Specialist, IT Finance Management 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: Specialist, IT Finance Management

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Purpose

• Responsible for IT Buy to Pay Process (PR, PO & Invoice); source input data for budget preparation, track IT spend, and first-level analysis of IT finance across IT Group.

Responsibilities

• Initiate IT purchase requisition (PR) for generation of purchase order (PO) Group-wide
• Monitor budget while raising purchase requisitions to ensure proposed spends by IT Teams are within the planned budget with appropriate approvals
• Verification, submission (where applicable) and receipting of vendor invoices for timely processing then payment
• Source and collate needed input data for preparation and compilation of yearly budget
• Maintain budget repository (entity and group) for appropriate versioning and control
• Maintain IT Spend Tracker to and provide dashboard report for performance analysis
• Work closely with the internal stakeholder teams to prepare plus consolidate all budget requests, business cases and justification for IT initiatives
• Provide input data and first level analysis for Entity and Group financial performance in ensuring weekly as well as monthly dashboard reporting
• Provide accurate reports such as trends and summaries across all financial matters including variance analysis, accruals and other ad-hoc analysis as may be required
• Provide appropriate support to the IT Vendor Management Team on invoice related matters for timely information and resolution where required
• Provide appropriate inputs into IT vendor catalogue and repository
• Collaborate with IT units and capabilities to track all contracts and licenses due for timely renewal to ensure no outage or disruption due to expiration
• Provide inputs for development of Team’s policies, processes, and procedures
• Perform other IT Finance functions as assigned by Line Manager

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or any other analytical discipline (Accounting, Business Administration, Information Technology, Applied Sciences, Engineering or related field).
• 6 - 8 years of engagement role in IT or related environment around finance management, budget management and vendor management  
• Demonstrated ability to source, collate, process, analyze and report, on vendor and budget related data
• Demonstrated ability to relate with suppliers especially in resolving conflicts
• Ability to utilize ERP application as well as other tools for tracking plus analysis
• Good verbal and written communication skills.

Application Closing Date
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