Manager, Commercial Finance 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: Manager, Commercial Finance

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Finance

Job Description

• As Manager Commercial Finance, you will develop and manage the company’s business plan; optimize portfolios to maximize profitability; and recommend new processes and initiatives that enable the business to improve underlying profit. 

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Develop business models that explain the financial impact of every business initiative or CAPEX project undertaken in the market
• Adopt consistent and repeatable financial metrics to evaluate all business initiatives and CAPEX projects, including but not limited to ROI, NPV, Cash flow, AFFO of business initiatives for comparative purposes and decision making
• Provide succinct executive comments to explain financial impacts of all CAPEX initiatives for management consideration
• Coordinate data gathering of supplementary and non-financial information, in conjunction with relevant functions and stakeholders, to complement project decisions – e.g.  legal/ commercial/ statutory/ environmental perspectives.
• Support short and long-term planning cycles including Forecasts (FCs), Business Plans and Budgets by providing updated project estimates based on actualized and revised activity
• Support Senior Manager-Commercial Finance and Manager-Innovation & LEAN in developing a tool-based risk review process aligned with DOA and responsibility matrix for the market
• Complete standard templates for business review and approval of all investment requests, including CAPEX Committee templates, in a timely and accurate manner
• Coordinate the data gathering activity across user-departments on all proposed CAPEX projects
• Perform routine and ad hoc project performance reviews to measure performance against plans and relevant benchmarks and identify possible risks and opportunities to achieving performance targets
• Work with Budgeting and Reporting unit to understand and report project variances and recommend possible remediations.
• Gather internal and external data to aid evaluation and business forecasts, including but not limited to Interest rates, WACC, diesel cost estimates, price per barrel and other macro indices.
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Senior Manager, Commercial Finance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Economics, Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, and other relevant Math-related fields.
• CFA certification or MBA is a bonus.
• Advanced excel proficiency
• +7 years’ cognate experience.

Functional Competencies:

• Financial Modelling
• Performance Management & Reporting
• Planning & Budgeting
• Data Analysis
• Business Communication.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Analytical Thinking
• Attention to Detail
• Collaboration & Teamwork.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.