Career Employment Opportunities at IHS Towers

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IHS Towers is one of the largest independent owners, operators, and developers of shared telecommunications infrastructure in the world by tower count and is the only towerco solely focused on the emerging markets. The Company has more than 38,000 towers pro forma across its 11 markets, including Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Kuwait, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, South Africa, and Zambia

We are recruiting to fill the positions below:

Job Title: Principal Specialist, Finance Business Partnering (Commercial)

Location: (On-site) Nigeria
Job type: Full-time

The Opportunity

• IHS Towers is expanding our global footprint and we are seeking an individual to join our team as Principal Specialist, Finance Business Partnering (Commercial) in Nigeria.
• The individual will serve as strategic partner to cross-functional stakeholders across Group, Shared Services Centre (SSC) and in-market functions in delivering financial insights to support customer engagement, performance management and decision making.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end activities related to customer invoice reconciliation and dispute resolution.
• Manage and coordinate Accounts Receivable (AR)-related liaisons, externally with customers and internally with Commercial, Technical and other Finance functions.
• Build collaborative partnerships and maintain strong relationships with in-country senior management, Group Finance, and other teams across the business, including Operations and Supply Chain.
• Support and provide inputs to Group-level reporting, forecasting and budgeting processes to meet shareholder objectives. Challenge assumptions and optimize processes to drive improved and effective performance.
• Support and provide inputs to business planning and decision-making by providing financial insights – particularly in relation to revenue.
• Analyze revenue performance against budget, forecast, and prior year by highlighting trends, investigating variances, and recommending corrective actions.
• Provide the “story behind the numbers” and work with non-Finance functions to drive business performance.
• Continuously drive improvements to simplify, standardize and streamline processes related to Revenue Management
• Support month-end and annual reporting of revenue by providing relevant operational information to the Finance SSC team.
• Contribute to ad-hoc financial projects as required as part of the overall Finance function.
• Review Master Lease Agreements (MLAs)/ drafts with a view to ease billings and enhance prompt invoicing and PFIs.
• Follow up on and ensure timely closure of Redcube issues raised by the team to ensure all billable tenancies are updated on Redcube.
• Add value to and review input reports from the SSC and Credit Control teams for completeness and to inform decision making among key stakeholders. Reports include revenue analyses, deferred revenue, withholding tax, cash receipts, trade accruals, ageing reports, etc, while key stakeholders include Financial Planning & Analysis, Commercial, and C-suite.
• Work with diverse teams including SSC, Commercial, Legal and Billing to monitor, quantify and report on operational issues, opportunities and development plans as they relate to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and metrics.
• Interface with the wider Revenue Assurance team to ensure completeness and accuracy of optimal billing performance across all applications, e.g. Phixflow, Redcube, etc.
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Director, Revenue Management & Assurance.

Key Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Accounting or related discipline.
• ICAN/ ACCA qualification will be an asset.
• +10 years cognate experience, including working within highly matrixed, multinational organization structures.
• Demonstrable Proficiency in use of Power BI.
• Must have an entrepreneurial mindset – challenging the status quo and seeking ways to improve processes/ workflows and influence change.
• Must have a strong drive for results and be willing to partner with others to achieve the best.
• Collaboration & Teamwork.

Functional Competencies:

• Accounting
• Financial Acumen
• Invoicing
• Complaints Management
• Contract Management
• Analytical Thinking
• Use of MS Office Tools
• Data Analysis & Reporting
• Business Communication
• Attention to Detail
• Stakeholder Management
• Workload Management.

Organizational Competencies:

• Customer Focus – People demonstrating this competency understand & exceed our customers’ needs. They develop trusted, reliable & collaborative relationships. They are consistently operating to the highest standards of service & delivery.
• Innovation – People demonstrating this competency constantly seek new & improved ways to deliver our products & services. They champion engineering & skills development, and work to create a collaborative and supportive operating environment.
• Integrity – People demonstrating this competency are open & honest in everything they do. They support financially & environmentally sustainable growth. They make socially responsible decisions and treat their stakeholders with respect.
• Be Bold – People demonstrating this competency are thorough in analyses & decision-making. They are courageous in expanding existing markets & developing new ones. They confidently pursue appropriate financial returns and are forward-thinking and ambitious.

Application Closing Date
12th September, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

The Opportunity

• We are expanding our global footprint and we are seeking an individual to join our team as Senior Specialist, Revenue Analytics & Reconciliation in Nigeria.
• The individual will source, aggregate and present data from internal and external sources to support effective and efficient customer invoicing.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze financial results, forecasts, variances, individual source trends and multi-source reconciliations to provide insights about the company’s financial performance.
• Turn revenue data lakes into actionable business insights, including revenue data modelling.
• Drive internal adoption of the department’s shared folder, database and reports.
• Own change management Sox assurance across revenue-impacting systems
• Resolve customers’ data and reconciliation issues and liaise with different teams internally and externally to ensure reconciliation issues are not delinquent while disputes are resolved on time.
• Manage and coordinate the reconciliation of receivables to ensure the accounting systems reflect correct transactions and discrepancies are promptly identified and corrected.
• Analyze data to identify trends and make recommendations for improvements
• Perform research, reconciliation and resolution of all account discrepancies originating from customer or third-party errors
• Design and develop various financial models to support valuation, planning and forecast.
• Ensure spooled information regarding customers’ disbursement is verified and reconciliation is set up to ensure funding and credit value is verifiable
• Create reports about the company’s financial performance using computerized financial modeling software
• Review data to identify opportunities for new business or customer acquisition.
• Engage with both internal and external stakeholders to assist with the investigation of root causes of losses and work with subject matter experts (SMEs) to identify and execute solutions.
• Regularly collate and consolidate key performance indices (KPIs) and highlight gaps and recommend remedial actions.
• Perform daily reconciliation of the company’s settlement reports, bank accounts and systems to ensure the integrity and accuracy of transactions and bank debits.
• Create and maintain various spreadsheets and dashboards to support analysis and provide insight.
• Provide timely reconciliation reports and updates to Director, Revenue Management & Assurance.
• Increase productivity by developing automated reporting/ forecasting tools.
• Recommend actions by analyzing and interpreting data, making comparative analyses, and studying proposed changes in methods and materials.
• Process and ensure that all transactions and reconciliation systems are accurate through the checks and balances processes.
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Director, Revenue Management & Assurance.

Key Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Accounting, Finance or Economics.
• +7-10 years’ relevant experience, including at least 5 most recent years in reconciliation.
• ICAN/ ACCA qualification will be an asset.
• Proficiency in data query/ data management tools, e.g. Access, SQL, Business Objects

Behavioural Competencies:

• Collaboration & Teamwork

Functional Competencies:

• Workload Management
• Data Analysis & Reporting
• Financial Modelling
• Contract Management
• Analytical Thinking
• Use of MS Office Tools
• Business Communication
• Attention to Detail

Organizational Competencies:

• Customer Focus – People demonstrating this competency understand & exceed our customers’ needs. They develop trusted, reliable & collaborative relationships. They are consistently operating to the highest standards of service & delivery.
• Innovation – People demonstrating this competency constantly seek new & improved ways to deliver our products & services. They champion engineering & skills development, and work to create a collaborative and supportive operating environment.
• Integrity – People demonstrating this competency are open & honest in everything they do. They support financially & environmentally sustainable growth. They make socially responsible decisions and treat their stakeholders with respect.
• Be Bold – People demonstrating this competency are thorough in analyses & decision-making. They are courageous in expanding existing markets & developing new ones. They confidently pursue appropriate financial returns and are forward-thinking and ambitious.

Application Closing Date
15th September, 2022.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online