FP&A Finance Manager, Vodafone Business

Vodafone Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled financial analyst to join their dynamic team in London. This pivotal role involves managing financial reporting and planning, ensuring accurate budget consolidation and insightful variance analysis. You'll collaborate closely with finance leadership and drive initiatives for process improvement and automation. With a commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace, this innovative firm offers hybrid working, generous parental leave, and a range of benefits that support personal development and well-being. If you're passionate about finance and looking to make a meaningful impact, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Discretionary yearly bonus

28 days annual leave

5 charity days

52 weeks maternity leave

16 weeks fully paid paternity leave

Private pension with matching

Private medical and dental

Free health assessments

Discounts on retail and gym

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in FP&A and financial reporting within a complex environment.
• Strong analytical and Excel skills to support decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain month-end reports for financial reviews.
• Manage Central Entities budget and rolling forecasts.

Skills

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

Analytical Skills

Excel Skills

Accounting Principles (IFRS)

Business Partnering

Education

Degree in Finance or Accounting

Professional Accounting Qualification

Tools

SAP

HFM

Job description

Join Us

At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

What you’ll do

Join our dynamic team and take on a pivotal role in Central Entities reporting and planning. You'll be responsible for creating and maintaining insightful, standardized month-end reports that ensure high-quality and effective reviews in collaboration with FinOps. As the system lead from the business/user-end perspective, you'll manage the consolidation and control of the Central Entities budget, rolling forecasts, and submissions of IRIS, OHP, and HFM.

Your role will involve the timely and accurate preparation of Common Functions actual and plan views, including variance analysis and commentaries. You'll take end-to-end ownership of reporting and planning packs, including the VB management pack (WD11), RF, and Budget reviews. Additionally, you'll serve as the FP&A SPOC for adopting VB/Group operating model changes, such as Hyper separation, Hilton transformation, B2T, and MNC, into the current reporting and planning processes. You'll also drive the transformation, simplification, and automation of reporting, including the IRIS simplification plan.

In the realm of Total VB reporting and planning, you'll control OpCo submissions (both systems and offline) and ensure the timely and accurate consolidation of Total VB financials and KPIs. You'll coordinate and automate quarterly MNC inbound/outbound reporting for targets and actuals.

Beyond these core responsibilities, you'll support ad-hoc initiatives and projects as required. Building strong working relationships with key stakeholder groups, including the VB Finance leadership team, VB Finance business partners, Group FP&A, and Group D&A, including IRIS system owners, will be crucial to managing our internal processes. You'll also support the FP&A Senior Manager for Entity Based P&L reviews, ensuring the consistency and accuracy of the process and financial information reviewed. Working closely with the controls and compliance team, you'll ensure necessary controls are in place for Central Entities MEC and forecast cycles, following up and delivering remediation actions where needed.

Who you are

- Diverse Financial Expertise: Gain experience across a wide range of financial disciplines, including FP&A, business partnering, operational, and commercial roles, within a multi-functional and complex matrix environment.
- Comprehensive Systems Knowledge: Develop a deep understanding of Group processes and systems, including SAP and HFM, covering operational, commercial, and financial aspects.
- Innovative and Curious Mindset: Be part of a team that values intellectual curiosity, challenges existing thinking, and embraces new ways of working. Take ownership of driving initiatives and making impactful changes.
- Practical Accounting Knowledge: Apply key accounting principles and standards (IFRS) in a practical, commercial environment, enhancing your professional expertise.
- Exceptional Analytical Skills: Utilize your excellent analytical and Excel skills to drive insights and support decision-making processes.

What's in it for you

We want you to feel happy and fulfilled at work, without compromising the other things in life that matter to you. There are lots of ways we support this, including hybrid working and generous parental leave. You'll also get four Spirit Days a year to focus on your personal development and wellbeing, plus a host of other great benefits too.

• Discretionary 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/adoption leave: 52 weeks out of whichthe first 13 weeks are fully paid followed by 26 weeks of half pay and 6 months - working 4 days, getting paid 5
• Paternity leave: 16 weeks fully paid
• 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

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.

Who we are

We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.

Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.

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