Graduate: Group Digital Finance at MTN

Mission/ Core purpose of the Job
Responsible to support the Digital Finance team in all the functional administration and support related activities (Legal, Contract Management, Procurement, HR, IT, Facilities and Administration), financial planning forecasting and budgeting activities and functional reporting.

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

• Ensure timely completion of finance activities
• Review first draft of monthly accruals (Opex and Capex), submitted to Group along with supporting documentation.
• General Ledger
• Review General ledger on a monthly basis to ensure completeness and accuracy of cost centres and accounts
• Review reconciliations prepared for General ledger & sub ledgers (AP and significant expense items)
• Prepare financial reporting  including analysis of movements. Submit to SM for final review and approval
• Assist in filing of statutory/external reports
• Contract Management
• Manage and maintain the Contract register, including management of contract database and documentation.
• Perform Root cause analysis for SLA non – compliance and provide recommendations for corrective action.
• Manage the PO creation process and updating of the contract register with new commitments.
• Responsible for obtaining sign off from internal and external parties.
• Reconcile commitments to invoices on a monthly basis.

Financial reporting and accounting

• Maintenance of monthly OpCo reporting
• Variance and ad-hoc analysis of opco’s performance based on various data sources incl. OpCo reports submitted and Hyperion reporting
• Follow up and keep track of non-submissions of monthly reports
• Monthly scoring of OpCos for all elements of OpCo functional scorecard incl. Digital index

Budgeting and forecasting

• Support the development of targets for OpCo’s based on performance and business priorities
• Support on preparation functional budgets based on business needs
• Manage actual spend against budgets/forecasts

Others

• Improve operational efficiency by exploring new ways of working through process improvements
• Assist in periodic internal or external audits, as per instructions of reporting manager
• Monitor and ensure all information and documentation received into the department is fully accounted for.

Job Requirements (Education, Experience and Competencies)
Education:

• Minimum of 4 year tertiary degree (B.Sc. Accounting or a related discipline)
• CIMA or CA advantageous

Experience:

• Minimum of 2 years’ relevant working experience
• Administrative experience
• Experience working in a medium to large organization in a complex, technology-oriented industry advantageous
• MS Office Suite (Excel Advanced)
• MS PowerPoint

Competencies:

Functional Knowledge:

• Financial Acumen
• Business Consulting
• Financial Planning & Analysis
• Business Risk Management
• General Accounting
• Information Management
• Project Planning and Control
• Quality Assurance

Skills

• Business Acumen
• Analytics and Interpretation
• Organizational Agility
• Digital mind-set
• Dealing with ambiguity and complexity
• Financial and Numerical
• Project Management

Behavioural Qualities

• Adaptable
• Complete candour
• Culturally aware
• Innovation
• Integrity
• Team Player