PPM Lead - Hop farms at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Job Purpose

The key purpose of this role is the full responsibility for planning, reporting and control cycle of Supply budgets (VIC, FIC, ZBB, CAPEX, People, Internal Control) on a monthly, quarterly and year end base for the plant.

This includes engaging with key stakeholders, drive adherence to governance and financial KPI’s, budget co ordination and reviews, standard reporting and provide actionable recommendations to leadership based on performance data.

Key outputs and responsibilities:

Annual Plan / Budget​

• Adhere to all deadlines, milestones and submission requirements to the Zone Supply PPM team ​
• Review all budget calculations for Income Statement and Balance Sheet and own the end to end process 
• Lead the ZBB budget process for the plant and ensure all guidelines, templates and timelines are adhered to ​
• Support on the completion of the CAPEX budget as required​
• Lead the headcount and paycost planning process for the plant​
• Ensure all champions initiatives are properly embedded in the budget while avoiding double counting​
• Prepare management review presentations for Zone, respecting guidelines, templates and timelines ​
• Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (COGNOS, SCFD, SAP, TM1)​
• Provide correct bottom up VIC standards and actuals for MACO reporting​

Monthly Process (reporting/analysis/review/LE)​

• Responsible for the preparation of a full year forecast outlook (LE) for the plant ​
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve results​
• Identify risks, respective route causes and identify gap closing action plans ​
• Consolidate and report LE on a monthly basis to the Zone Supply PPM team​
• Review of the plant P&L and validation that the results reported are accurate and there is no material misstatement ​
• Review of headcount & paycost reporting on a monthly basis​
• Leads the completion and presentation of the monthly plant T&M deck with the Plant Manager​
• Monitors coherence between Budget, CAPEX and ZBB Performance of the Plant​
• Responsible for monthly and year end closing activities in supply
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting of financial results in line with approved policies & procedures​
• Manage Relationship with Network of Capability Centre (NoCC) for outsourced activities​
• Tracks performance targets for the Plant to reach World Class Excellence Operational efficiency.
• Assess Operational efficiency Supply, identify initiatives and lead actions plan to optimize the Supply performance and to close the gaps towards 3YP, Budget, LE, Global Benchmarking.​
• Executes Management Reporting for the plant to enable best-in-class operational performance management ​
• Review of fixed asset management​
• Ensure effective tax compliance​
• Prepare monthly Lifecycle reports for global maintenance routine
• Support maintenance package owner with monthly analysis as required
• Support SMS requirements (Specifically management and functional pillars)
• Preparation & reporting of Audited Financials and Tax Return Preparation
• Preparation of the annual Hop Harvest Grower Payment Models
• Preparation & execution of the annual Hop Harvest payment calculations
• Balancing & Valuation of the annual hop crop
• Hop Crop Costs to Cost of sales Calculations
• Hop Cone Fair Value Calculations
• Final Pellet Production Cost Calculation & Stock Balancing
• SAB Hop Price Sales Price Calculations
• Hop Pellet Volume Production Planning -  Based on Projected farm yields, Projected Crop Yield and Planned Brewing Volumes
• Balancing & Valuation of the annual hop crop
• Hop Crop Costs to Cost of sales Calculations
• Hop Cone Fair Value Calculations
• Final Pellet Production Cost Calculation & Stock Balancing
• SAB Hop Price Sales Price Calculations
• Hop Pellet Volume Production Planning -  Based on Projected farm yields, Projected Crop Yield and Planned Brewing Volumes
• Preparation of annual & monthly SAB Hop Farms Income Statement & Balance Sheet.
• Preparation of Financial Year End- Costs to Cost of Sales calculations

Ad Hoc​

• Define recommendations to support Senior Management decisions.​
• Manage projects as required; participate in ad hoc projects​
• Challenge and monitor capacity utilization and footprint strategy where applicable​
• Perform detailed analyses to determine cost opportunities at a plant level and participates actively in zone benchmarking activities. ​
• Perform strategic studies to streamline the business.​
• Ensure the application of coherent definitions and reporting requirements.​
• Mediate on behalf of Supply PPM on performance (P&L) issues/ conflicts across functions.​
• SPOC for the Supply function towards Plant.​
• Maintain an effective financial control environment at the plant, this includes but is not limited to ensuring that the following activities take place:​
• Fixed asset verification ​
• Inventory control effectiveness​
• Stock counts​
• Facilitate SARS audits​

Key attributes and competencies:

• Working in a multi-cultural environment ​
• High level of service mindset ​
• Coordination skills​
• High sense for accuracy​
• Communicative, team oriented and open for change​
• Ability to work in a well organized, accurate and reliable manner​
• Basic business sense​
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills & problem solver​
• Used to working with deadlines​
• Highly results focused​
• Leads by example, and lives the company’s values​
• Presentation skills ​
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively

Education:

• Relevant 4 year university degree in i.e. in accounting, business, economics, engineering or similar
• MBA / CIMA / CA (SA)  would be advantageous

Experience:

• 3+ years of experience in finance in a manufacturing environment
• Experience Product Costing 
• Knowledge of Financial Reporting
• Knowledge of general accounting and consolidation practices
• Project management, problem assessment and solving skills ​
• Working in an ERP environment​
• Working in a process-oriented organization

Technical Competencies: 

• Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, PowerPoint, etc)
• Good knowledge of consolidation & reporting tools (Cognos, TM1, BI)
• Knowledge of ERP Systems SAP R/3 Module FI/CO, SAP BW