Assistant Sales Controller at Nestlé

Job description

Reference Number 1700046F

Key Responsibilities

• Proactively manage and control Total Trade Investments for Generating Demand, tracking expenses and revenues vs. budget providing insight and analysis on fluctuations.
• Plan and Co-ordinate the Forecasting of Sales and Total Trade Investments between the Customer Teams and Business Units to ensuring alignment and adherence to business strategy.
• Maintain budget and reforecast information in the planning, reporting and accounting systems to feed into the monthly business planning and the financial dynamic forecast.
• Managing Sales Incentives Scheme, ensuring that correct information is collated, reviewed and processed for pay-out of the Sales force.
• Be the ambassador of the Finance Community from the Sales Team to ensure transparency, alignment and proactive collaboration.
• Managing Processes & Reporting
• Manage Daily Sales Reporting and prepare monthly consolidation and executive financial packages as required by the business
• Develop, maintain and distribute ad-hoc reports Sales and financial models as needed by the business.
• Leverages data and information to enhance decision making and provide insights.
• Custodians of Sales processes, procedures and guidelines to ensure that trade spend practices comply with internal and external guidelines.
• Utilizes Nestle Compliance Standards including company Policies & Procedure to ensure Compliance
• Managing Cost to Serve
• Monitor and track the evolution of Marketing and General Costs and advise the sales organisation on annual resource planning and variance tracking.
• Monitor, analyse and track the merchandising costs with area business managers and advise the sales organisation on annual resource planning and variance explanation.
• Customer Contribution
• Promote understanding of main business drives through the use of KPI and comparative benchmarking at customer level
• Be an integral contributor to the strategic review management process providing data, insights and analysis to improve net-net sales per customer
• Actively participate and challenge the customer/channel strategy development process with the customer Teams and BU;s to ensure the allocation of resources in consistently with and aligned to MBS
• Bring cost transparency in all CCS lines and engage with key stakeholders across functions and business to.

Key Requirements

• Matric
• CIMA or CA preferred
• A 3 year Post Matric Qualification Accounting / Finance Commercial Degree
• 3 years or more experience within FMCG
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in reporting, consolidation and financial analysis. Experience in retail/food & beverage industry a must
• Computer literacy (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Strong analysis skills and synthesising of data
• Strong SAP Knowledge.
• Must be detail oriented with strong organizational and analytical skills
• Ability to work well with cross functional teams in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• Strong commercial experience within a trade
• Confident communication and presentation skills
• Financial awareness of Return on Investment

Please note that the Company will NOT pay relocation fees for this position.

Preference will be given to candidates from the designated group and people with disabilities. If you

are interested please apply via our careers site ( www.nestle.co.za/careers ) and attach updated copy of your CV, latest payslip, copy of your qualifications and copy of your ID.

Contact Wandile Brown for further assistance on 011-514-6000