Job Openings at IHS Towers

IHS Towers is the largest independent mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Founded in 2001, IHS provides services across the full tower value chain – colocation on owned towers, deployment and managed services.

Today IHS Towers has operations in Nigeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia and Rwanda. Following the recent acquisitions of MTN and Etisalat’s tower portfolios in Nigeria, IHS owns over 23,300 towers in Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Manager, Account Payable

Job Location: Lagos
Employee Type: Permanent
Department: Finance

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in any discipline (Finance and Management-related strongly preferred).
• +5 years of relevant post-NYSC work experience in core accounting function.
• Evidence of professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA).
• 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.

Functional Competencies:

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

Behavioural Competencies:

• Collaboration & Teamwork
• Relationship Building.

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2.) Senior Specialist, SOX & Compliance

Job Location: Lagos
Employee Type: Permanent
Department: Finance

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

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

Functional Competencies:

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

Behavioural Competencies:

• Collaboration & Teamwork

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3.) Manager, Regional Rollout

Job Location: Asaba, Delta
Employee Type: Permanent
Department: Deployment / / Roll out

Job Description

• As Manager of regional Rollout, you will coordinate and manage all BTS and upgrade deployments across assigned regions from inception to completion.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Foster a culture of high performance and continuous improvement that values learning and commitment to quality among team members.
• Ensure adherence/ compliance with approved site design drawings received from site build contractors (SBCs).
• Work with the Project Management Office (PMO) team on power analyses and tower load analyses and follow up with recommendations on BTS and upgrade sites.
• Calculate detailed material and human resource requirements for projects and present to Senior Manager, Regional Deployment for discussion and approval.
• Ensure sites are built in line with project schedule, budget, and specifications.
• Approve and send Bill of Quantity (BoQ) for BTS to Senior Manager, Regional Deployment for further approval.
• Prepare detailed project schedules and present to Senior Manager, Regional Deployment for discussion and approval.
• Coordinate with SBCs on sites requiring reticulation works and support the Supply Chain team in search for suitable contractors.
• Give approval to SBCs to commence civil works.
• Monitor progress of projects and assigned resources on the field according to project baselines. Highlight major and minor issues to accountable Senior Manager, Regional Deployment.
• Prepare and update daily, weekly, and monthly progress reports on projects and circulate to Senior Manager, Regional Deployment.
• Steer meetings with assigned contractors and team-members to monitor project progress and discuss solutions to problems encountered.
• Ensure successful completion of projects through ongoing collaboration with internal stakeholders across Site Acquisition (SAQ), PMO, Operations, Warehouse, and so on.
• Perform random inspections of project progress on the field.
• Monitor execution of Work in Progress (WIP) sites
• Request for power on sites during rollouts and upgrades.
• Ensure contractors are working according to company specifications.
• Complete documentation of projects.
• Check as-built drawings and ensure that contractors have signed off from sites.
• Promote communication between colleagues for benefit of information flow and to curb any issues that may arise.
• Prepare and submit reports to the Senior Manager, Regional Deployment on all matters relating to the unit.
• Ensure that all Acceptance Test Plan (ATP) documents are signed on time.
• Secure timely sign-offs on Provisional Acceptance Certificates (PACs) and
• Final Acceptance Certificates (FACs).
• Ensure all on-site snags are duly identified and fixed.
• Coordinate site handovers with other internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage relationships with partners and vendors.
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Senior Manager, Regional Deployment

Functional Competencies:

• Site Acquisition
• Rollout Management
• Enterprise Asset Management
• Logistics Management
• Site/ Infrastructure Audit
• Project Management
• Contract Management

Behavioral Competencies:

• Collaboration & Teamwork

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering or related discipline.
• +10 years of relevant experience in the telecoms industry.
• Professional project management certification, e.g. PMP or PRINCE2, will be an asset.

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