About this role
Job Classification Financial Business Analyst - 148030 Closing date - 13 October 2026 Job Family Finance Career Stream Accounting Leadership Pipeline Manage Self: Professional Job Purpose To perform financial analysis on business data in order to leverage and communicate effectively with stakeholders; so as to add value to the businesss financial management strategy. Job Responsibilities Commercial & Financial Analysis: Examine and monitor cloud consumption, analyse consumption based on budget and forecast, variance tracking etc Budgeting, Forecasting & Planning: Support annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, scenario planning, and business case development. Business Performance Support: Investigate the root causes of financial and operational variances rather than just reporting numbers. Partner with business to execute corrective actions. Executive & Stakeholder Reporting: Build management packs, dashboards, and financial models. Translate complex financial data into clear, actionable insights for non-financial leaders. Systems & Data Integrity: Manage and enhance enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools, sub-ledgers, and reporting software such as Power BI. Identify business problems by analysing data and reports from various sources. Build research capabilities by collating data from different sources and communicate to all stakeholders. Support the delivery of critical finance processes, including month-end reporting, rolling forecasts, annual budgeting, and long-term financial planning. Analyse, monitor, and provide insights on cloud consumption, costs, and operational efficiencies to support effective financial management and optimisation initiatives. Develop financial models, business cases, and strategic analyses to support investment decisions and enable informed decision-making at GT Exco forums. Communicate solutions and ideas to stakeholders through meetings; presentations and generating reports. Build and maintain professional relationships with all stakeholders at all levels of the organisations. Seek opportunities to improve business processes and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to Nedbank. Provide meaningful recommendations; explanations and highlights of concerns or anomalies by analysing and interrogating financial information. Job Responsibilities Continue Contribute to intellectual capital development by providing continuous motivation; mentoring; coaching and on the job skills training. Manage defined risks in the finance function and risk categories at targeted levels by adhering to internal and external guidelines/policies/ procedures/business rules/ compliance and governance requirements. Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations. Essential Qualifications - NQF Level Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees Preferred Qualification CA/CIMA with articles Minimum Experience Level 8 - 10 years experience SAICA articles and BI skills. A certificate in FinOps could be advantageous Technical / Professional Knowledge Business Acumen Business principles Communication Strategies Data analysis Governance, Risk and Controls Nedbank policies and procedures Principles of financial management Research methodology Business writing skills Microsoft Office Product Regulatory knowledge IT / Banking knowledge Behavioural Competencies Applied Learning Communication Decision Making Innovation Work Standards Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566