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Senior Finance Business Partner

Listing reference: jse_000637

Listing status: Online

Apply by: 1 July 2025

Position summary

Industry: Financial Services

Job category: Banking, Finance, Insurance. Stockbroking

Location: Sandton

Contract: Permanent

Remuneration: Market Related

EE position: No

About our company

WHY JOIN THE JSE? The JSE recognises that its success and strength depend on the quality of its employees. We are committed to fostering a culture of continuous learning and high standards of performance. Our employee wellness programme is designed to encourage work-life balance for employees. We naturally seek to empower staff and encourage diversity and opportunities for all.

Introduction

The purpose of the position is working closely with business unit Heads, the Finance Business Partner will be the central Finance point of contact for all Finance related support. This role strives to deliver robust reporting, analysis and financial control of operating/capital costs and also provides essential Finance expertise in the appraisal of new projects and the measurement of cost performance in project delivery. The Finance Business Partner will also drive and support the implementation of process improvements and reporting enhancements to deliver accurate and relevant financial management information to support decision making. The Finance Business Partner is responsible for leading the Financial Planning and Analysis team in preparing and distributing accurate, relevant financial management information and perform foreseeable needs analysis for internal clients on a continued basis in achievement of JSE strategic financial targets

Job description

Business and Financial Results Management

Facilitate the entire planning and budgeting process creating and ensuring strict adherence to the budget timetable, populating of the budgets with business units, timeous communication of material issues and changes and creating of standardised high quality presentations with supporting commentary and analysis
Produce and maintain monthly timely and accurate management accounting information with supporting commentary on variances, statistics and other required analysis.
Perform the rolling forecast activities in order to track the revenue and expenses against the budget and adjust the expenses and revenue for the future months as per discussions with business stakeholders.
Ensure strategy implementation by monitoring financial performance against budget, forecast and strategic targets
Provide commercial insight, analysis and modelling for pricing changes to support business in optimal pricing for products
Contribute to cost control by driving cost awareness through the organisation and implementing appropriate controls and reporting
Provide financial guidance and advice to stakeholders to assist them to accurately account for operations in order to ensure adherence to JSE guidance and statutory reporting

Stakeholder Relationship Management

Engage with relevant business units to understand the financial support required to meet stakeholder needs
Build relationships with colleagues, peers and staff by using appropriate interpersonal styles
Interact with others in a way that promotes openness and trust and gives them confidence in one’s financial support and guidance

Process Management

Create and implement staff clear work allocation and accountability levels to deliver on the departmental strategy.
Manage team delivery against set delivery plan and set timelines, identify obstacles to delivery and take appropriate action where required
Ensure accuracy and speed of delivery of financial management information by checking against targets and rolling forecast processes
Analyse commercial finance processes and procedures to identify obstacles and enhancement opportunities and take appropriate action to implement changes
Review work of direct reports for accuracy and take action as needed to ensure consistent delivery
Put checks and balances in place to ensure that processes, standards, protocols and procedures are followed by the team
Analyse and evaluate requests from business regarding financial support to assess viability
Prepare ad hoc business cases as requested by stakeholders to address financial support requirements
Assist in coordination of budget processes for the JSE by providing guidelines and advice
Analyse current financial complex information to support business needs and project future needs
Use JSE costing model as a starting point and apply appropriate product level costing methodology to do work at a lower level of granularity to support different business requirements
Support the Head of Commercial finance on function appropriate requests coming from Board, EXCO associated meetings and CFO’s office
Support the core finance function in meeting its objectives incl. external and internal audit target requirements and sound control adherence
Support Financial Accounting to ensure successful audit (internal and external) conclusions
Review capital adequacy analysis to ensure regulatory demands are maintained by the Group

