Financial Business Analyst

Job Classification

Financial Business Analyst  - 148030

Closing date - 13 October 2026

Job Family

Career Stream

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Professional

Job Purpose

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

Preferred Qualification

Bachelor of Commerce: Financial Management

Minimum Experience Level

8 - 10 years experience in Financial Services Environment

SAICA articles and BI skills.

A certificate in FinOps could be advantageous

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies