The Finance Manager is responsible for ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, effective financial control, budgeting and forecasting, while providing the CFO and senior management with meaningful financial analysis and insights. The role requires a strong accounting foundation combined with analytical, business and strategic capabilities to support sound decision-making and progressively contribute to broader Finance leadership responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the preparation and review of financial statements, management reports, profitability analyses, tax returns and regulatory financial reports.
- Ensure the accuracy and conformity of the Bank’s accounting records, reconciliations and financial reporting, and promptly escalate significant issues.
- Coordinate the annual budgeting process and prepare periodic forecasts, financial projections and scenario analyses.
- Analyze actual performance against budget and forecast, identify key variances, trends, risks and opportunities, and recommend appropriate actions.
- Analyze the Bank’s revenues, expenses, profitability and other key financial and business drivers to support management decision-making.
- Translate financial data into clear management insights and recommendations for the CFO and senior management.
- Support the assessment of the financial impact of business initiatives, investments and strategic decisions.
- Contribute to the analysis and monitoring of relevant profitability, capital, liquidity and balance sheet considerations in coordination with the CFO and concerned functions.
- Monitor relevant financial and regulatory indicators and support compliance with applicable accounting, control and governance requirements.
- Coordinate with external auditors, regulators, Treasury, Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit and other relevant functions on Finance-related matters.
- Supervise and develop Finance team members and contribute to improving financial processes, controls and management reporting.
- Participate in strategic, financial and special projects assigned by the CFO.
Qualifications
- * Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or a related field; professional certification or postgraduate degree is a plus.
- 8–12 years of relevant Finance experience, preferably within banking or financial services, with supervisory or team management exposure.
- Strong expertise in financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling and performance analysis.
- Strong understanding of banking profitability, balance sheet dynamics and key financial and business drivers.
- Strong analytical, strategic and leadership capabilities, with the ability to translate financial data into clear insights and recommendations for senior management.
