Business Planning & Support Specialist

Job description / Role

Role Purpose
- Control E-SOC Budget, from DB planning cycle to monthly receiving decisions to meet FY technology targets, and management directions.
- Set clear strategy and guidelines before every submission.
- Represent E-SOC for Budget cycles, Interfacing with all SM budget planners, Tech Strategy and Finance (Decision Support, Procurement and warehouse) teams.
- Identify and act on budget challenges and desired efficiencies.
- Track Business cases across E-SOC domains, and interfacing with relevant Managers and Decision Support finance team to ensure smooth approval process flow.
- Responsible for issuing POs, across all E-SOC domains with Supply Chain and all relevant entities to ensure smooth process flow, and timely receiving.
- Ensure capex receiving targets with all budget planners are met on monthly basis, after aligning with Finance and Tech. strategy teams, to meet budget phasing plan.
- Represent E-SOC in Business Contingency plans (BCP), responsible to ensure Network continuity in Emergency situations across all E-SOC functions
- Facilitate all BCP relevant tools required for E-SOC team, and arrange with Strategy team in this scope
- Manage E-SOC headcount, tracking vacant positions and arrange with HR Business partner for quick and smooth hiring process, to expedite replacements.

Key Accountabilities & Decision Ownership
- Control E-SOC Budget, from DB planning cycle to monthly receiving decisions to meet FY technology targets, and management directions, to meet budget phasing plan.
- Tracking and reporting expenditure versus outlook plans, to Head of E-SOC, for all relevant Cost Centers, with monthly budget analysis (outlook & closing)
- Prepare plan B scenario for E-SOC Capex expenditure if needed, act on budget challenges and desired efficiencies
- Deliver Accurate DB submission for all E-SOC teams, along with the periodic budget reviews and submissions (online and offline).
- Identify and Propose and Challenge potential savings across all E-SOC domains, and act on required budget re-allocation.
- Work closely with the financial departments to reconcile the variance within the E-SOC budget.
- Track Business cases across E-SOC domains, and interfacing with relevant Managers and Decision Support finance team to ensure smooth approval process flow.
- Responsible for issuing POs, across all E-SOC domains with Supply Chain and all relevant entities to ensure smooth process flow, and timely receiving.
- Track & report the unit/service cost & YOY investment. Ensure using fair value & applying vendor discounts.
- Represent E-SOC in Business Contingency plans (BCP), responsible to ensure Network continuity in Emergency situations across all E-SOC functions
- Facilitate all BCP relevant tools required for E-SOC team, and arrange with Strategy team in this scope
- Manage E-SOC headcount, tracking vacant positions and arrange with HR Business partner for quick and smooth hiring process, to expedite replacements.
- SPOC with HR for E-SOC Outsourced staff and related Business cases.

Core Competencies, Knowledge, and Experience
- Excellent Cross function skills
- Ability to deal daily with senior people (Managers, HOD) and Vendors
- Excellent interpersonal, Presentation and communication skills
- Ability to motivate and influence others towards meeting business objectives
- Team Player and excellent engagement skills
- Very Good Financial skills
- Very Good Project Management Skills.

Must have technical / professional qualifications
- Very good Project Management Skills
- Very good financial skills
- 1+ years of experience delivery/cross functional roles within Technology Dept.

About the Company

At Vodafone, we are known for our technology, but the truth is, it is humanity that drives our business forward. With the global pandemic raising so many questions for tech brands, it has highlighted the leading role that we need to play.

We believe that, when working together, humanity and technology can find the answers and create a better future for all.

Working at Vodafone is all about helping people feel ready to benefit from new technology. We bring the future to even the most remote places, using technology to help families in disaster zones, showing young people that a phone is not just for fun and thinking about technology that doesn’t even exist yet.