Responsibilities
- The Manager Group Portfolio Management role is responsible for maintaining, monitoring and recommending appropriate actions to ensure a balanced risk and return capital portfolio.
Key responsibilities include:
Capital Portfolio Strategy and Planning
- Assist in the development and execution of the Group Capital Portfolio Strategy, ensuring alignment with the capital strategy, business plan, and long-term financial objectives.
- Support forecasting, budgeting, and capital planning activities through proactive portfolio analysis and scenario modelling.
- Provide recommendations on capital portfolio adjustments and reallocations based on internal performance indicators and external market developments.
- Support the achievement of an optimal balance between growth investments, business sustainability initiatives, and new business ventures.
Capital Portfolio Governance and Frameworks
- Support the development and implementation of standardised capital portfolio management frameworks, methodologies, and decision-making models.
- Assist in establishing capital portfolio principles, policies, guidelines, and governance mechanisms to drive consistency across the Group.
- Contribute to the definition of investment allocation principles, returns expectations, expenditure thresholds, and portfolio performance measures.
- Ensure adherence to approved capital management frameworks and governance requirements.
Capital Portfolio Monitoring, Reporting and Performance Management
- Support the implementation of standardised portfolio monitoring, reporting, and analytics methodologies across the Group.
- Monitor and evaluate consolidated capital portfolios across OpCos, regions, and business units to ensure optimal capital allocation and portfolio performance.
- Produce periodic portfolio reports and management insights for Capital Management Committees and key stakeholders.
- Track and report on portfolio performance indicators, cost-return metrics, investment outcomes, and capital utilisation trends.
- Monitor portfolios of Capex and investment initiatives and identify trade-offs and optimisation opportunities.
Portfolio Analytics and Decision Support
- Develop analytical insights and recommendations that support fact-based, strategic capital management decisions.
- Evaluate capital portfolio segments, business units, and investment tiers against defined performance thresholds and strategic priorities.
- Analyse the quality of returns, cash flow variability, investment risk profile, and payback periods across portfolio investments.
- Provide commentary, insights, and recommendations to improve capital leverage and maximise consolidated returns.
- Define and monitor measurable portfolio performance metrics linked to strategic objectives.
Capital Allocation and Investment Evaluation
- Support the evaluation of strategic investment proposals within the context of the overall capital portfolio.
- Assess investment opportunities against portfolio objectives, return requirements, risk parameters, and capital constraints.
- Provide insights to Capital Management Committees to support balanced and strategically aligned capital allocation decisions.
- Assist in identifying high-performing and underperforming investments requiring intervention or reallocation.
Continuous Improvement
- Conduct internal and external benchmarking across regions, OpCos, competitors, and industry peers to identify leading capital management practices.
- Perform research and analytical studies on capital allocation, portfolio performance, asset utilisation, and investment effectiveness.
- Monitor key benchmarking indicators including Capex-to-Revenue, Capex-to-EBITDA, and Capex-to-FTE ratios.
- Lead post-investment and post-implementation reviews to identify lessons learned and improve future capital allocation decisions.
- Recommend process, methodology, and governance enhancements to strengthen portfolio management capabilities.
Data Management, Systems and Reporting Infrastructure
- Support the establishment of integrated capital portfolio data models, reporting structures, and workflow processes.
- Promote a "single source of truth" approach through improved data centralisation, consolidation, and analytics capabilities.
- Enhance the efficiency, quality, transparency, and timeliness of portfolio decision-making through effective systems and controls.
- Ensure the availability of reliable and actionable portfolio information to support strategic decision-making.
Risk Management and Early Warning Oversight
- Identify, monitor, and report high-risk capital portfolios and investments across the Group.
- Provide early warning indicators relating to underperforming investments, changing assumptions, emerging risks, and market developments.
- Monitor leading and lagging performance indicators to enable proactive intervention and corrective action.
- Ensure risk considerations are integrated into portfolio reviews, investment evaluations, and capital allocation recommendations.
Stakeholder Management and Collaboration
- Collaborate closely with Capital Management, Regional Finance, Treasury, FP&A, Finance Business Partners, and OpCo stakeholders to understand business priorities and portfolio requirements.
- Facilitate knowledge sharing and the adoption of best practices in capital portfolio management across the Group.
- Support Capital Management Committees through the provision of high-quality analyses, insights, and recommendations.
- Foster effective stakeholder engagement and cross-functional collaboration to drive portfolio optimisation.
Operational Excellence and Compliance
- Support audit activities and ensure the timely closure of audit findings related to capital management processes and controls.
- Participate in finance transformation and continuous improvement initiatives aimed at streamlining processes, systems, and reporting.
- Maintain effective communication channels within the team and support change management initiatives where required.
- Promote a strong MTN-centric culture of partnership, accountability, collaboration, and operational excellence.
- Prepare and submit monthly and periodic reports in line with organisational reporting requirements and performance metrics.
Key Deliverables
- Consolidated capital portfolio monitoring and performance reporting
- Portfolio analytics, scenario modelling, and decision-support insights
- Capital Committee reporting packs and management insights
- Benchmarking studies and portfolio optimisation recommendations.
Role Dependencies
- Understanding of MTN business strategy
- Understanding of investment and capital directives
- Active support from Capital Management team
Qualifications
Education:
- Minimum of 3-year tertiary degree
- Qualified Chartered Accountant/Chartered Finance Analyst/Relevant Financial Management Professional Qualification (preferred)
- Relevant certification / accreditation / membership with professional body in Finance, Accounting, Corporate Finance bodies
Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in management of Business Finance Operations/Capital performance management/Capex or Investment Valuations.
- Worked across diverse cultures and geographies advantageous.
- Experience working in a small to medium organization
- Proven success in delivery of high-quality analytics.
- Experience in working with various stakeholders.
- Experience in working under pressure and delivering under tight deadlines.
Capabilities:
- Conceptual Thinker, Problem Solver, Improvement Driver
- Culture and Change Champion, Supportive People Manager, Relationship Manager
- Results Achieve, Operationally Astute
Functional Competencies:
- Capital Management and Allocation
- ICT Business Unit Operations
- Business benefit/Returns modelling
- Cost Modeling, NPV Assessment
- Capital Spend Management and Value Tracking
- Corporate Performance Management
- Financial Planning, Forecasting and Reporting
- Investment/Deal Evaluation and Analytics
- Governance and Internal Controls
Behavioural Competencies:
- Accountable
- Adaptable
- Agile
- Communication
- Culturally aware
- Innovative
Skills:
- Organizational Agility
- Digital Mind-set
- Dealing with ambiguity and Complexity
- Entrepreneurial Approaches
- Conflict Management
- Negotiation Skills
- Collaboration and Team Dynamics
- Intellectual Curiosity
Apply Before 10/27/2026, 10:00 PM
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