Job Vacancies at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• The core purpose of this role is to support the Group Commercial team as a Business Partner to ensure that key business objectives, effective decision-making, and operational financial planning & insights is met through end-to-end business partnering for all reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.
• The individual will be expected to interact with various stakeholders and business partners together with the EHOD (Executive head): Group FBP.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Month End Close, Forecasting, and Budget Process.
• Tracking Operational Purchase Orders (PO) for Vodacom Group Commercial. Receipting of POs. 
• Support the annual Budgeting and Long-Range Planning (LRP) process for The Group Technology as well as providing trend informing insights & review with EHOD providing validation, support and alignment.
• Support review of Vodacom Group Commercial Operational Expenses for Group Commercial well as detailed P&L analysis for Commercial activities for the various Vodacom Operators.
• Support EHOD: FBP: Technology and Commercial, provide Operational Support in understanding OPEX/Revenue requirements.

Management Reporting & Insights

• Provide monthly Vodacom Group Commercial OPEX reports with variance commentary against targets.  
• Provide monthly consolidated Vodacom Group Commercial OPEX reports with variance commentary for the Vodacom Operators. 

Business Intelligence

• Assist with Business cases for the Vodacom Group Commercial team. 
• Assist with Post Implementation Reviews (PIRs) for the Vodacom Group Commercial team.

Team leadership

• Be a part of team engagement and enablement Create a safe and healthy working environment

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

Experience & Qualifications

• At least 5+ years of financial management experience with Relevant BSc. or BCom. Accounting or relevant financial degree.
• Good skills in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Experience in financial and business analysis ICT industry experience an advantage.
• Person specification - Technical/ Professional/ Personal Expertise
• Strong financial management & analytical skills Understanding of revenues, costs & profitability good communication & presentation skills Strong Commercial Acumen
• Multiple-stakeholder Management Ability
• Develop knowledge of the company and competitive industry preferable

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Ownership ability
• Formulating Solutions & Concepts Deciding and Initiating action
• Delivering Results and Meeting Exco Expectations 
• Relating and Networking
• Persuading and Influencing Strong Writing and Reporting
• Adapting and responding to change

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

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Role Purpose/Business Unit:

Provide Strategic and high-level specialist services through management of processes and efficient service flow, ensuring consistent employee experience, and business legislative risk management. and all ER-related projects and assignments across Vodacom SA and Group.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Design, plan, and lead implementation of the ER strategy and practices.
• Develop and influence standardisation of policies, processes, frameworks, guidelines, and tools to manage ER issues in VSA
• Create a governance model for Employee relations matters that will support the life cycle of the organisation.
• Conduct research to determine the organisation’s employee relations requirements.
• Drive a culture of proactive compliance and risk management.
• Develop an operational plan to execute work in an agile manner.
• Design and provide integrated performance reports for reporting frameworks that provide feedback on operational performance, service delivery and collaboration with business and stakeholders.
• Contribute to the HR strategy and assist in the implementation thereof.
• Set direction on employee relations best practices across VSA.
• Provide consultation and advisory support to business on ER Matters
• Provide direction in conducting Speak-up investigations; preparing witnesses and collecting evidence in preparation for the Internal ER process
• Ensure training provided is relevant to the current and/or new legislation and that employees are updated on internal ER Policies to increase understanding and effectiveness when dealing with ER issues. 
• Facilitate the proper coordination of ER processes, including grievance, incapacity, discipline, and income continuation.  
• Employee Relations Risk Management: conducting ER Impact and risk assessments

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Matric/grade 12
• Honours degree in ER or HR-related field
• Admitted Attorney - advantageous. 
• Minimum 8 years relevant experience in a Labour law-related field in a corporate environment and/or HR generalist field with significant ER exposure.

Knowledge

• Labour Legislation, BCEA
• Employee Relations Practices
• HR policies and procedures
• Microsoft Office software packages  
• SAP (advantage)  
• HR processes (advantage)   
• HR Theories and Models
• Business Understanding

Skills

• Communication/Engagement 
• Evaluation
• Consulting
• Interpersonal   
• Negotiation   
• Judgement   
• Decision making   
• Problem solving   
• Rapport-building skills
• Conflict resolution skills (individual and collective).
• Relationship Building
• Presentation and reporting skills.
• People risk management.
• Striking a balance between employment law and employment relations disciplines.
• People development (building the capability and competence of others).

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Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• Are you ready to join Vodacom’s exciting world of Digital IT and become part of a high performing, dynamic technology team? With our customers at the heart of our purpose, you will be part of the evolution of our IT technology landscape, harnessing the latest technical innovations available.
• The SS Machine Learning Engineer delivers through self and others to:
• Use their knowledge of ML/AI and combine it with programming and software engineering skills to enable easier use of and access to machine learning models and analyses.
• Support local markets and group functions in obtaining business value from the ML
• Support ML deployments following MLOps and DevOPS approach

Your responsibilities will include:

• Design and develop Machine Learning systems and patterns
• Automate predictive model software, including model training
• Productionise data science prototypes and develop Machine Learning apps according to data science requirements
• Facilitate the flow of data between ML/AI models and the companies data systems
• Enhancing data pipelines to ensure that data is clean, accurate and optimized for machine learning models
• Work with the architecture team to evolve the Big Data capabilities (reusable assets/patterns) and components to support the business requirements/objectives
• Research, investigate and evaluate new technologies and methods to improve delivery and sustainability of machine learning applications and services
• Make contributions to the process of defining best practice for the agile development of applications to run on the Big Data Platform

The Ideal candidate for this role will have:

Must have technical / professional qualifications: 

