PPM team - Alrode at The South African Breweries (SAB)

​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.

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Adhere to all deadlines, milestones and submission requirements to the Zone Supply PPM team ​
• Review all budget calculations for OPC’s/BOMs 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​​
• 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 new PCE’s/BOMs on a monthly basis as and when required​
• 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 (esp.. validation of accruals)​
• 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 Brewery Operations to reach World Class Excellence Operational efficiency. (e.g. DBCM calculation, by product income tracking, packaging & malting loss etc)​
• 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

Profile:

• Relevant 3 year university degree in i.e. in accounting, business, economics, engineering or similar
• MBA / CIMA / CA (SA)  would be advantageous
• 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
• 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