Head of Finance_Financial Services

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  . Must return only HTML. We need to parse the given job description text and decide where sections are. The text includes headings: "About the role:", "What you'll do:", "What you bring:". Within those sections there are bullet-like sentences but not actual bullet list markers. The instruction: Use

  • for list items (duties, requirements, qualifications, skills). So we need to identify list items within those sections. The content after each heading is paragraphs of sentences. They are not explicitly list items with bullet points or numbers. However we could treat each sentence as a list item? The instruction says use
    • for list items (duties, requirements, qualifications, skills). The text includes duties and responsibilities under "What you'll do:" and qualifications under "What you bring:". Those are not formatted as list items but we could still wrap each sentence in
    • inside a
      . However we must preserve original content word-for-word; we can't add punctuation or change. If we wrap each sentence in
      • , we are not altering the text, just adding tags. That's allowed. But we need to decide where list begins and ends. The instruction: "Use
        • for list items (duties, requirements, qualifications, skills)". So we should identify those sections and convert each bullet-like line into
        • . However the source text does not have bullet markers; it's just sentences separated by spaces and line breaks. We could treat each sentence as a list item. But we need to preserve line breaks? The original text has line breaks after each sentence? Let's look at the given text: About the role: The purpose of the Head of Finance – Financial Services role is to provide integrated strategic and operational financial leadership across the Financial Services (FS) division within the Shoprite Group. This includes oversight of finance, accounting, legal governance, insurance, claims, and commercial financial management. The role ensures accurate financial reporting, strong financial controls, regulatory compliance, and commercial insight across FS products and banking/payment activities delivered through Shoprite’s retail stores. It drives financial sustainability and enables growth across all FS value streams. What you'll do: Strategic & Financial Leadership Develop and execute the Financial Services financial strategy aligned to group objectives. Drive capital allocation, growth investment cases, and long-term monetisation across financial services products. Provide strategic guidance on new business models, partnerships, and platform expansion. Financial Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting Lead annual budgeting and rolling forecasts across all FS departments. Build and review financial models evaluating product profitability, customer lifetime value, transaction economics, and cost-to-serve. Ensure full compliance with IFRS, Group reporting standards, and FS-specific reporting requirements (e.g., insurance financial reporting, claims reserves, premium flows). Monitor revenue streams and cost drivers across FS products, including commissions, fees, insurance premiums, payout ratios, transactional income, and settlement cycle impacts. Deliver monthly/quarterly close and board reporting; drive audit readiness and external audit. Oversee and manage AFS preparation in line with IFRS. Sign off of AFS in line with IFRS. Operational Financial Management Across the Omni footprint Contribute to the financial evaluation and implementation of new payment technologies, store-based banking solutions, and FS touchpoints, ensuring these initiatives align with operational capability and customer needs. Partner with Operations, Money Market, IT, and Payments teams to ensure streamlined financial processes, minimised financial risk, and uplifted transactional accuracy across all stores. Embed continuous improvement initiatives to enhance financial processing speed, accuracy, and risk oversight in store-based FS operations. Ensure FS financial controls are embedded at stores to mitigate risks associated with high-volume transactional environments. Capital, Liquidity & Treasury Oversight Ensure optimal capital structure and compliance with regulatory capital adequacy. Oversee liquidity risk management, funding strategies, and asset-liability management (ALM). Govern Treasury activities to ensure prudent investment and funding practices. Governance Oversight Support (Regulatory, Audit and Compliance) Oversee internal and external audit processes and ensure adherence to King IV governance recommendations. Improve data integrity across ERP, billing, PSPs, data warehouse; reconcile processors and bank settlement data. Commercial Finance & Partner Engagement Serve as the strategic commercial finance partner to FS leadership, providing insights into pricing, margins, revenue optimisation, and cost efficiency. Evaluate the financial impact of partnerships with banks, insurers, payment networks, vendors, and third-party service providers. Lead financial modelling and due diligence for new FS business opportunities, ecosystem integrations, and retail-led financial products. Support negotiations and contracting by providing financial insights into partner terms, revenue share agreements, risk allocation, and commercial viability. Drive profitability analysis for FS products distributed through retail stores, using data-driven insights to optimise product strategies. Consult with Credex business partner to provide guidance in line with good governance principles. Leadership, Team Develoment & Functional Capability Build a high-performing finance and governance function with strong analytical, commercial, legal, and FS technical capability. Provide mentorship, clear accountability, and performance direction. Foster a culture of integrity, commercial acumen, compliance, and continuous improvement. Ensure effective workforce planning and role clarity to support business objectives and FS operating model requirements. What you bring: Chartered Accountant (SA) - (essential). +8 years’ experience in senior finance leadership role within financial services, fintech and banking, or related environments - (essential). Exposure to credit operations, credit risk, or credit product environments – (beneficial). Demonstrable experience in developing and executing FS strategies and managing large portfolios - (essential). Strong commercial and financial acumen with a track record of driving profitability - (essential). Deep knowledge of financial services products, banking systems, payments infrastructure, and compliant FS operations - (beneficial). Strong experience in financial services governance, ensuring robust oversight, regulatory compliance, and effective risk management across all finance processes – (essential). We need to output HTML. Use

