Managing Executive: Treasury and Funding

About this role

Vodacom is looking for a senior treasury leader to manage funding, assets and liabilities at Group level. The role covers eight markets and is based at the Vodacom Campus in Midrand.

You will be a key adviser to the Group CFO. The job shapes the Group’s capital strategy and helps build financial resilience across all markets.

What you’ll do

• Manage group cash and liquidity. This includes checking cash flow forecasts, investing the central cash pool, and finding better uses for idle cash.
• Plan and secure funding. Identify funding sources, negotiate finance terms, and manage relationships with banks, lenders, credit rating agencies and investors.
• Own the overall funding strategy, making sure sources are diversified and compliant with FSB requirements.
• Agree the group capital structure with the CFO, Exco and the Board. This covers dividend policy, share buybacks and supply chain finance.
• Build a strategy to manage financial risks, including interest rate, foreign exchange, counterparty and pricing risk.
• Review the group treasury policy every year, present changes to the Board, and make sure controls and systems stay aligned.
• Lead a team of four senior specialists or specialists, and manage treasury reporting across the Group.
• Advise on funding for mergers, acquisitions and projects, and manage treasury risk for M-Pesa.

What you need

• A CA (SA) and/or a Master’s degree with an additional qualification in Corporate Treasury.
• At least 15 years of experience in a treasury environment or corporate treasury role.
• At least 10 of those 15 years in a senior management role.
• Experience managing treasury, backed by auditing (financial services sector) or internal audit experience.
• Knowledge of company law, including legal agreements, loans, bank facilities and share purchase agreements.
• Knowledge of the financial regulatory environment and exchange control.
• Ability to interpret accounting policies and financial statements.
• Knowledge of local and cross-border tax.
• Knowledge of governance and compliance procedures, and of ethics and sanctioned countries.
• Strong written and verbal communication, problem-solving and decision-making skills.

Is this job for you?

This role suits an experienced finance leader who has spent many years in corporate treasury and has led teams at senior level. You should be comfortable working with boards, banks and senior executives, and able to guide a team through changing priorities.

Tips before you apply

• Have your CA (SA) or degree certificates and proof of your treasury qualification ready to upload.
• On your CV, list each treasury role with dates, and show how many years you spent in a senior management position.
• Use concrete examples of funding deals, risk frameworks or Board presentations you have led, with the results you achieved.