BUSINESS CYCLE MANAGER at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Work directly with Zone CEO, BU Presidents, VP Finance, FP&A director, and Global FP&A to close 1YP
• Supporting FP&A Director Building a Top-Down budget, consolidating a Bottom-up budget from all streams, aligning both, and developing a challenging but achievable budget.
• Connecting directly with the leadership all functions (Supply Chain / People VPs)  and Countries / Business units (BU Presidents)
• Build Budget narrative that translates the Global ABI strategy to Africa to be approved by CEO and the Board
• Unlock insights driving strategic recommendations to Zone CEO on how to improve company performance by setting goals and incentives for Zone
• Working cross-functionally with key stakeholders: BU President, FP&A Director & Managers and Global ABI FP&A Team
• Responsible for all aspects of the planning business cycle from developing guidance/targets, analyzing financials, developing models and identifying areas of opportunity within Africa’s financial strategy
• Translating data into business insights to step change the financial objectives, investment plans, and resource allocation
• Own Africa 10YP and Budget reviews with each of the different Business Units and Zone Functions, preparing the Zone President & VP Finance for relevant topics with BU’s and Global, and ensuring actions from the reviews are executed
• Ownership of financial model for P&L, interacting with Zone Functions (Sales, Marketing, Supply, Procurement, People etc.) to identify and size main initiatives and develop plans to build targets

Minimum Requirements:

• Degree preferably in Finance, Economics etc.
• High-level knowledge of FMCG business model, beer market, FP&A processes and streams, and the Company’s core departments