MTN Ghana Recruitment 2023/2024

Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified graduates for MTN Ghana Recruitment 2023/2024.

Launched in 1994, the MTN Group is a leading emerging market operator, connecting subscribers in 22 countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The MTN Group is listed on the JSE Securities Exchange in South Africa under the share code: “MTN.” As of 30 June 2013, MTN recorded 201.5 million subscribers across its operations in Afghanistan, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Cyprus, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Republic, Iran, Liberia, Nigeria, Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville), Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, South Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Uganda, Yemen, and Zambia.  MTN’s brand is the most valuable in Africa and is ranked in the top 100 brands worldwide. MTN’s shares constitute the biggest primary listing on the JSE – Africa’s largest stock exchange.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Commercial Legal

Job Summary:

• Provide legal advice to guide the organization in commercial legal activities/transactions requiring MTN input – drafting, structuring, etc aimed at ensuring corporate governance and compliance as well as minimizing and mitigating legal risk to the business.

Key Tasks

• Negotiate, draft, and implement legal agreements.
• Incorporate related company policies into contracts and provide legal advice on company matters.
• Monitor, manage, and provide input into litigation strategy and approach of external solicitors in all ongoing litigation and dispute resolution matters
• Manage disputes that arise and have the ability to judge the need to escalate disputes.
• Monitor the legal and regulatory landscape and report on laws, regulations, and guidelines that can affect the business of the company and provide guidance in legislative aspects.
• Manage legal risks associated with transactions in accordance with company policy.
• Provide legal opinions on various legal issues and legal advice on transactions.
• Research applicable laws and provide recommendations on the legal consequences of business initiatives and decisions and highlight attendant risks.
• Advise, negotiate, and manage commercial legal transactions within MTN and outside MTN.
• Review practices, procedures, policies, and business to ensure that these are in accordance with the laws of Ghana.
• Provide legal support to divisional/ company projects.
• Support the implementation of internal company policies.
• Support efforts towards influencing governmental & regulatory policies affecting the company’s businesses.
• Facilitate timely responses to stakeholders.

Context :

• Dynamic and highly competitive technology & ICT industry
• Multiregulation and multifaceted stakeholder management
• Public Listed Organization
• Environmental, Social, and Governance prioritized.
• Regionalization structure implication
• Performance-driven environment
• Development of a sophisticated client base (especially high-value)
• Unionized environment
• Diverse cultural environment
• Active media engagement & brand reputation
• Extended workforce management
• Agile ways of working

Foundational Skills Proficiency Required

Strategic Planning & Thinking

• Analyze the organization’s wider environment and draw conclusions about the impact of events and activities; guide the team to create solutions that deliver value in line with the business plans.
• Develops and implement organization-wide policy by determining the target audience, building coalitions with the appropriate population, and developing a budget.

Qualification/Experience

Education

• A Degree in Law with a qualifying certificate in law (i.e. Bar exams)
• Post-Graduate Qualification/ Certification in Commercial Law, Communications Law or International Commercial Law is desired but not mandatory.

Experience

• 5+ years post-qualification Commercial/Corporate Law experience in a large local law firm or the legal department of a large company. Experience must include supervisory exposure and direct participation in:
• Negotiations and drafting of reasonably complex commercial transactions.
• Telco/Finance Experience an advantage.

Professional/Technical competencies:

• In-depth knowledge of commercial laws, telecoms laws, labor laws, land laws, etc
• Project Management skills for some projects
• Conflict Management
• Contract Management
• Information Management
• Legal Advice
• Litigation Management
• Reporting
• Research Orientation
• Effective Communication skills – verbal and written
• Strong reasoning and debating skills
• Research and Writing Skills
• Computer Literacy
• Strong Negotiation
• Consulting
• Good interpretation skills

Skills / physical competencies:

• Ability to manage self and be a team player, take self-accountability
• Energy & Drive – Innovative, Takes initiative, result oriented and develops self consistently
• Interpersonal Skills – Leadership, customer centricity, collaborative
• Personal Skills – Trustworthy, integrity, and ethical in dealings
• Operating Skills – Ability to focus on priorities and plans, and share knowledge effectively
• Organisational Positioning Skills – Good written and verbal communication, presentation skills, commitment to the organization
• Global thinker, Analytical thinking and Problem-solving abilities, Value Creator

NB: The Incumbent must maintain strict confidentiality always.

