Senior Specialist: Fixed Services FBP -JHB at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• This role provides support to the VSA Fixed Service LoB by preparing advanced decision-making models/tools and analytics to aid in product implementations, commercial and financial performance across all FTTH and VB Fixed business initiatives. The candidate will be responsible for the optimisation and automation of daily and monthly reports/ models aimed at improving team efficiency and modelling accuracy. The candidate will collect data and business strategy from all relevant stakeholders/teams and integrate into budget and rolling forecast process on a consistent basis. The suitable candidate will demonstrate excellent communication and collaboration skills to successfully guide and manage different stakeholders from products, pricing, commercial and finance through performance insights and commercial and/or financial levers to support executive and senior management strategic objectives.

Your responsibilities will include:

Advance Analytical Support: 

• Collect, integrate, and store raw data from different sources into Teradata platform in collaboration with Big Data to facilitate insight building.
• Create and set up automated and optimised tables in Teradata to support daily and monthly automation.
• Build and automate budget models and/or daily and month-end reporting.
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes; models and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to Commercial and FBP team.
• Contribute to the development of differentiated; superior solutions that meet stakeholder and business requirements through analytical insights.
• Supporting business continuity plans through upskilling junior team members and knowledge accessibility, through the creation of centralised data repositories for “how to” manuals, industry trends and best practice templates. 
• Building financial models, analysing customer trends/behaviour. 
• Discovering patterns in large data sets involving methods at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, econometrics, and database systems
• Identify key trends - identify & predict impact of potential risk factors.
• Identify causal impact and attribution.
• Analyse POCs and market tests – Post implementation reviews on products/customer responses/pricing
• Model and predict future performance of users and/or products.
• Utilisation of intelligent methods to extract data patterns — the overall goal of which is to extract information from a dataset, and transform it into an understandable structure for further use in terms of quantifying financial impact.
• Perform sensitivity analysis by stress testing models.

Driving Business Impact: 

• Collaborate and work closely with cross-function business partners to identify performance gaps & approach problem-solving in a structured manner.
• Create insightful presentations and analysis that tell a story with focus on insights and actions, not just data.
• Synthesize methodology and data into actionable business strategy and communicate findings to product, sales, and management teams – drive action and subsequent tracking, with support for implementation.
• Month End:
• Customer analytics on VSA Fixed Service P&L movements to explain financial impacts – analysis of surplus.
• Pro-actively identify key risks on the basis that it will potentially impact performance.
• Creation and updating of IBRO Model
• Computing and automation of commission workings for the months.
• Validation and review of all Revenue and Cost assurance reports for the month
• Ad-hoc resolution of queries – in support of month-end reporting

Monitor and evaluate implemented strategies and models. Including: 

• Campaigns – ATL and BTL
• Performance of and impact on strategic pillars – monitoring, analysing, synthesising, and communicating, with commercial teams
• Support planning cycles and Long-Range Planning financial modelling
• Provide the finance team with support in respect of financial reporting, planning and analysis for CBU FTTH and VB Fixed (P&L, A&R, Terminals)

Communicate findings and make recommendations to stakeholders across the business: 

• Manage the financial budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Deliver high quality reporting and financial planning to ensure VSA Fixed meets its objectives and financial targets.
• Support central FP&A to ensure overall plan for VSA Fixed is consistent with Company targets and plan.
• Engagement with key stakeholders for information into budget.
• Rolling forecasts and scenario modelling – engage and challenge stakeholders in integrating current trends, future product rollouts and initiatives, supported by detailed driver-based modelling

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• BSc (Actuarial/Statistics/Applied Mathematics, CompSci), BScEng
• Experience in data analytics and financial modelling.
• 5+ years’ experience in FBP or financial modelling 
• Technology and Telco experience would be advantageous.

Job Knowledge:

• Knowledge of technology business model, product and services
• Deep understanding of the business cases, drivers, models and risk 
• Proficient in statistical tools like SAS, R etc. 
• Advanced skills in Excel, Word and PowerPoint, SQL, SAS, R.