Current Vacancies at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Role purpose:

The Specialist Continuous Improvement will report into the Principal Specialist Continuous Improvement and will be responsible for the facilitation of continuous improvement workshops to ensure that effective CI frameworks and tools are applied to achieve the required benefits.   

Your responsibilities will include:

Analysis

• Analyse operational performance data and identify problems in early stages
• Develop problem charter for CI Initiatives
• Detail data analysis to determine root cause of business problem
• End-to-end business process design
• Document findings and recommendations
• Compile business cases for CI initiatives
• Post-implementation reviews on CI initiatives

Continuous Improvement (CI)

• Facilitate CI workshops with cross-functional teams using CI tools and techniques 
• Provides CI training to relevant leadership and business resources
• Supports the development and on-going relevance of Vodacom South Africa’s CI framework

Project Management 

• Project manages individual CI office initiatives
• Collaborates with all relevant internal and external parties to develop and implement solutions
• Keeps all stakeholders updated by conducting progress meetings (performance against KPIs) and reporting
• Ensures sound inter-group relationships, by ensuring timeous response to requests, information, and requirements
• First line of conflict resolution outside of individual initiatives

Stakeholder management 

• Builds effective professional relationships with business partners
• Manages expectations key stakeholders and keeps commitments or promises

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Matric is essential 
• B degree – (preferred) or equivalent experience
• Process Mapping Tools
• Certificate in Project Management (Desirable)

Experience:

• This role requires a broad and comprehensive understanding in multiple disciplines relevant to the business 
• 3 to 5 years experience  with a 3yr Degree/Diploma or  5 years experience with Matric with working experience in:
• Change management 
• Stakeholder management 
• Proven business analysis skills
• Leading and supervisory skills
• Persuading and influencing
• Planning and organising
• Presenting and communicating information
• Relating and networking
• Writing and reporting
• Formulating strategies and concepts

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Strong analytical; research and forecasting skills
• Ability to work cross-functionally in order to achieve desired results
• Strong presentation skills
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Customer focus with regards to understanding the service being delivered

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Role Purpose

To analyse network performance, do site planning and optimisation

Your responsibilities will include

• Ensure optimal performance on network quality by monitoring the network statistics through the relevant tools and implementing determined corrective action
• Pro-actively analyse and recommend capacity dimensioning requirements on all network elements
• Pro-actively analyse and verify in-depth network problems by performing relevant traces 
• Investigate and rectify all network failures received from regular drive testing routes by outsourcing companys  (e.g. Umlaut)
• Conduct cluster optimisation of existing network
• Responsible for planning and optimisation of 2G/3G/LTE/5G sites (indoor, greenfield, rooftops, mini’s, macros...etc) 

The ideal candidate for this role will have

Technical / Professional Qualifications:

• 3 years National Diploma or Degree in Electrical (light current) or Electronic Engineering or a SAQA accredited equivalent
• 3-5 years relevant experience

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Computer applications (e.g. MS Office & MAPINFO, )    
• Analysis tool (e.g. Actix)    
• GSM ,UMTS , LTE , 5G knowledge    
• Network components    
• Statistical tools    
• Current Vendor equipment

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Role purpose:

The Specialist: Margin Accounting is responsible for: Mobile Customer Revenue and IFRS accounting and reporting.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Financial month-end processes relating to Margin Accounting for Mobile Customer Revenue including:
  • Preparation and posting of journals
  • Preparation of SAP data to be loaded into the Hyperion Financial Reporting tool (HFM)
  • Preparation of required disclosure schedules for Unbilled Revenue. 
  • Prepare prepaid deferral days analysis and send it to the Financial Management & Planning Analysis Team
• Keeping abreast of the latest standards and ensuring alignment to the governance, SOX controls and accounting standards are adhered to. 
• Proficiency in the accounting standards and liaison with the Finops IFRS team and internal audit when necessary.
• Perform trend analysis on pre-bill run inceptions and exclusions for the current month.
• Preparation of accurate Balance Sheet reconciliations in line with Vodafone requirements for accounts under your control and ensuring timeous clearance of reconciling and aged items.
• Fulfillment of finance operational tasks including:
  • Insurance Invoices for Mutual & Federal and Centriq are coded and submitted to the Shared Service Centre for timeous processing
  • Running of IFRS15 reports to support clearing of error buckets as well as month-end close reporting
  • Ad-hoc resolution of queries and issues from internal and external customers including internal and external auditors
  • Review finance processes and identify gaps, documenting and implementing processes and changes where necessary
  • Support Vodacom Business Partners with new projects or improvements to be implemented

