Current Vacancies at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• The Senior Specialist: Real Estate (RE) Contract Management will be a member of the team managing the transactional sub-processes of the end-to-end RE contract management and accounting processes in a timely and accurate manner, in accordance with defined operating procedures, policies, SOX, compliance, IFRS16 and business partner service level agreements. 
• The Senior Specialist: RE Contract Management is responsible for the accounting treatment of lease accounting; ensuring timeous payments and recoveries. The individual will enjoy problem solving and striving to improve the metric of the operational process. The incumbent will be a member of the wider FinOps and RE teams. They will be required to have excellent communication skills and to be able to interact with people from different environments, internal to Vodacom as well as external stakeholders, e.g. Vodacom Business units, Vodacom regional teams, Vendors/Landlords/Property owners, Vodacom Subsidiaries and other Vodafone Markets.
• A culture of continuous process improvement will be essential to ensure world class operational performance.
• Manage the relationship with the Shared Services performing activities on behalf of the Vodacom South Africa;
• Accountable for completeness and accuracy of accounting and reporting related to RE contract management of rental & utility expenses and recoveries;
• Support the rest of all relevant stakeholders with RE related requests and queries submitted to the Shared services;
• Establish a close relationship with the other teams across Finance Operations, Finance Business Partners, Facilities, Franchise & Dealer management teams, Retail Trade Partners/Dealers/Franchisees, Regional and National Property teams;
• Interact with the Global Process members, peers in the Shared Services and RE process team members;
• Advise all relevant stakeholders on RE related transactions, IFRS16 accounting, processes, and reporting; and
• Identify opportunities to optimize RE related cash flows. 

Your responsibilities will include:

Daily and monthly activities

• IFRS16 and IAS17 accounting, processes, and reporting specifically month end reporting in accordance with financial calendar and including activities performed by the shared services
• Monitor sub-processes related to rental & utility payments 
• Completeness and accuracy of accounting and reporting related to RE contract management charges including electricity & other utility expenses and recoveries. Ensure timely payment and resolution of escalated queries relating to contract payments
• Perform monthly variance analysis and reports and provide valid reasons on variances identified. 
• Analyse reported data for key trends and anomalies, exception reporting to be investigated and resolution of exceptions 
• Work with other team members and key stakeholders across all business units to ensure all RE issues are resolved in a timely manner.  Such as ensuring the accurate and complete accounting treatment of all RE related transactions by analysing financial transactions, identifying cost drivers and key vendors, reporting on spend

Compliance and control 

• Establishing adherence to the relevant Group policies 
• Ensure compliance with SOX controls
• Ensure that all Vodacom and Vodafone compliance requirements are met
• Work with other departments to ensure all cross department issues are resolved

Interim and Year End Reporting 

• Responsible for separate and consolidated statutory packs and other reporting requirements as part of the interim and year-end close process. 
• Responsible for both the separate and consolidated interim and annual financial statements. 

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• BCom: Accounting essential 
• Minimum of  5+ years’ relevant experience with a strong background in financial reporting
• IFRS16 knowledge

Job Related Skill:

• Analytical thinking
• Problem-solving
• Innovative 
• Adaptability 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills
• Business leadership and transformation
• Effective communication
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ownership and drive for impact
• Attention to detail & quality conscious
• Planning and Organising.
• Disciplined & Deadline driven.

Job Knowledge: 

• Working knowledge of Accounting principles especially IFRS 16
• Experience in financial reporting and statutory reporting requirements
• Excellent working knowledge of MS Office, especially Advanced Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• SAP ERP and HFM
• SOX 

Leadership Competency 

• Ability to engage effectively with management, business partners, auditors 
• Manage deliverables from other departments
• Ability to train and manage resources on related activities
• Manage external relationships with key suppliers

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Role purpose:

• The purpose of the Group Data, Analytics & AI team is to manage , shape, support, develop and scale  Big Data, machine learning, robotic process automation and artificial intelligence with the aim of leveraging synergies between these areas to deliver measurable business benefit across all Vodacom Group markets.  As the leader of this CoE, this role acts as a thought leader in the delivery Big Data, machine learning, robotic process automation (RPA) and conversational agent (Chatbot) solutions across the Vodacom Group, which includes South Africa , Egypt, Kenya , Ethiopia and our international operations in Mozambique, Tanzania, DRC and Lesotho.  The role defines and owns the vision, strategy, policies and guidelines for Big Data and RPA/Chatbot solutions delivery and drives excellence in execution.

