Group Finance Business Partner: Commercial at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• The core purpose of this role is to support the Group Commercial team as a Business Partner to ensure that key business objectives, effective decision-making, and operational financial planning & insights is met through end-to-end business partnering for all reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.
• The individual will be expected to interact with various stakeholders and business partners together with the EHOD (Executive head): Group FBP.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Month End Close, Forecasting, and Budget Process.
• Tracking Operational Purchase Orders (PO) for Vodacom Group Commercial. Receipting of POs. 
• Support the annual Budgeting and Long-Range Planning (LRP) process for The Group Technology as well as providing trend informing insights & review with EHOD providing validation, support and alignment.
• Support review of Vodacom Group Commercial Operational Expenses for Group Commercial well as detailed P&L analysis for Commercial activities for the various Vodacom Operators.
• Support EHOD: FBP: Technology and Commercial, provide Operational Support in understanding OPEX/Revenue requirements.

Management Reporting & Insights

• Provide monthly Vodacom Group Commercial OPEX reports with variance commentary against targets.  
• Provide monthly consolidated Vodacom Group Commercial OPEX reports with variance commentary for the Vodacom Operators. 

Business Intelligence

• Assist with Business cases for the Vodacom Group Commercial team. 
• Assist with Post Implementation Reviews (PIRs) for the Vodacom Group Commercial team.

Team leadership

• Be a part of team engagement and enablement Create a safe and healthy working environment

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

Experience & Qualifications

• At least 5+ years of financial management experience with Relevant BSc. or BCom. Accounting or relevant financial degree.
• Good skills in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Experience in financial and business analysis ICT industry experience an advantage.
• Person specification - Technical/ Professional/ Personal Expertise
• Strong financial management & analytical skills Understanding of revenues, costs & profitability good communication & presentation skills Strong Commercial Acumen
• Multiple-stakeholder Management Ability
• Develop knowledge of the company and competitive industry preferable

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Ownership ability
• Formulating Solutions & Concepts Deciding and Initiating action
• Delivering Results and Meeting Exco Expectations 
• Relating and Networking
• Persuading and Influencing Strong Writing and Reporting
• Adapting and responding to change