Team Management

Ensure all team members understand and support the JSE vision and divisional strategy
Take accountability for making others successful by removing obstacles to team performance and success
Participate in recruitment processes to ensure selection contributing to success of team
Ensure on-boarding process is followed for all new hires and transfers to embed the JSE values and cultures
Ensure self and team members have required skill and professional / technical expertise by assessing gaps and development areas and creating development plans
Ensure each team member has a job profile that profiles team member with a view of full performance in the job
Create performance agreement for each team member with measurable goals and objectives so that they understand how their performance will be viewed, recognised and rewarded
Conduct performance review sessions with team members to review performance and progress against targets and agree on appropriate action required to meet targets or standards
Engage with team in such a way that the feel motivated to achieve better performance feel
Epitomise living the JSE values and keep team accountable for displaying the values in their behaviour

Transformation and Innovation Management

Support the implementation of business optimisation improvement through stakeholder engagement
Encourage innovation, listen and act upon ideas from team and provided technical / expert contribution
Meet EE/BEE targets as related to team through appropriate recruitment selection decisions

Minimum requirements

Post graduate Degree
BCom in Accounting
CA(SA) or similar
4 years post articles in a Finance business partnering function

Knowledge

Basic software applications (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Internet, Email)
Divisional service offerings
Budget forecast assumptions
Business continuity standard
Business principles
Decision-making process
Coaching principles
Diversity management
Employee training/development
Performance management and evaluation methods
Financial processes and controls

Skills

Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
Tracking cost against a budget
Networking and building relationships
Modelling and encourage JSE culture
Conducting root cause analysis
Communicating job requirements and performance standards to others
Conducting performance appraisal interviews
Conducting performance feedback meetings
Coordinating on-the-job training for new hires (e.g., identifying need, scheduling, resource allocation)

Benefits

At the JSE, you will interact and engage with leaders and individuals recognised as experts in their fields. Be part of creating and developing new products and work on various exciting and challenging projects. We will provide you with the necessary tools, support and development to help you reach your full potential. The JSE is very much a learning organisation, so we also encourage learning through training programmes, mentoring, sponsored education and paid membership of professional associations.

Senior Business Analyst

Listing reference: jse_000644

Listing status: Online

Apply by: 26 June 2025

Position summary

Industry: Financial Services

Job category: Banking, Finance, Insurance. Stockbroking

Location: Sandton

Contract: Permanent

Remuneration: Market Related

EE position: Yes

About our company

Introduction

The JSE is looking for a Senior Business Analyst to facilitate the development and implementation of JSE’s systems based on a clear understanding of business requirements in alignment to JSE IT strategic priorities.

Job description

Results Delivery

Contribute to crafting of IT departmental business plan to ensure delivery of focus areas for the year in support of IT strategy
Apply cost effectiveness principles in planning and delivery to contribute to achievement of divisional financial targets
Provide relevant input into the formalisation of the divisional budget
Manage allocated budget by tracking costs and recommending solutions that meet critical business needs
Provide guidance to the business on best system solution selection to ensure fit to the JSE’s requirements and meet the future strategic objectives

Stakeholder Relationship Management

Champion Business Analyst services with stakeholders
Observe and be involved in the day to day operations to understand the business domain and business needs and requirements of relevant stakeholders
Provide insight regarding BA methodologies and best practices to internal clients to enable a BA presence in the JSE
Maintain and build relationships with Business Owners to ensure the BA team is consulted and involved in initiatives that may require IT support
Determine business requirements and actively manage key projects to ensure expectations are met
Conduct Business Owner feedback sessions with every milestone phase of a project to inform business of progress, manageBusiness expectation proactively and measure the effectiveness of Business Process Improvement
Build relationships with other IT teams, likeEnterprise Architecture. and other key counterparts
Ensure regular engagement (as needed) with all stakeholders to gain visibility and maintain relationships through networks utilising social media, attending and presenting at conferences and training interventions
Build strategic JSE / Industry/ Global network of thought leaders and relationships utilising social media, attending and presenting at conferences and training interventions
Meet stakeholder needs accuratley by following the Business Analyst process flow methodolgy to maintain quality and consistency of service provided
Manage stakeholder relationships by communicating openly and honestly with regards to project status

