Job Description
Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) has an exciting opportunity for a Projects, Systems & Process Manager, with relevant skills and experience. The successful candidate will report into the Group Financial Planning & Analysis Manager.
CCBA is the largest African Coca-Cola bottler, accounting for 40% of all Coca-Cola volumes on the continent. CCBA is a Non Alcoholic Ready to Drink (NARTD) market leader with an extensive footprint in Africa, employing over 17 000 employees and serving a combined population of over 300 million people across the continent. CCBA’s vision is to “refresh Africa every day and make the continent a better place for all”, growing successfully as a business and creating a better shared future for our people, customers, consumers, communities, planet and shareholders. We conduct ourselves with the utmost integrity for shared value and the greater good. We are a world class, customer-orientated, socially and environmentally conscious fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company that is driven by engaged, motivated and inspired employees.
The primary purpose of the CCBA Projects, Systems & Process Manager is to:
- Manage and drive improvements in existing systems and processes to ensure more efficient and effective financial reporting, including liaisons with and management of external service providers
- Facilitate the development of a more optimal and efficient finance function for CCBA by providing enhanced system and process solutions including capability development
- Analyse, evaluate, propose and implement innovative solutions and processes that enable the continued improvement of the finance function and enhancing finances customer service
- Manage projects (to be defined) on time and within budget
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Provide future focused thought leadership on financial and business information systems that
- Delivers value to the business by reducing complexity
- Enables a lean and effective finance organisation
- Generates business insights
- Enables effective management by focusing on exceptions
- Lead and manage various business improvement projects
- Own, review and develop reporting and planning tools and templates in finance in partnership with key finance stakeholders
- Responsible for effective integration of all business information to enable lean efficient and seamless reporting and governance processes
- Continually deliver cost effective intuitive tools that produce actionable information that enables enhanced business decision making to enable finance to become the insight engine of CCBA
- Focus on the simplification, standardisation and automation of tools and processes across all entities in CCBA where practical
- Identify and enhance best practices in the finance organisation through benchmarking and “best in class” analysis
- Build and develop capability for the implementation of initiatives
- Develop business intelligence through integrated systems and processes that integrate multiple sources and allow for speedy analytical reporting and covers the business drivers of CCBA
- Custodian of the CCBA financial planning platform (PBCS) - Maintain and continually improve the platform aligned to business requirements
- Support various CCBA regions with various planning and month end activities
- Custodian of the CCBA finance EDW, MDS and related business intelligence systems
- Support the implementation of the CCBA digitization project (Project Horizon)
- Support the integration of CCBA mergers and acquisitions into the various group finance platforms
- Support The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) SET project
Skills, Experience & Education
Qualifications:
- Appropriate tertiary qualification (e.g. BCom Honours)
- CIMA, CA or equivalent an advantage
Experience:
- 8+ years operational finance experience, IT experience advantageous
Experience managing projects
General
- The advert has minimum requirements listed.
- Management reserves the right to use additional or relevant information as criteria for short-listing.
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