Role Purpose

The Business Performance Specialist:
•   Using machine learning tools to select features, create and optimize classifiers and carrying out pre-processing of structured and unstructured data.
•   Support the delivery of accurate, insightful, and timely analysis into the performance of the business.
•   Weekly business rolling forecast inputs and actuals tracking
•   Employs the innovative use of technology to automate and improve the quality, relevance, and timely generation of reports and dashboards.
•   Demand management
•   Provide automated reports & visualizations for financial and non-financial reporting
•   Support in Internal Management data & reports

Key Accountabilities and Decision Ownership

•    Ensure the delivery of accurate, insightful, and timely analysis into the performance of the business.
•    Partake in projects using advanced data modelling and analysis techniques to discover insights that will guide strategic decisions and uncover optimization opportunities.
•    Work closely with the Finance Business Partners and Commercial Analyst for all their data requirements
•    Provide analytics and insights to the business on consumer behavior
/usage and the impact of network performance on service revenue and prepare all business forecast.
•    Support to provide data and insights to the commercial business units and finance decision support teams to aid in conducting post-implementation reviews on newly launched products.
•    Propose solutions and strategies to business challenges and lead the documentation and maintenance of business reporting definitions.
•    Data mining or extracting usable data from valuable data sources and processing, cleansing, and validating the integrity of data to be used for analysis
•    Analyzing large amounts of information to find patterns and solutions and Developing prediction systems and machine learning algorithms
•    Liaise with product owners, EBU FDS and the Commercial teams to develop profitability models and automate it for decision making
•     Analyze aged debt data, to understand customer behavior and liaise with the Credit Control team to develop debt collection strategies
•   Provide support to the team in analyzing business performance, trends etc.

Core Competencies, Knowledge and Experience

Leadership and teamwork
•    Must be able to work effortlessly within the team and across the business to drive discussions on business performance
•    Must show initiative and anticipate the needs of the team and work proactively to deliver the necessary support

Innovation and change
•    Must have a natural inclination for seeking out new ideas and opportunities
•    Should exhibit creativity in approaching everyday challenges in the workplace
•    Design, automate and disseminate interactive business reports to generate actionable insights.

Drive
•    Must be able to plough through challenges and see all tasks to their conclusion
•    Constructively challenge and assist EVM and the new Product development teams with data and insights to manage customer base, reduce churn and develop exciting products

Technical Competence
•    Good applied statistical skills, including knowledge of statistical tests, distributions, regression, maximum likelihood estimators, etc. Proficiency in statistics is essential for data-driven decision making.
•    Must have strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities
•    Must possess excellent attention to detail
•   Proven experience using excel
•    Experience using business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau)
•    An understanding of budgeting procedures, methods and evaluation criteria.

Communication
•    Must be able to communicate confidently both roally and in writing. Presentations to the business is a normal requirement for this role

Technical and Professional Qualifications

•  A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science or Mathematics/Statistics, Actuarial Science.
•  Prior experience in the telecoms industry (an advantage but not required)
•  Knowledge in AI/ML, SAP, HFM, SQL, Python, R , Power BI, Tableau and other relevant system software
•  Knowledge of revenue streams within the telecoms industry (an advantage but not a requirement)
•    Knowledge in SAP, HFM, SQL, Python, R Tableau and other relevant system
software (an advantage)

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All 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 apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.