How to Apply

Qualified applicants should indicate vacancy number ADTRACK – COMMLEGAL001 as the email subject. Interested and qualified applicants should send their Curriculum Vitae to: [email protected]

Application Deadline: 20th May 2023

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Indirect Tax

Job Summary:

• Provide specialist advice on indirect taxes to MTN Ghana and Mobile Money Ltd (CST, VAT, NHIL Levy, GETFund Levy, Customs) and other related matters, including, its key distributors. Ensure that not only the business is fully tax compliant from the tax legislation’s perspective all areas of indirect taxes (CST, VAT, NHIL Levy, GETFund Levy, and Customs),

Key Tasks

• Provide key input in developing Indirect Direct tax plans, and solutions; researching and tracking economic, political, and legislative trends affecting and potentially affecting the telecommunication/ ICT industry; identifying and researching local and foreign taxation issues.
• Ensure all transactional tax (Indirect taxes- Communication services, VAT, WHTVAT, Customs) queries and tax issues raised by departments within the business are resolved.
• Ensure accurate and timely accounting and Filing of all indirect tax returns and Remittance of VAT on Normal Operations, VAT on Foreign Services, and VAT on Proceeds from disposal of fixed assets.
• Liaise with internal stakeholders in the organizations in addressing all statutory audits with various tax authorities and external auditors.
• Identify tax exposures, and evaluate and present tax action options to Senior Consultant.
• Issue VAT certificates for all payments by Scancom and MOMO Ltd.
• Provide input to indirect tax risk management policy and proposed strategy and ensure the implementation of Group tax policies internally.
• Manage the provision of day-to-day advisory support to other divisions and departments on indirect tax-related issues.
• Perform sensitivity/trend analysis of all sales transactions.
• Interact with tax consultants and tax officials from various firms within the telecommunications industry as and when required on all indirect tax issues
• Provide indirect input to regular updates to the audit committee on all tax matters.
• Research new tax applications and recommend appropriate direction for the business. This includes providing inputs to Lead Specialist for tax-related policies, strategies, and procedures.
• Facilitate annual risk assessment to identify changes in tax-related rules & regulations.
• Provide updates to Opco in case of modification of rules and regulations.
• Provide key input to ensure that the business is structured in the most tax-effective way and work with the Legal and Business Development groups to certify that transactions are appropriately structured.
• Provide key input to ensure that the company is maximizing tax abatements and other incentives offered by the various tax legislations.

Context :

• Dynamic and highly competitive technology & ICT industry
• Multiregulation and multifaceted stakeholder management
• Public Listed Organization
• Environmental, Social, and Governance prioritized
• Regionalization structure implication
• Performance-driven environment
• Development of a sophisticated client base (especially high-value)
• Diverse cultural environment
• Extended workforce management

Qualification/Experience

Education

• First Degree in Accounting
• Must be a Chartered Accountant (ICAG, ACCA, CIMA, ICAEW)
• Chartered Institute of Taxation -Ghana membership

Experience

• 5 years of Tax experience preferably in the Telecom Industry or in a medium to large organization with at least 3 years in a supervisory role

Knowledge

• Tax Management
• Tax and other laws – interpretation, compliance, and application
• Accounting
• Financial acumen
• Negotiating and influencing Skills
• Excellent knowledge of spreadsheets, databases, and document preparation applications
• Extensive tax experience
• Profound ability to interpret information and understand underlying commercial drivers of performance of the Telecom industry.
• Good knowledge of MGP applications.
• Knowledge of budget preparation and forecasting
• Risk management
• Financial Planning

Skills / physical competencies:

• Ability to manage self and be a team player, good conflict management, ability to take and manage accountability
• Energy & Drive – Innovative, Takes initiative, result oriented and develops self consistently
• Interpersonal Skills – Leadership, customer centricity, collaboration, and coaches & develops direct reports
• Personal Skills – Trustworthy, integrity, and ethical in dealings
• Operating Skills – Ability to focus on priorities and plans, and share knowledge effectively
• Organizational Positioning Skills – Good written and verbal communication, presentation skills, commitment to the organization
• Global thinker, Analytical thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
• Skill in Resource Management

NB: The Incumbent must maintain strict confidentiality always.

