IHS Towers is the largest independent mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Founded in 2001, IHS provides services across the full tower value chain – colocation on owned towers, deployment and managed services.
Today IHS Towers has operations in Nigeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia and Rwanda. Following the recent acquisitions of MTN and Etisalat’s tower portfolios in Nigeria, IHS owns over 23,300 towers in Africa.
We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:
1.) Specialist, Budget Control
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description
- To carry out budget control and business planning activities across Technical and Commercial Operations.
Responsibilities
- Serve as Business Partner to the business by working with key stakeholders across the functions to understand business drivers; elicit both financial and operational performance expectations; and implement strategy.
- Provide budget support to the business by analyzing variances, commitments, and efficiencies, as well as recommending potential savings opportunities.
- Maintain a KPI Scorecard for Technical Department and analyze network performance and other relevant KPIs on an ongoing basis.
- Create and maintain cost-head dashboards to monitor spend against key expense items and against responsibility centers and functions.
- Resolve budget upload complaints/issues and secure the necessary budget approvals
- Track accurate usage of cost codes across the business and coordinate periodic knowledge sharing session to bridge gaps.
- Carry out performance analytics of raw data from primary and secondary sources to facilitate decision-making.
- Provide forward-leaning, proactive early-warning systems to budget holders on performance to plan.
- Provide technical and functional cost inputs to the Commercial Finance, Budgeting and Reporting functions within Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) for purposes of budget preparation and business modelling.
- Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Senior Specialist, Productivity & Budget Optimization.
Functional Competencies:
- Financial Modelling
- Data Analysis & Reporting
- Business Communication
- Analytical Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Stakeholder Management
Behavioral Competence:
- Collaboration & Teamwork
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in economics, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, or any relevant numerate discipline.
- 3+ years of relevant experience in a similar role.
Additional Information:
Organizational Competencies:
- Customer Focus – People demonstrating this competency understand & exceed our customers’ needs. They develop trusted, reliable & collaborative relationships. They are consistently operating to the highest standards of service & delivery.
- Innovation – People demonstrating this competency constantly seek new & improved ways to deliver our products & services. They champion engineering & skills development, and work to create a collaborative and supportive operating environment.
- Integrity – People demonstrating this competency are open & honest in everything they do. They support financially & environmentally sustainable growth. They make socially responsible decisions and treat their stakeholders with respect.
- Be Bold – People demonstrating this competency are thorough in analyses & decision-making. They are courageous in expanding existing markets & developing new ones. They confidently pursue appropriate financial returns and are forward-thinking and ambitious.
- Sustainability- People demonstrating this competency are constantly seeking to create positive impact in the communities we serve.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should :
Click here to apply online
2.) Principal Specialist, Forex & Imports
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Finance
Job Description
Job Purpose:
- Manage and continuously improve on all foreign exchange (forex)-related aspects/ phases of the company’s end-to-end import trade process.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
- Source, negotiate, and enter into competitive trades for the purchase of foreign currency.
- Maintain company records of all currency purchases and ensure communication of relevant information to internal parties.
- Provide inputs to the development of strategies to reduce the company’s risk exposure to changes in foreign currency.
- Keep abreast of forex regulations and requirements, applying the knowledge effectively in delivery of tasks with limited supervision
- Serve as business partner to the Supply Chain organization, providing subject matter expertise and ongoing support on the import trade process with special attention to Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate with Supply Chain to investigate and analyze challenges/ problems that may arise and build solutions across the import trade process, leveraging experience and subject matter knowledge.
- Contribute towards strengthening compliance with and knowledge of CBN regulations and forex solutions across the business.
- Proactively monitor foreign currency exchange rates and other exposures relevant to the company.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with the company’s bankers to stay informed of solutions that add value to the IHS business.
- Contribute towards enhancing IHS’s ability to manage risks effectively by demonstrating and applying understanding of the regulatory environment around currency controls in Nigeria and requirements of the CBN Foreign Exchange Manual within the organization.
- Support and implement processes for hedging forex risks of the company as per Group Treasury guidance.
- Explore opportunities for forex solutions with the company’s bankers and other approved channels.
- Facilitate regular training for the Supply Chain team on import trade processes and ensure they are kept up to date on regulations and requirements.
- Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Director, Treasury.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, or other related discipline.
- Relevant professional certifications will be an asset.
- +8-10 years’ experience working in Treasury.
- Must have strong understanding of the Nigerian banking industry, currency controls regulations, currency solutions (FX hedge instruments), and import trade process and requirements.
Functional competencies:
- Analytical Thinking
- Banking Regulations Knowledge
- Treasury Management
- Forex Market & Operations
- Trade Services Administration
- International Trade Regulations
- Business Communication
- Stakeholder Management
- Negotiation Skills
- Reporting .
Behavioral competencies:
- Collaboration & Teamwork
- Relationship Building.
