Financial Reporting Specialist at Vodafone Ghana

Description
Role Purpose:

• Manage a team of specialists to deliver monthly reports for Vodafone Group including both financial and non- financial information, and provide timely, reliable financial information on revenue, direct costs, opex and capex to Vodafone Ghana Finance team

Job Responsibility
Financial Reporting & Accounts Lead

• Manage accurate and timely completion of monthly trial balance.
• Review expense entries and investigate large variances to ensure correct cost centres are charged.
• Provide timely and accurate calculation on Regulatory Fees to Finance Controller to ensure that statutory payments datelines are complied with.
• Provide appropriate responses to queries raised by FP&A and other stakeholders on monthly management reports.

Customers and Third Parties

• Provide appropriate responses to queries raised by FP&A and other stakeholders on monthly management reports
• To provide basis for financial analysis by other stakeholders.
• Provide schedules and reports during audit review and other statutory requirements.

Leadership

• Lead and manage reporting team through development of objectives and targets for performance and career development.
• Develop a highly motivated and committed team for effective and efficient performance.
• Identify and initiate appropriate corrective action to prevent or address significant accounting issues

Innovation & Change

• Use innovative thinking and ability to challenge existing processes and drive change and process improvement
• Implement efficient and effective systems of transactions processing.
• Ensure adequacy and adherence to transaction processing controls and procedures.

Core competencies, knowledge and experience

• Have good understanding of financial issues with emphasis on financial reporting
• Good understanding of the Telecom industry
• To be able to prepare and interpret financial statements
• To be knowledgeable in the use of any accounting software and Microsoft packages.
• To be familiar with IFRS

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

• The completion of at least a Bachelor's Degree Preferably Accounting related
• ACCA Qualification will be a plus