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Manager, Business Planning and Forecasting, Consumer at MTN, Gauteng, South Africa

MTN South Africa

Manager, Business Planning and Forecasting, Consumer at MTN, Gauteng, South Africa

MTN South Africa

Full time Job

Date Posted: September 4, 2024

Application deadline:

Expired on: September 13, 2024 5:00pm

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Job description

Business Forecasting and Planning
·Develop and communicating strategic insights, forecasts, advance analytics, and building alignment across Consumer Business functional units and other BU’s.
·Manage all strategic reporting, dashboards and presentations for consumer business unit and executives.
·To facilitate and implement innovative approaches for building complex analytical dashboards to monitor consumer business strategic objective and operational performance.
·Create and maintain financial models to forecast financial and non-financial KPI’s. Also, use statistical analysis and economic forecasting techniques to develop short-term and long-term forecasts.
·Provide financial insights and recommendations to the management team to support decision-making
·Manage and drive the Forecasting and budgeting for the Consumer business unit and Manage the business planning and reporting cycles.
·Ensure adherence to MTN SA and Group Finance frameworks, guidelines and reporting requirements.
·Manage the development of the business planning, forecasting and monthly KPI’s reforecast.
·Ensure accuracy and proactive communication of analyses, strategic recommendations, and other deliverables to the senior leadership.
· Utilizing analytical tools to generate key reports, analysis, interpretation, and distillation of intelligent information and actionable insights from internally and externally sourced customer data towards ensuring business revenue and market share targets are met and exceeded.
·Evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of strategic and operational objective and propose and offer suggestions for improvements
·Continuously reviews and improves financial processes and systems to enhance efficiency and accuracy
·Review and manage the consolidation of financial results (financial and non-financial information) for monthly, quarterly and annual results as well as forecast, high level budgets and business plans.
·Review & prepare internal financial and non-financial reports for Exco, Board and Audit Committee including monthly, quarterly, and annual results as well as forecast, high level budgets and business plans
·Lead the development, tracking and analysis of sensitivities around the Opco’s 3-to-5-year financial forecast, under supervision from the group and MTN SA finance.
·Support the tracking and communication of strategic investments, their impact on financial performance and execution status.
·Provide management key performance indicator consolidation including company-wide alignment on measurement standards.

Define Business Plan

•Create and maintain financial models to forecast financial and non-financial KPI’s. Also, use statistical analysis and economic forecasting techniques to develop short-term and long-term forecasts.
•Evaluate environmental variables and market conditions to develop long-term strategies to support current and future customer needs
•Manage the preparation of budgets, forecasts, and long-term plans for consumer business unit, in co-ordination with sub functional decision support and consumer business unit leadership team.
•Analyze and prepare budget estimate for the consumer business unit, obtain appropriate approval from the consumer leadership.
•Ensure finalization of budgets for various consumer sub functional units with the support from the respective GM’s

Business Performance monitoring

•Review & prepare internal financial and non-financial reports for Exco, Board and Audit Committee including monthly, quarterly, and annual results as well as forecast, high level budgets and business plans
•Define the standards for performance across various activities and identify the parameters for measurement of performances.
•To facilitate and implement innovative approaches for building complex analytical dashboards to monitor consumer business strategic objective and operational performance.

Strategy Development and Implementation

•Lead Consumer business unit strategy formulation and execution
•Develop strategic reporting, dashboards and presentations to monitor business performance.
•Develop strategy papers to challenge the current consumer business unit strategy and propose new opportunities.

Role Complexity

•Support SM Planning and Commercial Strategy in the creation of the strategy in line with the Consumer business unit goals and informed by MTN SA strategy and business plan
•Ensure effective implementation of sub-divisional strategy by means of providing direction, structure, business plans and support.
•Responsible for annual budget development and monitoring the performance against it and Manage the business planning and reporting cycles
Qualifications
Education
•3 year Degree / Diploma in Commerce (Accounting, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science) or related
Experience:
•A minimum of 5 years’ experience including: 3 years of relevant experience preferably in a mid to senior position with experience in Management Accounting (Telecom Company preferred).
•Deep knowledge and understanding of continuous improvement through the implementation of best practices (Corporate Performance Management)
•Knowledge about leading practices and trends in Management Reporting and Corporate Performance Management
•Strong understanding and knowledge of GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles)
•Advanced proficiency in data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) and MS Office (Word, Excel-advanced, and Outlook)
•FMCG/ Telecommunications/ Retail Banking/ service industry context

Application deadline:

Expired on: September 13, 2024

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