Your responsibilities will include:

Provide company-wide thought leadership on Big Data, machine learning, and automation solutions:

• Manage the Group Data, Analytics and AI team as a CoE leading, driving and delivering excellence in the delivery of automation and AI solutions to the business
• Deliver specialised expertise and best practice in the Big Data, robotic process automation and artificial intelligence domains in support of business strategy
• Provide thought leadership across the business to drive the adoption of world class practices in the fields of Big Data, AI, and process automation to deliver measurable business benefit

Define and deliver the Big Data and machine learning strategy:

• Define and own the Big Data strategy and roadmap for Vodacom Group
• Formulate the Vodacom analytics demand strategy, planning and prioritisation and own the relationship with the senior leadership of the various business units
• Work closely with the Business Intelligence team on demand planning, industrialisation and resource allocation
• Lead and build enterprise-wide Big Data analytics and machine learning capability to deliver commercial value through use case ideation and prioritisation
• Deliver value realisation (such as cost savings, incremental revenue, customer NPS improvements) through applied machine learning solutions 
• Lead the data science teams responsible for developing key machine learning models and products to ensure execution against the Big Data strategy and roadmap

Lead the delivery of robotic process automation and conversation agent solutions:

• Define the enterprise-wide automation strategy and ensure execution through a robust implementation framework and roadmap 
• Drive automation and digitisation to achieve excellence and efficiency in all major operating processes, this includes the implementation of robotic process automation and Chatbot solutions, as well as the integration of machine learning solutions where relevant
• Engage multiple senior stakeholders across all functions of the business to ensure delivery of automation programmes and projects within agreed quality, time and budget
• Embed automation analytical and reporting capability and provide feedback to the Digital Steering Committee, chaired by the CEO.
• Build capability and provide support to all Vodacom markets with respect to digital process engineering and automation/AI ensuring alignment to global strategic priorities
• Lead and build capability in the team accountable for the delivery of automation solutions (RPA/Chatbot/machine learning)
• As CoE, ensure effective working with business units and Technology teams to deliver automation solutions in accordance with agile ways of working

Leadership:

• As a CoE, ensure the deployment of Big Data and automation resources to tribes/squads as required while retaining overall accountability for the people management activities of the teams
• Lead, motivate and develop teams, ensuring they have clarity of direction and support in prioritising demands.
• Coach, develop and performance manage people and identify key talent.
• Embody and embed the Vodacom Way behaviours.
• Create a positive environment of change readiness and excellence. 
• Work across the Group to deliver best practice locally

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Bachelors or Masters Degree (or equivalent) in fields like Mathematics, Statistics, Informatics, Computer Science or Engineering
• At least 12 to 15 years experience in a commercial environment (marketing/CVM/Big Data) with a proven track record using advanced analytics to derive business benefit
• Experience in the delivery of AI, machine learning, robotic process automation and Chatbot solutions
• Previous work experience in telecoms/technology industries 

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Commercial Acumen: Commercial mindset with extensive experience and a proven track record in senior roles making critical commercial decisions to deliver business benefit
• Applied machine learning: Proven ability to lead teams in machine learning and the deployment and delivery of models and algorithms from large volumes of structured and/or unstructured data in a commercial environment
• Big Data technology: Strong knowledge of Big Data technology (e.g. Hadoop, Kafka, Tableau, SAS, GIS)
• Automation and artificial intelligence: Thorough knowledge of digital processes and technologies (machine learning, robotic process engineering, Chatbot solutions) and leveraging these to deliver commercial benefits
• Data analytics: A strong understanding of data, information and complex analytics within a commercial environment 
• Leadership: Strong personal impact and ability to present to senior leaders (CEO, Business Unit Heads etc). Ability to communicate complex subjects in a simple way.
• Agile ways of working: knowledge agile methodology and ways of working

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Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• The Order to Cash (OTC) function is responsible to correctly execute all trade partner commission payments, acquisition and retention accounting as well as generate credit notes and invoices for trade partners. The accurate recording and accounting of inventory will also be an essential part of this role. The end result is to accurately reflect the financial position of the organization and to ensure local financial statements are compliant with accounting standards.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Accounting and recording of transactions relating to Dealer commissions and incentives due to trade partners.
• Accounting and recording of transactions relating to inventory purchased from suppliers and sold to customers.
• To automate manual-intensive processes by either creating models or enhancing the existing process.
• To ensure FinOps reimbursement processes are adhered to when new products/tariffs/processes are implemented by business
• To timeously prepare, review and maintain all SOX-related controls/documents
• Manage the Callidus system changes and improvement initiatives

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Matric - essential
• Degree in Accounting or related degree is essential
• 5 – 7 years of Dealer Commissions experience
• 5 – 7 years Month-end Reporting experience
• Accounting qualification
• Experience in dealing with Internal and External Parties to resolve queries 
• Experience in dealing with Exec Heads, Managing Executives & other key stakeholders

Job Knowledge:

• Dealer Commissions   
• Reconciliation and Reporting
• MS Excel advanced 
• Power BI 
• Eppix
• Siebel
• Remedy
• Infoweb

