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Job Title:   Senior Accountant – Group Opco-Fintech Finance

Organisation: MTN Mobile Money Uganda Limited

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: General Manager – Financial Operations

About US:

MTN-Uganda is the leading telecommunications Company in Uganda, providing payphone, fixed lines, fax/data, internet and mobile services.

Job Summary:   The Senior Accountant – Group Opco-Fintech Finance will:

• Review all assigned Opcos Escrow/Trust account reconciliation.
• Review all assigned Opcos revenues and liquidation in line with group standards.
• Review of all agent commission payments (subscriber registration, commission, Assisted payment commission, DST payments).
• Supervision of the Analyst Financial Operations.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Review daily bank reconciliation and recommend immediate corrective action.
• Ensure end to end follow up on all reconciling items in Trust bank reconciliation.
• Review of weekly journal captured to ensure they are properly accounted for and authorised.
• Review of weekly restricted cash in Opcos business to ensure it reconciles with the General Ledger.
• Ensure that MTN Fintech transaction revenues are reconciled, recognized, liquidated, and posted correctly in General Ledger.
• Ensure that agent commissions are reconciled, reviewed, and paid within agreed timelines.
• Validate and ensure all Journal posted in EWP and ERP system are authorized as per DOA and posted accurately.
• Support with review of Opco Business cases and update product finance risks.
• Ensure all assigned Opcos have in place all the finance processes in place that align to group standards.
• Ensure that all incidences logged for Fintech action are resolved within 48 hours.
• Supervision of Finance Analyst staff.
• Ensure Audit recommendations are followed up and objectively closed.
• Oversee reconciliation of all system accounts.
• Authorise the posting of all ERP entries raised by the team supervised.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant for the MTN Uganda Mobile Money Senior Accountant – Group Opco-Fintech Finance job must hold a Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Commerce or equivalent combination of applicable education and experience required.
• Possession of professional courses like ACCA and CPA is most desirable.
• At least three years of experience as an accountant.
• Knowledge of process and financial control
• Fintech regulation and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Risk management and control improvement within a Fintech product and infrastructure environment.

Knowledge & Training:

• Digital Financial Services
• Information management.
• Project management.
• Good knowledge of Fintech Fraud
• Knowledge of Fintech business processes
• Excellent organisational skills
• Group accounting policies and procedures
• Basic risk management skills
• Ability to transfer skills
• A good working knowledge in office automation tools: Word, Excel, Visio, Outlook, SQL.
• Understanding of Fintech registration and liquidation procedures
• Knowledge of current and relevant legislation
• Familiar with MTN Fintech products and services
• Added advantage ; data reconciliation and usage analysis.

Behavioral Qualities:

• Integrity
• Fast comprehension.
• Proactive
• Self- confident
• Tactical and strategic thinker
• Eager to learn Unquestionable professional & ethical standards & ability to represent the company in highly confidential & sensitive matters
• Ability to work unsupervised and team orientation – strengthening teams
• Resilience – maintaining composure and dealing effectively with stress
• Strong detail focus – attention to detail and accuracy
• Operate with integrity (high ethics)
• Methodical and systematic
• Reliable and dependable

Skills/Physical Competencies:

• Must have the ability to build and work as part of a team.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Creative
• Problem solving skills
• Relationship building
• Analytical skills – weighing up the pro’s and con’s; making sense of information
• Conflict management skills
• Presentation skills
• Ability to meet deadlines

NB:

• Female applicants are strongly encouraged to apply.
• In compliance to the Data Protection & Privacy Laws of Uganda, MTN Uganda will use your application documents for purposes for which they were intended for.

How to Apply:

All candidates who wish to join MTN Uganda Limited in this capacity should apply online at the link below.

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Deadline: 20^th September 2023

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