Specialist FC Data Integration Management - Johannesburg - Absa Group

Description

With over 100 years of rich history and a strong presence as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of an exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

Technology Enablement owns the data processes that enable sustainable, accurate, and timely financial information in support of internal and external reporting. The individual will operate in Technology Enablement with primary focus to design, build, and maintain SAP S/4 HANA interfaces.

Job Description

Accountability: Design and Maintain Data Interfaces

• Develop data and information architecture strategy, blueprint, and roadmap and track progress towards achieving the strategic goals set out.
• Develop a strategy to ensure that operations, systems, and procedures are appropriate to absorb the impact of changes to increase financial operations for Absa Group and specifically in the Financial Control environment.
• Provide leadership on SAP S/4 HANA functionalities for current and future financial system landscape.
• Manage stakeholder engagement in order to ensure consensus and approval of the data interfaces.
• Be pro-active and manage changes impacting SAP S/4 HANA, enable long-term planning and input development.
• Design, build, and manage SAP S/4 HANA DI processes.
• Maintain DI and replication mapping tables.
• Liaise and engage with Functions Technology to discuss system and technology enhancements to increase performance of data integrity.
• Obtain and sustain knowledge and experience on the end-to-end processes, including product systems and general ledgers, to support business units with enhanced service delivery.
• Obtain and maintain technical knowledge, skills, and benchmarking to keep up to date in specialist areas to perform at the required standards.
• Manage adherence to the standard interface testing procedure for all new systems before interfacing with SAP S/4 HANA to ensure prevention of rejections and miss-representation of financial information.
• Manage research, design, promotion, development, and testing of innovative improvements or new solutions that will improve processes and ensure financial data integrity.

Accountability: Business direction and support

• Work with different Stakeholders to achieve excellent business results through continuous engagements.
• Contribute to the development of business unit strategy.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of the vision for the team.
• Agree targets and take accountability for the overall achievement of performance objectives in the business area.
• Define customer experience metrics.

Accountability: Risk management, compliance, and controls

• Ensure that the team understands applicable risk management, compliance, and control requirements, including required compliance training.
• Keep up to date with all relevant legislation/regulatory requirements.
• Own and agree corrective action items with Internal and External Audit for findings related to data interfaces and integrity.
• Participate in the development of the Business Continuity Plan by reviewing and ensuring the critical financial processes are adequately covered and tested.
• Perform proper maintenance of all actions needed for the completion of DEA (Design Effectiveness Assessment) and OET (Operating Effectiveness Testing).

Accountability: People and talent management

• Exhibits Absa Way, Purpose, and Values and champions them in the team towards development of a corporate culture.
• With the support from the HR Business Partner, interview and recruit direct reports and provide support to them during the recruitment of their teams on request.
• Effectively assign and balance staff allocations to attain the required performance levels.
• Develop suitable induction training solutions for the area of business.
• Ensure that staff is developed in accordance with personal development plans aligned to organisational priorities and individual development areas.
• Ensure that the people and talent management record keeping system is kept up to date.
• Establish and maintain a succession plan for the management team in the area using the formal Talent Management process for identified talent and an informal process for remaining roles.
• Perform quarterly 'health checks' with staff and confirm that they are meeting their required level of performance.
• Diversity - manage and make sure that every team member is treated with respect in terms of culture, gender, and religion.
• Create effective workforce and recruitment demand plans to ensure that current and future business requirements can be met.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Understanding of business processes.
• Excellent ETL skills.
• Solid SAP S/4 DI skills.
• Solid financial background.
• Solid accounting knowledge.
• Networking and relationship management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Understanding of Absa processes and systems.
• Commercial awareness.

Education and Experience Required

• B-degree in information technology (NQF level no. 7).
• At least 5 years SAP DI experience.
• At least 5 years banking experience.
• At least 5 – 8 years financial reporting experience.
• People Management Experience.

Competencies:

• Applying expertise and technology.
• Working with people.
• Analyzing.
• Relating and networking.
• Creating and innovating.
• Persuading and influencing.
• Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking.

Education

Bachelor’s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Data Science, Bachelor’s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Manufacturing, Engineering and Technology.

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised.