Accountant – Financial Operations Supplier Management at MTN Nigeria

MTN Nigeria – The leader in telecommunications in Nigeria, and a part of a diverse community in Africa and the Middle East, our brand is instantly recognisable. It is through our compelling brand that we are able to attract the right talents who we carefully nurture by continuously improving our employment offerings even beyond reward and recognition.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Accountant – Financial Operations Supplier Management

Job Identification: 7286
Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Reports To: Manager – Finance Operations Supplier Management
Division: Finance

Mission

• To account for all company-wide Financial Operations activities (Supplier Management), support various divisions on financial issues and maintain commercial relationships with external stakeholders.

Description

• Maintain a strict control environment and ensure strict compliance with all MTNN policies and procedures.
• Perform accounts payable process and reporting
• Analyze and process invoice and PO’s received; and ensure accurate receipt of Purchase Orders on ERP by user departments.
• Manage appropriately, the databases of Withholding Tax deductions on vendors’ payments, withholding tax (WHT) deductions for remittance and analyse vendor/staff sub-ledgers.
• Process transactions for staff advances, retirement and expense claims, and analyse divisional cash floats for adequacy; and rectify error.
• Ensure efficient and timely reconciliation and reimbursement of float (Executive Mastercard float, fuel etc).
• Perform general ledger accounting and reporting.
• Liaise with banks and key stakeholders when required and perform reconciliation of bank statement to general ledger accounts.
• Track expenditure by planning and directing all expenditure activities.
• Compile monthly financial expenditure reports.
• Reconcile financial expenditure with divisional / regional financial managers
• Perform month end reporting activities.
• Analyze/prepare relevant information for annual budget and financial forecasting; and assist in managing inter-company relationships.
• Supervise/review operational cash flow projection and utilization as well as processing of account payable.
• Work with Financial Operations Manager to identify /rectify error in the entry and remittance of Withholding Tax deductions.
• Establish trends and benchmarks for cash transactions per accounts and prepare reports to assist with pricing decisions.
• Review and approve departmental accrual submissions as well as provide detailed investigation and analysis of all accounts.

Requirements
Education:

• A First Degree in any discipline, but a finance and management related Degree is desirable.
• A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA).
• Fluent in English.

Experience
3-7 years’ experience which includes

• Experience working in a medium organization
• Experience in core accounting function
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office tools
• Experience in using an ERP system is desirable
• Experience in Finance functions in the telecommunications industry would be an added advantage.

Application Deadline 
5th May, 2026; 10:55 PM.

Method of Application 
Interested and qualified candidates should use link below to Apply.

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