Job-Related Skills:

• Interpersonal skills  
• Problem resolution skills
• Excellent communication skills – both written and spoken
• Time Management Skills
• Attention to detail
• Analytical and investigative mind

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Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• The main purpose of the role is to coordinate and assist in delivering the CVM commercial strategy, as well as to assist in managing and tracking delivery against the commercial and capability roadmaps

Your responsibilities will include:

• Regional stakeholder engagement - Generation of commercially positive ideas that impact customers and change customer buying behaviour, personalized offers per customer segment/cohort to drive engagement & increase revenue, active days per Region and to remain relevant in Market
• Regional offer management - Manage the commercial capability roadmap and track delivery of new features and products within the Regional Squad
• Generation of commercially positive ideas that will impact customers and change customer buying behaviour, personalized offers per customer segment/cohort to drive engagement & increase revenue, active days. 
• Design, brief, maintain, and report on below the line campaign activities to promote upgrades, up-sell & cross-sell and reduce churn using Vodacom Brand CI & tonality guidelines
• Design, brief and execute Vodafone/Vodacom Global communications together with Vodacom Brand using Vodacom Brand CI & tonality guidelines
• Manage the commercial capability roadmap and track delivery of new features and products within the Regional Squad
• Coordinate planning of direct marketing campaigns across business segments and Regions to drive engagement and increase revenue, active days and other KPI’s.
• Consolidate and assist with preparation of executive committee presentations
• Review, analyse and evaluate success of initiatives against key KPIs 
• Perform in-depth customer base analytics and derive actions to address problem areas

The Ideal Candidate for this role will have:

Must have technical / professional qualifications and experience: 

• Matric essential and Relevant 3 year Degree in marketing, statistics, engineering or similar essential and
• Minimum of 5 years relevant working experience essential in CVM, Campaign Management, Direct Marketing or related field

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Strong commercial acumen preferably with experience in marketing, commercial management, sales and/or brand
• Experience working in complex matrix environments with multiple stakeholders Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Telecommunications experience a plus but not essential 
• Management consulting house experience 
• Experience with SQL preferable
• Strong knowledge of Excel/PowerPoint and reporting

We make an impact by offering: 

• Enticing incentive programs, competitive benefit packages, and an exclusive 13th cheque
• 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

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Role purpose:

• The Executive has business development goals including both new sales and cross-selling additional services to prospective and existing clients. The Executive head in the Cloud Solutions Team is the liaison with clients and the cloud service team and is responsible for the management of multiple programmes simultaneously including scheduling, staffing, and coordinating required activities with clients and internal resources. As a leader of engagement teams, the Executive develops internal methodology, plus training, mentoring and guidance to staff to enable completion of assigned tasks. Key to the executive is working with product development to create the strategy, execution plan and portfolio go to market (GTM) partnering with cross-functional and industry vertical teams.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Manage Business Development Managers, Solution Architects and Service delivery engineers
• Assist the Sales and Pre-Sales teams with customer engagements
• Develop Partner channels and gain Market Share through Partner sales.
• Research and select high priority customer engagements.
• Develop and Manage account plans for strategic customers.
• Lead competitive learning by market research, evaluating competitor products, programs, weaknesses, strengths and strategies and then educating key internal stakeholders to develop competitive solutions.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Degree or Diploma in engineering or IT (NQF level 7), MBA or business qualifications/MDP are advantageous. Recommended additional qualifications: Management Qualification Diploma/Degree
• 8 – 10 years’ experience in the Solution Management Space and AWS Certification
• 10 -13 Years of Management experience in an ICT professional services organisation. 
• 5 – 10 years’ experience in product development. Go to market planning and execution.
• Experience in responding to Cloud Services and Hosting Tenders
• Experienced in presenting Enterprise Solutions and offerings to Customers
• Experienced in presenting and closing sales deals with customers at C level.
• Account Management with Customers

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Experience in AWS Cloud, hosting, solution sales, managed services and marketing and commercial operations. 
• Extensive and Strong business acumen with a deep strategic perspective and ability to quickly understand global business strategy
• Broad understanding of global customer needs; business cases and how customer use our technology
• Excellent CXO Customer facing presentation and influencing skills
• Detailed knowledge of AWS Cloud Agreements, Licensing and Cloud Products and Solutions 

