Senior Manager Investor Relations

The Company

VEON is a Nasdaq-listed global digital operator that serves nearly 160m customers with connectivity a total base of 110 million monthly active users with digital services in some of the world’s most exciting frontier markets. Operating across six countries that are home to nearly 520 million people, in other words more than 7% of the world’s population, VEON transforms lives through technology-driven services that empower individuals and drive economic growth.

With VEON’s Digital Operator 1440 vision and strategy, VEON Group companies redefine the engagement that telecom operators have with their customers, providing the best digital experience to customers up to 1440 minutes in a day. We transform not only the daily experience of the final users, but also support the growth of enterprises and industries as a whole by using cutting-edge technologies in AI, big-data and cloud services to serve our business customers .

This is all underpinned by a commitment to sustainability, ensuring VEON’s operations are run safely and ethically while fostering digital entrepreneurship and greater digital skills and literacy in the communities in which VEON operates. VEON’s values-based approach works to strengthen trust by building a responsible and sustainable business that benefits customers, employees, communities, and shareholders.

VEON’s international leadership team is drawn from experienced executives from around the world and has been led by CEO Kaan Terzioğlu since July 2021.

Position Summary

• The Senior Manager Investor Relations is responsible for credible and transparent disclosure and dialogue with analysts and investors; ongoing engagement with the investment community; enhance understanding of VEON’s business and investment achievements.
• This role is a senior strategic contributor of the overall communications effort and together with the team, is responsible for building a world-class investor relations program.
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Group Director Investor Relations in executing the quarterly earnings process, performing analysis on results, drafting key investment messages, earnings release, presentation and other preparation materials. Partner with teams across the company to ensure smooth execution
• Work closely with and partner with finance and strategy teams to perform analysis on key business initiatives and emerging trends. Evaluate ways to communicate insights to the investment community and lead in putting recommendations forward
• Track key financials and qualitative public disclosures to help in preparation of future materials. Also, work with corporate and brand communications teams to ensure consistent messaging internally and externally
• Collaborating with finance and legal teams on Stock Exchange filings and other matters as needed, and align with other internal stakeholders in communications, and local operations, to build a better understanding of the company
• Work closely with covering sell-side analysts to assist them to better understand the company's strategic and financial objectives. Communicate those expectations to senior executives (quarterly consensus).Answer inbound analyst and investor questions and manage equity research
• Update and continuously improve the VEON Investor Relations website. Maintain and manage IR calendar, timelines, and events to ensure superior delivery to investors. Tracking shareholder ownership trends, investor regulatory filings, maintain and update shareholder data base
• Create and maintain database of comparable telecom universe with valuation metrics. Prepare internal reports (IR Flash, IR daily, IR weekly, IR monthly). Analyze VEON and comparative company stock price performance and reasons behind
• Support the organization of investor conferences, events, roadshows etc., including preparation of relevant materials for senior executives (C-suite). Other responsibilities as directed by the Group Director Investor Relations and Senior Executives
  
  

Critical Skills & Experience

• At least 5+ years of previous work experience in telecoms finance related fields or investor relations
• Excellent knowledge of Corporate Finance, external reporting and the financial markets
• Experience in working with figures and facts and able to converse on equal level with all financial disciplines.
• Knowledge about the rules and regulations on stock exchange listing and price sensitive information and Corporate Governance
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. The ability to engage professionally with investors and analysts is a key element of the role.
• Experience with working in an international environment and diverse cultures
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and work under pressure
• Bachelor degree in Finance or Business Administration, CFA or similar
• Excellent understanding of Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Flexible approach and prepared to work outside of regular working hours
• Highly confidential with a superb attention to detail
• High level of professionalism and integrity
  
  

VEON Values

Customer Obsessed

• We have a passion for our customers – they are at the heart of everything we do.
• We are able to make difficult decisions when we know it’s in our customers’ best interests.
• We keep an eye on our competitors but it’s our customers who are always front of mind.
• We are driven by our customer insight – all our digital innovations are borne out of customer need.
  
  

Entrepreneurial

• We have an ownership mentality, demonstrating passion and taking responsibility of the business as if it were our own.
• We’re agile and dynamic. We like to push boundaries and explore what’s possible – we are not held back by a fear of failure.
• We take smart risks, but only when it’s in our customers’ best interests.
• We lead by example – we do what we say we’re going to do.
  
  

Innovative

• We never stop. We’re always moving, looking for the next disruptive digital ideas. We’re adventurous and excited about trying something new.
• We’re quick to bring new digital products and services to market, always driven by a clear customer need.
• We don’t follow the status quo, we are passionate about creating our own path.
  
  

Collaborative

• We bring people together, united by our passion for our customers.
• We work with – not against – each other and we cherish the time of others.
• We don’t look to blame, we look for solutions to problems.
• We partner with others – both internally and externally - in order to achieve more.
  
  

Truthful

• We are open, honest and demonstrate integrity in all our dealings – both internally and externally.
• We’re trustworthy, keeping our promises, admitting our mistakes – whether it’s to customers, peers, leadership or shareholders.
• We are focused on upholding the highest level of ethics at all times. We set clear expectations and clearly communicate feedback.
  
  

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Do you want to be part of a team that serves over 160 million customers across 6 dynamic markets? Do you want to pioneer new experiences for hundreds of millions in emerging economies? Do you feel at home working in a truly diverse and inclusive environment? We are VEON, a global digital operator and we scale new heights never thought possible.

Our DE&I Vision Is

Creating an Inclusive World for All – Inside and Beyond VEON

We aspire to create an Inclusive world for all by providing Equal voice and representation, driving growth with diverse and inclusive teams, that create products that serve Diverse needs of our customers across all dimensions of life from connectivity to digital financial inclusion, education, health and entertainment, and creating value for our people, our partners, and communities.