MTN Group’s Treasury function is evolving to meet heightened regulatory scrutiny, a key contributor to business strategy, providing insights and guidance on financial matters, and the complexities of operating across multiple jurisdictions.
To serve the company’s growth through optimal cash management that enables strategic business decisions for the Group and MTN’s operating markets within the context of:
- Achieving top quartile operating efficiency and effectiveness through scale and common policies and processes
- Driving growth through business intelligence and standardization to maximize business impact
- Initiating sustainable technology change across the infrastructure portfolio to further aid MTN in the achievement of parallel climate sustainability
- Management of customer and supplier expectations
- Constant dynamics and local challenges in the economic, regulatory and legal environments
- Ability to create a technological strategy in line with the company’s business requirements
- Enhancing MTN’s position as a leading connectivity and infrastructure player
- Growing dependence on vendor-led and shared passive infrastructure models
- MTN’s strategy to build the largest and most valuable platform business across our regions
- Assisting the MTN Board and EXCO in protecting the assets, reputation and sustainability of the organisation for MTN to accomplish its objectives
Organisational Mission: MTN’s vision is to lead digital transformation in Africa, ensuring widespread access to reliable, high-quality broadband services that drive social and economic development.
Organization Values: At MTN we believe that understanding our people’s needs and aspirations is key to creating experiences that delight you at work, every day. We are committed to fostering an environment where every member of our Y’ello Family is heard, understood, and empowered to live an inspired life. Our values keep us grounded and moving in the right direction. Most importantly, they keep us honest. It is not something we claim to be. It is in our DNA.
As an organisation, we consider it our mission to create an exciting and rewarding place to work, where our people can be themselves, thrive in positivity and ignite their full potential. A workplace that boosts creativity and innovation, improves productivity, and ultimately drives meaningful results. A workplace that is built on relationships and achieving a purpose that is bigger than us. This is what we want you to experience with us!
Our commitments go beyond an organisational promise. It is in our leadership and managerial ethos to meaningfully partner with our employees, customers, and stakeholders with a vision to realise our shared goals.
Our values dubbed, LIVE Y’ello, are the cornerstone of our culture.
Lead with Care
Can-do with Integrity
Collaborate with Agility
Serve with Respect
Act with Inclusion
The General Manager: Strategic Treasury Management will be accountable to achieve the following objectives.
Strategic Frameworks
- Set and define the framework for Treasury Management; lead organisation-wide strategy, planning, design and implementation.
- Define and implement the philosophy, policies, frameworks, principles and processes for Group Treasury Management, to ensure standardisation and accuracy across MTN and drive consolidated long-term treasury strategy planning for MTN Group and OpCos.
Strategic Initiatives
- Provide expert guidance and stewardship to the OpCos in the planning, managing and executing on treasury management.
- Direct the development and implementation of specialised strategic treasury initiatives intended to derive enterprise-wide benefits.
- Establish and cascade treasury performance metrics and measurements which will be applied to assess the effectiveness of treasury operations and strategies at Group and OpCos. Monitoring, reporting and advising on corrective action planning.
Compliance Enablement
- Work closely with other Group Treasury Leads, OpCo CFOs, RVP office to drive alignment and congruence and oversee compliance to the treasury strategy and policy at OpCos.
- Drive compliance with Treasury policies and frameworks across the organisation and monitor the risk profile of Group and OpCos, in collaboration with Risk and Compliance, identifying potential risks that can impact Treasury.
- Collaborate with Legal and Regulatory function to drive compliance across Group and OpCos, keeping abreast of any regulatory changes that impact Treasury.
- Provide strong functional steering and subject matter expertise guidance to OpCo CFOs on all matters relating to effective treasury management including, but not limited to:
- Support and guidance on treasury functions including hedging, deal management and financial risk management
- Ad-hoc support for special projects at OpCos
- Implementation of enterprise-wide treasury mandates across all OpCos
- Coordinating with other Group Treasury Leads to ensure timely steering and advisory support (long term capital planning, upstreaming, cash management and forecasting, liquidity management etc.)
Key Deliverables
- Consolidation of treasury framework strategy
- Group wide alignment to treasury management
- Implemented treasury mandates
- Support and guidance to OpCos with regards to treasury management
- Compliance with Treasury policies and guidelines
Role Dependencies
- Active support from the Executive: Treasury
- Deep understanding of the MTN business strategy
- Understanding of the OpCo financial and treasury context
- Alignment of OpCo and Group strategy initiatives
Education:
- Minimum 4-year degree in Accounting/Finance/ Business
- Masters, MBA or relevant postgraduate qualification (advantageous)
- Relevant certification / accreditation / membership with professional body as required for role
Experience:
- 5 years senior management experience or more; with at least 3 years in relevant sector / industry /area of specialisation (understanding emerging markets advantageous)
- Worked across diverse cultures and geographies
- Experience working in a medium to large organisation Experience working in cross-functional, matrixed environments, influencing senior stakeholders, and mobilizing execution across diverse teams
- Experience in treasury management
Capabilities:
- Strategy Formulator, Decisive Problem Solver, Innovative Value Creator
- Culture and Change Champion, Inspiring People Leader, Relationship Builder
- Results Achiever, Operationally Astute
Functional Competencies:
- Liquidity & Working Capital Planning and Management
- Banks, Guarantees & Insurance Management
- Treasury Operations
- Treasury Governance & Risk Management
- JSE Regulations
Competencies:
- Execution Discipline – Operates with high personal accountability, driving projects through to closure.
- Problem Solving & Prioritisation – Navigates ambiguity and prioritises competing transformation demands with clarity and focus.
- Structured Communication – Communicates progress, risks, and decisions clearly through dashboards, reports, and oral briefings to senior stakeholders.