Company Info
Large organization
200 + Employees
IHS Towers
IHS Towers is the world’s biggest independent provider of mobile telecommunications infrastructure in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. IHS, founded in 2001, offers services across the whole tower value chain, including colocation on owned towers, deployment, and managed services.
1). Manager, Commercial Finance
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Finance
Job Description
- As Manager Commercial Finance, you will develop and manage the company’s business plan; optimize portfolios to maximize profitability; and recommend new processes and initiatives that enable the business to improve underlying profit.
Key Roles & Responsibilities
- Develop business models that explain the financial impact of every business initiative or CAPEX project undertaken in the market
- Adopt consistent and repeatable financial metrics to evaluate all business initiatives and CAPEX projects, including but not limited to ROI, NPV, Cash flow, AFFO of business initiatives for comparative purposes and decision making
- Provide succinct executive comments to explain financial impacts of all CAPEX initiatives for management consideration
- Coordinate data gathering of supplementary and non-financial information, in conjunction with relevant functions and stakeholders, to complement project decisions – e.g. legal/ commercial/ statutory/ environmental perspectives.
- Support short and long-term planning cycles including Forecasts (FCs), Business Plans and Budgets by providing updated project estimates based on actualized and revised activity
- Support Senior Manager-Commercial Finance and Manager-Innovation & LEAN in developing a tool-based risk review process aligned with DOA and responsibility matrix for the market
- Complete standard templates for business review and approval of all investment requests, including CAPEX Committee templates, in a timely and accurate manner
- Coordinate the data gathering activity across user-departments on all proposed CAPEX projects
- Perform routine and ad hoc project performance reviews to measure performance against plans and relevant benchmarks and identify possible risks and opportunities to achieving performance targets
- Work with Budgeting and Reporting unit to understand and report project variances and recommend possible remediations.
- Gather internal and external data to aid evaluation and business forecasts, including but not limited to Interest rates, WACC, diesel cost estimates, price per barrel and other macro indices.
- Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Senior Manager, Commercial Finance.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s in Economics, Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, and other relevant Math-related fields.
- CFA certification or MBA is a bonus.
- Advanced excel proficiency
- +7 years’ cognate experience.
Functional Competencies:
- Financial Modelling
- Performance Management & Reporting
- Planning & Budgeting
- Data Analysis
- Business Communication.
Behavioural Competencies:
- Analytical Thinking
- Attention to Detail
- Collaboration & Teamwork.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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2). Manager, Network Deployment (Fibre Operations)
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full-time
Employee Type: Permanent
Department: Fibre Operations
Job Description
- As Manager, Network Deployment (Fibre Operations), you will manage the deployment of end to end passive and active Fibre networks, proffering Fibre optic network technical solutions and deployment processes to ensure optimal project execution.
Key Roles & Responsibilities
- Initiate, plan, execute, monitor, and close fibre projects across the business.
- Ensure that civil works, equipment installation and integration activities are completed and delivered to time, operational, quality, budget, and performance standards.
- Prepare and manage project plans and implementation schedules using required software.
- Review and monitor Project Implementation Plan (PIP) as submitted by vendors.
- Hold vendors and contractors accountable for delivering to agreed terms and obligations.
- Control the project implementation process.
- Ensure proper quality inspections are carried out and provide vendor evaluations.
- Manage implementation teams and external contractors during project execution.
- Hold regular meetings with all stakeholders on project status.
- Produce Project reports and project summary report for customer and internal consumption.
- Ensure the team maintains a proper database of all design, permitting and deployment activities.
- Build and manage the team’s risk management processes and activities.
- Ensure HSE (Health, Safety and Environment) compliance by the service providers vendors.
- Other tasks and duties as assigned by the Principal Specialist, Network Deployment (Fibre Operations)
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Telecommunication, Science, Engineering or any related discipline and other relevant professional certifications, e.g. PMP and PRINCE2, will be an asset.
- 7 -10 years’ work experience in fiber optic network design, implementation, operational maintenance and managing fibre optic network deployment projects.
- Knowledge and relevant experience in the broadband telecommunications industry transmission networks (SDH/DWDM/OTN), IP/MPLS and Fiber network technologies and solutions will be an advantage.
Functional Competencies:
- Project Management
- Fiber transmission technologies and solutions
- Fiber Optic Implementation
- Reporting, Documentation and Communication
- Materials Planning
- Knowledgeable in HSE regulations
- Proficiency in GIS mapping/applications, Google Earth
- Excel/PowerPoint skills for data analysis & reporting
- Process improvement & Management
Behavioural Competencies:
- Collaboration & Teamwork
- Result Oriented
Deadline: Not Specified.
How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should use the links below to apply: