Job title: Head of Finance Operations
Reports to: Director of Finance
Location: Tanzania, East Africa
Industry: Telecommunication
Role Purpose
- Deliver world class finance transaction processing – Ensure efficiency by standardizing transactional processes
- Develop and update company’s accounting policies and ensure consistent application of these policies across Finance and the OpCo.
- Ensure the complete, accurate and timely accounting for transactions relevant to indirect taxes and direct taxes, asset accounting, receivables, payables, wholesale traffic (including invoicing, financial netting, payments, both as supplier and customer at the same time – interconnection, roaming, MVNO/Es accounting), intercompany transactions, etc with support of the Tax team
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and drive implementation of strategy for the Finance Operations function, encompassing: direction; process improvement; human resource capability; organisation support; and technology platforms
- Ensure the correct treatment of accounting principles according to national and international accounting policies
- Provide financial information to cope with external official requests by Regulatory and Government bodies by running the accounting regulatory model
- Manage all margin accounting activities
- Ensure that all initiatives, new products and services can be properly managed by integrating the commercial requirements with the needs of finance operations (e.g. accounting, tax, reporting, supply chain)
- Lead and implement tax compliance activities in conjunction with the Head of Tax, with the exception of Employment Taxes (PAYE, Non-resident Contractors tax)
- Provide leadership and direction to the Policy Committee
- Ensure the end to end correctness of all revenues and costs by applying processes and tools to capture all revenues and the right costs incurred
- Guarantee the compilation of the entity’s financial statements and financial statutory reporting in compliance with all the relevant GAAPs
- Ensure timely & correct payment of commissions to the dealers
Work experience & skills
- 10+ years financial accounting experience
- 6+ years in a senior management role (concurrent with the above)
- Telecom Industry Experience is an Advantage
Applications: Send your CV to; info@workforceconsult.com
Deadline: 3rd October 2018