Finance BP - NW Transformation (Fixed-term Contract)

Job Description

Join Us

At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

What you’ll do

Fixed-term role: Contract end date: 31st of March 2027

• Support the live delivery of the Group services transformation for Group Networks, with a strong focus on financial validation, operational readiness, and stabilisation during the dual‑run phase
• Ensure financial models, cost allocations, service mappings, and supporting tools are fully operational, accurate, and fit‑for‑purpose, enabling a consistent, integrated, and scalable end‑state for Group Network services
• Act as a key bridge between transformation design and Network Finance activities, ensuring end‑to‑end processes are clearly defined, understood, and embedded across all parties involved
• This role is critical to ensuring the programme lands successfully into BAU and supports Network Finance teams through transition to steady‑state operations.

Financial Validation, Costing & Actuals

• Validate functional cost mapping and allocation tables to network services during the dual‑run period, ensuring consistency between design intent and actual financial outcomes
• Support the review and refinement of costing logic, allocation methodologies, and asset‑level financial linkages, including depreciation and fixed asset register integration
• Support parallel running by analysing actuals, variances, and reconciling outputs between functional (cost centre) and service‑based views
• Ensure accurate and complete recording of actuals across systems during the dual‑run period, including timesheet and effort‑tracking outputs

Services, Volumes & Demand Alignment

• Support final validation of the service catalogue, quantity metrics, and demand drivers against live operational and financial data
• Work with Network and Finance teams to support validation of effort‑tracking and demand‑management tools in live use, ensuring outputs align with financial and commercial requirements

Operational Readiness, Processes & Transition

• Support the definition, validation, and documentation of end‑to‑end financial and operational processes required for BAU
• Identify process or data gaps, issues, or inconsistencies and work with Finance, Networks, and Tooling teams to resolve them at pace
• Actively support Network Finance teams through transition, ensuring processes, roles, and expectations are understood, practical, and effective in day‑to‑day operation
• Collaborate with all parties involved to ensure clear ownership, controls, and governance are defined for all key activities

Systems, Master Data & Reporting Stabilisation

• Support validation of SAP, WBS, asset, and master data structures in live operation
• Assist in stabilising reporting outputs and ensuring consistency across financial, operational, and management reporting
• Ensure tools, data outputs, and reporting structures are aligned with wider financial systems, governance standards, and control requirements

Who you are

• Good knowledge of technology finance
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Effective prioritisation skills
• Lives the Vodafone Spirit, ensures balance between ‘how’ as well as ‘what’
• Proficient in Excel
• Experience in SAP / BI

Network & Technology Finance Expertise

• Good knowledge of technology and network finance, including cost allocation, cost drivers, depreciation, and asset accounting
• Ability to understand how network design, demand, and operational activity translate into financial outcomes

Live Operations, Dual‑Run & Controls Mindset

• Experience supporting parallel running, reconciliation, and validation of actuals between functional and service‑based views
• Comfortable identifying issues, root causes, and required fixes in live operational scenarios

Complex Operating Models & Systems

• Experience working within complex operating models across multiple entities and geographies
• Solid understanding of SAP, WBS structures, asset hierarchies, master data, and reporting dependencies
• Ability to work across Finance, Network, and Tooling teams to ensure end‑to‑end alignment

Demand, Volumes & Commercial Understanding

• Ability to link network demand drivers, quantity metrics, and effort tracking to financial models and commercial outcomes
• Commercially minded, with a focus on usability and decision‑relevance rather than theoretical model perfection

Stakeholder & Transition Capability

• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders and teams during periods of change
• Strong communication skills, able to explain complex financial and system concepts clearly and pragmatically
• Comfortable operating in a fast‑moving, issue‑driven environment

Governance & Risk Awareness

• Awareness of governance, controls, tax, and intercompany considerations within shared or cross‑entity operating models
• Ability to operate within defined governance frameworks while pragmatically supporting delivery and stabilisatio

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.

What's in it for you

• Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year
• Charity days: 5 days/year
• Maternity leave: 52 weeks: the first 13 weeks are fully paid, followed by 26 weeks of half pay
• Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%.
• Access to: private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme
• Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan

Who we are

We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.

Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.

Together we can.