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• BCom Degree (Accounting)
• 3 to 5 years' experience in Finance Operations

Job Related Skill:

• Attention to detail.
• Deadline adherence
• Integrity
• Communication skills
• Problem-solving

Job Knowledge: 

• Microsoft Office suite
• Working Knowledge of SAP 
• Basic Data Analytics skills

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Role Purpose

To perform Application Operations function for the Vodacom Business IT Applications.  

This role will provide:

• Technical Support in the VB IT Applications Environments, including Dev, QA, UAT and Production.
• Managing and actioning all VB IT  AO Incidents being raised in Remedy, including prioritisation based on incident impact on the business
• Participate in the Daily Stand-up reviewing all open issues for AO
• Provide the interface from the user base to the development team for any software related issues
• Manage the interaction between the integrated systems teams and the internal VB IT  Development and Testing teams for related incidents
• Managing the relationship with stakeholders and external support suppliers
• Ensuring all Audit and SOX requirements are fulfilled.

Your responsibilities will include

• Policies and Procedures
• Give input into the creation of and maintenance of departmental policies and procedures.
• Ensuring departmental policies and procedures are kept current and updated according to changes in business processes.
• Ensuring departmental adherence to policies and procedures.
• Process Management 
• Ability to review and walk a process with the view to continued process improvement. 
• Reporting / Adhoc tasks
• Prepare regular reporting on Incidents statistics.
• Prepare Incident Reports and high-level incident management feedback as required
• Ensure all routine reports/attestations are completed.
• Audit and Support
• Ensure all Audit and cyber audit requirements are met by co-ordinating with relevant stakeholders.

The ideal candidate for this role will have

• Technical / Professional Qualifications:
• Diploma/Degree in IT
• 3 to 5 years IT experience in CRM or billing systems in Telecomms.
• 5 years Application Support and Operations experience, including working closely with vendors.

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Influential Communication skills essential
• Conflict Management
• Ability to operate under pressure
• Self-starter – initiative driven
• Knowledge of Vodacom products and services structures
• General OS knowledge, understanding both Linux/AIX and Windows env’s
• Experience in ERP Management an advantage
• Well versed in all aspects of the ITIL Framework

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Role purpose:

Ensure that key business objectives are met with regards to marketing expenditure through end-to-end managing, reporting, forecasting and analysis of publicity for the entire VSA including the Budget, forecast process, and long-range plan together with the Brand and Comms managing executive and team.  Deliver reporting for tracking of strategic objectives, expenditure by category and segment, and key commercial initiatives. Full understanding of the Publicity, Brand, and Comms cost drivers.

Drive and manage the F4G savings program to deliver the targeted cost savings by Increasing visibility and performance tracking of Opex categories driving digital efficiency to address and deliver structural efficiencies, with clear monthly reporting on Digital initiatives. Leverage the F4G insights to feed into the Opex rolling forecasts and future cost-saving initiatives. 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Manage interface, delivery, and reporting deadlines & requirements for month ends presentations and commentary
• Manage and consolidate Publicity inputs for all the forecast cycles
• Assure synchronization of the segment’s functional plans whilst maintaining the accurate phasing of the publicity budget to be in line with campaign rollouts
• Prepare and share Publicity reports monthly
• Interface with the business partnering teams on a monthly basis to identify the risks and opportunities across all lines on their ZBB details and overall building of the narrative for F4G 
• Stakeholders that receive these reports are EHODs, ME’s, Chiefs, FD, MD, and Vodafone

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• National Senior Certificate (Grade 12/Matric)
• B Comm Accounting or equivalent relevant qualifications 
• 5 - 8 years of experience (at least 3 years in Telecom industry)

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Good knowledge of cost management.
• Understanding of systems and integration thereof into ERP
• Business planning
• Understanding of accounting processes
• Data extraction, transformation & manipulation skills
• Strong stakeholder management
• Strong with numbers
• Ability to drive business cases independently
• Fast learner, adaptable, and agile
• Digital inclination