• Matric essential.
• 3 year degree or diploma in IT, Engineering, Computer Science or relevant field is essential
• Advanced degree in Computer Science/Math/Statistics or a related discipline would be an advantage
• Relevant cloud certification at professional or associate level would be an advantage
• 5+ years Machine Learning, Data Engineering or related software development experience
• Agile exposure, Kanban or Scrum

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Experience managing the development life-cycle for agile software development projects
• Robust data modelling and data architecture skills
• Knowledge of Big Data frameworks like Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Yarn, Airflow, etc.
• Experience in working with distributed ML frameworks like H2O and/or TensorFlow
• Experience in working with various ML libraries
• Programming experience in Java, Python is required
• Experience working containerisation services such as Docker/Kubernetes or cloud alternatives would be an advantage
• Working experience with AWS or GCP would be desirable.
• Working experience with other distributed technologies, NoSQL databases and streaming technologies would be desirable
• Strong written and verbal communications
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills.

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Role Purpose/Business Unit:

To provide the Consumer Business Unit (CBU) and Vodacom South Africa finance team with regular financial reporting consolidating CBU FBP Prepaid & Contract PnLs to create a single CBU PnL view down to EBITDA level. This includes the creation and management of CBU PnL for MEC, RF, Budgets, and LRP processes through timely coordination of internal stakeholders (CBU FBP LoB, VSA FP&A, and VSA FINOPs). 

• CBU MEC & RF process: lead the Month-end-close for CBU consolidated views including the rolling forecast process (PnL EBITDA) based on FBP LoB inputs and OPEX. Ownership of submissions and timelines.
• CBU Consolidated Reporting: VSA, VF KPI/KFI reports and board pack at CBU level based on FBP LoB input, VSA FP&A, and FINOPs consolidated requirements. Ownership of system submissions & timelines.
• CBU Budgeting & LRP process leadership into VSA FP&A and FBP LoB teams. Ownership of CBU PnL on the back of FBP LoB PnL and KPI/KFIs. Ownership of submissions and timelines.

Teamwork

• Support business partner colleagues to ensure team success. Build relationships both internal and external to CBU, to deliver business results, leveraging and respecting differences.
• Create positive working relations between the CBU finance team, Vodacom SA Finance, and key internal business partners & stakeholders such as CBU FBP LoB, Terminals, FINOPs, and VSA FP&A.

Communication

• Communicate with clarity and impact using multiple channels to foster open communication throughout the organisation. The ability to effectively manage the expectations of key stakeholders
• Written material must be of the highest quality with clear insights and actions for executive management 
• Facilitates the effective interaction and contribution of team members in forums such as CBU MPR, WD3, 4, 5, 11, and the like.
• The ability to prepare and present performance to commercial, sales, regional, and management teams

Innovation and change

• Simplify and standardise modeling, reporting, and processes wherever possible whilst ensuring that the requirements of the business are delivered
• The ability to use systems tools & technologies to analyse data, such as BI, big data, etc.
• Look for new and innovative ways of working to strive for continual improvement

Your responsibilities will include:

Month-End Close, Forecasting, and Budget Process

• Ownership of consolidated CBU P&L up to EBITDA level including Customer Revenue (Service, Network & Non-Service Revenue), Direct Costs, A&R, OPEX, and KPI/KFI trends to support insights. 
• Lead and own reconciliation of top-down consolidated CBU P&L at VSA FP&A level down to CBU Network only views produced from bottom-up approach
• Lead and own the Month-end-close including the Rolling Forecast process for CBU including all KPI/KFI insights received from FBP LoB areas to support views
• Lead and own the annual Budgeting and Long Range Planning (LRP) process for CBU including all KPI/KFI insights received from FBP LoB areas to support views
• Lead and own management reports into VSA FP&A and VF including system loads on all PnL line items and supporting KPI/KFI requirements
• Review and challenge the trend-informing insights with FBP LoB providing validation, support, and alignment
• Support EHOD: FBP LoB in driving clear views into P&L for MEC, RF, Budgeting, and LRP process 

Financial Decision Support    

• Provide insightful, timely and value-added input so that Financial teams see FBP Operational Support as a key contributor
• Develop credibility with stakeholders and management while challenging the business to achieve its objective and generate value for the company. Assist in bringing consistency across the consumer business unit in terms of financial support presentation.
• Provide advice and support to the consumer business unit on all financial issues:
• Be an active member of the CBU FBP team
• Challenge the FBP to drive sustainable value pro-actively through informed and insightful decision-making by analysing actual results
• Define and improve financial processes, continually striving for simplicity and best practice

Business Intelligence    

• Provide insightful management information with a strong focus on anticipating and managing monthly/quarterly results, and or management actions 
• Strategic alignment

Control, Governance & Modelling     

• Maintain an effective operational control environment over financial items, identifying weaknesses and developing solutions, especially on enablement solutions and their rollout.
• Ensure financial decisions are made within the governance framework
• Build and maintain models to assist with MEC, RF, Budget, and LRP with support from D&A and FBP LoB aimed at simplifying reporting capabilities, data accuracy, and automated reports/dashboards

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• At least 5 years of financial management experience with Relevant BCom. Accounting or relevant financial degree
• Advanced skills in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Advanced levels of experience in financial and business analysis 
• ICT industry experience is an advantage

Person specification - Technical / Professional / Personal Expertise

• Strong financial management & analytical skills
• In-depth understanding of revenues, costs & profitability
• Excellent communication & presentation skills
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders
• Knowledge of the company and competitive industry is preferable

Competency / Performance Drivers

• Strong Ownership ability 
• Formulating Strategies & Concepts
• Deciding and Initiation action
• Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
• Relating and Networking
• Persuading and Influencing
• Strong Writing and Reporting
• Adapting and responding to change