MTN Careers South Africa – Senior Manager: Financial Consolidation and Reporting

Job Description:

The Senior Manager: Financial consolidation and reporting is responsible for activities related to period end, consolidation, and intercompany accounting. The senior manager needs to ensure: standardization of reporting processes, policies, procedures across the Group; timely and accurate preparation of consolidated monthly, quarterly and annual financial results; and implementation and maintenance of appropriate financial reporting systems.

The purpose of this job is to act as a subject matter expert for the consolidation, period close reporting and intercompany accounting functions for Group Finco.

Job Responsibilities:

• Review and guide the Group company financial operations.
• Review and verify the Group company accounting activities in compliance with IFRS and local statutory requirements.
• Designs and implements Group wide controls for financial reporting and budgets.
• Deliver service aligned to the Group Finco framework, policies, procedures and templates established for Record to Report (R2R)
• Continuously provide input and improve the reporting framework and timelines established
• Support Opcos in completing their period end activities in line with the frameworks established
• Perform the consolidation of financial results (financial and non-financial information) for monthly, quarterly and annual results as well as forecast, high level budgets and business plans
• Define intercompany transactions and account types to be used to account for intercompany transactions
• Support the development / update of intercompany policies and procedures
• Assist in the preparation, review and distribution of the audit plan, audit instructions
• Assist in managing the external audit process by way of obtaining information in a time bound manner to assist in timely completion of the audit
• Build and manage a high performing team by providing leadership, role clarity, training and career development
• Continually develop a culture of strong collaboration and effective team working
• Ensure open communication channels with staff and implement change management interventions where necessary
• Provide definition of roles, responsibilities, individual goals, and performance objectives for the team
• Set KPIs and provide regular performance feedback through a well-defined and implemented performance review program
• Investigate and provide input to audit differences
• Process year-end adjustments approved for processing
• Support the preparation of annual reports, analyst reports and other reports, as applicable

Job Requirements:

• Minimum of 4 year Bachelor’s degree in Finance /Accounting or equivalent
• CA (SA) – Mandatory
• Post graduate degree in Finance and/or equivalent professional qualification (preferred); or Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) (advantageous)) or / ACMA (CIMA)
• MBA or Masters (advantageous)
• 8 – 10 years of relevant experience in finance or finance operations related roles in a telecom or financial services environment
• 3 – 5 years of experience in leading Group Consolidations function of a large multinational company
• Experience in accounting for complex consolidations in a multinational environment.
• Experience in managing a highly qualified team of technical accountants
• Worked across diverse cultures and geographies
• Pan Africa multi-cultural experience is advantageous

Job Details:

Company: MTN

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Johannesburg

Application Deadline: N/A

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