Finance Head-1

Job Description

To provide strategic financial leadership and specialist oversight across the FirstRand Namibia Group (the Group), ensuring financial integrity, robust reporting, effective financial controls, and informed decision‑making in support of business strategy. The role partners with executive and senior management to translate strategy into financial plans, strengthen financial governance, optimise resource allocation, and ensure compliance with accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and internal policies.

Are you someone who can:

• Lead the Group’s year-end and interim financial reporting processes, including the integrated annual report, results announcements, investor-facing financial information and all supporting reporting deliverables.

• Own the preparation, technical review and quality assurance of annual and interim financial statements for the Group, the Bank and smaller subsidiaries, ensuring compliance with IFRS, listing requirements and applicable legislation.

• Lead Basel III, prudential and other regulatory financial reporting, maintaining robust governance, review controls and submission calendars to ensure complete, accurate and timely returns.

• Manage the end-to-end reporting timetable for the release and submission of financial results to the NSX, coordinating internal approvals and ensuring compliance with market disclosure obligations.

• Manage key reporting stakeholders, including the CFO, executive management, Board and committee stakeholders, external auditors, the NSX sponsor, regulators and FirstRand Group Finance.

• Oversee the monthly HFM reporting process and the preparation, review and submission of half-year and year-end Group reporting packs, ensuring alignment to Group accounting policies, reporting instructions and deadlines.

• Oversee tax compliance and governance across the Group, including review of tax computations, returns, supporting schedules, tax provisions and payments, while managing tax risks and engagements with tax authorities and advisers.

• Lead the external audit process for interim and year-end reporting, coordinate responses across relevant business areas and ensure audit matters are resolved and reported within agreed timelines.

• Maintain a strong financial reporting control environment, including governance over accounting policies, significant judgements, disclosure controls, regulatory submissions and the integrity of published financial information.

• Anticipate changes in IFRS, Basel, tax, regulatory and listing requirements, assess their impact and lead timely implementation across reporting processes and disclosures.

• Drive continuous improvement across finance reporting by simplifying processes, strengthening standardisation, improving data flows and controls, and using automation to reduce manual effort and key-person dependency.

• Provide the CFO with clear, decision-useful analysis on financial performance, reporting developments, emerging risks and matters requiring executive or Board attention.

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of finance professionals and specialists, with clear accountability, succession depth and the technical capability required to deliver listed-entity reporting to a high standard.

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

Minimum

·        Chartered Accountant (CA)

Preferred

·        Postgraduate qualification in Finance or Business is advantageous.

Year’s of experience

• Minimum: 8-10 years’ experience in finance roles of increasing complexity.

• Proven experience leading senior finance professionals or specialist teams.

• Strong background in financial reporting, planning, and governance.

• Experience in regulated or complex organisational environments is highly advantageous.

You will have access to:

• Opportunities to network and collaborate
• Challenging Work
• Opportunities to innovate

We can be a match if you are:

• Always doing the right thing – Fight for ethical conduct and transparency, both inside and outside
• Curious – Believe in insight, creativity, and its power to unlock value
• Deeply Invested – Take initiative and be a leader in your own right
• Valuing differences – Be inclusive, gracious, decent, and humble
• Building Trust not Territory – Create a culture of sharing
• Courageous – We’ve built a culture of bravery by speaking our minds and encouraging others to do the same

Are you interested in taking the step? We look forward to engaging with you further. Apply now!

Closing Date:  1 November 2026

All applications must be done via the Group’s application portal. To access the portal click on the link below.

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Important Closing Date Note

Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.

All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group’s Employment Equity plan. The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfill this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties.