Roaming Finance Manager

Mission:

• To manage activities related to roaming (national & International) & MVNO financial management, reporting, reconciliation, and commercial settlement negotiation within the Finance Division in MTNIrancell.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• To interpret license agreement and assessment of the roaming financial impact on MTNIrancell business and report them to finance planning.
• To ensure compliance with the MTN and company PPPs in the context of roaming revenue, cost, receivables and payables, reporting, and reconciliation.
• To define the scope of the roaming revenue requirements concerning new and current business PPPs and posting rules between the roaming billing system and ERP (and vice versa).
• To resolve problems with roaming data adequacy and integrity, proactively and reactively recognize accurate revenue and cost and avoid cost and revenue leakage.
• To analyze and interpret roaming ledgers, perform roaming statistics analysis and margin analysis, and resolve any discrepancies (e.g., determine why movement has not been billed).
• To oversee the billing and invoicing conditions within roaming agreements, report issues to the clearing house and ITS Billing, review agreements, and provide comments or recommendations
• To validate the integrity and accuracy of monthly reports generated from the billing system versus. TAP files and resolve any issues related to TAP and invoices.
• To validate and approve monthly billing-related reconciliations (Billing System vs GL, including debtors & creditors).
• To identify and follow to resolve inherent systems data errors.
• To check and validate generated reports on roaming trends, revenue, costs, margins, receivables, payables, and collections.
• To ensure outstanding reconciliation items are followed up, balance confirmation letters are sent, and corrective entries are made where discrepancies are identified.
• To oversee roaming revenue and cost billing verification and assurance with the Revenue Assurance Department.
• To lead financial conduct and call data reconciliation with the roaming clearing house.
• To manage documentation of soft & hard copies of data, notices, correspondences and roaming the clearing house, roaming partners, and MNOs and implement resolutions from CRA.
• To ensure implementation of Group Discount and IoTs (TAP level discount) in the roaming billing system, manually calculate the invoice level discounts, keeping sufficient accrual.
• To act as the first line for identification of non-compliance with existing policies, errors in reconciliation statements, and collection lapses, and advise/ assist relevant parties on corrective actions.
• To act as the first management line for recurring and capital cost recovery to determine effective roaming service pricing.
• To identify revenue loss and cost leakage at the TAP level and report the financial impacts to stockholders.
• To have constant review and revision of revenue and cost recognition are needed for streams to be more accurate.
• To act as the first line for the collection of international debt and find a feasible solution to improve the settlement process (in/Out)
• To analyze, remark, and comment on revenue and cost trends compared to budget, MOM, and YoY to optimize and assure the revenue and cost recognition process in coordination of other MTNIrancell divisions such as MKT, NWG, and RA.
• To liaise with Cross-functional intra and inter-department teams for business and systems process development and for resolution of roaming & MVNO revenue and cost reconciliation issues

Education:

• Bachelor degree in Financial Management / Accounting / Internal Auditing or related.

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in an area of specialization; with experience in supervising/managing others
• Experience working in a medium to large organization
• Experience in enterprise financial systems
• Experience in telecommunications industry (exposure on international roaming is a plus)

Technical Competencies:

• People Management
• Change Management
• Telecommunication Networks
• Reporting and Analysis
• English Literacy
• Financial Management
• Financial Year/Month End Facilitation
• Roaming Accounting

Behavioral Competencies:

• Lead With Care
• Act with inclusion
• Serve with respect
• Can-do with integrity
• Collaborate with agility