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.
Deadline: 20th September 2023
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