Finance Business Partner - Vodafone Ghana

Role Purpose

To provide the Enterprise Business Unit within Vodafone Ghana with financial guidance, commercial insights, and value-added analysis with the sole aim of driving the unit towards overall business objectives. The role which works as a business partner to Enterprise is in a matrix structure with a solid-line reporting into the Finance organization under the CFO and a dotted line into the Head of EBU.

As a business partner, the key responsibility is to be an integral part of its customers’ financial decision-making. This decision making involves bottom-line impacting activities including (but not limited to) investment appraisal, complex financial modeling, forecasting, and planning, cost control, business case development, budgeting, sales performance analytics, and best-practice financial advice. The Finance Business Partner is the Single Point of Contact and the conduit for its customers back into the wider finance team.

Key Accountabilities

• Performance reporting, Analysis and
• Framework for performance evaluation
• Financial Appraisal & Decision Support
• Business Planning & Forecasting
• Effective Competitor analysis and Intelligence
• Leadership & Teamwork
• Communication

Core Competencies and Skills

• 8+ years of varied experience in Financial Analysis with at least 4 years at middle management level handling independent businesses.
• Experience from a fast-moving technology or telecoms business with an in-depth knowledge of B2B will be a distinct advantage
• Part-Qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA- Ghana, UK, or other ECOWAS institutes) or MBA from a highly reputable university
• Exceptionally well organized with evidence of deploying organizational skills in a fluid environment
• Can deliver to time, cost, and quality parameters; effective management of multiple initiatives; ensures effective use of resources
• Calm, professional individual with the ability to manage stakeholders at all levels, but with a strong personality able to deal with pressure.
• Evidence of leading medium-sized but highly focussed and impactful teams, preferably with financial skillsets operating in commercial environments
• Understands political business sensitivities
• Ambitious individual who is prepared to do a role that is integral to succession planning within Vodafone Ghana Finance

Skills

• Financial Planning
• Business Partnering
• Business Model Impact