Managing Executive: Technology Finance Business

**Role purpose**:
To ensure that key business objectives of the Technology Business Unit are met with regards to providing strategic and operational financial leadership and partnering with business to ensure effective decision making, informed by financial insights and business intelligence as well as financial planning and analysis. Manages the long range plan, budget and forecast processes for the Technology division. Orchestrates all activities relating to financial planning and analysis, decision support, financial treatment and accounting as well as governance and controls for the Technology BU. Gathers information from all segment heads to deliver insightful management information to support monthly profit and loss, commentary and analysis and deliver reporting for tracking of strategic objectives and commercial initiatives. The ME Tech FBP also manages a team of finance professionals to orchestrate and deliver the outputs of the role.

**Key Role Outcomes**:

- Accountable for overall financial performance of the Technology Business Unit - mainly Capex, Opex and Direct cost performance - which contribute materially to overall Vodacom SA financial performance.
- Delivering accurate and timely financial reporting and analysis on the performance of the various technology divisions within the broader Vodacom Technology Function.
- Ensuring that key objectives (strategic and operational) of the Vodacom SA Technology Director and Finance Director are understood and met by the various technology functions and followed through with regards to financial planning and analysis.
- Integrates information from technology functions to deliver consolidated long range plans, budgets and forecasts processes for the Technology Group CTO.
- Gathers information from all technology, finance and business functions to deliver insightful management information, supporting monthly/periodic performance reviews, commentary and analysis.
- Orchestrates and delivers reporting for tracking of strategic objectives and commercial initiatives.
- Provides extensive business partner support relating to all finance control, reporting and governance related matters.
- Provides decision support including financial modelling, business case development and strategic support

**Your responsibilities will include**:
**Financial Planning**
- Support the technology functions in compiling the DB and rolling monthly forecasts.
- Support the technology functions to ensure strategic and operational objectives and initiatives are fairly reflected in the financial plans
- Work closely with technology functions and central financial planning to ensure that business follows the proper planning process, deliverables are achieved, and proper accounting is applied.
- Support central FP&A to ensure overall plan for the business is consistent at company level
- Support the technology functions in identifying best way to allocate resources in order to maximise value generation and cost efficiency.

**Target Management and control**
- Assure synchronisation of technology functional plans with the Long Range plan (LRP) and Annual Budget/Forecasts
- Deliver consolidated technology LRP and the Annual Budget/Forecast after identifying risks and opportunities and explain underlying assumptions and business models - supporting the delivery of the budget targets.
- Align the Decision support and Business case results to targets and forecast plans.
- Review/monitor and report on senior management performance targets to deliver business success:

- Capex and Opex targets.
- Target Return on Investment (achieved on capex investment decisions and overall ROCI)
- Identifying potential issues and carrying out analysis to validate/mitigate.
- Supporting departments to identify, analyse, validate and implement remedy actions
- Input to central FP&A on technology planning

**Management Reporting**:

- Accountable for delivering consolidated financial information to the relevant stakeholders (FD, Technology Finance ME and Technology Director).
- Maintain and enhance financial reporting framework for consolidated financial information.
- Provide / integrate insightful management information from technology functions.
- Performance tracking of strategic Technology objectives and initiatives.
- Monthly financial commentary and analysis.
- Monitoring business unit performance against targets.
- Identifying potential issues and carrying out analysis to validate.
- Supporting departments to identify, analyse, validate and implement remedy actions based on trends and variances.
- Management reporting for Exco and board.
- Monthly standard Management reporting.

**Finance Decision Support**
- Assist the technology functions in making informed financial decisions by providing relevant data, insights, and analysis.
- Engage with key stakeholders to understand business needs and provide financial recommendations that align with company objectives.
- Oversee and own the business case de