Senior Manager Finance Operations

Job Description

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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.

Vodafone Finance Operations is evolving its operating model to drive greater scalability, efficiency and clarity of accountability across Service Lines, Market Financial controlling, and Local Market Finance Services. Within this context, the HOFO is accountable as the market-level financial integrator, ensuring that delivery, accounting judgement, and stakeholder expectations are brought together into a single, coherent financial outcome. The Senior Finance Manager plays a critical role in enabling this, acting as the operational extension of the HOFO and ensuring that all financial outputs across VOIS, MFC/Chief Accountant and Market Finance are aligned, reconciled and decision-ready.

The Senior Finance Manager is accountable for ensuring end-to-end financial coherence across Finance Operations delivery, accounting judgement, and market financial outcomes. Operating within a complex, global matrix, the role integrates inputs from VOIS Service Lines, MFC/Chief Accountant, and Market Finance to deliver a single, robust and decision-ready financial position that supports effective governance, high-quality reporting, and confident decision-making across senior finance leadership. The role plays a critical part in strengthening the effectiveness of the finance operating model by bridging delivery, judgement, and stakeholder expectations, ensuring consistency, transparency and alignment across all components of the financial ecosystem.

What you’ll do

• Lead the integration of financial outputs across VOIS Service Lines, MFC/Chief Accountant, and Market Finance, ensuring full alignment between financial data, accounting treatment, and supporting narrative. Identify and resolve inconsistencies, gaps, and misalignments proactively, delivering a single, reconciled and coherent financial position that enables confident decision-making across senior finance leadership.

• Act as the final integration and quality checkpoint for key financial outputs including MEC packs, financial statements and certification materials, ensuring they are complete, accurate and internally consistent. Synthesize complex financial information into clear, structured and decision-ready insight to support senior leadership governance and effective stakeholder engagemen

• Identify, prioritise and drive resolution of cross-service issues, audit dependencies and close cycle blockers, ensuring clear ownership and timely resolution across Service Lines, MFC/Chief Accountant and market stakeholders. Manage escalations selectively, providing structured problem statements, options and recommendations to support effective decision-making at the appropriate management level.

• Translate complex operational and accounting inputs into clear and consistent financial narratives, supporting alignment across senior finance stakeholders and business leadership. Prepare high-quality briefing materials, anticipate key questions, and ensure consistent messaging across all contributing functions.

• Analyse and connect process performance, control outcomes and financial reporting to provide a holistic and actionable view of market performance. Identify trends, risks and inconsistencies, enabling leadership to challenge effectively, prioritise improvements, and ensure alignment between operational execution and financial outcomes.

• Ensure audit readiness and effective coordination across all contributing teams, validating that financial data, supporting evidence and disclosures are fully aligned. Support delivery of robust certification and statutory reporting outcomes by proactively identifying and addressing inconsistencies, reducing risk of audit or regulatory challenges.

• Identify recurring issues and systemic weaknesses within the operating model, providing insight into structural gaps such as ownership clarity, process handoffs and governance effectiveness. Contribute to the prioritisation and delivery of targeted improvements to enhance efficiency, transparency and financial control at a market and functional level.

Who you are

• Strong financial reporting and accounting knowledge (IFRS preferred)
• Deep understanding of Record-to-Report processes and financial close cycles
• Proven ability to operate in a complex matrix environment with multiple stakeholders
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving capability, with ability to synthesise complex inputs into clear insight
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including engagement with senior leadership
• Demonstrated ability to operate with high autonomy and deliver outcomes without direct authority
• Experience in audit, statutory reporting, or controllership roles is highly desirable
• Chartered Accountant qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Significant experience in Finance Operations, Financial Reporting, or Controllership roles

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
- Hybrid working
- Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%.
- Vodafone family and friends discount
- Private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme
- Global parental leave policy for all new parents which includes 39 paid weeks of maternity leave and 16 weeks fully paid leave and upon returning to work, new parents can work part-time hours for 6 months whilst being paid their full-time salary
- Access to Vodafone University and LinkedIn Learning

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.

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Together we can.