Financial Manager: Sales and Distribution - Isando at The Beverage Company

Job Purpose

• This role is responsible for providing accurate financial information, models and insights through on-going, cross-functional engagement enabling informed financial and investment decisions.
• To provide targeted strategic insights and day to day financial support to the Executive Committee through the provision of robust commercial analysis.
• The position will be reporting to the Head of Strategic Finance.

Key Accountabilities and Outputs

•   Improving the impact and understanding of financial reporting on business performance.
•   Providing effective commercial procedures, or initiating change, to ensure key operational, commercial, and financial targets are delivered.
•   Providing analysis and delivering insight that links financial reports to business strategies.
•   Value-adding finance input to support translation of strategic objectives into KPI’s, financial targets and forecasts
•   Build and maintain financial models which accurately forecast and project business performance.
•   Support cost centre owners to make informed financial decisions for initiatives aligned to the organisation’s strategy and operating plans.
•   Full ownership and accountability of the business unit’s results against budget and being a true business partner.
•   Continually focus on the improvement of Line commercial competence, by building financial acumen through understanding of the business and cost and value drivers, providing effective principles, easy guides and tools that will enable self-analysis.
•   Providing financial insights as a business partner to show both risks on cost drivers as well as opportunities on reducing costs in line with a key priority of “Sustained focus on cost compression.”
•   Identify and progress additional opportunities that drive value generation and cost reduction, through an understanding of the business drivers.

Delivery and support in Budgets and Forecasts including:

•  Ownership of the process, including preparation and review of the underlying models and presentation to the Board and shareholders.
• Support and deliver periodic re-forecasts ensuring that latest operational drivers are understood and considered and highlight risks and opportunities.
•  Supporting cost centre owners to make informed financial decisions with regards to their annual and revised budgets.
•   Preparation of weekly and monthly income statements.
•   Preparation of monthly consolidated income statements and other financial reports.
•   Managing and reconciliation of the business unit’s general ledgers to ensure accuracy and completeness.

Qualifications and Experience

•   Bachelors Degree (3 years) / NQF level 7 (Accounting and Business Management) (Essential)
•   3 years experience (Operational) post Articles
•   MS Excel, SAP

Key Behavioural Competencies
Accountability

•   Accomplishes assigned tasks and goals taking necessary actions to keep progress against objectives on track.
•   Prepares a roadmap for success.
•   Ensures that all who need to know are clear about the plan.
•   Takes full responsibility for own actions and outcomes, including mistakes.
•   Always acts in the company’s best interest, regardless of whether it is difficult or unpopular.
•   Ensures others are on track for achieving their goals. 

Planning and Organising

•   Manages time effectively, ensuring effective completion of tasks under stressful deadlines.
•   Able to prioritise activities and resources, ensuring that results are achieved effectively.
•   Able to evaluate progress and make appropriate adjustments to initial plans, ensuring a successful outcome.

Analytical Thinking

•   Able to take a complex task and break it down into manageable parts in a logical, detailed way.
•   Thinks of multiple explanations or alternatives to a problem
•   Able to identify the information needed to solve a problem effectively.
•   Performs tasks accurately and thoroughly, making adjustments to ensure needs are met.
•   Considers business priorities when making decisions or analysing the costs and benefits of various alternative solutions.

Communication

•   Takes the intended audience into account when communicating information.
•   Makes use of appropriate business language.
•   Includes all relevant information.
•   Demonstrates proficiency of language in verbal and written communication.
•   Interprets complex information to expresses own viewpoint.
•   Concludes arguments by making reference to relevant facts.