Accountant - Finance Operations Enterprise Asset Management at MTN Nigeria

Reports To: Manager - Financial Operations Enterprise Asset Management

Division: Finance

Mission:

• To account for all company-wide Financial Operations activities (Fixed Assets, Carrier Operations, Revenue Management, Expenditure Operations, Business Support and General Ledger), support various divisions on financial issues and maintain commercial relationships with external stakeholders.

Description:

• Review and approve the Asset Walk down reports and reconciliation of MTN assets across MTNN switches and office locations. 
• Approve electronic asset movement form and follow up on all theft and faults from incidence reporting.
• Coordinate the analysis and reconciliation of monthly asset additions to physical verifications and physical count to the fixed asset register. 
• Generate monthly relevant reports; and submit all month end deliverables within the reporting deadline.
• Approve asset disposal requests and review the net book value information provided to relevant stakeholders for disposal purpose.
• Monitor asset verification and tagging in line with MTNN policy and review the update to the fixed assets register with the tagging information.
• Review all reported incidents relating to asset theft, damaged assets and other incidents and post asset impairment journals and follow up with stakeholders on reported incidents.
• Journal postings to write-off assets from fixed asset register, for depreciation charges and other adjusting entries.
• Ensure proceed on disposed assets are remitted and recorded appropriately, in agreement with the set accounting standard. 
• Coordinate Asset Walk down verification exercise across MTNN locations. 

Education:

• A first degree in any discipline, but a finance and management related degree is desirable.
• A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA).
• Fluent in English

Experience:

3-7 years’ experience which includes

• Experience working in a medium organization 
• Experience in core accounting function
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office tools
• Experience in using an ERP system is desirable
• Experience in Finance functions in the telecommunications industry would be an added advantage