Strategic Planning & Thinking

• Analyze the organization’s wider environment and draw conclusions about the impact of events and activities; guide the team to create solutions that deliver value in line with the business plans.
• Develops and implement organization-wide policy by determining the target audience, building coalitions with the appropriate population, and developing a budget.

Critical Thinking

• Introduces new approaches that may have been tried elsewhere.
• Examines situations from multiple or different perspectives.
• Recognizes points for improvement and uses imagination to solve problems.

Analytical Thinking

• Organizes, classifies and synthesizes the data into fundamental issues.
• From the information, identifies the most probable causes of the problem.
• Reduces the information down into manageable components.
• Identifies the logical outcomes from analyzing the data collected.

Decision Making based on Decision Modelling

• Maintains the utmost integrity and always behaves ethically. Identifies gaps in information and makes informed assumptions in order to take timely action.
• Addresses very complex issues and makes a judgment call on the need for additional analysis or the business necessity to take a timely decision, with the available information.
• Demonstrates a basic understanding of different decision models.

Integrated Analytics

• Leads the business insights strategy for the organization and makes a significant contribution to the overall strategic planning process.
• Is considered highly influential and credible in providing customer, market, and business insights to inform and improve the quality of decision-making across the organization.

How to Apply

Qualified applicants should indicate vacancy number ADTRACK – F&STAX 001 as the email subject. Interested and qualified applicants should send their Curriculum Vitae to: [email protected]

Application Deadline: 20th May 2023

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted

Job Title: Analyst, Revenue Assurance & Fraud Operations Support

Job Summary:

• Responsible for proactively monitoring and implementing controls and related activities within the Xtra time/byte /Roaming space.

Job Role

• Responsible for the review of inherent potential risks within the xtra time/byte/Money space and Roaming
• Design and Implement primary and secondary controls within the xtra time/Byte/money space and Roaming to prevent and detect leakage
• Responsible for primary controls monitoring as assigned
• Responsible for Secondary control performance and exception remediation as assigned
• Daily data quality monitoring on Revenue Assurance and Fraud Management (RAFM) platform
• Revenue reporting and usage trend analysis
• Conduct pre and post xtra time/byte/money product and services implementation test
• Review changes to the xtra time/byte/money and Roaming system and user logs
• Perform borrowing and repayment analysis
• Perform a daily analysis on inbound and outbound roaming subscribers for any change in usages and charges
• Perform bad debt aging analysis
• Carry out work related task (s) as assigned by line manager

Context:

• Dynamic and highly competitive technology & ICT industry
• Highly regulated environment
• Performance driven environment
• Diverse cultural environment
• Revenue Assurance and fraud Management Group best practices & standards alignment
• Supply Market Demographics
• Ghana Specific restrictions on local content
• Highly technical nature of the Revenue Assurance and Fraud Management domain

Foundational Skills Proficiency Required

Strategic Planning & Thinking

• Aware of the organization’s business plan, immediate environment and the possible impact of events and activities on the organization; understand current role in relation to executing the business plan
• Ensures team objectives are consistent with strategic plan

Critical Thinking

• Generates simple ideas
• Solutions are limited in scope

Analytical Thinking

• Undertakes a process of information and data collection and analysis for integration purposes.
• Identifies and makes sets of information and determines their relationships.

Decision Making based on Decision Modelling

• Recognizes when advice or assistance is required in making decisions on non- routine issues and looks to others to provide support
• Distinguishes between critical and irrelevant pieces of information. Gathers input and information from a variety of sources to reach a conclusion

Integrated Analytics

• Is familiar with the organization’s various sources of business, customer, and market information, both behavioural and technical data
• Understands the range of metrics used to measure value and effectiveness and can use analytics to review the business impact of key activities

Qualification Required & Experience

• First Degree in Accounting / Computer Science / Mathematics
• Charted Information Systems Auditor (CISA) / Charted Information Systems Manager (CISM) Certification is a plus.

Experience

• 3 years relevant experience in a technology-oriented industry preferably telecommunications.
• Experience in data analytics a plus

How to Apply

Qualified applicants should indicate vacancy number Ref no: ADTRACK-F&SRA004 as the email subject and ensure that CVs are saved in their names. Applications without the subject and CVs saved in their names will automatically be disqualified. Interested and qualified applicants should send their Curriculum Vitae to: [email protected]

Application Deadline: 18 August, 2023

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted