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 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. In addition, the Finance Business Partner will be responsible for working across multiple stakeholders including HR, Legal, Tax and Central Intercompany in helping to embed a robust go-to-market model across all functions and OpCos to set the business up for success.
The Finance Business Partner will help shape financial decisions through influential advice and recommendations, working alongside business leaders to drive commercial growth through considered yet agile decision making, supporting new product launches, new customer opportunities and renewals as well as owning the gathering of information and production of monthly reporting, forecasting, budgeting, scenario planning and ongoing monitoring to track and evaluate business performance.
Financial Strategy and Planning:
- Develop and implement financial plans to deliver the Home, TV & Content business goals.
- Responsible to deliver 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, deliver 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 optimize resource allocation and cost management.
- Implement and maintain robust financial controls and procedures.
- Responsible for enabling the business in identifying and delivering 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
