Margin Assurance Specialist

Margin Assurance Specialist (Telecommunications)

Location: Midrand

Duration: 6 months (maternity cover)

• Margin assurance is a highly focused area within the Telecommunications sector with the purpose of detecting, correcting and preventing any revenue leakages from reducing cost, increasing revenue and minimising loss through the effective use of controls and various technologies.
• An experienced MA Senior Specialist with strong financial and technical skills, preferably from the Telecoms or Banking industry, will be responsible for implementing the end to end Margin (Revenue) Assurance controls

Key accountabilities

• To provide independent and comprehensive monthly reports, KPI dashboards and documentation.
• Investigate, analyse, validate, and quantify all revenue/ cost incidents identified.
• Identify gaps/shortcomings in the MA process and develop/recommend strategies to address the gaps/shortcomings
• Ensure that Margin assurance standards, SOX, Internal Audit, MA policies and procedures have been adhered to.
• Leverage of the companies expertise to identify areas of concern, information sharing and adopt best practices.

Core competencies,

• Excellent data mining skills
• Excellent data analysis skills
• Assurance background within telecoms or financial services
• 2-5 Experience using programming languages (i.e. SQL, Python etc..) and other analytical tools
• Excellent problem-solving skills

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

• B-degree in Accounting, Business Science, Telecoms, Financial Services
• Minimum 5 -7 years of experience in a Margin/Revenue Assurance environment, with a strong background in building assurance analytics through complex queries