Job Description

Job Summary Are you a Certified Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)) with a passion for financial analysis and insights? Are you ready to take your career to new heights?

A leading financial services provider committed to helping clients achieve their financial goals and dreams. With a legacy of over 50 years and dedicated to creating financial wellness and prosperity for all. This team is driven by innovation, integrity, and a customer-centric approach.

As a Head of Financial Insights CA(SA) you will play a pivotal role in shaping the financial strategy and providing invaluable insights to drive decision-making. This role requires a combination of technical expertise in finance and accounting as well as strong analytical skills.

Duties:

• Analysing financial data
• Providing strategic insights
• Recommendations and supporting decision-making processes
• Responsible for the design and development of financial reporting and insights, KPI's, business models and analytical capabilities, working together with key business stakeholders
• Enable the digitalisation, consolidation and standardisation of financial reports and insights.
• Effectively manage performance within the team in order to ensure business objectives are achieved.
• Oversee the data sourcing, data models and data mining functions to support descriptive and trend analysis
• Oversee the design and implementation of accurate, reliable, and timeous metrics and reports to the business.
• Oversee the delivery of data models, reports and insights that proactively identify risks within business, provide insight into client service metrics.

Job Experience & Skills Required:

Qualifications:

• Matric (Grade 12)
• BCom Accounting
• BCom Honours / CTA
• CA(SA)

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years post qualification experience in financial analysis role in the financial services industry, preferably investments and/or insurance.
• Minimum 3 yearsxe2x80x99 experience in a managerial or leadership role
• Experience on Excel and SQL, as well as knowledge of Power BI data visualisation is beneficial.
• Ability to interpret and analyse financial and non-financial information, an understanding of financial modeling techniques, such as regression analysis, time series analysis, variance analysis and scenario analysis and identify key financial trends and patterns.

Skills & Competencies:

• Must have solid, in-depth understanding of the financial services business environment, processes, legislative and industry requirements
• Knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
• Demonstrated experience in financial modelling and business insights
• Exposure to client strategies, business metrics, data visualisation and data modelling

If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles / positions.

For more information contact:
Shouneez Scheepers
Principal Recruiter: Finance and IT

Salix Recruitment

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