Senior Specialist; Finance Data Analyst

Job Purpose

Responsible for collecting, cleaning, and interpreting complex financial data to generate actionable insights, ensuring regulatory compliance and guiding strategic decision-making. Safeguard the absolute integrity, accuracy, timeliness, high-quality and completeness of financial data used for financial/statutory reporting, tax compliance, and external audits. Leverage deep knowledge of the bank's data architecture to automate financial reporting, manage complex GL mappings, resolve audit findings, and ensure all financial data extraction complies with relevant regulations and standards.

Main Responsibilities

Data Management and Governance

• Clean, filter, and organize raw data to remove errors and ensure accuracy
• Gather data from primary or secondary sources, maintain databases, and ensure data integrity
• Maintain accuracy in financial records and ensure data, such as customer transactions, is properly analyzed
• Strengthen financial data governance practices by ensuring adherence to internal data standards, regulatory requirements, and bank-wide governance frameworks
• Identify data quality gaps and drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance accuracy, completeness, and reliability of financial datasets
• Maintain and enhance Finance data dictionaries, metadata, and documentation for transparency and consistency across the department
• Ensure all data extraction and reporting methodologies comply with Tax laws, IFRS standards, and BOT (Bank of Tanzania) regulatory reporting requirements
• Design and implement controls around End User Computing (EUC) tools (e.g., complex Excel models, SQL queries) used in financial reporting

Employment Details

• Company: NMB Bank
• Location: Head Office, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Industry: Banking, Accounting & Finance, Computer & IT, Business Operations