FP&A AND COMMERCIAL ANALYST – Multichoice Ethiopia PLC

Accounting and Finance

Multichoice Ethiopia PLC

The MultiChoice Group is a broad-based multinational media and entertainment group headquartered in South Africa, Dubai and Netherlands with principal operations in pay television, video entertainment, advertising and content security serving rapidly growing base of 13.5 million households. Eminent brands within the group include DSTV, GOTv, SuperSport, M-net, DSTVnow, Showmax and Europe based content security leader Irdeto. Key areas of operations are:

  • Storytelling ranging from content creation, production and aggregation including the best global general entertainment, sport and eminent African content library, delivered to customers
  • Pay Television: direct-to-home satellite and digital terrestrial television services;
  • SVOD: subscription video on demand services across multiple online platforms with a focus on library and local content in developing markets, and
  • Advertising: providing dynamic media solutions; handling commercial airtime, on-air sponsorships, content integration, and online sales across a variety of 130+ channel brands on linear TV, VOD, social media, and digital platforms.

The group’s strength lies in its focus on local language and culture, its entrepreneurial spirit and the quality of its workforce. MultiChoice Group (MCG) has a successful history of identifying trends early, adapting them for the markets in which it operates and leveraging them to maximum advantage. The group generates revenues primarily through subscription model, with a growing contribution from advertising revenue. Its key objectives are to:

  • Expand Pay TV, SVOD subscriber base and advertising sales
  • Focus on investment and technology
  • Maintain a local approach
  • Provide quality service
  • Attract innovative and motivated employees

In MultiChoice Ethiopia (MCE), manages and markets the DStv and Showmax brands serving to enrich the livesof our customers in Ethiopia by inspiring passion, lifestyle and greatness.

Purpose of the Goal

Responsible for the production of management reports, budgets, forecasts, scorecards/dashboards, business cases and being a finance business partner to other functions.

Key Performance Objectives

Reporting & Analysis

  • Support production of management reports
  • Support production of various analyses as required.
  • Produce and maintain a database of data and information useful for financial decision making (drivers, economic indicators, product and price lists, etc)

Planning and Forecasting

  • Support the production of the annual budget, including data collection and analysis.

    •  Collect and consolidate inputs to the budget
    • Support the production of the annual forecast, including data collection and analysis
    • Collect inputs to the forecast process.
    • Support the production of Business Cases

    Business partnering

    • Collect inputs to the Business Case
    • Liaise with Commercial teams on advance requests and periodically reconcile settlements between Finance and Commercial teams
    • Liaise with Commercial function to understand and support their needs and requirements and provide feedback to Finance.
    • Liaise with Commercial function and develop deep understanding of commercial drivers and trends (trends, KPI’s, commercial drivers, etc.

    Finance Projects

    • Support execution of in-country / Corporate identified Projects in Finance

    QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

    ·FMVA, BIDA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent professional qualification desirable

    ·    Above 3 years of experience in financial analysis planning, budgeting and forecasting and a real knack for understanding commercial workings of a business enterprise.

    · Experience in reporting and variance analysis

    ·   Knowledge and working knowledge of relevant corporation taxes

    · Experience in multi-national environment will be an added advantage

    . Fluent in English.

    FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES

    The incumbent is required to have the following functional competencies:

    ·         Accounting / IFRS

    ·         Accounting applications

    ·         Accounting Ratios

    ·         Administration skills

    ·         Automation techniques (beneficial)

    ·         Commercial acumen

    ·         Data collection

    ·         Data visualization skills (graphs, diagrams, etc)

    ·         Dashboards, Balanced Scorecard, Key performance indicators (KPI’s) & Objectives Key Results (OKRs)

    ·         Excel

    ·         Financial Management (Corporate Finance)

    ·         General IT skills

    ·         Taxation

    .         Tools like Think Cell or ZebraBI, Power Query and PowerBI advantageous.

    BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES

    ·         Acts with integrity, objectivity and high standards of accountability

    ·         Analytical skills

    ·         Assertiveness

    ·         Attention to detail

    ·         Business partnering

    ·         Commercial mindedness & Curiosity

    ·         Communication skills

    ·         Industry knowledge / awareness

    ·         Influential

    ·         Open-minded

    ·         Planning, Execution & Control

    ·         Presentation skills

    ·         Problem solving

    ·         Project management

    ·         Stakeholder management

    ·         Supportive

    .         Time management / deadline driven. 

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