Job Summary

• Provide financial planning support in the Corporate Performance Management Department and assigned divisions to enhance decision making process in support of business’s strategic agenda within broadly defined policies to ensure that objectives are met.

Context:

• Dynamic and highly competitive telecommunication & ICT industry
• Highly regulated environment
• Performance driven environment
• Diverse cultural environment
• Group best practices & standards alignment
• Regionalization structure implication
• Supply market demographics
• Opco specific restrictions on local content

Key Tasks:

• Ensure standardisation with respect to forecasting parameters, methodology and templates
• Ensure forecasting process is followed as per defined budgeting and forecasting policy
• Ensure adherence to the SLAs and roles & responsibilities defined for budgeting forecasting process
• Generate periodic forecasts as per defined schedule for the Opco
• Submit forecasts for approvals as per defined delegation of authority (DOA)
• Assist in preparation of operation budget and projection of expenses
• Assist manager in strategic and financial planning initiatives
• Assist in designing the use of financial modelling systems
• Assist in the development and maintenance of procedures and systems to enable the financial evaluation of strategic business opportunities
• Prepare reports on budget process and support in preparation of relevant packs for the Board for budget approvals.
• Assist in preparation of budgets by performing validation checks over forecasted numbers
• Perform reconciliations with respect to approved forecasts and forecasts uploaded in ERP
• Allocation and re-allocation of budget to the departments
• Monitor, analyse and adjust the expenditure deviations from allocated budget
• Periodic analysis of the budget and expenses of the departments
• Expense tracking and cost control
• Assist in loading forecast numbers into various systems as requested from the Opco
• Share lessons learnt after every planning cycle for process improvement
• Develop excel-based financial model reports and templates
• Maintain and manage excel-based financial model reports and templates

Qualification Required & Experience

Education:

• A Degree in Accounting/Finance
• A professional accounting certification is required
• Certification in financial modelling is a plus

Experience:

• 3 years relevant experience
• Experience in Telecom Finance function a plus

Professional/Technical competencies:

• Knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS)
• Working knowledge of ERP (Oracle preferred)
• Working knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, and Outlook)
• Experience in Telecom Finance function

General working conditions

• Anywhere/Anytime work/ Ability to manage self/Personal accountability.

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Qualified Applicants should indicate Ref number: MTN-F&SPlng001-2025 as the email subject and ensure that CVs are saved in their names.

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Qualified Applicants should send their Curriculum Vitae to:

MTNGhanaRecruitment@mtn.com

Closing Date: 14 June, 2025

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.