Financial Reporting Manager

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Job Summary Accounting and Reconciliation Management: Perform accounting-related tasks and reporting, ensure reconciliations are completed | Financial Governance, Reporting and Control Audit Support: Provide support to auditing activities Job Description Liaise with the FDS team to ensure that all product and segmental information is reported correctly Responsible to ensure that all mapping and exco codes are correctly feeding into Analyst to ensure that we have no issues on consolidation into group Responsible to ensure that all quarterly reporting on HFM or other relevant reporting platforms is done in within the given deadlines Responsible for the reconciliation of intercompany balances and clearance of these on the new compass system Preparation of statutory financial statements using fast financials or other applicable tools in good time to expected standard to facilitate early sign off of financial statements Analytical review on both the income statement and balance sheet on a monthly basis which should form the basis of the commentary pack which is sent back to regional FC team general tax compliance work - tax computations, PAYE, WHT, VAT , Excise duty and payment of Corporate tax installments Responsible for performing tax due diligence in new product development and providing business functions with relevant tax advice Alternate for the timely and accurate submission of all regulatory reports including but not limited to the monthly prudential return, BA 610, Basel II parallel run reports, quarterly publications Regular review of the effectiveness of the process of preparation of statutory returns in order to minimise the risk of misreporting and ultimately the Bank being penalised Manage the relationship with external auditors, AIA and Regional FC and responsible for the coordination of all finance reviews e.g external audit Maintain close relations with the, Tax Authorities and the Central Bank and other applicable Regulatory Bodies Manage Relationship with Functional and product head as well as the FDS team Alternate to Financial controller at the cost board and this entails presenting a high quality deck to the committee and running the meeting to ensure the bank is on track to meet its cost targets Education Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications: Accounting (Required)