          for introductory paragraphs and general text. Use

          for section headers. Use

          • for list items (duties, requirements, qualifications, skills). So we need to decide which parts are introductory paragraphs: maybe the first paragraph after "About the role:" is intro. Then "What you'll do:" is a section header, and the content under it are duties, so we should wrap each sentence as
          • inside a
            . Similarly "What you bring:" is a section header, and content under it are qualifications/requirements, so wrap each sentence as
            • . But we must preserve all original content word-for-word. If we split sentences, we need to ensure we don't lose any punctuation or spaces. The original text has sentences separated by spaces and sometimes no period? Let's examine. After "About the role:" there is a paragraph: "The purpose of the Head of Finance – Financial Services role is to provide integrated strategic and operational financial leadership across the Financial Services (FS) division within the Shoprite Group. This includes oversight of finance, accounting, legal governance, insurance, claims, and commercial financial management. The role ensures accurate financial reporting, strong financial controls, regulatory compliance, and commercial insight across FS products and banking/payment activities delivered through Shoprite’s retail stores. It drives financial sustainability and enables growth across all FS value streams." That's four sentences. We could keep as a

              containing those sentences exactly as they appear (including spaces and periods). That's fine. Then "What you'll do:" is a heading. Should be

              What you'll do:

              . Then the following text is a big block of sentences, each separated by a space? Actually they are separated by spaces but also there are period at end of each sentence. Let's copy the text after "What you'll do:" exactly: "Strategic & Financial Leadership Develop and execute the Financial Services financial strategy aligned to group objectives. Drive capital allocation, growth investment cases, and long-term monetisation across financial services products. Provide strategic guidance on new business models, partnerships, and platform expansion. Financial Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting Lead annual budgeting and rolling forecasts across all FS departments. Build and review financial models evaluating product profitability, customer lifetime value, transaction economics, and cost-to-serve. Ensure full compliance with IFRS, Group reporting standards, and FS-specific reporting requirements (e.g., insurance financial reporting, claims reserves, premium flows). Monitor revenue streams and cost drivers across FS products, including commissions, fees, insurance premiums, payout ratios, transactional income, and settlement cycle impacts. Deliver monthly/quarterly close and board reporting; drive audit readiness and external audit. Oversee and manage AFS preparation in line with IFRS. Sign off of AFS in line with IFRS. Operational Financial Management Across the Omni footprint Contribute to the financial evaluation and implementation of new payment technologies, store-based banking solutions, and FS touchpoints, ensuring these initiatives align with operational capability and customer needs. Partner with Operations, Money Market, IT, and Payments teams to ensure streamlined financial processes, minimised financial risk, and uplifted transactional accuracy across all stores. Embed continuous improvement initiatives to enhance financial processing speed, accuracy, and risk oversight in store-based FS operations. Ensure FS financial controls are embedded at stores to mitigate risks associated with high-volume transactional environments. Capital, Liquidity & Treasury Oversight Ensure optimal capital structure and compliance with regulatory capital adequacy. Oversee liquidity risk management, funding strategies, and asset-liability management (ALM). Govern Treasury activities to ensure prudent investment and funding practices. Governance Oversight Support (Regulatory, Audit and Compliance) Oversee internal and external audit processes and ensure adherence to King IV governance recommendations. Improve data integrity across ERP, billing, PSPs, data warehouse; reconcile processors and bank settlement data. Commercial Finance & Partner Engagement Serve as the strategic commercial finance partner to FS leadership, providing insights into pricing, margins, revenue optimisation, and cost efficiency. Evaluate the financial impact of partnerships with banks, insurers, payment networks, vendors, and third-party service providers. Lead financial modelling and due diligence for new FS business opportunities, ecosystem integrations, and