Principal Specialist: VB FBP (Mobile)

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Role Purpose/Business Unit:

Provide robust financial analysis and finance business partnering support to VB 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. Partner with sales and product teams to ensure that sales plans and initiatives are sufficient to deliver on budgeted revenue.

Your responsibilities will include:

Financial Planning and Performance Management

• 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.

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
• 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.

Decision support

• Perform deep insights on mobile revenue drivers broken down in to products, customers, usage.
• Deliver product and customer profitability reports and driving margin expansion across the portfolio.
• Produce business cases as and when required for new product innovations and strategic investment cases.
• Post investment reviews for business cases.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• A University Degree in Finance or Mathematics.
• Post graduate qualification or finance/Mathematics/data science.
• Power BI/Power Query essential.
• Professional qualification be an advantage e.g. CIMA, CA (SA), MBA etc.
• Minimum of 8 years relevant experience.
• 3 years experience in FBP or financial modelling.
• Technology and Telco experience would be an advantage.

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Advanced skills in MS Excel and Power Point.
• Advanced Analytical skills (Large, unstructured data sets).
• 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.
• Power BI/Power Query.
• SQL (Advantageous).
• Knowledge of mobile business model, product and services.
• Deep understanding of business cases, drivers, models and risk.

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: 08 July 2026.

The base location for this role is Vodacom, Midrand 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.