Accountant - Financial Operations Carrier Finance at MTN Nigeria

Reports To: Manager - Financial Operations Carrier Operations

Division: Finance

Mission:

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

Description:

• Supervise the implementation of finance policies, processes, and procedures and ensure strict adherence to established internal controls, MTN PPP’s, IFRS, IAS, and GAAP.
• Work with the Financial Operations Manager to prepare departmental budgets and provide support for daily unit administrative activities in line with the strategic objectives.
• Provide input into relevant management and board papers; review supporting documents and backup schedules to meet audit and regulatory requirements; and analyze and interpret data to facilitate decision-making.
• Ensure efficient optimization of databases and systems and prompt resolution of all reconciling items.
• Monitor and report on key performance indicators in order to meet all month-end reporting deadlines.
• Oversee the daily operations of the department as well as safeguard company assets and maintain customer and vendor relationships.
• Establish and maintain financial/revenue management procedures within the finance operations department in line with the MTNN strategic objectives.
• Plan and implement reconciliation and control mechanisms for interconnect roaming and VAS revenue recognition and reconciliation. Budget and forecast carrier revenue and related cost figures.
• Ensure accurate billing of wholesale call records for the optimization of MTN’s carrier revenue elements.
• Review inter-carrier (Interconnect, Roaming and value-added services) agreements, billing, reconciliation and payments.
• Evaluate and review existing carrier agreements and commercial rates, implementation and testing on billing systems.

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 in an area of specialization, with experience in supervising others

• 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.