Analyst - Financial Reporting and

**Title of job**:Analyst: Financial Reporting and Controlling - Enterprise Business Unit

N **umber of subordinates: none: 0
**MTN Job Level: 2
**Location of the job: CFO - Finance Business Partner - EBU
**Solid Reporting Line:
**Manager - Reporting and Financial Controlling - EBU
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**1. Mission/ **Core purpose of the Job
To assist Financial Reporting and Finance Operations, including month end close responsibilities, to the Business Unit.

To assist with Financial Controlling responsibilities, managing P&L and Balance sheet of the Business Unit.

To provide commercial finance insights enabling optimal resources allocation with focus on acquisition and retention

To assist in the management of the income statement and balance sheet

**2. Context **(Global influences, environmental / industry demands, organisational mission etc.)
- Fast moving industry with constantly changing business requirements and technologies
- Fluid complexities of customer expectations and demands
- Highly competitive market with new and established competitors and aggressive competitor strategy and delivery
- Highly dynamic and fluctuating Telecommunications and ISP industry
- Total customer experience for MTN brand
- Constantly changing consumer and market needs
- Market dynamics and developments
- MTN policies, processes and procedures
- Regulatory industry norms govern MTN and partners
- Highly pressurized, deadline-driven environment
- Highly legislated / regulated environment requires compliance and adherence to Industry standards and benchmarks
- Participative environment - highly diverse and team-focused

**3. Key Performance Areas**:Core, essential responsibilities / outputs of the position (KPA's)

**Task Complexity**:
**Financial Reporting**
- Provide monthly and other periodic Financial report for the dedicated business segment as required by stakeholders from time to time Including revenue, cost of sales, opex and relevant balance sheet items
- Continually engage relevant stakeholders in the dedicated segment to gather key business insights to explain reported variances to forecasts and gather commercial initiatives required to cover the gaps
- Perform reconciliations across multiple system platforms and ensure that all reported information is accurate
- Ensure reporting integrity of both financial and non financial KPIs to manage reporting integrity

**Finance Operations**
- Engage with the Finance Operations department to provide relevant information for month end reporting for the relevant business segment and ensuring robust insights are provided to justify financial operations decision in P&L and balance sheet. This includes making decisions on accruals, provisions and ensuring alignment for any accounting adjustments in income statement and balance sheet
- Reviewing and understanding billing reports ensuring clear alignment and explanation of variances are well understood to manage results integrity
- Engage with Revenue Assurance to secure the integrity of reported revenue and billing reports
- Continuously engage Finance Operations team to carve out optimal stand alone P&L and Balance sheet for the business segment by recommending requisite changes to Chart of Accounts and driving indepth understanding of the General Ledger to be able to own all line items relating to the dedicated business segment
- Engage with the CRM delivery on an ongoing basis to manage end to end issues relating to dedicated business segment
- Ensure completeness and accuracy of the income statement and balance sheet by ensuring all costs relating to revenue for the period under review are completely captured to match revenue with costs
- Engage with Billing and Collections teams to manage Credit Notes issues relating to the dedicated business segment
- Engage with Collections department to manage receivables relating to the dedicated business segment

**Financial Controlling
- Manage the income statement and balance sheet of the dedicated business segment to ensure alignment and adherence to approved business plan,
- Carefully manage variances to plan ensuring governance is enforced to deliver key financial targets for the business segment (revenue, Contribution margin, EBITDA margin, working capital targets and cash flow targets
- Engage with the Billing team and the CRM delivery team to ensure alignment of customer revenue with billing reports and customer contracts
- Ensure all onboarded customers and accounts in the business segments have duly executed Deal Motivation and Contracts and that requisite quality controls are in place to ensure services provided are billed, working with relevant primary owners of the responsibilities
- Own changes to approved business plans (budget transfers/ reallocations, etc) ensuring requisite approvals are in place to drive proper governance
- Drive costs integrity of the business segment by ensuring the enforcement of the procurement governance, including enforcement of Purchase