Specialist Payments Operations - Lending at Vodacom

Role Purpose
To ensure that key financial and business objectives of the Lending business within Vodacom Payment Services are met with regard to internal controls, reconciliations, financial reporting, and analysis. Provide support to the Commercial and IT teams with regard to the processes and controls required from a financial perspective.

Process And Controls
Your responsibilities will include:

• Ensure daily, weekly, and monthly reconciliations and reporting are performed for lending products.
• Ensure that invoicing, payments, refunds, and chargebacks are correct, and the allocation thereof is correct in the accounting records.
• Capture signed-off/approved reconciliations onto SAP for payment via MJUT.
• Read and provide feedback on all relevant Business Requirement Specification documents from Business Analysts to ensure FinOps requirements are covered.
• Partner with Financial services and FBP departments to ensure that VSA and Vodafone Policies, as well as internal audit requirements, are followed and where applicable policies are implemented in the VFS business unit.
• Be involved in the development and flow of processes from QA to Production.

Reconciliations

• Track daily transactional reports and reconcile to bank statements;
• Perform monthly/weekly reconciliations required for the Lending business.
• Assist in all relevant business reconciliations between various systems used across the business.
• Resolution of queries from business and month-end processing.

Reporting

• Ensure that business requirements are implemented and accounted for correctly in the system, including liaising with the commercial business team, business analysts, IT (Scrum Master), and Quality Assurance.
• Review reports accuracy and alignment with expectations based on business knowledge, also to ensure reporting has adequate information for financial recording and review purposes.
• Ensure that processes/costs are in line with the approved business case.
• Ad-hoc reporting requirements.

The Ideal Candidate For This Role Will Have

• Bachelor of Commerce degree

Experience

• Minimum 3-5 years of financial experience - essential/
• Payments/Financial Services industry knowledge - advantageous.
• Previous ICT (Information and Communications Technology) industries experience an advantage.

Technical/ Professional Expertise

• Finance experience gained in large, multi-national organizations.
• Financial analysis & interpretation.
• Report writing.
• Understanding of systems and integration thereof into ERP.
• Performance Monitoring.
• Understanding of accounting processes.
• Risk Assessment & Controls.
• Advanced skills in Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Experience in financial and business analysis.
• Data extraction, transformation & manipulation skills.

Competency / Performance Drivers

• External perspective and appreciation of the macro-economic environment.
• Adaptability.
• Time Management.
• Relationship Management.
• Business & Commercial Acumen.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Problem-solving.
• Effective communication and influencing skills.
• Resilience.
• Ownership and drive for impact.
• Attention to detail & Quality conscious.
• Planning and Organising.
• Disciplined & Deadline driven.

Closing Date: 28th, June 2022