build careers. They help shape the future of Africa’s financial services landscape.