Senior Specialist: FTTH Finance Business Partner

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Role Purpose/Business Unit:

Provide robust financial analysis and finance business partnering support to VSA Wholesale, Transformation and FTTH Line of Business to unlock value whilst maintaining appropriate control governance. Execute performance management, forecasting and reporting through coordination with appropriate business stakeholders to ensure accurate forecasting and delivery of results for the LoB across full P&L. 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:

Financial Planning and Performance Management

• Actively manage the execution of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting processes; monitor and communicate progress toward achievement of planning cycles
• Guide the Line of Business towards target delivery through budget control and supporting business decision making to ensure profit delivery.
• Provide analysis, insights and controls over targets and actual performance measure  
• Manage the financial budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Deliver high quality reporting and financial planning to ensure LoB meets its objectives and financial targets.
• Support central FP&A to ensure overall plan for LoB 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.
• Support planning cycles and Long-Range Planning financial modelling

Decision support

• Develop business cases to launch new products and business models. 
• Support business decision making through robust financial analysis and deep knowledge of financial operation and expertise
• 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.
• 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.

Month end close process

• Support Finance Operations to ensure accurate reporting of margins for LoB.
• Customer analytics on 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

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.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• A University Degree in Finance or BSc (Actuarial/Statistics/Applied Mathematics, CompSci), BScEng
• Postgraduate qualification or finance professional qualification be an advantage e.g. CIMA, CA (SA), MBA etc.   
• Experience in data analytics and financial modelling.
• 5 + years’ experience in FBP or financial modelling 
• Technology and Telco experience would be advantageous.

Job-Related Skills: 

• Advanced skills in MS Excel and Power Point  
• Analytical skills 
• Ability to communicate at with leaders across the business 
• Ability to collaborate and work with different stakeholders
• Ability to influence and effect change
• Sense of urgency
• Commercial acumen
• Strong analytical skills.
• Effective communication and influencing skills.
• Resilience.
• Ownership and drive for impact.
• Attention to detail & Quality conscious.
• Disciplined & Deadline driven.
• Financial analysis & interpretation.
• Report writing.
• Narrative building
• Business planning.
• Performance Monitoring.
• Problem-solving ability.
• Predictive modelling using several techniques.
• NPV models to financially quantify strategies and business cases.
• Presentation skills.
• Clear communicator, written and oral
• Ability to engage effectively with senior leadership team

Job Knowledge

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

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: 20 June 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