Manager: IT Digital

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, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

The purpose of the role is to manage the support, development and maintenance of the financial aspects of the Financial Reporting Systems and General Ledgers.

Participate in research, design, development and testing of improvements or new solutions to ensure financial data integrity.

Assist with strategy and business requirements for FC Systems. Provide leadership, training and support to stakeholders and team.

Job Description

Accountability: Lead implementation on less complex work streams/projects

Support implementation of complex work streams/projects

• On highly complex work streams, provide a supporting role, and for medium and low complexity work streams, lead the work stream in delivering the following:
• Successful support the management & delivery of complex projects from commencement to completion within the scope and time agreed to. 
• Manage project resources internal or external deliveries to ensure that time lines are being met.
• Ensure quality of project implementation.
• Responsibilities would include the co-ordination of different groups of people, from varying disciplines associated with the project.
• Coordinate and facilitate User Acceptance testing for all new development. User acceptance testing will be performed by representatives from all business units as well as group.
• Coordinate and perform training on all new development. Training will be given to all business units as well as group representatives.
• Facilitate hand over of all new development to the business as usual team in order for them to understand any new processes which will need to be performed and in order for them to support the new development during reporting periods.

Accountability: Maintain finance systems master data

• Ensure timeous creation/maintenance of master data on finance systems
• Monitor Master Data creation errors/differences and assist in resolving the errors.

Accountability: Operational delivery, user support and access

• Provide guidance, user support and training relating to finance applications.
• Manage access and security on finance systems via Africa Access and maintenance of user authorization levels.
• Assist users and colleagues with queries including master data queries.
• Liaise and escalate any problems/errors that need IT attention.
• Assist with the management of the day-to-day operations of the business area.

Accountability: Stakeholder management

• Build strong relationships with key role players in order to have a clear understanding of their business requirements.
• Understand the impact of the changes and inform business of any risks or impact as a result of changes.
• Provide direction and input to enable Business Units to manage and resolve issues.
• Ensure the satisfaction of the customer (internal or external) needs by responding efficiently, ensuring high quality of work and by meeting the required deadlines.
• Liaising and providing external auditors with required information

Accountability: Process management

• Execution of processes as designed.
• Constantly review, improve and maintain own activities to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of processes.
• Recommend areas for improvement in order to reduce cycle times, improve productivity, create capacity and improve process reliability and customer satisfaction.
• Assist in the implementation of new and/or enhanced processes.

Knowledge and skills:

• Exceptional interpersonal and team-working skills
• Reporting System maintenance and enhancement
• Solid financial background
• System life cycle management
• Strong problem-solving skills

Education and experience:

• B Degree in Commerce or Advanced Diploma in Accounting
• Advanced Diploma/B Tech in Information Technology (NQF Level 7)
• 5 – 8 Years experience in banking/financial and financial systems

Competencies:

• Deciding and initiating action
• Problem solving within ambit of responsibility
• Relating and networking
• Adapting and responding to change

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised