Accountant - Project Finance, Network at MTN Nigeria

MTN Nigeria - The leader in telecommunications in Nigeria, and a part of a diverse community in Africa and the Middle East, our brand is instantly recognisable. It is through our compelling brand that we are able to attract the right talents who we carefully nurture by continuously improving our employment offerings even beyond reward and recognition.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Accountant - Project Finance, Network

Job Identification: 5654
Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Job Category: MTN Level 2
Job Schedule: Full-time
Reports To: Manager - Project Finance
Division: Network

Mission

• To monitor account and report on all Network Division project expenditures, ensuring fund optimization and accountability.
• Coordinate and report on other CPU (Facilities, ITS, etc.) budget performance.
• To coordinate project accounting functions, ensure reliable and transparent project information is maintained and produced from the company’s project reporting systems.

Description

• Ensure project structures are created and loaded on the Systems Projecting Accounting Module, ensuring proper accounting principles are applied in the documentation of projects.
• Monitor actual expenditure and update control base per project in overall terms, implementing processes to track NWD project expenditure.
• Analyze the scope change and incorporate the impact to avoid budget overruns by establishing cost control base per project.
• Track all NWD Capex budget, reporting project performance on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Interface with project managers on financial issues, validating project budget commitments, and capitalization.
• Ensure adequate (high-level) tracking and reporting of CPU capex budget.
• Ensure constant engagement with Finance and other CPU champions on all Capex budget matters (business planning and forecasting).

Requirements
Education:

• First Degree in Accounting or in a Business-related discipline.
• Fluent in English
• Professional accounting qualifications (ACA, ACCA, and CPA) are an advantage.

Experience:
3–7 years’ experience in an area of specialization, with experience working with others

• Experience working in a medium organization.
• Advanced Excel skills is required.
• Experience in project, cost and management accounting, budgeting, and variance analysis
• Experience in a supervisory role
• Experience in telecommunications is an advantage.

Application Closing Date
14th July, 2025, 10:59 PM.