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  • Posted: Aug 28, 2017
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    MTN Group Limited entered the telecommunications scene at the dawn of South Africa’s democracy, in 1994. In 1998, we began our expansion by acquiring licences in Rwanda, Uganda and Swaziland. Since then, we continued to grow, with a view of bringing world-class telecommunications and digital services to markets across Africa and the Middle East. Throug...
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    Mobile Financial Services Risk Management Senior

    Job description

    Join the MTN Group to experience the power of the MTN Brand across a global footprint, celebrating our diverse communities while unlocking your potential. The bold and inspiring leadership team that enables the achieving of performance excellence in the MTN way in everything we do, everywhere they go.

    We are looking for a Senior Manager: Mobile Financial Services(MFS) Risk Management Devices. The main purpose of the role is to manage, execute and support key MFS risk management assignments at Group, regional and country level.

    Key objectives:

    • Advise and support in the definition of risk management strategies, provide strategic input into MTN Group’s Mobile Financial Services Risk management agenda
    • Understand the financial risks faced by MFS as a business in order to ensure the definition of an appropriate risk management strategy
    • Input into Mobile Financial Services Risk Management policies/regulations – with a specific focus on the impact of such regulations or policies on MTN’s Risk Management in particular and the Mobile Financial Services business in general
    • Help determine MTN Group’s risk appetite
    • Identify and assess risks
    • Ensure appropriate and effective (preventive and detective) controls are established
    • Ensure effective implementation of the MTN Group Strategy throughout the MTN footprint by means of providing direction, structure, frameworks, models, roadmaps and support to local teams within OPCOs
    • Monitor and review risk management strategy to ensure long-term effectiveness
    • Understand the impact of potential changes driven by the regulators, industry, marketplace, and/or legal environment and devise strategy to influence them in the best interest of MTN
    • Execute risk management audit programs to determine organisational vulnerabilities and highlight risks relative to the Mobile Financial Services business
    • Input into development of new MTN policies on risk management around Mobile Financial Services
    • Consult/ influence external stakeholders regularly, including industry regulators and industry associations within the Mobile Financial Services sector.
    • Be up to date on all relevant risk management requirements within the Mobile Financial Services Industry
    • Ensure Group standardisation across the entire MTN footprint
    • Facilitate training to OPCOs on legislative/regulatory requirements and appropriate risk management methodologies relating to the Mobile Financial Services industry
    • Actively collaborate with industry bodies and regulators to the benefit of all Parties
    • Analyse Mobile Financial Services Regulatory trends and ensure that the business is informed accordingly in order to be able to prepare for changes proactively.
    • Lobby key stakeholders to shape and change policy and draft legislation impacting on Mobile Financial Services.

    You must have the following:

    Education

    • Bachelor's Degree in Law / Business Science
    • Postgraduate degree highly advantageous

    Experience

    • Minimum of 7 years post qualification experience with at least 4 years in telecommunication and Mobile Financial Services sector/ industry
    • 4 years of experience in Senior legal position within Mobile Financial Services
    • Working knowledge of risk management relating to Mobile Financial Services, preferably in Africa and the Middle-East
    • Working knowledge of Mobile Financial Services’ International Risk management standards

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to MTN on www.linkedin.com to apply

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