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Principal Specialist: VB FBP Ventures

Posting Country:  South Africa
Date Posted:  19 Sept 2025
Full Time / Part Time:  Full Time
Contract Type:  Permanent

At Vodacom, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this. 

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference. 
 

 

When it comes to putting people first, we're number 1. 

The number 1 Top Employer in South Africa. 
Certified by the Top Employer Institute 2025.

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:

 

1. Reporting & Insights

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

 

2. Budgeting & Forecasting

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


3. 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. 


The base location for this role is Midrand, Vodacom Campus. 


The company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates, and values diversity & inclusion.
 

Commitment from Vodacom

Vodacom is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a flexible, motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognized, developed and rewarded. We believe that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business and we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment which respects, values, celebrates and makes the most of people’s individual differences - we are not only multinational but multicultural too. At Vodacom you will have access to our excellent flexible benefits programme that you would expect from any global company.

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