Manager - Finance Decision Support.Finance at MTN

Job Description

• To provide insightful analysis, financial modelling and business cases for enterprise business decisions thus enabling insightful business decision making.

Responsibilities

Financial Modelling

• Develop standardised financial modelling templates for different use cases to support insightful business decision making
• Understand cost and revenue drivers for all existing and new products to enable relevant input gathering for business cases
• Take responsibility for making recommendation submission having considered both financial and non-financial impacts of decision consequences
• Responsibility for maintaining financial model integrity by carrying out periodic testing of the models. 

Support Bid Management Office and Pricing Team on financial analysis

• Review and understand the framework of markup put together by the Pricing Team to be included for the objective of determining product pricing
• Oversight on all financial inputs and outputs relating to bid management 
• Sign off all new pricing models for complex and standard deals

Capital Budgeting/ Discounted Cashflow Techniques (DCF)

• Build capital budgeting models for all investments with an objective to establish if IRR, NPV’s & Profitability returns are viable
• Monthly report which tracks actual returns compared to original business case model – post evaluation review
• Analyse Price sensitivity & elasticity and impact on IRR and profitability

Commercial Efficiencies

• Understand product profitability with objective to establish which products are profitable and which dilute margin. The objective is to Identify which product input costs don’t have a linear relationship with revenue and therefore dilute margins
• Establish areas requiring efficiencies at MTN Business and execute on plans to realise financial benefit

Internal control management – Governance 

• Take responsibility for enforcing key governance issues
• Ensure all relevant open audit issues are resolved within deadlines

Operational Planning

• Consider the long-term implications of actions from a broad perspective including long term positioning 
• 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 Consider local conditions, as well as competitor activity
• Construct, implement and fine-tune methods, processes and systems to enhance effectiveness and meet organisational goals in terms of pricing
• Fine tune systems in line with changing work practices, providing the context for those providing services
• Evaluate competitor activity and influence on product pricing and pricing plans and put contingency plans in place
• Identify innovative ways to use minimum resources to achieve maximum outputs
• Develop the functionality of the department by improving processes continuously
• Perform the assessment, analysis and reporting on competitive activity and strategy

Customer Satisfaction

• Ensure service delivery in line with needs of the business
• Put contingency plans in place to prevent delays and enhance the customer experience 
• Identify trends and patterns pertaining to customer requests and ensure continuous improvement as an important element of service delivery
• Provide support to the Pricing team to continually improve all aspects of pricing
• Assist in the alignment of service delivery to changing needs and ensure effective customer and stakeholder management

Reporting

• Input on reports on results for the area to the business and to key stakeholders, 

Qualifications

Education:                                                                           

• Min of a three-year degree or diploma e.g., B Comm. or Business qualification or equivalent
• Chartered Accountancy experience will be an added advantage

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in financial modelling and business case analysis. Experience in working in a medium to large organization 
• At least 2 years’ experience in a similar position, in dynamic and fast-moving industries
• Advanced knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of VBA/ Macros desirable
• Financial knowledge essential

Apply Before 08/15/2025