Financial Manager

RMB - Rand Merchant Bank; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Rand Merchant Bank in Johannesburg seeks a financially astute professional to lead budgeting, financial controls, and reporting across business units. You will develop budgets, implement cost controls, and drive governance across multiple stakeholder groups.

The role requires advanced financial planning, risk awareness, and the ability to navigate regulatory requirements while aligning operations with strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• Ability to develop and manage budgets across business units
• Understanding of financial controls and governance
• Stakeholder engagement and cross-functional collaboration

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of larger overall area budget
• Develop the budget for the next financial year for area of responsibility taking all operational plans into consideration
• Research and design a longer term financial resource requirement plan for the area of responsibility
• Present the business case to motivate for financial resources
• Analyse and develop implementation plans against the forecasted financial budget
• Develop tactical budget for area of responsibility that minimise expenditure and manage costs
• Control the budget for area including the authorisation of expenditures and implementation of financial regulations
• Engage in cross-functional relationships to obtain and to provide work support
• Contribute to sustaining a competitive edge through external networking, benchmarking and representation on related forums
• Apply a customer-centric approach that focuses on creating a positive experience for the customer by maximizing service and/or product offerings and building relationships
• Provide input into, and implement, corporate governance, compliance, integrity and ethics policies to identify and manage risk exposure
• Stays abreast of relevant industry risk management best practices and legislative amendments and suggests ways to leverage these to ensure continuous improvement
• Creates risk awareness and manages audit findings
• Participate in Group risk forums where required and cascades relevant information through team
• Brainstorm, identify, implement and drive innovative best practice ideas within the organisation to ensure increased efficiencies
• Create and participate in specialist communities of practice and represents the organisation at Group and industry level to share best practice insights and solutions
• Drive strategic projects, change management and platform integration across operations
• Leverage Group capability to exploit opportunities
• Ensure and encourage adherence to an operational framework of policies and procedures
• Execute defined business strategy by translating it into the business operations
• Communicate policy modification, objective achievement progress and critical success factors to impacted stakeholders
• Ensure the development and implementation of multiple practices in alignment with operational policy and procedural frameworks
• Identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives; driving best practice solutions
• Be aware of, and responsive to local conditions
• Influence the development of appropriate organisational structures, capacity and delivery systems. Identify development needs and select effective solutions to address personal development gaps to facilitate self improvement
• Develop and implement a personal development plan
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuous personal improvement as a life-long learner and encourage the same in others
• Share information and empower others to act
• Acts as a role model for continuous professional development in area of expertise
• Lead a development culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared
• Build and sustain collaborative working relationships with relevant peers and stakeholders to achieve productivity synergies
• Lead specialist communities of practice and contribute positively to own and organisational knowledge improvement

Job description

Job Description

To provide operational financial direction to business units The role includes implementing and enhancing the accounting workflow systems and processes within business while ensuring financial controls and procedures are followed and adhered to for various internal and external stakeholders In addition, the role includes compiling statutory, regulatory and management reporting for corporate bank

• Contribute to the development of larger overall area budget
• Develop the budget for the next financial year for area of responsibility taking all operational plans into consideration
• Research and design a longer term financial resource requirement plan for the area of responsibility
• Present the business case to motivate for financial resources
• Analyse and develop implementation plans against the forecasted financial budget
• Develop tactical budget for area of responsibility that minimise expenditure and manage costs
• Control the budget for area including the authorisation of expenditures and implementation of financial regulations. Build relationships that allow for the managing of expectations; the sharing of knowledge and diverse insights; and the creation of buy-in
• Engage in cross-functional relationships to obtain and to provide work support
• Contribute to sustaining a competitive edge through external networking, benchmarking and representation on related forums
• Apply a customer-centric approach that focuses on creating a positive experience for the customer by maximizing service and/or product offerings and building relationships Ensure that the customer is at the centre of the business philosophy, operations and ideas .Provide input into, and implement, corporate governance, compliance, integrity and ethics policies in are of accountability to identify and manage risk exposure
• Stays abreast of relevant industry risk management best practices and legislative amendments and suggests ways to leverage these to ensure continuous improvement
• Creates risk awareness and manages audit findings
• Participate in Group risk forums where required and cascades relevant information through team
• Brainstorm, identify, implement and drive innovative best practice ideas within the organisation to ensure increased efficiencies
• Create and participate in specialist communities of practice and represents the organisation at Group and industry level to share best practice insights and solutions
• Drive strategic projects, change management and platform integration across operations
• Leverage Group capability to exploit opportunities
• Ensure and encourage adherence to an operational framework of policies and procedures
• Execute defined business strategy by translating it into the business operations
• Communicate policy modification, objective achievement progress and critical success factors to impacted stakeholders
• Ensure the development and implementation of multiple practices in alignment with operational policy and procedural frameworks
• Identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives; driving best practice solutions
• Be aware of, and responsive to local conditions
• Influence the development of appropriate organisational structures, capacity and delivery systems. Identify development needs and select effective solutions to address personal development gaps to facilitate self improvement
• Develop and implement a personal development plan
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuous personal improvement as a life-long learner and encourage the same in others
• Share information and empower others to act
• Acts as a role model for continuous professional development in area of expertise
• Lead a development culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared
• Build and sustain collaborative working relationships with relevant peers and stakeholders to achieve productivity synergies
• Lead specialist communities of practice and contribute positively to own and organisational knowledge improvement

30/10/26

All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group’s Employment Equity plan. The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfil this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties.