Position: Financial Planing & Analysis and investor Relations
Overview:
Vodacom Tanzania is Tanzania’s leading communications company providing a wide range of services for consumers and enterprise including voice, data, messaging, financial services and Enterprise solutions.
Vodacom Tanzania was listed on
the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange on 15 August 2017. Vodacom Tanzania and its
subsidiaries (together ‘the Group’) are majority owned by Vodacom Group Limited
(75% holding), a company registered in South Africa, which in turn is majority
owned by Vodafone Group PLC., a company based in the United Kingdom.
At Vodacom, we’re
working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and
sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it’s our human spirit,
together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this.
We challenge and innovate in
order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world.
Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment,
learn fast and get it done, together.
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With us, you can be truly be
yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and
make a real difference.
Role Purpose and Key
Accountabilities:
Role purpose:
- Manager:
Financial Planning & Analysis is responsible for planning and driving
the company’s annual budgeting process, analysis of ongoing actual results
and in-year forecasts, and ad hoc analysis projects.
- Manager:
Investor relations is responsible for ensuring the company is
appropriately and strategically positioned with analysts, investors and
all stakeholders, and creating the appropriate strategy, framework, and
tactics, as well as for providing a very compelling investor relations
roadmap.
Key accountabilities:
Report Management
- Develop
plans for implementation of the best practices and any new reporting
requirements.
- Implement
and execute on the Vodacom Investors Relations strategy.
- Prepare
disclosures under the requirements of the Dar es Salaam stock exchange
rules.
- Develop
monthly reporting requirements with key stakeholders.
- Prepare
(in both English and Kiswahili) results announcement packs and financial
reports and presentations for the Board.
- Project
manage investor conference calls and presentations, investor meetings and
visits.
Financial Planning &
Analysis:
- Leverage
financial modelling, scenario analysis, and business insights to support
our management team with the negotiation of budgets / business cases with
Vodacom Group.
- Build
and own complex models that analyse and project the financial impact of
various exogenous and endogenous changes to the Company’s financials.
Translate model outputs into presentations and proposals for management
use.
- Partner
closely with Vodacom’s Commercial, Enterprise and M-Pesa business units to
model various financial impacts and scenarios to/for their business units
as well as track their financial performance.
- Play
a critical role in the FP&A planning and forecasting process by
building detailed projection models and translating the latest business
information into P&L expectations.
- Produce
and own monthly management reporting to senior leadership, including
analyses around performance, actuals-to-forecast variances, margin
contribution, and risks & opportunities.
- Prepare
management accounting statements for management and Board approval.
- Compile
external reports for submission to stakeholders as needed.
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Core competencies, knowledge
and experience:
Core Competencies:
- Minimum
of 3 years’ experience in a financial role in a public company.
- Excellent
verbal and written communication skills (presentations, report writing,
etc.) in English and preferably also in Swahili.
- Ability
to persuade, influence and build strong relationships.
- Deep
understanding of the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange rules and global equity
capital markets.
- Good
financial modelling skills and business acumen, with the ability to drive
projects from start to finish.
Technical/professional
qualifications:
- Degree
in Finance or Accounting.
- Post-degree
qualification in Finance or Business.
- Advanced
Excel skills with a deep understanding of model architecture, formula
efficiency.
- Familiarity
with HFM and/or telecommunications business models.
- Experience
with Business Intelligence (BI) tools and databases.
- Knowledge
of the accounting concepts, techniques, principles and disclosures used
within Vodacom’s Annual Financial Statements (AFS).
- CPA,
CA, ACCA, CISA, CIA or similar qualifications.
Skills:
Financial Planning
Informs Goal Setting
Financial Analysis
Commitment from Vodacom:
Vodacom is committed to
attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a
flexible, motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly
recognized, developed and rewarded. We believe that diversity plays an
important role in the success of our business and we are committed to creating
an inclusive work environment which respects, values, celebrates and makes the
most of people’s individual differences – we are not only multinational but
multicultural too. At Vodacom you will have access to our excellent flexible
benefits programme that you would expect from any global company.