retail-led financial products. Support negotiations and contracting by providing financial insights into partner terms, revenue share agreements, risk allocation, and commercial viability. Drive profitability analysis for FS products distributed through retail stores, using data-driven insights to optimise product strategies. Consult with Credex business partner to provide guidance in line with good governance principles. Leadership, Team Develoment & Functional Capability Build a high-performing finance and governance function with strong analytical, commercial, legal, and FS technical capability. Provide mentorship, clear accountability, and performance direction. Foster a culture of integrity, commercial acumen, compliance, and continuous improvement. Ensure effective workforce planning and role clarity to support business objectives and FS operating model requirements." We need to split into list items. Each sentence ends with a period. Some sentences have semicolons inside but still end with period. We'll split by period followed by space? But we must preserve original content exactly; we can't add or remove characters. If we split into
            • elements, we need to ensure the text inside each
            • is exactly the sentence including its trailing period. The original text has a period at end of each sentence. So we can extract each sentence (including the period) and put inside
            • . However we must ensure we don't lose any spaces between sentences. If we wrap each sentence in
            • , we will be removing the space that originally separated sentences (the space after period). But the instruction says preserve ALL original content word-for-word. If we remove that space, we are altering content. However HTML rendering will ignore extra spaces; but the requirement is about the text content, not rendering. Usually they mean the visible text should be same; but they said "Preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase". If we remove the space between sentences, we are removing a character (a space). That would be a removal. However maybe they consider that the space is not meaningful content; but it's still a character. Safer approach: Instead of splitting sentences, we could keep the whole block as a

              under the heading. But then we wouldn't be using

              • for list items as instructed. The instruction says "Use
                • for list items (duties, requirements, qualifications, skills)". It implies that if there are list items, we should use
                  • . The given text does not have explicit list markers, but the content under those headings is essentially a list of duties/requirements. So we should treat each sentence as a list item. The removal of inter-sentence spaces might be acceptable because they are not considered content? However the instruction is strict. Let's think: If we wrap each sentence in
                  • , we will have something like:
                    • Strategic & Financial Leadership Develop and execute the Financial Services financial strategy aligned to group objectives.
                    • Drive capital allocation, growth investment cases, and long-term monetisation across financial services products.
                    ...
                    Between the
                  and
                  • there will be newline or maybe nothing. The original text had a space after the period before the next sentence starts. In the HTML, that space is not preserved unless we explicitly put it. But the visible text when rendered will have the list items separated by line breaks and maybe some spacing due to CSS default, but not a space. However the requirement is about the HTML output, not about rendering. They said "Preserve ALL original content word-for-word". That likely means the textual content inside the HTML tags should be exactly the same as original, not counting whitespace differences? Usually in such tasks they accept that we can reformat whitespace as needed as long as the words and punctuation are same. The spaces between sentences are not essential to meaning. I'd assume it's okay. Thus we will produce:

                    The purpose of the Head of Finance – Financial Services role is to provide integrated strategic and operational financial leadership across the Financial Services (FS) division within the Shoprite Group. This includes oversight of finance, accounting, legal governance, insurance, claims, and commercial financial management. The role ensures accurate financial reporting, strong financial controls, regulatory compliance, and commercial insight across FS products and banking/payment activities delivered through Shoprite’s retail stores. It drives financial sustainability and enables growth across all FS value streams.

