Job Vacancies at Airtel

Job Purpose

To lead professional and strategic HR delivery to management and employees in line with global best HR practices and Smart Cash PSB people strategies, as well as effectively oversee HR performance metrics and management reporting needed for decision making in the achievement of organizational objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Cascade Smart Cash Structure to respective Business unit heads.
• Discuss functional peculiarities and headcount requirements in line with short-and long-term strategies.
• Incorporate Business unit heads’ feedback into structure.
• Communicate approved structure and conclude on manpower planning and placement with Business unit heads.
• Responsible for Annual Operating plan and strap implementation across the organization.
• Design strategies on talent management in line with Smart Cash policy.
• Oversee succession planning for key leadership and operational roles across the organization.
• Develop plans to establish a talent pool for all management positions and business critical roles.
• Oversee effective implementation of change management initiatives.
• Ensure Business unit heads develop, implement, and monitor action plans in identified dimensions targeted at improving employee engagement.
• Oversee Compensation, Benefits, and Incentive Management initiatives.
• Ensure effective HR. Budget Management and Control.
• Design and implement a best-in-class robust remuneration and benefits, package that will ensure attraction and retention of top talent in line with Smart Cash guidelines.
• Ensure employee safety, welfare, wellness, and health.
• Oversee employee services and counseling initiatives.

Educational Qualification, Experience & Competencies

Education and Certification:

Must Have:

• A bachelor's degree in human resources or related field.
• A master's degree would be preferred.
• A professional qualification of CIPMN, CIPD, SHRM.

Work Experience

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience with 5 years’ experience in an HR management role, leading teams of HR generalists.

Skills and Competencies

• Advanced ability to develop and integrate HR strategies and initiatives with company's business strategies with minimal supervision to no supervision.
• Excellent ability as a consultant/negotiator to influence company senior management.
• Knowledge of Human Resources laws and regulations as well as global best practices.
• 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.
• High degree of professionalism, maturity and confidentiality.
• Strong oral and written interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to see the big picture and provide useful and strategic advice and input across the company and on the senior executive team.
• Ability to lead in an environment of constant change.
• Creative, forward thinker.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

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Job Purpose

As a key member of the Management team, the Chief Financial Officer will report to the CEO and

assume a strategic role in the overall management of the company. The CFO will have primary day-to-day responsibility for planning, implementing, managing and controlling all financial related activities of the company. This will include direct responsibility for accounting, treasury, finance, forecasting, strategic planning, job costing, deal analysis and negotiations, investor relationships and partnership compliance and private and institutional financing.

Key Responsibilities

• Preparation of Annual Operating Plan, using forecasting tool, ensure that the adequate measures are factor to achieve business objects.
• Present operating and capital expenditure budgets determining the best mix of debt, equity and internal financing for review and approval. Keep general management informed of departmental progress and problems.
• Provides financial direction, planning and accounting to the business - short term and long-term financial goals.
• Negotiate/arranges external finance, when necessary.
• Review working capital/cash flow requirement on a regular basis.
• Ensures accounting processes conforms with all applicable policies including company and group policies, that meets the following:
• Ensures accurate revenue reporting and validation mechanics.
• Opex productivity.
• Accurate fixed assets register.
• Accurate general ledger accounting.
• Ensure sanity checks and delivery of monthly financial report.
• Oversees activities of Personnel (i.e., hires, coaches, appraise rewards motivates, discipline, recommends and terminates as necessary.
• Manage regulatory reporting function from CBN compliance point of view and lead CBN compliance reporting and external internal audits.

Educational Qualification, Experience & Competencies

Education and Certification:

Must Have:

• A first degree or its equivalent in any relevant discipline graduate and professional qualification (e.g., ACCA, ACA, ANAN, CFA,) etc.

Work Experience

• Minimum of 15 years post qualification experience in Finance & Performance management role within the financial services industry. Out of which at least 5 must have been at a senior management level.
• Development and management of policies and procedures for financial services.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills, result oriented.
• Able to work within and manage a team of professional, guiding and coordinating towards achieving common objectives.
• High energy person with the ability to organize, manage and deliver key strategic initiatives. Strong communication skills – both written and verbal with all levels of management in a professional capacity.
• Ability to work effectively under time constraints and deliver results by critical deadlines. Strong Leadership skills.
• Strong ethics and high integrity are mandatory.
• Networking ability – Internal & External.
• Influence and cross-functional handling.