Additional Information
Organizational Competencies:
- Customer Focus – People demonstrating this competency understand & exceed our customers’ needs. They develop trusted, reliable & collaborative relationships. They are consistently operating to the highest standards of service & delivery.
- Innovation – People demonstrating this competency constantly seek new & improved ways to deliver our products & services. They champion engineering & skills development, and work to create a collaborative and supportive operating environment.
- Integrity – People demonstrating this competency are open & honest in everything they do. They support financially & environmentally sustainable growth. They make socially responsible decisions and treat their stakeholders with respect.
- Be Bold – People demonstrating this competency are thorough in analyses & decision-making. They are courageous in expanding existing markets & developing new ones. They confidently pursue appropriate financial returns and are forward-thinking and ambitious.
- Sustainability- People demonstrating this competency are constantly seeking to create positive impact in the communities we serve.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
3.) Specialist, Commercial Finance
Location: Lagos
Employment type: Full time
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 Degree in Economics, Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, and other relevant Math-related fields.
- CFA certification or MBA is a bonus.
- Advanced excel proficiency
- 4+ years’ cognate experience.
Job-Specific Competencies:
Functional:
- Financial Modelling
- Performance Management & Reporting
- Planning & Budgeting
- Data Analysis
- Business Communication
Behavioural:
- Analytical Thinking
- Attention to Detail
- Collaboration & Teamwork.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
4.) Analyst – Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE)
Location: Lagos
Employment type: Full time
Job Purpose
- Implement controls to reduce health, safety and environmental (HSE) risks in assigned region.
- Conduct HSE induction for new employees and for suppliers at the beginning of all critical activities prior to mobilization to site.
- Review the safe system of work (JHA, RA, PTW, etc.) for all activities relating to the approval of access ref, and where the task is potentially high-risk, escalate to the senior manager to define mitigation and additional control measures. Ensure oversight until completion of the high-risk tasks.
- Maintain and execute emergency preparedness plan, including quarterly drills for the region, ensuring first responders, first aid boxes, fire extinguishers, etc. are up to date.
- Conduct routine, ad hoc, pre-project, post-incident, and other required regulatory field inspections for hazard identification, including working with stakeholders to implement appropriate controls.
- Participate in, and provide support for environmental critical activities e.g., Environmental Compliance Monitoring, Environmental Audit, Site Clean-up/Remediation and other Regulatory compliance monitoring such as Noise monitoring, Air quality monitoring, etc. in the Region. Advise regional management as appropriate.
- Provide advice and support to regional management during incident investigations to establish root causes, cascade lesson learned, and make recommendations to minimize re-occurrences.
- Maintain timely and accurate weekly and monthly reports, HSE KPI record of manhours, incidents, training, HSE performance for contractors’, governance meeting actions, and provide support for closure and continuous improvement.
- Maintain data base for tracking of action plans arising from incident investigations, HSE meetings, audits, clients’ and/or customers’ inspections, and/or complaints in the region, etc., until close out, including logging and resolving all incidents on SysAid. Ensure monthly reconciliation of data between the region and HQ.
- Manage the distribution of and maintain records of PPE and first aid requirements for the region, including inventory and escalation for restocking.
- Periodically engage regulatory/governmental agencies (State Ministry of Environment, NOSDRA, NESREA, NCC etc.) to represent the company during site visits to address any escalation and prevent regulatory sanctions.
- Organize and implement HSE events including Perfect HSE day, road safety and fleet safety program, policies and procedures to promote safety consciousness among staff and contractors in the region.
- Advice and support the regional management, operations team, site maintenance contractors, SMCs, and site build contractors, SBCs on developments in environmental, legislations, risk-based reviews and implement controls to prevent accidents, and business disruptions.
- Support Operations team in advising on corrective actions on site-relate snags and ensure the region’s HSE systems and processes comply with relevant applicable laws and requirements.
- Participate in HSE-related conferences, seminars, public hearings, etc.
- Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Senior Manager, HSE.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Environmental Sciences and/ or any other relevant discipline.
- Membership of relevant professional bodies (ISPON, NES, IOSH, IIRSM, etc.) will be an added advantage.
- +2 years’ relevant work experience.
- ISO HSE-MS certifications, e.g., ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 will be an added advantage
- Valid NEBOSH International General Certificate (IGC) in Occupational Health & Safety. NEBOSH Environmental Management Certificate (NEC) will be an added advantage.
- Demonstrable knowledge in monitoring, policymaking, and planning.
- Proficient in MS Office Applications and other Microsoft tools.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
IHS towers is doing well by creating job opportunities, this will really help to alleviate poverty, kudos!
Today IHS Towers has operations in Nigeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia and Rwanda. Following the recent acquisitions of MTN and Etisalat’s tower portfolios in Nigeria, IHS owns over 23,300 towers in Africa., waooo that’s awesome 👍
People demonstrating this competency are open & honest in everything they do. They support financially & environmentally sustainable growth. They make socially responsible decisions and treat their stakeholders with respect., so demure