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Finance Manager, Controls
Job Details
Job Function:
• Support the development and enhancement of the control environment across Finance in the 3 countries
• Monitor compliance with and adherence to Financial Controls Policy across the bank in the 3 countries
• Maintain the Bank’s Chart of Accounts, ensuring complete reconciliation in place in the 3 countries
• Review General Ledger suspense and sundry accounts in the 3 countries
• Ensure outstanding items in general ledger sundry and suspense accounts are within life span in the 3 countries
• Assist in coordinating FCP and ORM trainings for Finance and other units across the Bank in the 3 countries.
• Perform ORM controls and drive adherence to the ORM framework across Finance and CRES in the 3 countries
• Perform Assurance reviews to ensure adherence to the FCP in the 3 countries
• Participate in OR and Controls projects across Finance as nominated/delegated by the FORM, Nigeria
• Serve as back-up to the FORM for Nigeria
• Serve as FORM for Sierra-Leone and Cameroon
Key Roles and Responsibilities
Financial Controls
- Ensure full compliance with the Financial Controls Policies (FCP) within the Bank at all times.
- Ensure that all Minimum Control Standards in the FCP manual are traceable to relevant KCSs/ KRIs within the Bank.
- Review reconciliations from all Account Owners and follow up on long outstanding items to ensure that they are cleared promptly.
- Monitor the number, age and nature of outstanding items in suspense and sundry accounts.
- Ensure proofs and reconciliation of Finance internal accounts is prepared on a regular basis in line with the FCP.
- Monitor and ensure bank wide existence of FCP specific DOIs as required by the FCP.
- Perform account and cost centre ownership and maintenance controls.
- Perform dormant account reviews
Qualifications and Skills
- Professional qualifications in Accounting and Finance e.g. ACCA, ACA plus at least four years work experience in highly regulated industry and generally known controls conscious environment.
- Good communications and interpersonal skills
- Broad understanding of banking practice
- General understanding of minimum controls standards
- An eye for detail and accuracy with a strong analytical capability
- Probing mind
- People management and stakeholder engagement skill
- Sound knowledge of Generally accepted accounting principles and group accounting policy
- High level of computer literacy is required especially the use simple system/ data query tools
- Team coordination, supervisory, people management and accurate execution/delivery of agreed tasks and objectives.
- Business writing skills
- A minimum of a second class degree in a related course
- Professional qualifications in Accounting and Finance e.g. ACCA, ACA plus at least four years work experience in highly regulated industry and generally known controls conscious environment.
- Good communications and interpersonal skills
- Broad understanding of banking practice
- General understanding of minimum controls standards
- An eye for detail and accuracy with a strong analytical capability
- Probing mind
- People management and stakeholder engagement skill
- Sound knowledge of Generally accepted accounting principles and group accounting policy
- High level of computer literacy is required especially the use simple system/ data query tools
- Team coordination, supervisory, people management and accurate execution/delivery of agreed tasks and objectives.
- Business writing skills
In compliance with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Act of 2004, all applicants should ensure that they have completed the mandatory NYSC programme. A discharge certificate will be required as evidence of completion of the programme. Where an exemption has been granted, a certificate of exemption will also be required.
Method of Application
New Vacancy at Standard Chartered Bank
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