Senior Financial Manager (12-month contract)

Are you an experienced Senior Financial Manager with a passion for financial leadership, operational excellence, and driving strategic business decisions? A leading bank in Sandton is seeking a highly motivated finance professional to join their team on a 12-month contract.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within a dynamic financial environment, partnering with senior stakeholders to deliver financial insights, strengthen governance, optimise asset-related financial performance, and support strategic decision-making across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead consolidated financial analysis, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and financial controls across multiple business functions.
• Oversee asset maintenance financial management to ensure critical banking assets remain available, reliable, compliant, and cost-effective throughout their lifecycle.
• Maintain accurate asset registers, financial records, depreciation schedules, and control information to support governance and financial reporting.
• Monitor financial performance against budgets and targets, identify variances, and recommend corrective actions to improve business performance.
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards, regulatory requirements, internal policies, procurement governance, and audit expectations.
• Partner with Finance, Procurement, Technology, Facilities, Risk, Compliance, and business stakeholders to support asset investment, replacement, maintenance, and disposal decisions.
• Identify opportunities to optimise asset lifecycle costs, improve operational efficiencies, standardise processes, and reduce unnecessary expenditure.
• Prepare and present insightful financial reports, dashboards, and management information relating to asset performance, expenditure, risks, service levels, and improvement initiatives.
• Support business continuity by ensuring effective financial processes, systems, and controls are in place.
• Drive continuous process improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and financial performance.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders while ensuring service delivery against agreed service level agreements.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing finance team, ensuring delivery against business objectives.

Minimum Requirements

• Relevant Degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce, or a related field.
• CA(SA), CIMA, or other relevant professional finance qualification will be advantageous.
• Extensive experience in senior financial management within the Banking or Financial Services industry.
• Strong experience in financial planning, analysis, budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and financial controls.
• Experience managing asset-related financial processes, governance, and lifecycle management will be advantageous.
• Sound knowledge of IFRS, financial governance, regulatory compliance, and audit requirements.
• Proven leadership experience managing high-performing finance teams.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and financial reporting systems experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management and business partnering skills.

If you have a strong banking finance background and are looking for your next exciting contract opportunity, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today!