Self-Management

Improve personal capability and professional growth relating to field of expertise, in line with JSE objectives by discussing development needs and proposed solutions with management
Keep abreast of changes in legislation or standards by conducting research and utilizing networks
Up skill team and other professionals by sharing knowledge and research results
Epitomise living the JSE values, displaying professional conduct and adherence to required technical standards

Transformation and Innovation

Analyse, research, develop and implement improvement
Innovative ideas and value adding solutions contributing to divisional and JSE results

Process Management

Manage own delivery on multiple and/or complex projects against departmental delivery plan and set timelines, identify obstacles to delivery and take appropriate action where required
Receive request from business to start new project and conduct stakeholder analysis to clearly define the relevant people required for information gathering
Draft a full system requirements plan to detail the activities and outputs
Execute the requirements plan in alignment with Software Development Lifecycle process to ensure compliance
Obtain system project classification by presenting the business requirement to the initiation forum
Conduct a cost and benefit analysis to assess the feasibility of the requirements
Produce a business case study by assessing solution options, considering costing and risks to formulate a recommendation
Support the business sponsor to develop and present the business case
Create the business requirements specification document to confirm clarity of business scope
Create the functional requirements specification document to translate the business requirements into functional requirements
Present functional requirements specification to all stakeholders to validate the requirements and solution
Recommend the most effective course of action after evaluating options against decision criteria
Provide regular feedback and progress to all stakeholders on current projects
Review the technical design specifications to check that all requirements are include
Review the test cases to ensure that it covers all scenarios related to the functional requirements
Assist the development team and testers to perform root cause analysis for any functional defects
Gather supporting information by holding interviews, conducting surveys, running workshops and reviewing existing documents and information
Perform adhoc functional testing for quality assurance
Ensure correct utilisation of solution developed by creating user training manuals
Assist business by project co-ordination of deliverables for small initiatives
Proactively or by request identify obstacles to performance relating to process flow and identify opportunities for optimisation
Assist users in being effective by utilizing the new solution productively
Partner with the project manager/lead to contribute to the development of the Senior Business Analysts role and delivery plan (proactivley being involved upfront to just confirm the scope of the Senior Business Analyst’s end-to-end role in the project to mitigate any risk of misunderstanding of who will be doing what) to ensure a successful solution delivery output
Contribute to BA COE practice development by presenting courses to the team
Reduce time spent on projects by elicitation, analysis and optimisation of business requirements

Minimum requirements

Minimum Qualification

Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology or Engineering
Business Analyst Certification from a reputable institution

Minimum Experience

Minimum 8 years’ experience as a Business Analyst

Knowledge and Skills

Basic software applications (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Internet, Email)
Divisional service offerings
Budget forecast assumptions
Business continuity standard
Business principles
Data analysis
Decision-making process
International Standards for Professional Practice
Adapting behavior to meet major changes at work
Adapting to a major organizational change
Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
Evaluating resource allocation
Networking and building relationships
Establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with peers / subordinates / managers

Benefits

What’s in it for you:

The lifeblood of the JSE is our PEOPLE who are at the heart of all that we do. In the spirit of one heartbeat, one and an incredible employee experience. Our commitment to professional growth, coupled with a culture of collaboration and respect, empowers our team to achieve excellence. We live by our core values: Connecting for Co-Creation, where teamwork and shared ideas drive success; Growing Together, ensuring that as our company evolves, so do our people; and Servant Leadership, growing people to reach their full potential.

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your well-being and professional development, including:

Hybrid ways of work for flexibility and balance
Market-related total cost to company remuneration package
Employee Assistance Programme for personal and professional support
Health and Wellness Initiatives, including wellbeing leave and a wellbeing allowance
Gender Neutral Parental Leave policy
Free onsite gym, and an onsite coffee & salad bar
Opportunities for participation in Leadership, Professional membership & conference/seminar attendance and Development Programs

Join us at JSE, where your career aspirations can become a reality, and together, we can shape the future of our industry.