IT Budget Controller (Bucharest and Iasi)

Aggregate function:  Shared Services
Business Area:  Technology _VOIS
Posting Country:  Romania
Date Posted:  9 Sept 2025
Full Time / Part Time:  Full Time
Contract Type:  Permanent

At Vodafone, 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.

Your day to day:

Budget Controller will provide support to Vodafone Business to track and run the budget.  This includes management of the budget tracker outlook, work order assurance and overseeing the procurement process, month end activity, financial reporting, budget risks and opportunity management and supporting planning activities.

With these activities you will have a great impact on our business:

  • Assurance of portfolio outlook ensuring is a realistic view of what can be spent and correct cost treatment is applied as per accounting rules
  • Run regular calls with portfolio to review outlook and act as an advisor in budget related activity and decisions
  • Analysis of budget forecasts ensuring clear communication of changes or budget risks and opportunities with stakeholders
  • Provide regular budget status reports as required by Finance, LPM, portfolio and PMO Manager
  • Communicate cost planning and financial processes to ensure stakeholders can accurately manage their budgets
  • Continuously seek ways to simplify and automate cost planning activity and ways of working

With these skills you are a great candidate:

  • Experience managing programme Capex budgets at a bottom up level, experience of working in an IT Delivery
  • Experience using SAP Finance & Accounting
  • Understanding of cost treatment accounting rules
  • Successfully worked in a complex environment with virtual teams in a matrix organisation
  • Strong Relationship Management & Business Transformation and PMO environment

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

  • University degree in business economics, financial management, information management or similar
  • Excellent English skills – written and spoken
  • Telecoms background and/or experience in similar fast paced industry
  • Agile, PMI, P3O or PRINCE II knowledge or certification
  • Finance Accounting Certification CIMA/ACCA
  • Business Intelligence know-how & process improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean Six Sigma)

Sounds like the perfect job? We’ve got even more to offer:

  • Hybrid way of working
  • Medical and dental services
  • Life and hospitalizationinsurance
  • Dedicated employee phone subscription
  • Take control of your benefits and choose any of the below options: meal tickets/private pension/vacation vouchers/cultural vouchers within the budget.
  • Special discounts for gyms and retailers
  • Annual Company Bonus
  • Loyalty Programme
  • Ongoing Education – we continuously invest in you to ensure you have everything needed to excel on the job and enhance your skills 
  • You get to work with tried and trusted web-technology
  • Getting in on the ground floor of a technology changing company
  • We let you write your own story: go for a trip, experience new things, have fun and enjoy your 23 vacation days.
  • Special Paternal Program - 4 months of paid paternity leave

Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.