Treasury Controller

Job Description

• To implement sound financial management, reporting, and control of DBSA's treasury assets and liabilities portfolio by maintaining strong governance, compliance, and operational efficiency. The role executes treasury accounting processes, financial reporting, regulatory submissions, and system integrity by providing accurate insights to support strategic decisionmaking and adherence to IFRS, PFMA, and other applicable standards.

Key Responsibilities Financial Management

• Monitor and maintain the treasury asset and liability portfolio, ensuring accurate financial control and compliance with internal policies, regulatory, and tax requirements.
• Apply financial policies, procedures, and controls consistently to safeguard assets and support treasury operations.
• Support forecasting, budgeting, and scenario planning to provide insights for corporate and divisional financial strategies.
• Effect accurate processing and monitoring of payments, maintain strong internal controls, and mitigate fraud risk.
• Assist in the preparation of financial reports, audits, regulatory submissions, and contribute to continuous improvement in financial control, working capital, and risk management practices.

Management Reporting and Systems

• Prepare and review management, financial, and statistical reports for executive decision-making.
• Support the development of budgets and financial forecasts for DBSA's operations and investments.
• Contribute to the enhancement and alignment of financial systems SAP FICO, Quantum with business and reporting needs.
• Drive continuous improvement of management information systems and reporting capabilities.
• Collaborate with finance teams to ensure timely and accurate management reporting.
• Participate in ad hoc financial projects, task groups, and committees.

Treasury Operations

• Draft accurate and compliant in month-end, interim, and year-end financial statements and reports.
• Prepare and review journal entries and ensure the accuracy and integrity of financial data.
• Review treasury deal activities, payments, and interest rate resets.
• Maintain oversight of settlement processes and segregation of duties.
• Monitor access logs and system activities to strengthen internal controls.
• Manage the independent review of system logs and where changes are made to deals, there are supporting documents which would have followed through the governance processes as part of internal control monitoring.
• Prepare hedge accounting documentation and reconciliations.
• Coordinate internal and external audits and track findings to resolution.
• Identify and mitigate risks, ensuring controls are implemented effectively.
• Lead process improvements to enhance efficiency and cost savings.
• Conduct analytical reviews to ensure data integrity in balance sheet and income statement items.
• Draft accurate and compliant financial statements and reports, prepare and review journal entries, and ensure the integrity of treasury data.
• Review treasury deal activities, payments, interest rate resets, and maintain oversight of settlement processes and segregation of duties.
• Monitor system access logs, document governance changes, and maintain strong internal controls, including hedge accounting reconciliations.
• Coordinate internal and external audits, track findings to resolution, and identify and mitigate operational and financial risks.
• Lead process improvements, conduct analytical reviews, and enhance efficiency, cost savings, and data integrity across balance sheet and income statement items.

Stakeholder Management and Finance Partnerships

• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal teams and external stakeholders, including National Treasury, rating agencies, investors, and funders, to support strategic and operational objectives.
• Prepare and provide inputs for covenant reporting, SENS announcements, investor communications, and regulatory submissions, ensuring compliance with JSE Debt Listing and other requirements.
• Collaborate with Treasury and Debt Sponsor teams, providing guidance and support to colleagues to strengthen financial operations, decision-making, and investor relations activities.

Reporting and Analytics

• Provide comprehensive analytics and high-quality reporting that support strategic decision-making and drive organisational improvement.
• Analyse complex data and deliver accurate, stakeholder-focused reports with clear, actionable insights and visualisations.
• Identify trends, anomalies, and key insights that influence strategic planning and operational adjustments.
• Produce accurate, insightful reports and continuously monitor key metrics to assess progress against objectives.
• Analyse data to identify trends, inform strategic decisions, and provide stakeholders with clear, actionable information that supports ongoing performance improvement and accountability.

Key Measurement of Output

• Accurate, complete, and timely preparation of quarterly, annual, and management financial reports, fully compliant with IFRS, PFMA, and JSE Debt Listing Requirements.
• Accuracy and reliability of Treasury budgets, forecasts, and scenario models, including income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow projections.
• Delivery of high-quality analytics, insights, and presentations to Executive Committees.
• Effectively implement processes with detailed procedural manuals as well as policies and documentation of business processes, which should be reviewed and updated quarterly.
• Management of Client Relationships and key internal and external Stakeholders.

Expertise & Technical Competencies Financial Analysis

• Interprets, analyses and/or evaluates compliance with applicable legislation, sound regulatory practices and procedures, generally accepted accounting principles, and other such rules and regulations.
• Analyses or interprets financial records and develops program procedures, financial models, and databases.
• Demonstrates thorough knowledge and understanding of applicable regulations, rules, entity/company practices, concepts, and industry issues.
• Demonstrates thorough knowledge or experience working with legal and regulatory issues in their subject area.
• Develops and maintains effective working relationships with regulated industries, government officials, administrators, and civic leaders.
• Demonstrates strong understanding of accounting standards and IFRS standards.

Business Acumen

• Understanding of DBSA mandate and economic priorities of South Africa and Africa, and how they can be implemented to meet the organisation's strategic objectives. Takes actions to fit business strategy and assesses and links short-term tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or perspectives.
• Anticipates possible responses to different initiatives and understands the projected direction of the industry and how changes might impact the organisation.
• Actively develop short and long-term strategies and think and plan in future-oriented terms.
• Uses methodical problem-solving approach as foundation for effective decision making, considering importance, urgency & risk and can obtain essential information, focus on key objectives and be able to recognise options available for solving strategic and operational problems.
• Be able to select the right approach to overcome those obstacles and be able to set in motion the plan that gets things done.
• Focus, understanding consequences and affinity for problem solving and making sound decisions by combining a lot of factors whilst balancing the various stakeholder needs and building relationships by doing the right thing.
• Prepares annual business plans that consider longer-term activities, issues, problems, or opportunities.
• Develops and establishes broad-scale, longer-term objectives, goals, or projects e.g., affectinga business, department, or organisation.

Strategic Planning

• Ability to analyse business trends, implications