Job Description
What you’ll do
Role purpose:
Accountable for leading Vodafone M&A projects from a Technology (EVO SAP) perspective. This role supports projects in the portfolio of mayor M&A projects. These projects can have various technical scenarios depending on the nature of the M&A deal:
- System carve Out using SAP SLO services or other SLO service providers
- Balance sheet Spin Off of Vodafone business units to form new legal entities
- Data extraction for divested entities
- Joint Ventures
- Mergers of different dimensions: this can be mergers of mayor operating companies or smaller operational mergers to optimize the Vodafone portfolio of legal entities.
The EVO SAP M&A Product Portfolio Lead is accountable for the end to end demand, design, build and deploy of the required system changes to execute M&A activities. This role is a senior product manager managing the full M&A lifecycle and critical senior business relationships and leadership of projects.
Supporting the EVO M&A Product Portfolio Lead in delivering EVO related M&A projects. Starting with the M&A deal negotiations, this regards all matters of the EVO ERP platform and the definition of the EVO TSA (Transition Service Agreement). Setting and delivering the strategy to execute the M&A deal in order to integrate new organisations into our EVO IT platforms, spin off business units into separate legal entities or to support the exit from EVO of divested entities. Managing the complete EVO platform across Finance and Supply Chain. Building a highly skilled product team capable to handle the various M&A scenarios.
The EVO technology suite compromises of a large SAP estate, Google GCP, SaaS solutions and on-premise applications. Main products/platforms in scope:
- SAP S4 Hana Finance and Supply Chain
- SAP Success Factors
- Ariba
- Concur
- Field Glass
- SAP Business Intelligence
- MDG
- And further smaller and mid-size applications for Finance, Supply Chain and HR.
Expectations:
We are looking for a trusted and motivated M&A Product Portfolio Manager who can effectively deliver M&A projects, consult the business and is passionate for innovation.
The ideal candidate possesses extensive knowledge of financial reporting and financial processes. Additionally, the candidate should have comprehensive expertise in SAP Finance, HR, and SCM solutions, along with a strong understanding of Finance, HR, and SCM business processes and their integration points. Familiarity with cloud solutions and emerging technologies such as Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning is also essential.
The role will need to blend functional expertise, business process knowledge and strong stakeholder management to achieve an effective outcome that meets the needs of our business. Driving M&A projects with business alignment so that we ensure delivery across matrix teams and collaborate with vendors to execute our priorities.
The candidate will serve as the key technology point of contact to ensure effective support, advice and expertise on the deal preparation and execution of mergers , spin offs and divestures.
The candidate will also ensure compliancy with security, architecture, privacy/GDPR, SOX and audit controls