IHS Towers Ongoing Employment Opportunities

Job Description

• As Senior Specialist, SOX & Compliance, you will Improve finance policy and process compliance by ensuring that policy and process documents are up to date, reflecting current realities and embedding awareness, ownership, and compliance within and outside the Finance department.  Additionally, you will act as the local SOX champion and key contact for the Group SOX team

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Coordinate local SOX requirements as the local SOX Champion, including RACM validation and sign offs, control design inputs, follow-up on evidence submission, training, and change management.
• Test operating effectiveness of selected key SOX controls in a period prior to formal management or external audit testing.
• Ensure control ownership is routinely updated for all key and non-key controls for the local market by ensuring that RACM documents are aligned with the organisational structure.
• Maintain the database of deficiencies and open control issues, undertaking root cause analyses, following up and tracking management actions, escalation, collaborating with the Internal Audit and SOX Teams. Drive remediation efforts through the risk management application and engagement with issue owners.
• Review policy documents on an annual basis to ensure that they reflect current realities and best practice guidelines.
• Create and implement an annual training plan for all key stakeholders within, and outside of the Finance function covering all finance processes and policies.
• Perform policy and process risk-based compliance reviews.
• Develop a policy and process dashboard, monitor and report monthly against set KPIs.
• Review appropriateness of user access to key Finance systems through assessment of appropriate segregation of duties, alignment between privileges and job role and employment status.
• Translate work objectives into tactical work plans through liaising with management to ensure that objectives are met within agreed timelines.
• Planning and conducting business understanding workshops and undertaking risk assessment for the evaluation of risk of misstatement of financial reports or non-compliance to policies. Undertake risk assessment to identify compliance key areas of focus through discovery investigations to identify opportunities to add value through compliance reviews and assurance activities.
• Collection, review, and analysis of workings and other financial information prepared by accounting department for identification of exceptions. Analyzing and reviewing of other non-financial information reported to management for completeness and accuracy.
• Work with / cooperate with group Fin Ops functions, Global process owners and SOX team on driving consistency with a global IHS outlook and compliance work.
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Director, Finance Process Optimisation.

Functional Competencies:

• Analytical Thinking
• Internal Audit
• Risk Assessment
• Financial Acumen
• Use of MS Office Tools
• Flowcharting
• Business Communication
• Workload Management

Behavioural Competencies:

• Collaboration & Teamwork

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Management, or related field.
• Professional auditing and/or accounting certification a must e.g., ACA, ACCA
• Minimum of 6 years relevant experience in audit or accounting. Industry experience in internal audit is an asset.
• Good appreciation of IFRS accounting, SOX, ITGC and COSO.
• Internal/external audit training is a must.

2). Manager, Account Payable

Location: Nigeria 

Job Description

• As Manager Account Payable, you will execute Procure-to-Pay (P2P) best practices and processes across in-market entities.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Support ongoing change, process standardization and continuous improvement initiatives across the P2P function.
• Handle customer-facing interactions on all AP activities.
• Act as the focal point for all SSC-related activities pertaining to AP, including transition of in-market activities, processes and systems knowledge to SSC.
• Oversee daily activities of direct reports and other members of the AP team.
• Manage vendor queries and issues in consultation with local Technical teams. Ensure liaison between the company, vendors and external accountants to meet information needs and proper maintenance of information to meet historical purposes.
•  Provide any out-of-turn support for processing urgent or critical payments and ensure coordination with SSC team.
• Coordinate all internal and external audit work pertaining to AP activities.
• Coordinate monthly closing of financial records and posting of month-end information with SSC, including accruals, cost reviews and assessments for major vendors, etc. Ensure accuracy of post-close financial statements pertaining to AP.
• Provide accounting assistance to support user departments and operations/ technical staff. Respond to financial questions/ concerns to meet business needs.
• Monitor payables balances and liaise with Treasury to input cash flow requirements.
• Act as point of contact with SSC on escalations and urgent requests.
• Lead and coordinate performance management and reporting against P2P metrics with core focus on vendor accounts and payments.
• Ensure implementation of Finance policies, processes and procedures.
• Formulate policies aimed at ensuring process improvement in AP.
• Ensure strict compliance with policies, processes, procedures, IFRS, IAS and GAAP.
• Support training and education on new policies, practices and standards.
• Perform other activities or tasks assigned from time to time and/ or required as part of continuous improvement initiatives within the company.

Functional Competencies:

• Business Partnering
• Analytical Thinking
• Financial Accounting
• Problem Solving
• Business Continuity
• Process Standardization, Optimization & Automation
• Use of MS Office Tools (advanced)
• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)

Behavioural Competencies:

• Collaboration & Teamwork
• Relationship Building

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in any discipline (Finance and Management-related strongly preferred).
• Evidence of professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA).
• +5 years’ relevant post-NYSC work experience in core accounting function.
• Demonstrable proficiency in use of MS Office tools.
• Must possess solid knowledge of P2P best practices and trends which support implementation of effective business partnering.
• Proven work history of finance business partnering and use of ERP platforms.
• Experience in Finance functions within telco industry is an added advantage.