Title: Manager- Financial Reporting

35227

Botswana, BW

Audit, Accounting & Finance

Regular Employee

Office - Full Time

30 Jul 2025

Job Summary

The role entails coordinating the reporting team to deliver accurate financial and management reports, providing insights for business decision-making, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. This pivotal role involves a diverse range of responsibilities essential for the effective operation of our organization. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in financial management, regulatory compliance, and risk management.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Financial Controller, the Financial Reporting Manager is responsible for the co-ordination and delivery of financial/management reports to different key internal and external stakeholders for the Bank. These reports are to be timely, accurate and prepared in accordance with the International Financial Reporting Standards and the Group policies. The individual needs to proactively engage with various stakeholders, particularly with GFS (Global Financial Services) to ensure effective execution of the regular reporting deliverables.

Below is a summary of key responsibilities:

As the Financial Reporting Manager, you will lead and manage the reporting team, ensuring the timely and precise delivery of both financial and management reports. Your role is crucial in securing prompt approval from the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), which is essential for maintaining the organization’s financial integrity and ensuring transparency in all financial dealings.
Your responsibilities include providing consistent, thorough, and precise financial analysis accompanied by detailed reporting. This aspect of the role is vital for facilitating informed decision-making processes at Standard Chartered Bank Botswana, ensuring all stakeholders are well-informed and equipped with the necessary insights to make sound business decisions
You will be responsible for managing and meticulously reviewing all local regulatory submissions, and ensure outsourced country Record-to-Report and Requisition-to-Pay activities are executed on a monthly basis.
Contribute to the preparation of the financial statements and the annual report in accordance with statutory, regulatory, and other requirements, and in accordance with group standards, procedures and timetables.
Maintaining robust general ledger controls is fundamental to the role. This involves ensuring accurate financial reporting and reconciliations while also serving as the Chief Hub Liaison Officer for all reporting matters. Your ability to collaborate with various departments to support business objectives and strategies will be vital in this position.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field. A professional accounting qualification (e.g., CPA, ACCA) is preferred.
Minimum 5 years proven experience in financial control, reporting, and regulatory compliance
Excellent knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards
Excellent knowledge of Local regulatory requirements
Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
Excellent communication and leadership abilities.
Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.