Open Positions at MTN

Responsibilities

Staff Leadership and Management

• Able  to work in a team
• Responsible for self-learning and development with guidance from Manager
• Ensure an ‘MTN centric’ and a partnership approach to develop strong
• Relationships with other working groups
• Ensure effective communication across the SSH and working groups on an on-going basis

Governance

• Participate and provide inputs in adhoc meetings
• Execute day-to-day operations
• SSH Operational
• Resolve operational issues
• Escalate issues and requests as required

General Reconciliations

• Perform reconciliation for general ledger accounts for Opcos and SSH
• Follow up on reconciling items, while limiting the requirements to process manual journals
• Drive the service level agreements for the resolution of outstanding items on reconciliations
• Track and manage the processes around performance of reconciliation and ensure all reconciliations are performed within the required month end schedules
• Perform month end reconciliations and operational reporting such as vendor balance reconciliation and AP sub-ledger review

Reconciliation  Administration

• Receive local and foreign supplier statements into SSH
• Based on a monthly selection of suppliers, use sub-ledger reports to reconcile the accounting system to the closing balance on the supplier’s statement and provide valid reasons for reconciling items
• Ensure that a current/provisional statement or open item listing, is received on time in order to accrue for invoices that have not yet been received and reconcile to the Accounts Payable Trial Balance (APTB) before the next payment due date
• Initiate queries on long outstanding reconciling items and escalate. .
• Do housekeeping on APTB and resolve all items that do not appear on the supplier statement
• Ensure adherence to departmental cut-off dates, in support of General Ledger month end deadlines
• Monitor supplier reconciliations to ensure the status and escalation on outstanding invoice queries are resolved.

Review and Audit Management

• Help with the generation of reporting files to be presented to the Opcos/SSH for review
• Manage the queries and request resulting out of the review processes and provide the information that is requested by the business
• Help with the preparation of audit and tax schedules for the Opcos
• Obtain and collate audit evidence that is required from both internal and external auditors

Qualifications

Education

• Diploma in Commerce and/or equivalent

Experience

• 1-2 years relevant experience
• Accounts payable
• Administration
• Customer management

Competencies

• International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
• An understanding of Accounts Payable processes
• An understanding of General Ledger reconciliations
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System (Oracle)
• MS Office (Word, Excel, and Outlook)
• Experience in a Shared Services Hub (SSH) / Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)

Skills

• Administration
• Analytical
• Communication
• Continuous improvement
• Customer service
• Data interpretation
• Detail
• Judgment
• Operational coordination
• Presentation
• Reporting
• Accountable

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Job Description
Mission/ Core purpose of the Job

• Manage the MFS reporting and accounting requirements in collaboration with the MFS team and the broader MTN SA stakeholders. 
• Manage the MFS expenditure budget including tracking of expenses, facilitation of payments, management of budget transfers and preparation of monthly financial reports
• Give inputs into and facilitate the business planning process for MTN SA.

Responsibilities

• Context (Global influences, environmental / industry demands, organisational mission etc.)
• Highly dynamic and fluctuating Telecommunications industry
• Within the legal, regulatory and commercial environment of South Africa (IFRS, FICA, VAT, Tax Act, AML etc).
• Fast moving industry
• Context changes in terms of technology advancements
• Legislative changes
• Changes in consumer behaviour
• Highly regulated financial services products and services
• Pressurized environment with strict month-end deadlines and group reporting deadlines. 

Key Performance Areas: Core, essential responsibilities / outputs of the position (KPA's)
Key Tasks: Indicates those KPA’s that are essential to the position itself. These are normally specific to the incumbent, the job, and the function. Excludes role and leadership / management.

Business Planning & Budgeting

• Assist with the high-level and detailed business planning processes for the MFS business unit.
• Engage MFS budget holders to obtain operation budget requirements for the business planning and forecasting periods. 
• Engage MFS budget holders to obtain operating and capital expenditure budget requirements for the business planning and forecasting periods. 
• Compile the necessary submissions to finance to secure Opex and Capex budget for the business unit. 
• Compile required documentation for the MFS team pertaining to the approval, release and loading of operational and capital budgets for the business unit. 
• Gather inputs from the MFS commercial team with regards to Non-Financial KPI’s, Revenue, Cost of Sale and Opex budgeting. 
• Prepare budgets and forecast on the financial performance of the business unit up to EBITDA level.

Accounting 

• Extract performance information to be shared with finance for monthly reporting for MFS. 
• Actively engage with finance to ensure accurate and timely reporting for all MFS related products into the General Ledger.
• First layer analysing of results, highlighting variances and suggesting corrective action.
• Actively engage with finance to ensure monthly results are uploaded on Hyperion Financial Management.
• Collaborate with the SA Tax team to ensure accurate and prompt tax accounting for all MFS related Products and Services. 
• Collaborate with finance in managing the external statutory audits for year-end and interim for all MFS related Products and Services. 
• Where required, collaborate with finance in accounting for all MFS related transactions, balances and disclosures to ensure compliance with IFRS.
• Ensure timely distribution of monthly reports. 
• Keep abreast of technical (IFRS and Regulatory) updates relating to the Financial Services industry.

Expense Management

• Management of the expenditure budget including facilitating budget transfers, preparation of monthly accruals and tracking and reporting on year-to-date (YTD) spend, committed funds, and available funds.
• Monitor supplier payments and liaise with accounts payable to ensure timely settlement.

Reporting & Insights 

• Assist in preparing regulatory compliance reports with regards to AML and other legislations. 
• Compile high level reports on a daily basis outlining KPIs for the MFS business unit. 
• Compile and present detailed reports on a weekly basis on KPIs and the overall financial and non-financial performance.
• Compile and present detail reports on monthly performance of the MFS business unit. 
• Collaborate with Finance and Other Business unit to compile Opco, regional and management reports pertaining to the MFS business unit. 
• Support internal MFS stakeholders on ad-hoc reporting and insights requirements for decision-making.

Qualifications
Job Requirements (Education, Experience and Competencies)
Education: (5)

• 3-year Degree / Diploma in Financial Management / Accounting or relate

Experience: (5)

• 1-year experience in reporting, financial management, accounting or other related fields