Education / Business Degree
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or relevant field
- Post graduate degree in Finance / equivalent/ relevant professional qualifications
Work Experience
- 4 – 7 years of relevant experience in Finance in a multi-national business environment 2 – 4 years’ management experience within a telecommunication environment
- 2 – 4 years’ experience in enterprise asset management related role
- Experience in continuous improvement through the implementation of best practices (enterprise asset management)
- Experience in enterprise asset management leading practices and trends
Industry / Certifications
- Telecom Industry Project Management Fixed Assets
Any other specifications
- International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS)
- ERP (Oracle)
- MS Office (Word, Excel, and Outlook)
- Experience in continuous process improvement
- Experience in a Shared Service Center / Business Process Outsourcing environment Assets Management experience in Telecom industry
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
Key Job Responsibilities
Strategy Implementation
- Assist in the creation of sub-divisional strategy in line with overarching divisional goals
- Ensure effective implementation of sub-divisional strategy by means of providing
- direction, structure, business plans and support
Staff Leadership and Management
- Set KPIs and provide regular performance feedback through a well-defined and implemented performance review program
- Develop and implement a training plan in order to build and develop skills within the team
- Manage allocation of work to team members after planning for back-up and leave / absenteeism
- Ensure cohesive working of the team
- Accountable for meeting and prioritising own targets / deadlines and those of others
- Provide coaching and support to help achieve performance expectations
- Provide information to the Manager on work accomplishments, individual / team challenges
- Lead team meetings and contribute on specialist / technical areas
- Report process dashboards on various performance metrics internally to the Manager
- Ensure a ‘MTN centric’ and ‘partnership approach’ to develop strong relationships with other working groups
Governance
Adhoc and Operational Meetings
- Set up / participate in adhoc and operational meetings
- Report at process and functional level
Escalations
- Manage and resolve escalations that have impact on critical path of service delivery
- Escalate issues that will result in significant time, scope, employee/client or cost impact if not resolved
- Manage and provide solutions to issues that require formal resolution
SSH Operational
- Set up and manage project status meetings
- Review and identify key risks, issues and dependencies and set mitigation actions
- Manage budgets
- Sign-off / make decisions regarding operational changes
Performance
- Review performance against agreed Key Performance Indicators and compliance to Service Level Agreements
- Create and monitor plan for continuous improvement
- Review performance of SSH teams
Reporting
- Report on a monthly basis to the Management relating to progress made within the sub-division and in accordance with the measurement metrics set by the organisation
- Report on specific projects as per the defined timelines
Budgets
- Assist in managing the sub-divisional budgets in line with business objectives
- Assist in managing project initiative budgets in line with business objectives
Operational Delivery
Manage Asset Adjustments
- Review work order reports for asset retirement and disposal
- Review and validate if retired assets are removed from Fixed Assets Register(FAR) and tax FAR
- Review tax treatment of retired/sold/scrapped/transferred asset
- Validate compliance with MTN and statutory requirements on or before retirement/sales/scrapped/transfer of asset
- Review and approve other asset adjustments related requests
- Review and approve property management related requests
Manage Project Reporting and Dashboard
- Review reporting templates
- Validate inter dependency in dashboard and evaluate their accuracy
- Review and provide inputs for analysis of data and validate explanation for the variance
- Provide and manage approval on reports
Manage Data Masters
- Manage Item Masters
- Manage WBS Masters
- Manage Site Masters
Others
Support EAM CoE in
- Maintenance of CAPEX Investment and Project Management toolkits
- Review of Opco reports (standard and adhoc) on EAM
- Updates to Maintenance Strategy
- Review of FAR on a period basis
- Reconciliation of physical assets with FAR
- Management of Master Data Management (MDM) and Business Intelligence (BI) reporting
- Collaborate with multiple stakeholders at Opcos – HR for staffing, people
- initiatives and attrition management, project management team in ensuring minimal challenges in sourcing for projects, quality team to ensure process improvement Initiatives, IT on automation / digitization initiatives for the process
- Identifying innovative changes to fixed asset and projects processes based on industry leading practices
Managerial / Supervisory Responsibilities
- Coach and mentor direct reports to ensure staff motivation is high
- Ensure skill transfer for staff development, motivation and business continuity
- Ensure the team is led, motivated and rewarded to achieve high performance areas
- Guide and direct vendors and third parties in achieving Opco objectives
- Identify staff training and development needs and implement necessary actions
- Manage team (including recruitment, on-boarding, attrition)
- Set goals and objectives for direct reports, monitor progress, and maintain motivation
- Set up appropriate structure to meet departmental management objectives