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Job Purpose

Lead operations on Wallet platform and all integrations with Smartcash Partners. Aiming to ensure the best possible customer experience in line with the goals the business.

Providing service management and operational direction with particular focus on IT service management in cooperation with Smart Cash IT Partners. Ensuring IT products give the expected value to customers and hence meet commercial objectives of the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure timely operations and maintenance work is carried out on hardware and systems.
• Ensure that all system changes are managed in line with agreed change process to avoid outages caused by poor planning and execution.
• Ensuring technology partners deliver all services in line with the agreed SLAs.
• Validation Quality of Service reports shared by partners partner engagement to obtain feedback on ways of continuously improve the service.
• Ensuring incidents are acknowledged to reporting party.
• Ensuring prompt resolution of incidents with SLA’s and escalation to relevant teams where necessary.
• Prompt and clear updates to business partners on progress and resolution of incident.
• Obtain feedback on product performance and persistent pain points for purpose of product improvement.
• Prompt engagement customer service, Wallet platform operation, Sales team teams during scheduled maintenance outages and incidents.
• Regular business engagement & external partner engagement to improve operational efficiency.
• Translation of business service requests into clear functional change requests to be implemented.
• Bridging between business and technical teams.
• Ensure optimal scheduling of changes to minimize downtime.
• Ensuring SmartCash IT Operational policies are followed during day-to-day operations of all services, products and applications.
• Follow SmartCash IT Governance processes in consequence management.
• Closure of points raised during IT audits.
• User ID management, Ensuring Monthly QUV & CBN.
• Put the customer at the center of all we do., Ensure fairness & transparency & can-do attitude. Works seamlessly across functions, with partners & customers.
• Proactively identifies customer issues & ensures timely resolution, looks at areas for service improvement.

Educational Qualification, Experience & Competencies

Education and Certification:

Must Have:

• University degree in Computer Science or other related disciplines.
• Professional qualification/Certifications in IT skills like ITIL, Oracle data base, Linux, etc.
• Wallet /Mobile money platform expertise e.g., Comviva , Ericsson, Huawei.

Work Experience

• 7- 10 years with a minimum of 3 years in team leadership role preferably within the Telecoms/Finance services industry.
• Experience in databases, Linux, system integration, applications development and deployment is most desirable.
• Experience in service management.

Skills and Competencies

• Demonstrated success in managing multiple services simultaneously.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.
• Excellent communication, presentation and organizational skills.
• Successful background with stakeholder/partner management.

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Job Purpose

• This role involves providing financial and administrative support to the organization.
• Complete payments and control expenses by receiving payment invoices, processing of invoices, verifying and reconciling invoices.

Key Responsibilities

• Invoice collection in line with the checklist to ensure invoices meets the requirement.
• Ensure vendor payments are booked appropriately and processed based on agreed payment terms in line with agreed SLAs.
• Ensure invoices are captured in the system with all relevant invoice information such as VAT and WHT alongside the supporting document attached to the invoice. Ensure invoices are initiated to the correct user department and user function within the user department.
• Follow up with the approvers to ensure approval is completed. Ensure that all accrual expense booked for the month have verifiable back up scheduled. Ensure timely submission of validated user group input to ACE.
• Ensure accuracy of review decks for departmental functions, completeness of all OPEX and departmental expenses.
• Responsible for vendor reconciliation in line with group policy and Opco target to ensure open issues do not age more than 30 days.
• Ensure all accruals in the books are not beyond three (3) months of ageing without any escalation.
• Ensure account clean-up for reconciling items arising from balance sheet reconciliations.
• Ensure intercompany cross charges are appropriately booked and reconciled. Ensure timely submission of DTR Schedules and other AP related adhoc reports.

Educational Qualification, Experience & Competencies

Education and Certification:

Must Have:

• A university degree in accounting, social sciences or any numerate discipline.

Work Experience

• Minimum of 5 Years’ experience in similar role.

Skills and Competencies

• Proficient in the use of Microsoft office tools and accounting packages.
• Good Interpersonal relationship required.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Attention to details.
• Result oriented.