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Head of MI & Central FDs Job at Absa Bank Uganda Limited
Absa Bank Uganda Limited
Job Description
The Head of MI & Central FDS – Finance Business Support leads the Management Information (MI) and Central Financial Decision Support. Providing high-quality financial and non-financial information to support business decision-making, reporting, and planning. This role is responsible for ensuring accurate management financials, forecasting, and analytics, while driving process improvement, automation, and visualization initiatives.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
Management Financial Reporting Systems Integration & Data Flow Assurance (30%)
- Serve as the primary liaison for systems‑related finance matters across countries.
- Lead end‑to‑end reviews of data movement from the core banking system to finance and reporting systems.
- Monitor data accuracy, completeness, and reconciliation across interfaces.
- Identify data integrity issues and work with technical teams to design corrective solutions.
- Develop and maintain documentation on data flow architecture and financial systems integrations.
- Preparation and consolidation of management financials, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and adherence to reporting standards.
- Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end processes, including variance analysis and executive reporting.
Forecasting & Planning (30%)
- Oversee all forecasting activities, including Flash, RAF (Risk Adjusted Forecast), STP (Short-Term Planning), and MTP (Medium-Term Planning).
- Provide scenario analysis and forward-looking insights to support strategic and operational decisions.
Process Improvement, Automation & Visualization (30%)
- Identify manual or inefficient finance processes and lead automation initiatives (e.g., reconciliations, reports, uploads, extracts).
- Design, build, or oversee automation using tools such as Power Automate, Python, SQL, or other applicable technologies.
- Ensure automation solutions are properly documented, tested, and embedded into BAU operations.
- Identify opportunities to streamline MI and central FDS processes, including automation of repetitive tasks and visualization of key metrics.
- Develop dashboards and visualizations to support business performance, financial reporting, and analytics.
- Work with business stakeholders to translate reporting needs into scalable visualization solutions (Power BI)
- Maintain automated reporting pipelines to ensure timely and accurate data availability.
- Implement tools and best practices that improve efficiency, accuracy, and transparency of reporting.
Stakeholder Engagement & Governance (5%)
- Act as a key partner to business units, senior management, on MI support matters.
- Ensure adherence to governance, compliance, and internal control standards.
- Maintain high-quality data governance and documentation of MI processes.
Team Leadership & Contribution (5%)
- Lead and develop the MI team delivering financial and non-financial information
- Drive capability development, mentorship, and succession planning within the teams.
- Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and collaboration.
Qualifications, Education and Competencies
See all details of the qualifications, competencies and education for this role under the "How to Apply" section below.
All suitably qualified and interested candidates who wish to join ABSA Group in the aforementioned capacity should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 31st March 2026
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