Manager : Postpaid Finance Decision Support at MTN

Mission/ Core purpose of the Job:

To provide insightful analysis, financial modelling and business cases for Postpaid business decisions thus enabling insightful business decision making.

Key Performance Areas:

• Financial Modelling
  • Develop standardised financial modelling templates for different use cases to support insightful business decision making
  • Understand cost and revenue drivers for all existing and new products to enable relevant input gathering for business cases
  • Take responsibility for making recommendation submission having considered both financial and non financial impacts of decision consequences
  • Responsibility for maintaining financial model integrity by carrying out periodic testing of the models.
  • Take responsibility for cost modelling where required to drive cost optimisation in support of the Reporting Team
• Pricing Team on financial analysis
  • Review and understand the profitability framework put together by the Pricing Team to be included for the objective of determining product pricing
  • Oversight on all financial inputs and outputs relating to pricing
  • Sign off all new pricing models for complex and standard deals
• Budgeting/ Discounted CashFlow Techniques (DCF)
  • Build capital budgeting models for all investments with an objective to establish if IRR , NPV’s & Profitability returns are viable
  • Monthly report which tracks actual returns compared to original business case model – post evaluation review
  • Analyse Price sensitivity & elasticity and impact on IRR and profitability
  • Efficiencies
  • Understand product profitability with objective to establish which products are profitable and which dilute margin.
  • Establish areas requiring efficiencies in Postpaid business and execute on plans to realise financial benefit
• Control management – Governance
  • Take responsibility for enforcing key governance issues
  • Ensure all relevant open audit issues are resolved within deadlines
• Operational Planning
  • Consider the long term implications of actions from a broad perspective including long term positioning
  • 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
  • Consider local conditions, as well as competitor activity
  • Construct, implement and fine-tune methods, processes and systems to enhance effectiveness and meet organisational goals in terms of pricing
  • Fine tune systems in line with changing work practices, providing the context for those providing services
  • Evaluate competitor activity and influence on product pricing and pricing plans and put contingency plans in place
  • Identify innovative ways to use minimum resources to achieve maximum outputs
  • Develop the functionality of the department by improving processes continuously
  • Perform the assessment, analysis and reporting on competitive activity and strategy
• Customer Satisfaction
  • Ensure service delivery in line with needs of the business
  • Put contingency plans in place to prevent delays and enhance the customer experience
  • Identify trends and patterns pertaining to customer requests and ensure continuous improvement as an important element of service delivery
  • Provide support to the Pricing team to continually improve all aspects of pricing
  • Assist in the alignment of service delivery to changing needs and ensure effective customer and stakeholder management
• Reporting
  • Input on reports and results for the area to the business and to key stakeholders,
  • Supervisory / Leadership / Managerial Complexity:
  • Deploy and redeploy resources to get the work done
  • Build and enforce a customer centric approach
  • Encourage and support collaborative teamwork
  • Build professionalism, loyalty and commitment to the organization
  • Communicate actively and effectively resolving any potential conflicts that may arise
  • Have the self insight and flexibility to adapt to different situations
  • Manage boundaries that separate units in order to optimise workflow
  • Living the MTN Brand – changing and influence employees behaviour

Minimum Requirements -

Education:

• Min of a three year degree or diploma e.g. B Comm. or Business qualification or equivalent
• Chartered Accountancy experience will be an added advantage

Experience:

1. Minimum of 5 years’ experience in financial modelling and business case analysis. Experience in working in a medium to large organization
2. At least 2 years experience in a similar position, in dynamic and fast-moving industries
3. Advanced knowledge of Excel and powerpoint
4. Knowledge of VBA/ Macros desirable
5. Financial knowledge essential

Training:

• Products and Services
• Systems training
• Computer software training
• Project management
• Communication and Negotiation skills
• Assertiveness
• IFRS/ GAAP