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Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• The Solution Architect is responsible for designing and leading the implementation of a solutions and capability architecture for a particular business capability / user journey, according to the overall digital vision and target architecture.  This role is responsible for the technical analysis and holistic solution design of future capabilities and features, including external dependencies, cross-domain APIs, and technical enablers / stories.  This role is responsible for reviewing the target architecture vision and roadmap, evaluating and prioritizing roadmap items, and translating them into designs and non-functional requirements.  This incumbent is responsible for providing support to engineering to ensure development of technical stories are aligned to defined architecture paradigms, principles, and patterns. 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Translate the overall digital vision and target architecture into corresponding solution designs and change requirements
• Design end-to-end solutions and cross domain integration and APIs
• Define non-functional, operational, and quality requirements for solutions
• Define technical stories to enable business capabilities, fostering re-use of existing components, and accept technical features following demos
• Collaborate to plan the release of technical stories
• Provide guidance to delivery teams to ensure alignment
• Facilitate solution compliance to security, privacy, and regulatory needs
• Manage technical debt and technology obsolescence at solution level
• Advocate adoption of new technologies into solutions

The Ideal Candidate for this role will have:

Must have technical / professional qualifications and experience: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Systems Analysis, or other related field 
• 3 years financial services experience 
• Five to seven years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment
• Extensive exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
• Extensive experience in business capability modelling and technical and solution architecture development in a digital business context
• Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, and BDD
• Professional experience and knowledge of digital and Telecommunications industries strongly preferred

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Solution architecture and design
• Feasibility analysis
• Business capability / customer journey architecture governance in agile software delivery 
• Technical enablers, integration APIs,  and detailed technical and operational story design
• Infrastructure design
• Estimation techniques for scaled agile 
• Technology Innovation: scouting, screening and evaluation
• Cost of ownership of technology, application portfolio management
• Web-scale cloud-native architectures including IaaS, PaaSand SaaS
• Design of web-scale architectures and systems of innovation and engagement
• DevOps practices and automation tools
• Artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data technologies and architectures
• Management of technical debt
• Excellent analytical, technical, and problem solving skills, with high-levels of creativity
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, with both technical and business audiences
• Excellent relationship building, teamwork, and collaboration skills that enables the provision of effective support and guidance across multiple DevOps teams
• Understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital services market and emerging business and technology trends
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies, with natural intellectual curiosity and integrity
• Vendor and technology neutral –driven primarily by long-term business outcomes rather than personal preferences
• Sound business understanding and market awareness
• Ability to understand long-term (‘big picture’) and short-term perspectives of events and change and how they relate to achieving business outcomes
• Strong time-management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple balls

We make an impact by offering: 

• Enticing incentive programs, competitive benefit packages, and an exclusive 13th cheque
• 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

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Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• As a Data Delivery and Cadence Senior Specialist, the role is pivotal in ensuring timely and high-quality data delivery by fostering collaboration among Vodacom Business, Finance, Technology, Data Engineering, and Data Governance teams. The primary responsibility involves spearheading data modelling delivery on cloud platforms across the Vodacom Group of Companies. This includes establishing a common information model and reporting layers to facilitate the implementation of data solutions. The Senior Specialist also offers support for ad-hoc business requests for data and report analysis, particularly when data is not readily available in central data environments and complex modelling is necessary.
• Furthermore, the role encompasses managing the reporting cadence across the Vodacom Group to ensure the consistent, accurate, and relevant reporting and analysis of reports. Overall, this role plays a critical part in ensuring that Vodacom Group's data-related operations are efficient, effective, and meet the varying business needs.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Transformation: Lead change management process for reporting through cloud platforms and ensure stakeholders across the organisation are well-informed and engaged.
• Data solutions: Partner with BI teams to design and build data models and reports that optimise data collection efficiency, support analytical solutions, and leverage visualisation tools.
• Actionable insights: Automate delivery of insights from data lakes and models to support commercial action (incl. pricing & commissions).
• Agile delivery: Ensure rapid and accurate execution and maintenance of commercial reports.
• Collaboration: Partner with OpCo teams to seek opportunities to up-index across product lines.
• Pricing and Commission Modelling: Provide insights & recommendations to ensure pricing and commission structures are both profitable for the business and attractive to sales teams.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• 5-8 years’ experience in data management, working with large complex datasets
• Experience in managing large data teams across multiple projects
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Technology, Engineering or related field
• Excellent knowledge of SQL and working with relational databases
• Experience of working on Cloud technologies with ability to easily scale skills in cloud
• Comfortable working with Agile as part of a high-performance diverse team across three geographies

Core competencies, knowledge, experience:

• Proven track record of working on complex data modelling projects, building clear strategy and driving business transformation programmes.
• In-depth experience in pricing and commission modelling.
• Advanced knowledge of Business Intelligence infrastructure and tooling.
• Proven people leadership and strong negotiation and influencing skill.
• Ability to balance multiple concurrent projects across multiple geographies. 
• A self-motivated analyst with experience in interpreting and analysing complex & huge volume of data.
• Detailed understanding of the telecommunications industry.
• Outstanding analytical skills and problem-solving ability.

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 fiber connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies