What you'll do
The Product & Services (P&S) Function within Group Commercial and Operations delivers and manages end-to-end best-in-class products and services to support Vodafone's revenues and differentiation in all markets. The Home Portfolio team consists of CPE, SuperWifi and SecureNet. The Vodafone TV team is responsible for the TV & Entertainment experience across different ecosystems and devices in 9 (partner) markets, including TV advertising. Our products are delivering exciting content to millions of customers every day with a very solid growth trajectory over the last years.
In this role, the Finance Business Partner will be responsible for business partnering with the Head of Global Home Portfolio and Head of TV & Content and their Leadership Team to support business in operating post Group Services Transformation (GST) Programme, navigating the consolidation into Group Commercial, and building from foundation to commercial scale and operational excellence, by working across markets and functions to shape the financial strategy and ensure the ongoing financial health of the business. The Finance Business Partner will also work across multiple stakeholders including HR, Legal, Tax and Central Intercompany to embed a robust go-to-market model across all functions and OpCos to set the business up for success.
Financial Strategy and Planning
- Develop and implement financial plans to deliver the Home, TV & Content business goals.
- Responsible for delivering the annual budgeting process and long-term financial planning.
- Provide financial insights and recommendations to the leadership team and Group Finance.
Financial Reporting and Analysis
- Responsible for reviewing month‑end and year‑end results, delivering quarterly rolling forecasts with support from Network & VOIS.
- Liaise with Central Intercompany team & OpCos to keep full sight of overall TV, Home & Content revenues.
- Conduct financial analysis to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement.
- Ensure compliance with financial regulations and accounting standards.
Operational Efficiency & Cost Management
- Responsible for driving initiatives to improve financial processes and operational efficiency.
- Collaborate with other departments to optimise resource allocation and cost management.
- Implement and maintain robust financial controls and procedures.
- Enable the business to identify and deliver cost efficiency targets through greater cost transparency.
Pricing & Business Cases
- Responsible for pricing and simulating various scenarios plus recommendations related to new services/renewal of services for existing customers (OpCos Vodacom, VFThree, VF Spain, VF Italy, Partner Markets), or new customers.
- Responsible for financial business cases as requested (product and/or country specific) that lead to scaling up/down services.
Who you are
- Graduate, ACA/CIMA/ACCA qualified or with considerable depth of experience in Finance.
- Proven finance business partner experience, acting as a point of reference in an advisory capacity to the business.
- Commercial acumen and ability to identify and solve business problems.
- Communication and presentation skills to ensure credibility with senior management.
- Ability to multi‑task various projects and ad‑hoc requests.
- Experience in supporting a B2C unit is a plus.
What's in it for you
- Yearly bonus: 10%
- 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
We are committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.
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