Senior Manager - Cyber Security Assurance and Offensive Security.Group Internal Audit and Forensics
MTN · Roodepoort
MTN operates within a complex, evolving ecosystem driven by its transformation from a telco to a technology-driven platform organisation, spanning:
GSM / Telecom Infrastructure
FinTech (Mobile Money and Digital Financial Services)
Digital Infrastructure (Bayobab – fibre, wholesale, APIs and connectivity platforms)
This environment is characterised by:
Increasingly sophisticated cyber threats targeting telecom and financial ecosystems
Growth in API-based integrations and platform interdependencies
Rise of AI-driven automation and associated security risks
Heightened regulatory and reputational expectations
The Internal Audit function must therefore provide forward-looking, threat-informed cyber assurance, ensuring resilience across all platforms while maintaining independence and objectivity.
Improving the internal control environment across the relevant markets.
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 primary purpose of the role is to provide independent, technically robust assurance over MTN’s cyber security posture, through a combination of: • Risk-based internal audit methodologies • Ethical hacking and threat-led assessments • Cyber incident review and forensic analysis • Evaluation of emerging technology risks, including AI and automation The role serves as the cyber security technical authority within Internal Audit, ensuring effective identification, assessment, and mitigation of cyber risks across MTN’s operations, platforms, and ecosystems.