ABSA Bank Tanzania Limited is currently seeking for competent candidate to fill the job vacancy of Finance Officer. Absa Bank Tanzania Limited, former
ABSA Bank Tanzania Limited New Job Vacancy, May 2022: Finance Officer
Job Opportunity at ABSA Bank Tanzania Limited - Finance Officer
Finance OfficerÂ
Full Time
ABSA Bank Tanzania Limited
About ABSA Bank Tanzania Limited
Absa Bank Tanzania Limited, formerly Barclays Bank Tanzania Limited, is a commercial bank in Tanzania and a subsidiary of South Africa-based Absa Group Limited.
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Finance Officer Job Summary
Job Purpose.
- Finance Officer will assist BP & A team in preparation and processing information
- Finance Officer also help to maintain the Head Office creditors’ payments (accounts payable)
- Assist the Financial controller and provide support during auditing processJob Description
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Key Responsibilities:
Reporting
- Â Â Perform cost analysis month on month
- Â Â Receive and process TM1 extracts as at 10th, 20th, and end month.
- Â Â Provide Reconciliations SAP, Compass and TM1
- Â Â Carry out trend analysis to, measure the accuracy of the data
- Â Â Document all agreed adjustments.
- Â Â Ensure system backups are done
- Â Â Â Support business units in monthly reporting
- Â Â Provide accurate and timely MI on financial performance of the business as reported to stakeholders
- Â Â Perform daily trend analysis of financials
- Â Â Preparing industry performance synopsis
-   Maintain sound control and process flow of the vendors’ invoice processing under accounts payable.
-   Daily receiving and recording of the vendors’ invoices for payments
- Â Â Â Processing and scanning of the invoices for the vendor payment process daily through KOFAX.
- Â Â Follow up on the status of the unapproved invoices in the system and advice financial controller on the issues on cockpit.
-    Preparing telegraphic transfers (TT) for the vendors’ payments outside Absa bank Tanzania
- Â Â Preparing the funding entries and updating BSS team
- Â Â Â Monthly preparation of the amortisation entries for prepaid expenses
- Â Â Â Preparing monthly accruals journals for major costs (every week 2)
- Â Â Â Periodical review of the cost accruals against actual costs booked in a month
- Â Â Any other duties as directed by the line manager
Skills required undertaking the role:
- Â Â Understanding of short-, medium- and long-term strategies, goals and objectives
- Â Â Understanding of Governance and controls
- Â Â An Appreciation of the external economic, political, legal and regulatory environment and their impact to the business.
Risk and Control Objective:
- Â Â Â Manage risk and control effectively by applying applicable risk frameworks and embedding a positive risk culture
- Understanding of own role in the end-to-end processes in which you play a part, including applicable risks and controls.
-  to Absa’s policies and procedures applicable to own role, demonstrating sound judgment and responsible risk management.
- Â Report all risk events / incidents / issues using the defined process for your business area and help to understand why these happened and how to prevent them in future.
- Proactively look for ways to improve the control environment by considering what could go wrong in the processes you operate and how errors could be prevented.
- Â All mandatory training completed to deadline All mandatory training completed to deadline
Product knowledge
-    Good knowledge of the bank’s products
-   Fair knowledge of the system operations – Brains
Specific requirements
Basic university education,
Training required
- Â Â Â Product / Service knowledge
-    Stakeholders’ management
- Â Â Vendors SLA agreements
Skills required to undertake the role
- Â Â Strong analytical skills
-    Interpersonal skills – Time & stakeholders’ management
- Â Â Â PC skills
- Â Â Ability to work to tight deadlines without compromising accuracy
Personal Attributes
- Â Â Team player
- Â Â Analysis and judgement
- Â Â Proactive
- Â Â Information gathering
- Â Â Â Thoroughness
- Â Â Â Business awareness
- Â Â Â Persuasive
- Â Â Â Good communication, report writing and presentation skills.
- Â Â Quality conscious
- Â Â Â Adaptability
ABSA Bank Tanzania Limited Values
ABSA Bank Tanzania Limited’s Values and Behaviours represent the set of standards which governs the actions of all of us who work for the bank and against which the performance of every one of us in Absa are being assessed and rewarded:
- Â Â I drive high performance to achieve sustainable results
-   I’m obsessed with customer
- Â Â I have an African heartbeat
- Â Â I believe our people are our strengths
Education
Bachelor’s Degree: Accounting
