Manager - Financial Planning and Reporting.Finance at MTN

Job Description

• To act and deliver Finance Business Partnering responsibilities to Enterprise Business Unit.
• To provide Financial Planning responsibilities (Budget, 2+10, 3+9, 6+6, 9+3, mid month prediction & monthly rolling forecasts) for S&D Business Unit.
• To provide Financial Reporting and Finance Operations, including month end close responsibilities, to the Business Unit.
• To provide Financial Controlling responsibilities, managing P&L and Balance sheet of the Business Unit. To take ownership of back office issues impacting the performance of the Business Unit

Responsibilities

Financial Planning

• Engage the Business Unit and other stakeholders across the business to gather inputs and prepare periodic forecasts (Budget, 2+10, 3+9, 6+6, 9+3, mid month prediction & monthly rolling forecasts) for the Unit
• Work very closely with the business Unit to ensure business ownership of financial plans
• Lead the preparation of business plan incorporating insightful commercial insights working with S&D Leadership
• Build and manage a robust working relationship with MTNSA FP&A as the main point of contact for the dedicated business Unit, providing requisite inputs to FP&A as and when due

Financial Reporting

• Provide monthly and other periodic Financial report for the dedicated business Unit as required by stakeholders from time to time. The scope of the reporting should cover non financial KPIs, revenue, cost of sales, opex and relevant balance sheet items
• Lead the presentation of monthly performance report for the Unit at the Executive review meeting
• Continually engage relevant stakeholders in the dedicated Unit to gather key business insights to explain reported variances to forecasts and gather commercial initiatives required to cover the gaps
• Ensure reporting integrity of both financial and non financial KPIs to manage reporting integrity

Finance Operations 

• Working with MTNSA FINOPS, take end to end responsibility for month end close for the business Unit ensuring robust insights are provided to justify financial operations decision in P&L and balance sheet. This includes making decisions on accruals, provisions and ensuring alignment for any accounting adjustments in income statement and balance sheet
• Take responsibility for review and understanding billing reports ensuring clear alignment and explanation of variances are well understood to manage results integrity
• Work with Revenue Assurance to secure the integrity of reported revenue and billing reports
• Continuously engage MTNSA FINOPS team to carve out optimal stand alone P&L and Balance sheet for the business Unit by recommending requisite changes to Chart of Accounts and driving indepth understanding of the General Ledger to be able to own all line items relating to the dedicated business Unit
• Engage with the CRM delivery (Siyakhula) team on an ongoing basis to manage end to end issues relating to dedicated business Unit
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of the income statement and balance sheet by ensuring all costs relating to revenue for the period under review are completely captured to match revenue with costs
• Work closely with Billing and Collections teams to manage Credit Notes issues relating to the dedicated business UnitFinancial Controlling 
• Manage the income statement and balance sheet of the dedicated business Unit to ensure alignment and adherence to approved business plan,
• Carefully manage variances to plan ensuring governance is enforced to deliver key financial targets for the business Unit (revenue, Gross margin, EBITDA margin, working capital targets and cash flow targets
• Engage with the Billing team and the CRM delivery team to ensure alignment of customer revenue with billing reports and customer contracts
• Own changes to approved business plans (budget transfers/ reallocations, etc) ensuring requisite approvals are in place to drive proper governance
• Drive costs integrity of the business Unit by ensuring the enforcement of the procurement governance, including enforcement of Purchase Orders before the business is committed
• Provide finance business partnering to the business Unit to help deliver customer experience excellence including supports for billing queries and other finance related issues by interfacing with primary task owners

Internal control management – Governance 

• Take responsibility for enforcing all governance issues to maintain planning and reporting integrity
• 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 the business units
• Drive best practice, continuous improvement and innovation at process and procedure level 
• Consider local conditions, as well as competitor activity
• Fine tune systems in line with changing work practices, providing the context for those providing services
• Identify innovative ways to use minimum resources to achieve maximum outputs
• Develop the functionality of the department by improving processes continuously

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
• Assist in the alignment of service delivery to changing needs and ensure effective customer and stakeholder management
• Deploy and redeploy resources to get the work done
• Build and enforce a customer centric approach 
• Encourage and support collaborative teamwork 
• Build professionalism, loyalty and commitment to the organization
• Communicate actively and effectively resolving any potential conflicts that may arise
• Have the self insight and flexibility to adapt to different situations
• Manage boundaries that separate Unit in order to optimise workflow
• Living the MTN Brand – changing and influence employees behaviour 

Qualifications

Education:                                                                           

• Min of a three year degree e.g. B Comm. or Business qualification or equivalent
• Chartered Accountancy (CA) qualification

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in financial planning and reporting gathered from medium to large organization 
• At least 2 years experience in a similar position, in dynamic and fast-moving industries. Telecoms experience an advantage
• Advanced knowledge of Excel and powerpoint
• Financial systems skills – Oracle, Hyperion, ERP, etc
• Presentation and interpersonal skills

Apply Before 08/12/2025