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  • Posted: May 20, 2022
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    MTN Group Limited entered the telecommunications scene at the dawn of South Africa’s democracy, in 1994. In 1998, we began our expansion by acquiring licences in Rwanda, Uganda and Swaziland. Since then, we continued to grow, with a view of bringing world-class telecommunications and digital services to markets across Africa and the Middle East. Throug...
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    General Manager: Group Finance Controls and Innovation

    Mission/ Core purpose of the Job

    The General Manager: Group Finance Controls and Innovation is accountable to lead, manage and sustain a sound and prudent Internal Finance Operations Risk and Control environment across the Group. The role is also accountable to lead the finance digital and innovation strategy with the objective of integrating, improving efficiencies and maximizing value across the finance operations lifecycle. Core responsibilities include:

    • Establish, institute and implement the Group Internal Financial Operations Risk and Control strategy, policy and framework across MTN Group (Businesses and Opcos). Lead and champion adoption across the Group with a well-defined control monitoring framework to ensure its successful implementation
    • Custodian and lead owner for the Group-wide finance operation digital and innovation strategy, in collaboration with other Group Finance verticals the Group IT. Responsible to affect a uniform and integrated finance-tech approach to enable maximize processing efficiencies, data and reporting accuracy, transactional traceability and automation of controls.
    • Responsible for future modernization of the Finance function by steering business model, operating model, finance inn and control environment decisions, in line with leading and emerging industry practices

    The General Manager: Group Finance Controls and Innovation role reports to the Executive: Group Finance Operations and Control and is supported by two operations consultants

    Key Performance Areas: Core, essential responsibilities / outputs of the position (KPA's)

    The General Manager: Group Finance Controls and Innovation leads the Internal Finance Operations Risk and Control environment and the Finance digital and innovation strategy for the Group. As a Departmental lead, the role is responsible integrate, improve efficiencies, strengthen the control environment and maximize value across the finance operations lifecycle. Core responsibilities are broadly defined across the two accountability areas:

    Internal Financial Controls

    • Custodian of the Group Internal Financial Control strategy, governance, framework and operational design across the Finance Operations lifecycle and value chain. The role is responsible for the design, cascade and effective monitoring across Group, businesses and markets.
    • Accountable to design and manage the internal financial control model, environment practices and controls based on a comprehensive risk assessment of operations, processes, policies, governance practice of financial processes. Identify opportunities to improve, enhance and upgrade based on internal and external conditions, audit findings and other inputs.
    • Work closely with the Group Company Secretary to define Group Finance Operational and Transactional DoAs/RAPIDs and provide recommendations for Business/Opco Finance Ops DoAs/RAPIDs
    • Establish, obtain leadership consensus and implement clear governance, reporting and monitoring standards and internal control operational policies for across Group, businesses and markets.
    • Establish the internal control governance framework with clearly defined roles and responsibilities, accountability of Group, Businesses and Opcos for effective implementation and compliance to the control environment. Establish reporting measurements, protocols and governance structures.
    • Proactive strategic evaluations of company strategy, business plans and strategic targets to continuously evolve, enhance ad optimize the financial control environment.
    • Establish and closely with Group business risk management teams to determine the yearly / half-yearly / quarterly control testing schedule based on the prioritized controls and risk exposure in Group and across Opcos
    • Institute and implement financial control dashboards comprising of indicators, KPIs, risk-thresholds and failure-alert mechanisms to enable early risk/control failure identification, course correction and improvements in the control environment.
    • Identify opportunities and drive implementation of advanced risk and control analytics models, automated transactional control activities and intelligent risk/control reporting technologies to enhance quality and efficacy of the control environment.
    • Collaboration with the Group Business Finance, Tax, Treasury, Revenue Assurance & Fraud Management and Supply Chain teams to enable an integrated finance control framework and to identify opportunities for finance value chain control synergies.
    • Serve as the lead financial control sponsor for finance-related Cloud/ERP designs and implementations to ensure desired GRC requirements for finance operations are achieved
    • Responsible to generate and where applicable, present leadership/executive reports, presentations and data, supported with insights and recommendations to enable decision making as it relates to the internal finance control environment.
    • Independently conduct and report on finance operations control-environment reviews in select markets/operations units (sample basis) to assess compliance and quality of control environment
    • Serve as an advisory and SME to Finance stakeholders responsible for maintaining and executing on the internal financial control environment. This includes Group Finance Leads, Regional VP Offices, Opco Finance Leads
    • Accountable for consistent adoption, change management, training and talent skill development in the internal financial controls across businesses and markets

    Finance Digitization and Innovation

    • Custodianship and accountability for the Group Finance Operating Digital and Innovation Strategy and corresponding transformation initiatives. Collaborate and synergize the strategy with other Group Finance value-chain leaders, Opco Finance Teams, ERP/Cloud Transformation teams and Group IT.
    • Lead development of the Group finance digital transformation roadmap, outlining digital journeys, priority programs, investments/ budgets and anticipated return on investment. Seek management consensus and approval to successfully deploy the roadmap.
    • Periodically assess (in conjunction with IT/Financial system specialist teams) ‘as is’ to the target systems landscape, including analysing financial systems, data infrastructures, business processes, interfaces and operational, maintenance

    Job Requirements (Education, Experience and Competencies)

    Education:

    • Minimum of 4 year tertiary degree in Finance/ Commerce/ Accounting (mandatory)
    • Qualified Chartered Accountant/Chartered Finance Analyst/Relevant Financial Management Professional Qualification (preferred)
    • Postgraduate qualification/MBA (Advantageous)
    • Relevant certification / accreditation / membership with professional body in Finance, Internal Controls/Technology & Digitization bodies

    Experience:

    • 5 years senior management experience or more; with at least 3 years in the ICT Industry-Finance domain (understanding emerging markets advantageous)
    • Experience in working and collaborating with multiple teams for cohesive strategy execution and joint-implementation or global solutions and innovative practices
    • Subject Matter Expertise and Leading Practice thought leader in Internal Financial Controls, Digitization and Innovation
    • Process expertise in finance, operating model, shared services finance business process knowledge related to organization structure, accounts payable, accounts receivable, asset accounting, general ledger, chart of accounts, taxation, treasury, etc.
    • Experience working in a global/multinational enterprise in a medium to large enterprise
    • Worked across diverse cultures and geographies

    Functional Competencies:

    • Financial Risk Management
    • Governance and Internal Controls
    • Control Monitoring and Testing
    • Program Management
    • Finance Technology and Digitization
    • RPA /AI / Machine Learning / NLP
    • Advanced data visualization
    • Data Science and Analytics
    • Finance Innovation and agility practices
    • Strong Finance and Accounting background

    Behavioral Competencies:

    • Leading with Care
    • Empathy
    • Accountable
    • Adaptable
    • Agile
    • Communication
    • Culturally aware
    • Gets work done
    • Innovative
    • Inquisitive
    • Collaborative
    • Future focused
    • Technology savvy

    Skills:

    • Decision Making
    • Organizational Agility
    • Digital Mind-set
    • Dealing with ambiguity and complexity
    • Leadership/Entrepreneurial approaches
    • Conflict Management
    • Implementation and Change Management

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to MTN on group.mtn.com to apply

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