Planning & Reporting Analyst

Airtel Nigeria (Airtel Networks Limited) is a leading telecommunications services provider in Nigeria headquartered in Lagos, the commercial nerve-centre of Nigeria. The telco ranks amongst the top four mobile service providers in terms of subscribers with a customer base of more than 39.8 million. The company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce and enterprise services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Planning & Reporting Analyst

Job Identification: 927

Job Location: Lagos

About the Role

• The purpose of the job is to provide and lead professional and strategic finance delivery in line with global best practices to Airtel Nigeria by providing reports needed for decision making in the achievement of organizational objectives.
• Airtel Africa is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and remain fully committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Responsibilities

Opex Controllership:

• HQ reports & ANOVA commentary updates and submissions 
• Opex Trackers/Monthly Engagement
• FnF Submission and comments
• Revenue forecast & analysis 
• Opex issue tracker closure of relevant actions
• Finance business partner & Decision Support
• Opex Efficiency Tracking & Review

Flash & Forecast:

• Submission of complete F&F report (N-1) 
• Commentaries for MoM, QoQ, Month Vs Flash, F&F & YoY - Flash & Actual (N-1)
• Flash health check reporting

Reporting & Analysis:

Review of Team’s internal and External reporting calendar for:

• Adherence to timelines
• Highlight of key risks and recommend improvement to stakeholders
•  Quality reporting 
• Examples: Weekly Revenue/CR/KPI Report, Daily,Data and VAS CWN,

Business Review and Analysis:

• Business Review Deck to highlight key areas of decision making (KPI Deck)
• Monthly Financial Review Deck on financial performance and KPIs
• Delivery of quarterly Board Deck
• Delivery of quarterly management briefing report 

Process Control Framework:

Benchmark targets to be achieved are:

• FPA Calendar Compliance Tracker 
• PET Score

Qualifications

Educational Qualifications:

• Graduate in Accounting/finance/Economics/ Bus Admin/Engineering
• A professional qualification of ICAN, ACCA or CFA is required

Relevant Experience & Functional / Technical Skills:

• 8-10 years of experience in a multinational business environment in similar capacity
• Experience working with organizational leaders to define and execute finance strategies linked to organizational goals
• Solid problem-solving and business acumen skills
• Proven organizational development, performance management and employee relations skills
• Must demonstrate interpersonal savvy with the ability to crack complex situations effectively while building constructive relationships
• Ability to build partnerships in a matrix organizational environment along with providing coaching/counseling to all levels within the organization
• Excellent ability as a consultant/negotiator to influence senior management
• Knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) and regulations as well as Global best practices
• Excellent knowledge of the S&D business model and success enablers
• Strong budget and management skills, including proven ability to project/process manage
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, tight timelines, multiple priorities, and demanding customers, in a fast-moving, constantly changing environment
• Ability to develop and integrate financial strategies and initiatives with company's business strategies with minimal supervision to no supervision

Other requirements:

• High degree of professionalism, maturity and confidentiality
• Strong oral and written interpersonal skills
• Highly developed, demonstrated teamwork skills.
• Demonstrated ability to see the big picture and provide useful and strategic advice and input to the business unit
• Ability to lead in an environment of constant change.
• Creative, forward thinker
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.