Principal Specialist: VB FBP Ventures at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Role Purpose:

• The purpose of the role is to deliver accurate, timely, and actionable reporting and insights that enable strategic decision-making, performance tracking, and continuous improvement across all Vodacom Business (VB) ventures.
• The Principal Specialist: VB FBP Venture plays a critical role in transforming complex financial and operational data into meaningful intelligence, ensuring stakeholders are equipped to make informed decisions that drive growth, operational efficiency, and customer value.
• This role supports both tactical and strategic decision-making through robust financial reviews, budgeting and forecasting, and business partnering. It ensures that ventures operate in alignment with VB’s strategic objectives

Your responsibilities will include:

Reporting & Insights

• Deliver robust and timely FBP reporting
• Drive effective Opex management.
• Ensure accurate and compliant balance sheet management

Budgeting & Forecasting

• Coordinate and manage the budgeting and forecasting cycles, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and operational plans.

Business Partnering & Commercial Support

• Act as a strategic partner to Ventures, providing financial guidance and commercial insights.
• Support pipeline management by evaluating revenue opportunities and tracking performance against targets.
• Monitor and report on in-life project profitability, identifying risks and opportunities for margin improvement.
• Deliver profitability analysis to inform growth and “go-to-market” strategies.
• Oversee the debtor management process, ensuring timely collections, credit risk mitigation, and working capital optimization.
• Assess and manage funding requirements for ventures, ensuring alignment with capital planning and investment priorities.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Minimum of 8 years relevant experience
• 3 years’ experience in FBP or financial reporting
• Technology and Telco experience would be an advantage
• Technical/professional qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Actuarial science, or applied mathematics – essential
• Postgraduate qualification or finance professional qualification be an advantage e.g. CIMA, CA (SA), MBA – advantageous

Job-Related Skills:

• Strong strategic thinking
• Financial reporting skills
• Analytical skills
• Advanced skills in MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Written and verbal communication skills.
• Sense of urgency.

We make an impact by offering:

• Enticing incentive programs and competitive benefit packages
• Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits
• Cell phone and data benefits, advantages fibre connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies

Closing date for Applications: 28 September 2025.