Financial and Commercial Modeler at Vodacom

Transforming new technologies and business models into commercial success is one of the largest challenges for businesses in Africa. Vodacom Business Digital Co-X are leading specialists in digital transformation. Our experts guide clients through cultural change, strategy development, and implementation.
Vodacom Business‘ Digital Co-X is the single house for co-creation and delivery of digital transformation projects with and to Vodacom Business clients.
The Digital Co-X team excels in innovating & planning of new business models, in designing, & orchestrating complex solutions and in project management. The team is a key partner to the Vodacom Business Sales organization across the entire customer journey.
The Digital Co-X team ensures that Vodacom Business offers one face to the customer for Digital Transformation projects and internally drives the standardization of processes for bespoke digital solutions. The Digital Co-X team furthermore manages ‘Vodacom’s ‘Digital Transformation Smart Service Offering Program’.

About ‘Digital Transformation Smart Service Offering Program’

Vodacom Business and four consulting partners, namely Accenture, Deloitte, Letsema and Urbian, have entered into a Joint Go-To-Market partnership for Vodacom Business’ ‘Digital Transformation Smart Service Offering’ Program.
With its partners, Vodacom Business’ Digital Transformation Smart Service Offering will have a new consulting-led approach to customer challenges and create enhanced customer value by addressing industry-specific business model and value chain challenges.
Co-created digital solutions take into account best of class digital platforms, tools, applications and services from its partners as well as Vodacom’s world-class network to ensure a successful digital transformation journey for Vodacom Business customers.
The Vodacom Business Digital Transformation Smart Service Offering’ (‘Smart SO’) is part of Vodacom’s drive to deliver integrated solutions based on deep industry value chain knowledge.

Role Purpose

The Financial & Commercial Modeler role is based within Vodacom Business.

• The Financial & Commercial Modeler designs and implements digital business models for complex, digital transformation projects with our clients, starting with customer requirements that are solved with the best possible solutions from several parties. The successful candidate is able the reduce the complexity of very detailed and thought through models to the essentials that can be clearly visualized and communicated to internal and client management.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Own responsibility for all key financial and commercial modelling: create complex (digital) business and revenue models for customer projects involving solutions from multiple parties as well as implementing them
• Design digital business models that mirror the necessary complexity for digital transformation projects, sometimes influencing our client’s business models, which at same time are easy to communicate and visualize for our clients to understand
• Build financial models which shall be integrated models with clear input and output structures producing P&L, Cash Flow statement, Balance Sheet and Valuation
• Develop data analytics/ BI-based strategic modeling and reporting on results
• Understand compliance, regulatory and risk-related aspects of any project and ensure that any strategy, plan and model takes these into account
• Support Digital Co-X Lead with work related to identifying partnering opportunities with companies (engaged in the global start-up and innovation ecosystem)

The Ideal Candidate For The Role Will Have

• Matric
• Master degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Data Analytics/ Science, Business Administration or similar
• 10 years + experience in management consulting/ strategic finance on Manager/ Associate Partner level
• Deep experience in building complex investment cases and financial models
• Exceptional ability to reduce the complexity of detailed business models to the key essentials and to translate into dynamic business cases/ financial models
• Good knowledge in principles of lean innovation, the digital value chain, i.e. cloud computing, big data and analytics, fintech technologies, (Industrial) IoT
• Strong communication skills and the ability to interact comfortably with a cross-section of management, including C-suite executives, at a global level
• Experience in agile ways of working is advantageous