PPM Analyst at Anheuser-Busch InBev

Job description

The key purpose of the role is to provide financial management support and enhance line management financial decision making.

Key responsibilities include (but not limited to):

• Drive financial value through business partnering by:
• Managing functional financial planning process
• Managing cost allocation through budgets
• Monthly reporting preparation, control, presentation and submission
• Provision of decision-making information to Line Management
• Assisting Line Managers with the development and implementation of control systems and procedures
• Budget and forecasting preparation, control, presentation and submission
• Tracking and control of assets together with the centralised assets team
• Perform CSA audits
• SARBOX compliance
• Enhance commercial competence with Line
• Drive financial value through business partnering
• Ensure internal controls maintained and opportunities for optimisation identified and actioned with support of IFC.
• Liaison with internal and external audit to resolve queries
• General: Monthly, PF, budgets and year-end tax & excise
• Link between regional finance and operations
• Fixed assets:
• Completes physical verification of assets according to the plan received from Beer Fixed assets
• Product Costing:
• Analyse and close weekly process orders
• Investigate and resolve issues on weekly process orders with escalation to DPR controller
• Submit weekly/monthly reports to COF Regional RCM using BW/BOA.
• Month-end:
• Create upload template of journals to be processed and send to Genpact
• Prepare month end commentary and submit to RCM
• Prepare the monthly excise return
• Stock:
• Attend the quarterly count as well as hard close and year end in line with CSA and Sarbox requirements
• Obtain the month end stock sheets and reconcile stock sheet to MM then submit to RCM for review (Compile the stock pack)
• Line Support:
• Spend time engaging with Line, to improve Finance understanding of the business, including cost and value drivers
• Review and/or finalization of additional analysis, requested by Line and to assist with effective decision-making support
• Analyse and Interpret spend categories, in order to track effectiveness of current spend and to recommend and influence future spend and/or focus areas
• Continually focus on the improvement of Line commercial competence, by providing effective principles, guidelines and tools that will encourage self-sufficiency in Line;
• Provide feedback to Finance Development on Optimisation, Outsourcing and Training opportunities
• Share and keep abreast of learning’s across other regions
• Projects:
• Identify and progress additional opportunities that drive value generation and cost reduction, through an understanding of the business drivers
• Highlight and communicate significant initiatives, which may require centralised resource involvement

Qualifications and experience:

• Relevant 3 year degree / 3 year diploma
• CA (SA) or CIMA will be an advantageous
• Experience in FMCG/Management Accounting
• SAP Knowledge will be advantageous
• Advanced Excel knowledge

The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional / relevant information as criteria for short-listing. Background checks, references and assessments form part application procedure.

Appointments will be made in line with SAB (Pty) Ltd’s employment equity plan and talent requirements.