Senior Internal Financial Controls Analyst

at  Sanlam

WHO ARE WE?

The Sanlam Life and Savings cluster is responsible for Sanlam’s retail business in South Africa. Sanlam Life and Savings provides clients across different market segments (entry-level, middle-income, affluent, professional market and business owners) with a comprehensive range of appropriate and competitive financial solutions. These include traditional life insurance risk and savings products, investment, retirement, health and fiduciary services. Designed to facilitate long-term wealth creation, protection and niche financing, these solutions are engineered around client needs.
We believe in creating and cultivating a positive, energised working environment that gives you every opportunity to achieve success. Sanlam is committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society as well as people with disabilities.

The Finance Services function is responsible for delivering the following services to SLS, as well as other Clusters within Sanlam that make use of SAP S/4 HANA and related finance systems:

• The execution of shared financial transactions through the Finance Shared Services Centre.
• Drive operational excellence and efficiency through finance process and technology optimisation.
• Delivering an efficient financial control and compliance environment for SAP S/4HANA and related finance systems.
• Delivering on the consolidated financial reporting requirements for SLS.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

The GRC Senior Analyst role will be responsible for supporting the Head of the Governance risk and controls centre of excellence (GRC CoE) in managing and delivering an efficient financial control and compliance environment for SAP S/4HANA and related finance systems, with a focus on centralisation, standardisation, automation, and optimisation of financial control compliance processes.
The GRC CoE acts as a second line of defence in support of Business Units’ own financial control and compliance environments.
The incumbent will partner with the Head of GRC and Business Unit Heads to promote adherence to agree upon financial control compliance processes. This role will furthermore be to support for the identification and reporting of non-compliance and recommendations on how this can be addressed.

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE?

The key performance areas of this role include the following:

The Finance Services function is responsible for delivering the following services to SLS, as well as other Clusters within Sanlam that make use of SAP S/4 HANA and related finance systems:

• The execution of shared financial transactions through the Finance Shared Services Centre.
• Drive operational excellence and efficiency through finance process and technology optimisation.
• Delivering an efficient financial control and compliance environment for SAP S/4HANA and related finance systems.
• Delivering on the consolidated financial reporting requirements for SLS