Finance Reporting & Data Assurance Analyst

Conova (PTY) LTD; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Conova (PTY) LTD is seeking a Finance Reporting specialist to design, build and maintain comprehensive finance reporting outputs. You will translate regulatory and treasury requirements into precise report specifications, data needs and validation criteria.

The role demands advanced Power BI skills, strong data modeling, and thorough reconciliation experience, with exposure to Agile/Scrum tools like Jira and Confluence.

Qualifications

• Degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems or related discipline.
• Professional accounting qualification, or progress toward one (advantageous).
• 5+ yrs in Finance reporting, financial data, BI or reporting assurance.
• Strong accounting, financial reporting & reconciliation experience (essential).
• Advanced Power BI skills including DAX, Power Query, data modelling and report design.

Responsibilities

• Work with Finance SMEs and Treasury to design, build and maintain Finance reporting outputs.
• Translate requirements into clear report specifications, data requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Validate report outputs for completeness, accuracy, timeliness and consistency.
• Reconcile reports and investigate data-quality issues and variances.
• Support report testing and change/versioning practices for reports.
• Assist Finance data governance and ensure Treasury outputs are correct.
• Provide practical support to Finance users.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Financial reporting

Data reconciliation

SQL querying

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance/IS

Tools

Power BI (DAX/Power Query)

Excel

SQL

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Key responsibilities

• Work closely with Finance SMEs, the Finance Test Lead, Treasury and Data Engineers.
• Design, build and maintain Finance reporting outputs.
• Translate Finance, Treasury and regulatory requirements into clear report specifications, calculations, layouts, data requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Validate report outputs for completeness, accuracy, timeliness and consistency.
• Reconcile reports.
• Investigate report breaks, data-quality exceptions and unexplained variances.
• Support report testing.
• Apply controlled change, versioning and release-management practices for reports.
• Support Finance data governance.
• Work with Treasury to ensure approved Treasury calculation outputs are correct.
• Provide practical support to Finance users.

Key requirements

• Degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems or a related discipline.
• Professional accounting qualification, or progress toward one (advantageous).
• 5+ yrs' in Finance reporting, financial data, business intelligence or reporting assurance.
• Strong practical accounting, financial reporting & reconciliation experience (essential).
• Advanced Power BI, including DAX, Power Query, data modelling and report design.
• Understanding of data modelling, data transformations, data quality and lineage.
• Experience producing both interactive dashboards & fixed-format or paginated reports.
• Strong Excel capability, including complex formulae & controlled reporting templates.
• Working knowledge of SQL and the ability to interrogate and validate data.
• Data validation, investigating variances and reconciling reports to source data.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery tools, including Jira and Confluence.
• Banking, financial services or another regulated environment experience (preferred).
• Regulatory reporting, IFRS/EAS or controlled financial submissions (advantageous).
• Data lakes, APIs and event-driven data sources experience (advantageous).