Accountant - Financial Operations Business Support 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 - Financial Operations Business Support

Job ID: 7132
Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Reports To: Manager - Finance Operations Business Support
Division: Finance

Mission

• To account for all company-wide Financial Operations activities (Business Support), support various divisions on financial issues and maintain commercial relationships with external stakeholders.

Description

• Maintain a strict control environment and ensure strict compliance with all MTNN policies and procedures.
• Perform accounts payable process and reporting
• Analyze and process invoice and PO’s received; and ensure accurate receipt of Purchase Orders on ERP by user departments.
• Manage appropriately, the databases of Withholding Tax deductions on vendors’ payments, withholding tax (WHT) deductions for remittance and analyze vendor/staff sub-ledgers. 
• Process transactions for staff advances, retirement and expense claims, and analyze divisional cash floats for adequacy; and rectify error.
• Ensure efficient and timely reconciliation and reimbursement of float (Executive Mastercard float, fuel etc).
• Perform general ledger accounting and reporting.
• Liaise with banks and key stakeholders when required and perform reconciliation of bank statement to general ledger accounts.
• Track expenditure by planning and directing all expenditure activities.
• Compile monthly financial expenditure reports.
• Reconcile financial expenditure with divisional / regional financial managers
• Perform month end reporting activities.
• Analyze/prepare relevant information for annual budget and financial forecasting; and assist in managing inter-company relationships. 
• Supervise/review operational cash flow projection and utilization as well as processing of account payable.
• Work with Financial Operations Manager to identify /rectify error in the entry and remittance of Withholding Tax deductions. 
• Establish trends and benchmarks for cash transactions per accounts and prepare reports to assist with pricing decisions.
• Review and approve departmental accrual submissions as well as provide detailed investigation and analysis of all accounts.
• Supervise the implementation of finance policies, processes and procedures and ensure strict adherence to established internal controls, MTN PPP’s, IFRS, IAS and GAAP.
• Work with Financial Operations Manager to prepare departmental budgets and provide support in daily unit administrative activities in line with the strategic objectives.
• Provide input into relevant management and board papers, review supporting documents/back up schedules to meet audit and regulatory requirements as well as analyze/interpret data to facilitate decision making.
• Ensure efficient optimization of databases/systems and prompt resolution of all reconciling items.
• Monitor and report on key performance indicators in order to meet all month end reporting deadlines.

Requirements
Education:

• A first Degree in any discipline, but a finance and management related degree is desirable.
• A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA).
• Fluent in English

Experience:
3-7 years’ experience which includes:

• Experience working in a medium organization 
• Experience in core accounting function
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office tools
• Experience in using an ERP system is desirable
• Experience in Finance functions in the telecommunications industry would be an added advantage

Application Closing Date
13th April, 2026; 10:55 PM.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online