Specialist: FP&A at Vodacom

Role Purpose/Business Unit

• To ensure that key business objectives of MAST are met through providing operational financial insight to the management team, to ensure effective decision making, informed by financial review and business intelligence through profitability analysis and reporting.

Your responsibilities will include

• Business cases: Develop and continually improve business case structures to support the respective portfolio owners with finance investment decision analysis and post investment reviews (PIR) on a regular basis.
• Financial Reporting: Prepare monthly and quarterly financial reports for stakeholders. Provide analysis, insights and controls over business cases and the respective PIR’s on an ongoing basis, including linking the impact to actual financial performance as well as potential impact on budgets.
• Capex decision support and reporting: Track all capex investments and support business decision making through capex prioiritisation, PIR’s, appropriate budgeting and budget tracking against the ambitions of the organisation in alignment with its Strategy 
• Profitability: Ensure all business units can adequately express their accountabilities in the form of relevant profitability constructs, to support guiding their decision making the impact it has on the business financially. 

The ideal candidate for this role will have

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• Post graduate qualification or finance professional qualification would be an advantage e.g. CIMA, CA(SA), MBA etc.

Core MAST Competency:

• Planning, Execution and Quality Results
• Communication, Teamwork & Collaboration
• Customer Focus, Innovation & Improvement 
• Functional Expertise & Business Acumen
• Judgement, Decision Making & Integrity

Job Knowledge: 

• Working knowledge of Accounting principles 
• Excellent working knowledge of MS Office, especially Advanced Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• SAP ERP and HFM would be an advantage

Leadership Competency 

• Ability to engage effectively with senior leadership team
• Manage external relationships with key stakeholders
• Experience
• Minimum of  5+ years’ relevant experience of which at least 2 in a Finance Business Partnering role
• Technology and Telco experience would be an advantage