[Hiring] Finance Reporting & Data Assurance Analyst @Jbedeker

Role Description

If you’re motivated by innovation, join a pioneering digital banking project that is helping shape Africa’s financial future. This fully remote, six month contract offers an opportunity for a strong Finance Reporting & Data Assurance Analyst to help build reliable, traceable and audit-ready reporting.

You’ll work across Power BI, Excel and SQL, creating dashboards and financial reports while digging into variances, reconciliations and data quality.

Duties / Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Power BI dashboards, financial reports and controlled Excel outputs.
• Create datasets, calculations, measures and reporting logic.
• Turn Finance, Treasury and regulatory requirements into clear reporting solutions.
• Reconcile reports back to source data, trial balances and financial control totals.
• Investigate mismatches, data issues and unexplained variances.
• Test reporting from both a functional and data-quality perspective.
• Maintain clear reporting rules, data lineage, test evidence and sign-off records.
• Support Finance teams during reporting cycles, submissions and issue resolution.
• Work with Finance, Treasury, data and technical teams to get reporting over the line.

Qualifications

• Degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems or a related field preferred.
• Professional accounting qualification, or progress toward one, would be advantageous.

Requirements

• South African based with eligibility to work in South Africa and willingness to travel to Cairo for one week every two/three months.
• 5+ years’ experience across finance reporting, financial data, BI or reporting assurance.
• Strong accounting, financial reporting and reconciliation knowledge.
• Advanced Power BI, including DAX, Power Query, data modelling and report development.
• Strong Excel, including complex formulas and reconciliation work.
• Working SQL skills with the ability to interrogate and validate data independently.
• Experience building both interactive dashboards and fixed-format/paginated reports.
• Strong understanding of data quality, transformations and lineage.
• Banking, financial services or another regulated environment is highly advantageous.
• Regulatory reporting, IFRS-style reporting, data lakes, APIs or event-driven data experience would be useful.

Soft Skills

• Someone who is naturally Hungry, Humble and Smart will fit well here: proactive enough to chase down a dodgy number, humble enough to work collaboratively, and smart enough to know when something simply doesn’t add up.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Clear communication.
• Good judgement.
• Ability to work independently in a remote team.

Benefits

• The proposed salary range is R600 - R750 p/h.
• The offer will be market related based on qualifications, skills, and experience.