Principal Consultant - Regulatory.Mergers Acquisitions and Business Development

MTNs purpose is to enable the benefits of a modern connected life to everyone. The MTN Group Strategy is anchored in building the largest and most valuable platform business with a clear focus on Africa. This rests on a scale connectivity, digital infrastructure and fintech platforms.

Within the changing finance, regulatory and governance environment the role must ensure successful delivery in the context of:

- Operating across multiple jurisdictions with differing telecommunications, digital, competition, licensing, data, infrastructure and foreign investment regimes.
- Balancing strategic growth and value creation with regulatory compliance, licence continuity, stakeholder confidence, transaction confidentiality and MTN reputation.
- Multi geographic landscape and cultural context
- Implementing transactions which will support overall shareholder value creation and stakeholder management
- Achievement of top quartile operating efficiency and effectiveness through scale and common policies and processes
- Driving growth through business intelligence and standardization to maximize business impact
- New imperatives concerning data privacy and security and building strong digital trust partnerships
- Constant dynamics and local challenges in the economic, regulatory and legal environments
- Mitigating risks, and safeguarding security through business intelligence to maximize business impact
- Management of demanding investor, customer and supplier expectations
- Enhancing MTN reputational position as a leading secure, reliable and safe network and system provider at Group, Platform Business and Markets

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

Education:

- Minimum 4-year degree in degree in Law / Accounting / Audit
- 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)
- Seasoned regulatory practitioner experience, including senior advisory responsibility in telecommunications, digital infrastructure, technology or another highly regulated sector.
- Experience working in cross-functional, matrixed environments, influencing senior stakeholders, and mobilizing execution across diverse teams
- Demonstrated experience supporting the origination and execution of M&A and Business Development transactions, including due diligence, transaction structuring, regulatory approvals and post-close implementation
- Experience in a multinational enterprise, emerging markets, diverse cultures and multi-jurisdictional matters is strongly preferred
- Ability to effectively manage multiple priority projects and initiatives
- Worked across diverse cultures and geographies

Capabilities:

- Strategy Formulator, Decisive Problem Solver, Innovative Value Creator
- Culture and Change Champion, Inspiring People Leader, Relationship Builder
- Results Achiever, Operationally Astute

Technical Competencies

- Telecommunications and digital regulatory frameworks
- Licensing and change-of-control requirements
- Competition and merger-control interfaces
- Foreign investment and ownership considerations
- Public policy and government engagement
- Transaction lifecycle and governance
- Regulatory due diligence; risk management
- Regulatory drafting
- Cross-border transaction execution

Skills:

- Regulatory and scenario analysis
- Commercial judgement
- Transaction management
- Negotiation and influence
- Executive communication and authority engagement
- Project and adviser management
- Report writing

Behavioural 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.
- Judgement and Decision-Making
- Strategic and Analytical Thinking