Management Accountant at MTN

Ideal candidate to prepare the annual integrated consolidated budget, business plan and quarterly forecasts of MTN SA, applying fundamental budgetary concepts, practices, and procedures and ensuring it complies with Group and International accounting policies.
Key Performance Areas: 

• Operational Planning
•  Assist with translation of all business rules into system updates requirements to ensure strong  adherence to business rules 
•  Assist with the integration of financial systems 
•  Consider the impact of solutions on other areas of the business, as well as the interdependency  of units
•  Drive best practice, continuous improvement and innovation at process and procedure level  within the Financial Planning and systems unit

Business Planning

•  Prepare MTN’s 3-year Business Plan and building the Business Plan in Budget Software in that  the Business Plan becomes automated and ensuring that Business Plan calculations is accurate  and realistic.
•  Compile MTN’s Business Plan PowerPoint presentation to internal and external Board and  calculate all the financial ratios to be able to evaluate if the company are going in the right  direction.
•  Ensure final budget pack relating to each department is sent to all departments and EXCO  members by the end of the Financial Year.
•  Monitoring approved budget allocations, revenue, and expenditure and prepare periodic reports  and recommendations for budget adjustments as required.
•  Preparation off correct and accurate financial ratios.

Budgeting and Forecasting Process

•  Assist with ensuring budgets for all departments are assessed to ensure feasibility. Base  annual budgets on the identification of trends and patterns within the current operations and  extrapolate these over the next planning cycle, taking any known changes in new products or  services into consideration
•  Preparation of quarterly forecasts. Consider actuals for the past quarter and project these  forward, ensuring alignment to the original budget objectives, and assessing what has  transpired. Identify exceptions and take corrective action where necessary
•  Ensure that budgets and forecasts are prepared in line with accounting and MTN group standards.
•  Ensure quality standards on all analyses performed to explain deviations
•  Ad-hoc analysis requested to Financial Planning unit are delivered with the required quality  standards
•  Prepare inputs and outputs from reports in respect of Income statement and balance sheet items  for budgets and forecasts.
•  Coordinate, analyse and present accurate and timely information from different functional units  to management for budgets.
•  Assist with daily operations related to budgetary control.

Information Management

•  Assist in incorporating sub projects into the Business Plan – scenario running.
•  Assist in incorporating other systems such as Hyperion, Oracle, EDW, review that the data is  accurate and correct.
•  Ensuring that the formulas used in Budget and planning software are accurate and correct.

Customer Satisfaction

•  Build, develop and maintain customer relationships and fine tune systems accordingly
•  Manage and ensure the resolution of escalated queries
•  Provide advice on the best approach to reach the best results, taking local conditions, best  practice and competitor activity into account 
•  Ensure customer needs and requirements (internal) are satisfied through appropriate systems /  processes / procedures, and by sourcing the most optimal solution to finance-related problems  identified
•  Consider the implications of actions (long and short-term) to be taken for the customer / the  effect of actions on the customer 
•  Drive continuous improvement as an important element of service delivery
•  Identify trends / patterns pertaining to customer queries (internal) and needs to continually  improve

Supervisory / Leadership Complexity:

•  Build employee relations and collaborative teamwork 
•  Communicate actively and effectively resolving any potential conflicts that may arise
•  Have the self-insight and flexibility to adapt to different situations

Education:

•  (BCom – Account / Financial Management/ the equivalent thereof)

Global Experience

•  Minimum of 3 years’ experience in accounting or finance
•  Experience working in a medium to large organization 

Training:

•  IFRS, IAS, Oracle and Hyperion
•  MTN PPP’s 
•  Keep up to date with changing regulatory requirements