Analyst - Financial Forecast Planning.Finance at MTN

Operational Planning

• Assist with translation of all business rules into system updates requirements to ensure strong adherence to business rules
• Assist with the integration of financial systems
• Consider the impact of solutions on other areas of the business, as well as the interdependency of units
• Drive best practice, continuous improvement and innovation at process and procedure level within the Financial Planning and systems unit

Business Planning

• Prepare MTN’s 3-year Business Plan and building the Business Plan in Budget Software in that the Business Plan becomes automated and ensuring that Business Plan calculations is accurate and realistic.
• Compile MTN’s Business Plan PowerPoint presentation to internal and external Board and calculate all the financial ratios to be able to evaluate if the company are going in the right direction.
• Ensure final budget pack relating to each department is sent to all departments and EXCO members by the end of the Financial Year.
• Monitoring approved budget allocations, revenue, and expenditure and prepare periodic reports and recommendations for budget adjustments as required.
• Preparation off correct and accurate financial ratios.

Budgeting and Forecasting Process

• Assist with ensuring budgets for all departments are assessed to ensure feasibility. Base annual budgets on the identification of trends and patterns within the current operations and extrapolate these over the next planning cycle, taking any known changes in new products or services into consideration
• Preparation of quarterly forecasts. Consider actuals for the past quarter and project these forward, ensuring alignment to the original budget objectives, and assessing what has transpired. Identify exceptions and take corrective action where necessary
• Ensure that budgets and forecasts are prepared in line with accounting and MTN group standards.
• Ensure quality standards on all analyses performed to explain deviations
• Ad-hoc analysis requested to Financial Planning unit are delivered with the required quality standards
• Prepare inputs and outputs from reports in respect of Income statement and balance sheet items for budgets and forecasts.
• Coordinate, analyse and present accurate and timely information from different functional units to management for budgets.
• Assist with daily operations related to budgetary control.

Information Management

• Assist in incorporating sub projects into the Business Plan – scenario running.
• Assist in incorporating other systems such as Hyperion, Oracle, EDW, review that the data is accurate and correct.
• Ensuring that the formulas used in Budget and planning software are accurate and correct.

Customer Satisfaction

• Build, develop and maintain customer relationships and fine tune systems accordingly
• Manage and ensure the resolution of escalated queries
• Provide advice on the best approach to reach the best results, taking local conditions, best practice and competitor activity into account
• Ensure customer needs and requirements (internal) are satisfied through appropriate systems / processes / procedures, and by sourcing the most optimal solution to finance-related problems identified
• Consider the implications of actions (long and short-term) to be taken for the customer / the effect of actions on the customer
• Drive continuous improvement as an important element of service delivery
• Identify trends / patterns pertaining to customer queries (internal) and needs to continually improve

Supervisory / Leadership Complexity:  Adopt a customer centric approach

• Build employee relations and collaborative teamwork
• Communicate actively and effectively resolving any potential conflicts that may arise
• Have the self-insight and flexibility to adapt to different situations

Minimum Requirements  -

Education:

• (BCom – Account / Financial Management/ the equivalent thereof)

Global Experience Standards (5)

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in accounting or finance
• Experience working in a medium to large organization