Stanbic IBTC is Recruits Manager: Planning and Performance Management

Standard IBTC's Group Finance is a corporate function that serves the overall Standard Bank group across a variety of accounting disciplines – internal and external reporting, budgeting and planning, tax, technical accounting and investor relations. It also runs the bank’s capital management and regulatory reporting teams and the financial shared services processing centre. Group Finance has its own, dedicated SAP technical support and development team and a new financial systems and process improvement programme team known as Refine.

We are currently recruiting for the Position of:

Job Title: Manager: Planning and Performance Management

Job ID: 10152

Position Description

• Managing the planning and the performance management process in Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc (“SIBP”)
• Facilitating strategic planning through preparation of financial forecasts based on SIBP’s business strategy
• Overall management, co-ordination and preparation of the annual budget and periodic revised estimates.
• Design and implementation of performance management processes and systems.
• Performance management through analysis, review and preparation of periodic financial reports
• Providing SIBP leadership management information to support decision making.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• An appreciation and a good understanding of macro economics and external factors affecting the business strategies adopted, and market serviced by SIBP.
• Understanding of the importance of planning and budgeting in the bank’s overall business strategy
• Ability to analyse and evaluate data for acceptability and correctness.
• Analytical mind with strong orientation to financial analysis.
• Ability and experience in communicating with all levels of management regarding management information needs.
• Good interpersonal skills required in liaising with people at different levels within the bank.
• Willingness to get involved in detail
• Good planning and organisation skills.
• Strong report writing skills.
• Dynamic self-starter with a personal ambition to succeed.
• Ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
• A person with high integrity.
• Excellent computer skills particularly in MS Word, MS Excel and MS Access, Power Point.

Required Competencies

• Minimum of 8 years post qualification experience.
• In depth understanding of banking and the underlying key performance drivers
• Previous financial Modelling and data mining experience
• Computer literacy and knowledge of personal computers and software packages such as MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access. Working knowledge of SAP and Equinox is an added advantage.
• Good communication and presentation skills at a senior level
• Strategic planning and management experience
• Experience in change management and has the ability to positively lead change

Application Closing Date
6th December, 2012

Method of Application
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