FirstRand Corporate Centre

Financial Manager

FirstRand Corporate Centre  •  Johannesburg, ZA (Onsite)  •  7 hours ago
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Job Description

To collaborate with business stakeholders to provide financial expertise, insights, and guidance while designing and improving financial processes that ensure consistent, efficient, and value-driven delivery of financial services.

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Purpose of the Role

To oversee the financial management, reporting, analysis, and governance of direct costs and acquisition expenses across the Life business, ensuring accurate financial reporting, cost optimisation, budget control, and compliance with accounting and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage and monitor direct costs at departmental level acquisition costs by channel
  • Review monthly cost performance and provide variance analysis against budget and forecast.
  • Ensure accurate accounting, accruals, allocations, and financial reporting of direct and acquisition costs.
  • Track acquisition cost trends and provide insights on cost efficiency and product profitability.
  • Support budgeting and forecasting processes.
  • Partner with business stakeholders to drive cost management and accountability.
  • Develop and maintain cost monitoring dashboards and management reports.
  • Ensure compliance with IFRS, internal policies, and governance requirements.
  • Manage month-end and year-end reporting requirements.
  • Support internal and external audits and address audit queries relating to cost reporting.
  • Identify opportunities for process improvements and cost optimisation.

Key Requirements

  • Relevant Bachelors' degree
  • CA(SA) or equivalent finance qualification.
  • A minimum of 5 years' experience in financial management, business partnering, or management reporting.
  • Strong budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis skills.
  • Experience in financial services or insurance will be advantageous.
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
  • Advanced Excel and financial reporting system experience.

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Important Closing Date Note

Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.

21/09/26

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 fulfill 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.

FirstRand Corporate Centre

About FirstRand Corporate Centre

The FirstRand Corporate Centre houses many of the critical functions required by a large and complex financial services group. The Corporate Centre’s stakeholders are external, such as regulators, shareholders, global developmental institutions and government; and also internal, mainly the market-leading businesses that service the group’s customers. These critical functions cover risk, compliance, governance, internal audit, treasury, finance and tax amongst many others. They require deep specialist and technical skills and ultimately represent the custodianship of the FirstRand group’s licence to operate.

Employees of the Corporate Centre develop a very unique perspective of the group because nowhere else can you own or be part of a mandate that operates across the portfolio. This allows for both big picture thinking and operational learning. It is also a great place to drive collaboration and a place to have a significant impact.

The Corporate Centre has adopted a blended approach to working, with a focus on balancing remote working and connections with colleagues in the workplace. Face-to-face interactions remain important to its way of working as these connections protect the business’s social capital, which is key to ensuring that FirstRand’s unique culture stays alive and continues to thrive.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Sandton, ZA
Year Founded
Unknown
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