MTN Uganda Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is seeking to recruit a competent individual to fill the following position;
Job Title: Manager – Financial Commercial & Operations
Reports to: Senior Manager – Risk Management
Division: Risk & Compliance
No. of Vacancies: 1

Main Job Functions:
Enterprise Risk Management:
• Champion the implementation of the MTN group risk management strategy and framework.
• Manage the process for identifying principal & operational risks at both business unit/component & company level.
• Prepare clear and succinct reporting for various risk committees in relation to whether strategic & operational decisions are being made within risk appetite, the effectiveness of the control environment, and whether any changes are required to take risk
• Build a strong community of risk champions within MTN Uganda and enhance the risk function as a reputed centre of excellence, supporting the business to achieve its objectives.
• Implement reporting process to capture risks identified & chart progress on risk mitigation.
• Providing a central source of information and guidance on risk management for operational and strategic effectiveness. Maintenance of comprehensive and updated risk registers
• Encouraging and creating awareness of risk management throughout MTN Uganda.
• Ensuring consistency in evaluation and reporting of risks throughout MTN to facilitate comparability at an organization level.
• Offer a monitoring and oversight role for management regarding the status of risk and risk management processes in MTN Uganda.
• Assisting management to improve on risk management processes by supporting the risk identification and assessment process within the organization.
• Ensure that MTN Group risk management methodology and related tools are actively used in the identification, assessment and categorization of risk events and scenarios.
• In conjunction with the risk champions, ensure that identified controls for the top/ principal risks are satisfactorily incorporated in the company’s annual business plans and budgets
• Report on regular basis to the Head of Risk & Compliance on assurance assignments.

Project & Product Risk Management:
• Ensure that risks envisaged in planned new systems, products & services, projects and, data migrations are flagged early, escalated as appropriate and resolved quickly.
• Regularly update the Project & Product Risk Universe
• Classify and prioritize which projects would require risk focus and audit effort i.e. what R&C should do, if at all, on a particular project.
• Maintain an overview of all group-wide projects & products, ensuring associated risks are known and their impact managed; escalated where this does not happen.

Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Commerce, Telecommunications, information technology/ systems, computer science, or relevant field with at least five years’ experience, with at least two years in risk and/or Audit.
• Added advantage is Professional risk qualification with preferably two years post-qualification experience in a complex technology and/or financial services organization e.g. FRM, CRISC, CGIET, and CISA
• Membership/Affiliation with Risk Management bodies e.g. GARP and/or ISACA is desired.
Experience:
• Experience in implementation of Enterprise Risk Management frameworks with bias in financial, commercial, and operational functions of an organization.
• Experience in developing the appropriate information security governance and compliance measures.
• Experience in information security risk and incident management, business continuity, disaster recovery, information security incident management, auditing and conducting assessments.
• Experience in assessments against international Risk Management standards and/or best practice such as the ISO31000 and COSO ERM framework.
• Able to analyze large volumes of data using data analytical tools e.g., ACL or SQL
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including management reporting at both middle and top management levels.

Skills / physical competencies:
• Good Interpersonal skills
• Able to present and report on complex information in an innovative and informative way.
• Working under pressure to meet reporting deadlines
• Independent attitude and team spirit.
• Consistent demonstration of excellent written and verbal communication

Behavioral qualities:
• • Collaborative
• • Conflict handling & Resolution
• • Inquisitive skewed to research
• • Integrity
• • Persuasiveness
Female applicants are strongly encouraged to apply.