Manager, Regional 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, Regional Finance

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time
Employee Type: Permanent

Job Purpose

• Oversee and coordinate timely and accurate financial information as well as healthy financial operations across regions.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive ongoing change, process standardization and continuous improvement initiatives across Regional Finance.
• Ensure implementation of applicable Finance policies, processes and procedures across regions.
• Handle customer-facing interactions on all Regional Finance accounts and related activities.
• Support all Shared Services Centre (SSC)-related activities pertaining to Regional Finance, including transition of in-market activities, processes and systems knowledge.
• Ensure timely recording of all employee advances, related follow-ups, and compliance with all applicable policies.
• Coordinate response to all ad hoc requests from user functions pertaining to regional floats.
• Perform routine checks of finance processes and validate all expenses across the regions.
• Improve timely capture of data inflows between Finance and Operations, ensuring that every cash transaction is receipted and numbered accordingly.
• Implement internal reporting procedures between Regional Finance and head-office.
• Oversee all regional bank accounts with supporting regional statements of account. Ensure all reconciling items are posted into the system on a timely basis.
• Provide support on the automation of workflows to maintain compliance and achieve efficiency.
• Ensure cash advances are given to staff based on proper approvals and in compliance with applicable policies. Also ensure that defaulting staff are notified of their actions and reminded for timely settlements, failing which relevant actions will be pursued in conjunction with HR.
• Support the team on all finance- and control-related tasks assigned from head-office, including invoicing, tax regulating and audit, fixed asset management, treasury management, risk and compliance.
• Serve as a point of contact with SSC on Regional Finance-related escalations and requests. Provide out-of-turn support for processing urgent or critical requests in coordination with SSC.
• Coordinate all internal and external audit work.
• Ensure SOX compliance across Regional Finance.
• Ensure strict compliance with policies, processes, procedures, IFRS, IAS and GAAP.
• Support training and education on new policies, practices and standards.
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Senior Manager, Account Payable & Regional Finance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Management, or any related discipline.
• Relevant professional certifications, e.g. ACA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA, etc, will be an asset.
• +7-10 years’ cognate experience, with at least 3 years in a supervisory role.

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. 
• Boldness - 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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