Asset Management: Assistant Financial Officer (6-month Contract) - Cape Town

<p><img id="Picture_x0020_1" src="https://rmkcdn.successfactors.com/dd82a348/461743ac-ca78-42fa-8634-a.png" style="height:255.0px;width:600.0px"></p> <div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Job Family</H2> </div><div>Finance</div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Career Stream</H2> </div><div>Accounting</div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Leadership Pipeline</H2> </div><div>Manage Self: Technical</div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Closing Date</H2> </div><div><p>Friday 24 July 2026</p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Job Purpose</b></H2> </div><div><p>To provide financial management services to stakeholders through effective processing; monitoring; budgeting/forecasting; analysis and reporting; thereby ensuring good governance and financial control across the Nedbank Group.</p> </div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Job Responsibilities</b></H2> </div><div><ul> <li>Contribute to business unit's cost saving by operating within agreed targets.</li> <li>Contribute to improvement of team performance by partnering with team leaders and giving advice and feedback on how they are performing.</li> <li>Maintain client satisfaction by responding to general queries and adhoc requests timeously.</li> <li>Contribute to team skills by sharing knowledge and ideas.</li> <li>Build and maintain business relationships with internal and external stakeholders by providing and discussing monthly financial packs.</li> <li>Validate accuracy and allocation of entries posted to the general ledger (GL) or database (DB) by checking the daily GL and DB accounts and reports.</li> <li>Process staff claims by allocating them to the correct branch and GL account.</li> <li>Process ledger entries by preparing the VAT upload and forward to Group Finance for further processing.</li> <li>Ensure entries are correctly allocated by liaising with the relevant parties and following up on any discrepancies.</li> <li>Prepare a variance report by comparing budget/forecast against actuals and providing comments for the variances.</li> <li>Perform daily bank reconciliations by clearing entries to the GL.</li> <li>Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations by comparing GL and balance sheet balances and explaining reconciled items.</li> <li>Review validity of invoices by making sure that they meet policy requirements in terms of signatures, mandates and tax.</li> <li>Submit invoices for payment by capturing on the P2P System and select authorisers for approval.</li> <li>Prepare budgets, forecasts and three-year plans by liaising with team leaders and gathering relevant information.</li> <li>Manage and monitor asset registers by physically checking asset numbers and verifying them against the asset register.</li> <li>Process purchase orders of capex (new or replacement) by allocating reference numbers and ensuring validity of order in terms of signatures and mandates.</li> <li>Keep abreast of legislation and other industry changes that impact on role by reading the relevant newsletters, websites and attending sessions.</li> <li>Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and demonstrate the values through interaction with team and stakeholders.</li> <li>Participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of key business strategies.</li> <li>Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance processes, systems and policies and support implementation of new processes, policies and systems.</li> </ul> </div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Essential Qualifications - NQF Level</H2> </div><ul style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0"><li>Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees </li></ul></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Preferred Qualification</H2> </div><div><p>A relevant Degree in Accounting, Finance, Auditing, etc.</p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Minimum Experience Level</H2> </div><div><ul> <li> 2-4 years experience with 1-2 years' experience in financial services environment</li> <li>Experience working in SAP Finance</li> <li>Experience working in MS Excel (Advanced level)</li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Technical / Professional Knowledge</b></H2> </div><ul style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0"><li>Accounting principles </li><li>Administrative procedures and systems </li><li>Banking knowledge </li><li>Business principles </li><li>Cluster specific operations </li><li>Data analysis </li><li>Governance, Risk and Controls </li><li>Relevant regulatory knowledge </li><li>Relevant software and systems knowledge </li><li>Business writing skills </li></ul></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Behavioural Competencies</H2> </div><ul style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0"><li>Applied Learning </li><li>Communication </li><li>Decision Making </li><li>Stress Tolerance </li><li>Managing Work </li><li>Quality Orientation </li></ul></div></div><p style="line-height:18.9px"><img alt="" height="228" src="https://rmkcdn.successfactors.com/dd82a348/61ad7a3f-eb85-4980-a04c-e.jpg" style="height:75.0px;width:600.0px" width="245"></p> <p style="line-height:18.9px">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p> <p style="line-height:18.9px"><span style="color:#006341"><em><b>Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566 </b></em></span></p>