Recruitment Description/ Key Accountabilities

Qualifications and Skills

Job Description

• Manage the process of obtaining the financial data from the Flexcube system and ensure that reconciles general ledger numbers to the Sub-legders;
• Ensure that all the GLs across the Bank are duly substantiated;
• Ensure that all stakeholders adhere to a strict implementation of the AO&R policy;
• Ensure that analytical review is performed on a monthly basis and that we have evidences for audit purpose.
• Identify risks in the GLs and help ABM management to implement mitigating strategies;
• Ensure that GL reconciliations done at Reconciliations unit have been performed and properly balanced in accordance with the Recons Procedure Manual and Policy;
• Ensure that escalating long outstanding items are followed for unreconciled entries as per business rules (escalation matrix);
• Coordinate the implementation of proposed group and local financial accounting and reporting changes on GLs;
• Set standards of quality of data submitted from business units and control compliance/adherence;
• Planning and ensuring that periodical group and reports (daily, weekly, monthly and ad hocs) are accurately prepared and submitted within communicated timelines.
• Review and analyse trends in consolidated information to formulate a view on relevance, accuracy and consistency of data;
• Take lead role in ensuring reconciliation and all control deficiencies are being appropriately addressed, and control closed within the agreed timelines.
• Perform self-assessment aiming at identifying gaps and report all exceptions on non-compliance with control standards.
• Check for completeness and accuracy of fixed assets sub ledger and month-end closing activities such as account reconciliations, journal entries and adjustments;
• Ensure that the fixed assets register reconciles with SAP at category level;
• Represent the company during any audit/inspection/conformance review that involve fixed assets, GL Controller and recons;
• Monitor and report reconciliation progress and quality of all GLs in the Bank, focusing on the indicators of completeness, validity and accuracy and presentation (CVAP) as well as timeliness and ageing are monitored. The outcome to be reported on the monthly Internal Accounts Forum;
• Conduct an independent check to ensure that all IAR from prior periods are either disclosed in the reporting period’s FC Attestation/Consigno or verified that they have been cleared, and indicated as IARs resolved/written-off.
• Safely house the reconciliation evidences (Chart of Accounts, Reconciliation Matrix, Ownership Attestation, and Reconciliation supporting documentation in a designated finance cabinet and Shared Folders, for physical and electronic files, respectively, the folders must be well identified and can be found easily when needed;
  
  

Education

Diploma: Financial Sciences (Required)