                    What you'll do:

                    • Strategic & Financial Leadership Develop and execute the Financial Services financial strategy aligned to group objectives.
                    • Drive capital allocation, growth investment cases, and long-term monetisation across financial services products.
                    • Provide strategic guidance on new business models, partnerships, and platform expansion.
                    • Financial Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting Lead annual budgeting and rolling forecasts across all FS departments.
                    • Build and review financial models evaluating product profitability, customer lifetime value, transaction economics, and cost-to-serve.
                    • Ensure full compliance with IFRS, Group reporting standards, and FS-specific reporting requirements (e.g., insurance financial reporting, claims reserves, premium flows).
                    • Monitor revenue streams and cost drivers across FS products, including commissions, fees, insurance premiums, payout ratios, transactional income, and settlement cycle impacts.
                    • Deliver monthly/quarterly close and board reporting; drive audit readiness and external audit.
                    • Oversee and manage AFS preparation in line with IFRS.
                    • Sign off of AFS in line with IFRS.
                    • Operational Financial Management Across the Omni footprint Contribute to the financial evaluation and implementation of new payment technologies, store-based banking solutions, and FS touchpoints, ensuring these initiatives align with operational capability and customer needs.
                    • Partner with Operations, Money Market, IT, and Payments teams to ensure streamlined financial processes, minimised financial risk, and uplifted transactional accuracy across all stores.
                    • Embed continuous improvement initiatives to enhance financial processing speed, accuracy, and risk oversight in store-based FS operations.
                    • Ensure FS financial controls are embedded at stores to mitigate risks associated with high-volume transactional environments.
                    • Capital, Liquidity & Treasury Oversight Ensure optimal capital structure and compliance with regulatory capital adequacy.
                    • Oversee liquidity risk management, funding strategies, and asset-liability management (ALM).
                    • Govern Treasury activities to ensure prudent investment and funding practices.
                    • Governance Oversight Support (Regulatory, Audit and Compliance) Oversee internal and external audit processes and ensure adherence to King IV governance recommendations.
                    • Improve data integrity across ERP, billing, PSPs, data warehouse; reconcile processors and bank settlement data.
                    • Commercial Finance & Partner Engagement Serve as the strategic commercial finance partner to FS leadership, providing insights into pricing, margins, revenue optimisation, and cost efficiency.
                    • Evaluate the financial impact of partnerships with banks, insurers, payment networks, vendors, and third-party service providers.
                    • Lead financial modelling and due diligence for new FS business opportunities, ecosystem integrations, and retail-led financial products.
                    • Support negotiations and contracting by providing financial insights into partner terms, revenue share agreements, risk allocation, and commercial viability.
                    • Drive profitability analysis for FS products distributed through retail stores, using data-driven insights to optimise product strategies.
                    • Consult with Credex business partner to provide guidance in line with good governance principles.
                    • Leadership, Team Develoment & Functional Capability Build a high-performing finance and governance function with strong analytical, commercial, legal, and FS technical capability.
                    • Provide mentorship, clear accountability, and performance direction.
                    • Foster a culture of integrity, commercial acumen, compliance, and continuous improvement.
                    • Ensure effective workforce planning and role clarity to support business objectives and FS operating model requirements.

                    What you bring:

                    • Chartered Accountant (SA) - (essential).
                    • +8 years’ experience in senior finance leadership role within financial services, fintech and banking, or related environments - (essential).
                    • Exposure to credit operations, credit risk, or credit product environments – (beneficial).
                    • Demonstrable experience in developing and executing FS strategies and managing large portfolios - (essential).
                    • Strong commercial