Associate Director, Financial Reporting & Control 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: Associate Director, Financial Reporting & Control

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Purpose

• Assist the Director, FR&C in effectively managing and executing the financial accounting, reporting and controllership function for all IHS Nigeria entities and serve as the focal point of coordination for all Shared Services Centre (SSC) activities.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Supervise and manage all financial aspects of Fixed Assets and Inventory processes including audits, internal controls documentation, finance and accounting manual, risk management, and coordination of SSC activities for these areas.
• Assist the Director, FR&C on all assigned tasks and activities, ensuring value-added support on key strategic discussions and decisions.
• Participate in management meetings for Monthly Performance Reviews, Budget Reviews, KPIs Reviews, etc.
• Serve as the focal point for all external and internal audit activities and lead all coordination and support work amongst all finance teams for timely and prompt closure of all audit activities.
• Ensure preparedness for all audit activities particularly annual statutory audit, quarterly reviews and related group reporting by flagging any accounting issues in advance to the Director, FR&C and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), closing pending audit points/ observations from preceding period(s) on time, and assessing accounting impacts for all major changes/ challenges emerging during the course of the year.
• Ensure strict compliance with all SOX requirements impacting the FR&C function.
• Provide technical accounting support to major projects in the Business.
• Provide inputs to the Finance function’s process changes and systems changes, including ERP modifications, implementation, integration, and/ or any other business initiatives.
• Manage all improvement initiatives including coordination with consultants for all new and on-going projects within scope of the FR&C function.
• Steer monthly reviews with SSC and provide information on all account reconciliations, ensuring timely closure and action on all pending action items.
• Provide support on all on-going Asset Management and Acquire-to-Retire (A2R) initiatives, coordinating with other units/ departments and ensuring implementation of all deliverables for the FR&C teams.
• Coordinate with Group Finance on all FR&C activities and ensure provision of timely support, information, and resolution of queries.
• Point of contact with SSC for all escalations and urgent requests.
• Ensure performance management and reporting against Procure-to-Pay (PP) and FA metrics.
• Ensure implementation of finance policies, processes and procedures.
• Formulate policies aimed at ensuring process improvement
• Ensure strict compliance with policies, processes and procedures, as well as IFRS, IAS, and GAAP.
• Support training and education on new policies, practices and standards.
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Director, FR&C.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in finance, accounting, and/ or audit/ risk management is desirable.
• Professional qualifications, e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, APA, etc, will be an asset
• Total experience of +10 years in audit, accounting and financial control with at least 3 years in a supervisory/ managerial role
• Demonstrable ERP experience, e.g. SAP, Oracle, Sun, Microsoft Dynamics
• Demonstrable experience in all core functions of finance & accounting
• Multinational exposure, at ease in complex integrated system environment

Functional:

• Financial Reporting & Audit
• IFRS/ IAS
• Tax Management (VAT, WHT, Current & Deferred)
• Accounts Payable
• Forex Market & Operations
• Treasury Management
• Industry Knowledge
• Performance Management & Measurement
• Internal Audit
• Financial Modelling
• Fixed Assets Accounting
• Supplier Management
• Contract Management
• Inventory Management
• Analytical Thinking

Behavioural:

• Leading & Influencing
• Collaboration & Teamwork
• Relationship Building
• Organizational Awareness.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.