Senior Manager, Financial Reporting at IHS Towers

IHS Towers is the largest independent mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Founded in 2001, IHS provides services across the full tower value chain – colocation on owned towers, deployment and managed services.

Today IHS Towers has operations in Nigeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia and Rwanda. Following the recent acquisitions of MTN and Etisalat’s tower portfolios in Nigeria, IHS owns over 23,300 towers in Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Manager, Financial Reporting

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Job Type: Full-Time
Department: Finance

Job Description

• As a Senior Manager of Financial Reporting, you will play a vital role in overseeing and managing the financial reporting activities within an organization. You will be responsible for ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, compliance with regulatory requirements, and providing financial insights to support strategic decision-making.
• The role requires strong technical accounting expertise, leadership skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Own the monthly close process.
• Own the balance sheet and income statement, ensuring integrity of the financial statements.
• Review monthly and quarterly management reporting packages in accordance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) guidelines.
• Prepare and review annual reporting package in line with IFRS.
• Monitor and ensure timely identification and compliance with evolving accounting guidance, providing NG GAAP and IFRS interpretation.
• Communicate and explain accounting issues and evolving accounting guidance to the management team.
• Implement accounting policy documents to improve clarity and consistency.
• Manage communications with external auditors on external financial statements and accounting issues to ensure auditor agreement with company decisions on accounting disclosures, and issues.
• Manage communications with internal auditors on accounting and other compliance issues
• Assist in the coordination of annual audit and quarterly review activities of external auditors.
• Preparation of impairment workings and IFRS 9 memo on quarterly basis.
• Coordinate and prepare regulatory permit accrual workings on quarterly basis.
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Director, Financial Reporting & Control.

Functional Competencies:

• Local & International Accounting Standards
• Financial Reporting
• Financial & Management Accounting
• Data Analysis & Reporting
• Analytical Thinking
• Business Communication
• Workload Management

Behavioural Competencies:

• Collaboration & Teamwork
• Relationship Building

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Economics, Finance, etc.
• Professional qualification, e.g. ACCA/ICAN, is mandatory.
• 12 years relevant experience, with most recent 7 in audit and assurance, accounting consulting and preparation of IFRS financial statements

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.
• Sustainability- People demonstrating this competency are constantly seeking to create positive impact in the communities we serve.

Application Closing Date
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