Senior Finance Reporting & Data Assurance Analyst

Conova Pty Ltd; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 950,000; Full time

Job summary

Conova Pty Ltd is seeking a Finance Reporting & Data Assurance Analyst to join a digital bank build team. You will design, build, test and maintain Finance reporting outputs including dashboards, regulatory reports and Excel submissions.

The role blends accounting expertise with hands-on Power BI, Excel and SQL capabilities, ensuring accuracy and evidence for Finance sign-off. You will work with Finance SMEs, the Treasury and Data Engineers, translating requirements into report specifications,

Qualifications

• 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, BI or reporting assurance.
• Strong 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 tools like Jira/Confluence.
• Banking/regulated environment experience preferred.
• Regulatory reporting, IFRS/EAS or controlled financial submissions advantageous.
• Data lakes, APIs and event-driven data sources experience advantageous.

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 report specs, 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 variances.
• Support report testing.
• Apply change, versioning and release-management practices for reports.
• Support Finance data governance.
• Work with Treasury to ensure approved Treasury outputs are correct.
• Provide practical support to Finance users.

Skills

Finance reporting

Data reconciliation

Data validation

Report testing

Regulatory reporting

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor-level degree in Accounting/Finance/IS

Professional accounting qualification (advantageous)

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Excel

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Conova Pty Ltd is seeking a Finance Reporting & Data Assurance Analyst to join a digital bank build team. You will design, build, test and maintain Finance reporting outputs including dashboards, regulatory reports and Excel submissions.

The role blends accounting expertise with hands-on Power BI, Excel and SQL capabilities, ensuring accuracy and evidence for Finance sign-off. You will work with Finance SMEs, the Treasury and Data Engineers, translating requirements into report specifications,