Latest Vacancies at Telinno Consulting Limited (TCL)

Job Overview:

• We are seeking a Group Finance Manager for our multi-country operation across Africa. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing the financial management, planning, and reporting activities of the group, ensuring financial integrity, accuracy, and regulatory compliance.
• The candidate will directly manage the Group finance team and Finance Operations while working closely with the Finance Director/CEO and liaising with country financial managers to ensure alignment with the company's financial strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and supervise financial planning, budget management, and expense control for all country operations.
• Oversee the consolidation of financial information across all countries, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Monitor the financial performance of each country operation, identifying areas of improvement and implementing action plans.
• Provide strategic recommendations to the Finance Director/CEO and senior management based on financial analysis and projections, cost identification and allocation, and revenue/expense analysis.
• Formulate and design financial policies/ planning for effective Balance Sheet management and efficient utilisation of financial resources.
• Formulate and design fees and/or pricing structure/ mechanism for products and services offered by the Company.
• Develop annual, half-year, quarterly, and monthly financial forecasts.
• Review and evaluate business models/ funding.
• Coordinate timely preparation of group/entity cash flows.
• Collaborate and lead the development of the finance system and reporting tools, ensuring they successfully meet all of the company’s needs.
• Ensure functional controls for compliance with policies and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements across all operating countries in relation to finance.
• Lead the development and use of forward-looking, predictive models and financial analyses to provide insight into the organization's operations and business plans.
• Engage with country finance managers to maintain consistent financial practices and processes.
• Work with the internal audit function to ensure the appropriate controls are in place for managing business risks.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• A bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, or a related field. An MBA or related advanced degree would be a plus.
• Professional qualification such as ACCA, CMA, CFA, or CPA is mandatory.
• Minimum 8-10 years of experience in finance roles with at least 3 years in a similar role in a multinational or multi-country operation. Experience in the telecom industry will be a strong advantage.
• Strong understanding of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and experience in financial consolidation.
• Excellent understanding of financial statistics and accounting principles.
• Proficient in using financial software and databases. Experience with telecom-specific software will be beneficial.
• Strong knowledge of financial risk management.
• Ability to strategize and solve problems.
• Strong leadership and organizational skills.
• Excellent communication and people skills.
• An analytical mind, comfortable with numbers.

Preferred Skills:

• Fluency in English. A good command of French would be a plus.
• Experience working in Africa or with African markets.
• Understanding of the African telecoms market and regulatory environment.

Travel Requirements:

• Ability and willingness to travel across the countries of operation.               

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Duties & Responsibilities

• Essential duties/key job roles and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
• Responsible for business development, growth, cost effective and timely delivery of the company’s service products in country of operation.
• Responsible for profitability of country operations and leads in identifying, cultivating and soliciting new businesses and relationships.
• Ownership of corporate branding / image, customer relations, optimum client SLA satisfaction and all related issues.
• Provides general oversight of all country activities, manages the day-to-day operations, and ensures a smoothly functioning, effective and efficient organization.
• Ensures the filing of all legal and regulatory documents and monitors compliance with relevant laws and regulations.
• Assists the Operations Director/Board, by providing inputs to determine Company’s values, mission, vision, strategy and short- and long-term goals.
• Keeps the Board fully informed of county performance and all the important factors influencing it.
• Identifies and informs the Board about trends, issues, problems and activities in order to facilitate policy- making. Recommends policy positions.
• Ensures service quality and organizational stability through development and implementation of policies, standards and controls, values and culture, systems and procedures, and regular evaluation of performance.
• Collaborate and coordinate support functions (HR, IT, Finance) to ensure a work environment that recruits, retains and supports quality staff.
• Promotes value adding/profitable products and services that are delivered in a cost-effective manner, employing economy while maintaining an acceptable level of quality.
• Oversees the financial activities of the organization including budgeting, performance reporting (cash, profit and assets) and audit.
• Works with Board and Group Finance Manager to secure financing to support short- and long-term goals.

Expected Output

Below are key output measurable of the Country Manager:

• Country Management Accounts – monthly.
• Country Operations Reports – weekly and monthly.
• Revenue growth
• Services and Customer diversification
• Profitability

Qualifications

• Minimum Education:
• B.Sc. Electrical / Electronics or Computer Engineering, or any other areas.
• MBA preferred.
• Minimum Working Experience:
• 8 years progressive technical and commercial work experience including at least 5 at Senior Management level preferably in a telecommunications industry.
• Excellent knowledge of the B2B customer decision making and procurement processes.

Knowledge, Skills & Attitude

• Excellence, integrity, creativity, team spirit, commitment, customer-centricity, empathy, safety consciousness.
• Must possess critical competencies in five (5) broad categories: commitment to results, customer centricity, business savvy, leadership and entrepreneurial skills
• The CM manages continuity, change and transition. This individual must be able to know how to influence and enable others.
• This individual identifies relevant information and helps transform this information into individual and organizational knowledge and learning.
• Ability to translate broad goals into achievable steps. To anticipate and solve problems and take advantage of opportunities, being a self-starter and team player.
• Must possess knowledge of, and experience in business development, sales, management and administration, finance and HR.
• Should possess demonstrated experience in integrating and coordinating diverse areas of management.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communications skills – English Language.
• A high level of personal skills is required to make formal, persuasive presentations to groups and to deal effectively with various stakeholders. Strong Networks and Networking skills.