Operations Compliance Specialist at Nestle

A day in the life an Operations Compliance Specialist:

• Ensure adherence to Nestle financial policies, Accounting Standards and Costing Standards for establishing standard cost budget, reporting of actual results and accuracy of period end close across factories, and application thereof for dynamic forecasts.
• Ensure adherence to all Company principles, policies and procedures in relation to the Manufacturing Costing cost of Goods Sold, Transfer Prices and Distribution and White-Collar expenses. Ensure compliance with the GAR-Cost Management procedures and adherence to the Best Practices.
• Pursue the development of effective controls through constant and structured review and update of standard operating procedures and policies throughout operations. Facilitate the deployment of new/revised control processes and activities through policies and procedure and maintain the market central policy and procedures repository.
• Ensure clear control and visibility of assets and liabilities, including effective cost control of budgets (including materials)
• Drive stewardship and ownership of internal controls to ensure that the business demonstrates the proper level of ownership (responsibility and accountability) for the effectiveness of internal controls in their areas. This includes a period self-assessment associated with various financial and functional processes and the assurance that effective mitigating controls have been established. Ensure corrective action plans are developed towards the resolution of control outages is authentic sustainable over time to avoid repeat issues.
• Coordinate the Internal Control Self-Assessment: Facilitate on time completion of the end-to-end self-assessment process to ensure sustained internal control at sites. To make a yearly statement where the factory is in the journey of compliance and brilliance at the basics.  Monitoring of the action plans to ensure remediation of compliance gaps and closure as per established deadlines related to IC Self-Assessment process.
• Organize internal and external benchmarking of Operations performance.
• Evaluate and drive optimizations across the different functions within Operations.

What will make you successful?

• BCom Degree in Finance, Risk Management, Internal Audit or similar.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience within an FMCG or Manufacturing environment is essential.
• Demonstrated ability to thrive within cross functional and matrixes organizations.
• Prior experience in Audit, Costing and factory environment.
• Project management skills.
• Negotiation and influencing skills.
• Fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry experience.
• Excellent project management and delivery skills
• Highly developed leadership and influencing skills as core competencies essential for success within the role.