Approval and Governance Specialist

_VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) is a strategic arm of Vodafone Group Plc, creating value and enhancing quality and efficiency across 28 countries, and operating from 6 locations: Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, and the UK.

Over 26,000 highly skilled individuals are dedicated to being Vodafone Group’s partner of choice for talent, technology, and transformation. We deliver the best services across IT, Care, Business Intelligence Services, HR, Finance, Supply Chain, HR Operations, and many more. Established in 2006, _VOIS has evolved into a global, multi-functional organisation, a Centre of Excellence for Intelligent Solutions focused on adding value and delivering business outcomes for Vodafone.

_VOIS is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We celebrate differences and we welcome and value diverse people and insights. We believe that being authentically human and inclusive powers our employees’ growth and enables them to create positive impact for themselves and society. We do not discriminate based upon age, colour, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, and national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

With these skills, you are a great candidate:

At least 2 years’ experience working in an IT Project environment
Strong experience in Financial and Approval processes
Well-developed reporting knowledge
Strong analytical skills and mindset
Strong communication and decision-making skills with the ability to balance conflicting interests
Expertise in supporting team facilitation and management tools, e.g. JIRA/Confluence, Service-Now, MS Project
Strong stakeholder management
Strong time-management skills, and comfortable working under pressure
Self-motivation and self-discipline
Experience of working in large multi-national, matrix-based organisations
Strong understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital services market and emerging business and technology trends
Fluent in English
Financial management skills
Project management skills (Agile, Prince2, PMI)
ITIL Foundation or relevant experience
Excel
Jira & Confluence
Nice to have technical / professional qualifications:
SaFe Agile
Networking/Computer Science engineering degree or relevant experience

With these activities, you will have a great impact on our business:

Check project submissions on completeness, advise requestors when clarifications are needed and reflect open issues back to requestors
Collaborate with Vendor Managers to ensure contracts are managed effectively and all approvals are in place
Create and communicate the submissions agenda to the relevant audience
Discuss the weekly agenda over recurrent alignment meetings with all parties involved (budget managers, vendor managers etc.) and record and communicate all decisions made
Open and follow up Action items with other teams involved in the approval process
Manage changes occurred after approval is granted on a project.
Introduce data in Demand and Financial management (DFM) tool when the request is not covered by standard processes (independent approval lines)
Propose improvements for financial process, focusing on reducing manual work and increasing digitalization and automation
Address improvement ideas to Delivery Governance team for review
Accountable for defining, documenting, and maintaining all Approval & governance processes
Evaluate new business requirements related to the Approval & Governance process
Coordinate Project Governance Activities with direct impact on projects budget approval
Official communications announcing financial process changes towards the relevant audience
Knowledge sharing: Participating to recurrent knowledge sharing sessions with Programme/Project manager community, consulting them though the approval process improvements and changes

Sounds like the perfect job? We’ve got even more to offer:
In this pandemic period we have 100% work from home for your safety.
Medical and dental services
Life insurance
Dedicated employee phone subscription
Special discounts for gyms and retailers
Annual Company Bonus
Ongoing Education – we continuously invest in you to ensure you have everything needed to excel on the job and enhance your skills
You get to work with tried and trusted web-technology
Getting in on the ground floor of and technology changing company
Flexible Vacation – Take time off when you need it, we trust you!
Sounds interesting? Apply!
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