Financial Manager

Job Description

To collaborate with business stakeholders to provide financial expertise, insights, and guidance while designing and improving financial processes that ensure consistent, efficient, and value-driven delivery of financial services.

Hello Future Financial Manager

Welcome to the FirstRand Namibia Group, where we believe that help is at the heart of human greatness.

Ashburton Namibia, a proud subsidiary of FirstRand Namibia Ltd, shares this purpose.

Preference shall be given to suitably qualified applicants from the designated groups as defined in the Affirmative Action Act, 29 of 1998.

Role Overview:

We’re looking for a collaborative and detail-oriented Financial Process Specialist to partner with business stakeholders and drive improvements in financial operations. This role focuses on providing expert financial insights, designing efficient processes, and ensuring consistent, value-driven delivery of financial services.

The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with strong analytical skills and the ability to influence and guide cross-functional teams.

Are you someone who can:

• Apply sound accounting principles to accurately record, adjust, and reconcile financial transactions
• Maintain proper documentation in line with professional financial reporting standards
• Prepare and deliver accurate operational and financial reports, while managing reporting systems and improving processes for timely insights
• Manage and optimize the use and effectiveness of financial information systems across the business
• Oversee interdependencies between systems, data, and resources to ensure successful project planning and execution
• Partner with business stakeholders to provide financial insights and guidance that influence operational decisions and strategic debates
• Record, interrogate and manage costs with associated drivers in the production, analysis and use of information for decision making in the business
• Contribute to a culture of knowledge sharing, collaboration, and continuous learning
• Monitor and coach behaviours that foster a service-driven culture, encourage innovation, and enable exceptional client experiences
• Assist in budgeting process, ensuring compliance with guidelines, monitoring variances, and advising management on corrective actions
• Ensure business operations are dealt with in a manner compliant with regulatory bodies and assist with the required submission to such regulatory bodies

You will be an ideal candidate if you meet the below minimum requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Commerce with at least 3 to 5 years’ experience in finance, Chartered Accountant or Mathematics.
• The candidate should have the following Knowledge and skills
• Ability to negotiate with internal and external stakeholders
• Strong numerical reasoning skills
• Ability to work well in a team environment
• Assertive with good communications skills
• Be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines

You will have access to:

• Opportunities to network and collaborate

• Challenging Working Environment
• 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 – Crete a culture of sharing
• Courage – We’ve built a culture of bravery by speaking our minds and encouraging others to do the same

Are you interested to take the step toward this exciting opportunity? We look forward to engaging with you further. Apply now!

Closing Date:  26 January 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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All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Namibia’s Employment Equity plan. The Group actively supports the recruitment and advancement of people with disabilities. We encourage that candidates voluntarily declare their disability and consult the Group should they require reasonable accommodation.

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Job Details

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

29/01/26