IHS Towers South Africa (PTY) Ltd Recruitment 2023/2024

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Review and amend mapped processes to ensure alignment with the current design
• Make recommendations on improvements to the current design to ensure adherence to best practices, Group policies, and SOX requirements.
• Develop/monitor KPIs/Metrics for measuring the success of process improvement initiatives and delivering those results to senior management.
• Build strong working relationships across Finance, Operations, Shared Services Centre (SSC), IT, Procurement, and other relevant stakeholders across IHS.
• Draft, perform, and supervise tests of the design, implementation, and operating effectiveness of key financial and business controls.
• Review policy documents on an annual basis to ensure that they reflect current realities and best practice guidelines.
• Perform policy and process risk-based compliance reviews.
• Develop policy/process dashboard, monitor and report monthly against set KPIs.
• Enforce appropriate user access and segregation of duties in financial systems.
• Support local implementation actions for transformation/improvement initiatives – including, but not limited to:
  • coordinating resolution of business pain points across all value chains;
  • providing supporting data for setting baseline and to-be metrics for business processes;
  • collecting inputs to and developing business cases for change initiatives;
  • enforcing and tracking change management activities;
  • providing SME review of user stories or functional requirements;
  • validating adequacy of UAT test scripts, UAT support, and bug fixing;
  • developing training program materials;
  • supporting business users post go-live;
  • developing/verifying policy statements needed to set up systems;
  • suggesting and documenting local deviations from global policy due to legal, reg, etc, and ensuring appropriate documentation and approval; and
  • escalating issues requiring management’s attention.
• Act as the local SOX Champion, coordinate local SOX requirements including RACM validation and sign-offs, control design inputs, follow-up on evidence submission, training, and change management.
• Ensure control ownership is routinely updated for all key and non-key controls for South Africa by ensuring that RACM documents are aligned with the organizational structure and communicated with Group SOX.
• Drive remediation of deficiencies and open issues – including undertaking root cause analysis, following up and tracking management actions, escalation, and collaborating with the Internal Audit and SOX Teams.
• Translate work objectives into practical work/project plans; liaise with management to ensure that objectives are met within agreed timelines.
• Work with / cooperate with group functions, Global process owners, and the SOX team to drive consistency with global IHS objectives/vision
• Perform other process and compliance-related tasks as assigned by the global and/or South Africa leadership team.

Job-Specific Competencies

• Ability to compile, analyze and present data, findings, and project/remediation progress in a concise manner.
• Effective communication skills (written, verbal, and presentation) with the ability to communicate, challenge, and influence in a constructive manner.
• Proven experience in communicating and engaging at a senior level across multiple departments.
• Collaborative team player with a positive and flexible attitude to work.
• Good understanding of project and program management techniques/methods.
• Good knowledge and hands-on experience in BPMN 2.0-based Process Modelling tools, ERP systems (including SAP S/4 Hana), and MS Office suite of products. Experience with SAP Signavio is an advantage (training will be provided).