Job Title: Senior Manager – Finance
Organisation: MTN Uganda
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: General Manager – Growth and New Business
About the Company:
MTN Uganda is a subsidiary of MTN Group, a multinational Telco operating in Africa and Middle East, with over 280milllion subscribers, making it the largest in Africa.
Job Summary: Provide financial expertise and analysis to help Growth and New Business make informed strategic decisions that align with MTN’s goals & drive growth. Collaborate with Growth and New Business leader to develop and execute financial strategies and plans by providing detailed financial analysis and insights to support decision-making and drive Growth and New Business performance Monitor and analyze financial performance, identifying trends and areas for improvement. Prepare and deliver timely financial reports, presenting detailed insights into Growth and New Business performance and ensuring alignment with company goals
Act as a trusted advisor to Growth and New Business lead, providing guidance on cost management, revenue generation, and capital allocation. Partner with various business units to track financial performance against budget and forecast, recommending actions to optimize performance and profitability
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Analyze financial data & prepare reports to provide insights into business performance, trends & opportunities
- Support strategy formulation, planning, budgeting and forecasting for the Growth and New Business function
- Develop financial models & forecasts to support strategic decision making and resource allocation
- Advise and steer the Growth and New Business leader with appropriate financial performance drivers, decision making guidance and insights that will improve financial efficacy, productivity and performance
- Establish performance metrics and benchmarks to evaluate the effectiveness of business initiatives
- Support ad-hoc decisions relating to new product or markets initiatives, pricing and profitability analytics, marketing expenditures, large contract evaluations including buy or build motivations, budgetary control, etc.
- Collaborate with risk management teams to ensure compliance with financial regulations and internal controls
- Translate financial information into actionable insights that guide decision making
Strategy, Budgetary and Planning Support
- Assist and oversee formulation of strategy, budget and planning activities for the Growth and New Business function whilst ensuring alignment with Group
- Strategically direct and plan operations of the Growth and New Business function by partnering with teams to ensure congruence in the Financial Planning and performance
- Monitor and report on progress of budget, plans and forecasts
- Proactively analyze and constructively challenge budget and plans in context to the operations of the business unit
- Provide insights on cost leadership initiatives including resource allocations
- Monitor and proactively advise on business risk evaluation and mitigation measures, in conjunction with the risk and compliance function
- Verify alignment with forecasts
Decision Making and Business Case Management
- Independently evaluate and provide advisory support on various proposals for investments, CAPEX and OPEX items
- Apply standard methodology and valuation techniques to determine business case and investment
- Establish measurable performance parameters and standardized sources for measurement, in order to evaluate ongoing success of such decisions
- Proactively analyze, monitor, challenge and advise on investment and CAPEX items against anticipated risk, and returns to evaluate viability and profitability (as applicable)
- Ensure compliance to Group Governance protocols and policies (committee approvals, DoE, process etc.)
- Establish and continuously improve standards for business finance analysis; and lead the development of finance solutions for complex and high value commercial decisions
Financial Performance Analysis and Management
- Establish performance measures and KPIs at various levels of the Growth and New Business function (operations, products and markets, revenue, margins, profitability etc..)
- Use scenario analysis and financial modeling to arrive at realistic and planned targets for achievement
- Identify appropriate sources and channels to derive performance related data
- Proactively analyze issues and risks to enable early resolution and course corrections’
- Provide leading practice insights for performance improvements and value driving actions
- Monitor, perform deep dive root cause assessments and constructively challenge outcomes as a means to improve performance
- Support and align with financial planning and analysis function on performance management methodology, process and protocols
- Support ad hoc analysis to develop revenue, margins and frame contracts
Product Pricing, Profitability Analysis and Support
- Provide guidance to teams in the assessment of new / existing product commercial, financial and pricing feasibility, to arrive at “go/no-go” decisions and investment potentials
- Development of proprietary models to evaluate ATB and BTL related expenditures. Provide advice on feasibility and expected returns
- Provide inputs and extensively participate in product pricing, tariffs, channel policy decisions
- Analyze and report on actual product performance
- Execute profitability analysis of enterprise business opportunities
- Establish, continuously improve and implement frameworks to support financial bid management, product/service pricing and profitability and commercial decision-making
- Ensure compliance to Group governance protocols and policies (committee approvals, DoE, process etc.)
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in financial and/or equivalent
- Post Graduate degree in Finance and/or relevant professional qualification (e.g., Chartered Accountant) (preferred)
Work Experience
- 7 years general experience in Financial Management in a multinational business environment.
- Telecommunications industry experience (preferred)
- Knowledge and understanding of Financial Operations
Skills / physical competencies:
- Finance Business Partnering
- Financial Analysis & Reporting
- Financial Planning, Forecasting & Reporting
- Business Performance & Analytics
- Pricing, Profitability and RoI Management
- Risk Management
- Cost Management
- Business and Finance Acumen
- Financial Stewardship
- Relationship management
- Change and conflict management
NB: Presentation of false academic documents and certification will lead to criminal prosecution. Any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
How to Apply:
All candidates who wish to join MTN Uganda in this capacity should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 16th May 2025
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