Website Vodafone
Role Title: Commercial Analyst
Location: Newbury, United Kingdom
At Vodafone Group we build connections to all our Global operations, acting as an advisory board to drive consistency and customer excellence across 30 countries and for over 420 million customers. We are constantly uncovering tactics to innovate the way we operate, set our global standards or lead our strategic performance. By joining Vodafone Group, you will be part of evolving our digital world of total communications. Now is the time to get on board.
Vodafone Group Business partners with large multi-national organisations to find better ways of working through our total communications solutions. We enable them do ‘more with less’ by empowering their people to work more flexibly, simply and efficiently to ensure their business is built on firm connectivity foundations. Across our global fixed and mobile networks, cloud-based hosting platforms, Internet of Things solutions, technical expertise and professional services offerings, we can connect global organisations in a rapid changing world to ensure they stay agile and competitive – wherever in the world they do business. What links us all together is that we are all customer obsessed, innovation hungry and ambitious! Are you?
Our Team:
The Vodafone Cloud and Security organization is a business unit that helps clients realise business value from cloud infrastructure solutions and you will have the exciting opportunity to help drive its growth and shape its future joining us as a Commercial Analyst you can be part of our empowering our Cloud & Security function.
The Future is exciting. Ready?
The role requires a relentless drive to implement and then improve the reporting and measurement capabilities necessary to track and improve profitability as well as using data and a strong understanding of the contract with IBM, to identify commercial opportunities to drive.
The role will also provide information and support to ensure successful dispute resolution through the diligent analysis and the creation of management level MI, reconciled to the contract, and will act as the commercial interface between IBM and internal finance functions.
The successful candidate must have great analytical and modelling skills, be able to work to a high degree of accuracy, with a proven track record of driving and supporting significant commercial outcomes, and must be a competent communicator to stakeholders at all levels.
Apply if you have:
- Initial implementation, and then continuous improvement of, the reporting and management controls required to financial manage the agreement with IBM.
- Responsible for providing the overall understanding profitability of the Cirrus Venture and recommending opportunities for improvement.
- Commercial understanding of the entire contract and management of opportunities for commercial upside and financial risk.
- Own Analysis and forecasting payments to IBM, reconciliation between IBM charges and end customer prices.
- Conduct scenario analysis and manage commercial & Finance models to make recommendations to the Cirrus team.
- Produce customer profitability reporting for senior management and support projects to improve our customers and overall Vodafone profitability.
- Support the team with overall commercial Optimisation through producing, owning and managing modelling tools to enable rapid analysis of situations and possible scenarios.
- Create, evaluate and present their ideas on how to Optimise the contract
- Evaluate and present the value of commercial levers prior and during negotiation
- Manage the Interlock between the Cirrus commercial team and Internal Vodafone teams. This will include the Cloud Finance team and other Opco and VGE finance functions.
- 5+ years’ experience in Commercial Finance role
- Experience of working in complex, global matrix environment
- Demonstrable experience of influencing stakeholders to support your viewpoint or objectives.
- Strong analytical and numerical skills with Advanced Excel manipulation and modelling capability
- Strength of character – creates a positive impact, comes across as enthusiastic and committed presence, clarity of communication, challenger, considered
- Can balance multiple work streams, work to tight deadlines and remain cool under pressure
- Strong attention to detail and high levels of organisation
- University degree or equivalent essential
- Relevant business qualification
- ACA/CIMA/ACCA/MBA part or fully qualified or with considerable depth of experience in Finance/Commercial analysis
- Advanced level in MS Excel
What you can expect from us:
In return you will enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package with Vodafone in an incredible working environment at the Newbury HQ – with onsite gyms, barista style coffee shops, canteens and more.
Commitment from Vodafone
Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised, 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 Vodafone you will have access to our excellent benefits programme that you would expect from any global company. For any technical difficulties with submitting your application, please contact group.resourcing@vodafone.com
If you have any questions left
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The future is exciting. Ready?