T2 VLC, People and Capex Specialist at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Annual Planning

• Lead the budgeting process for BU South Africa T2 Transport Logistics for DCs and ADs
• Communicate annual plan calendar, milestones and P&L to Regional and Zone logistics teams
• Partner with Zone Procurement and NOCC teams to ensure that price escalation estimates are accurate and reflected correctly in the 1YP & 3YP planning processes 

Procurement Initiatives

• Provide the facts and figures for all relevant budget calculations
• Ensure all Champions initiatives are properly embedded in the budget and aligned with owners
• Prepare management review presentations, respecting Zone guidelines, templates and timelines
• Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (TM1, SAP, BPC)
• Completion of bottom-up budget process
• Align and support LCP requirements for Last Mile strategy

Monthly Routines (reporting/analysis/review)

• Run weekly and monthly cost and performance reporting for VLC
• Tracking and monitoring Logistics KPIs influencing performance
• Highlight risks and opportunities during the month and course-correct where possible
• Report month end actuals in line with Control guidelines
• Accurately report on Price, Volumes, Mix & Performance on a monthly basis
• Align mix calculation to Zone and Global requirements
• Deep dive all new variance drivers, find root-causes and work with Logistics team to implement gap-closing action plans

Monthly Full Year Forecast outlook (LE)

• Prepare Full Year Forecast outlook (LE) for the T2 logistics department, for financial and operational KPIs
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve results
• Identify risks, respective root causes and create gap-closing action plans

Champions

• Drive the Champions process for all T2 Logistics Packages, focusing on Price and Performance initiatives in line with Zone guidelines
• Identify owners for each project
• Ensure all projects are measured, reviewed and updated monthly
• Align Champions and R&O outlook

Capex Implementation

• Support annual capex submission with 1YP
• Track and report on regional capex allocation and spend
• Support project implementation

People Planning

• Annual blueprint review with BU Director
• Review ZBB spend against budget and blueprint to understand variances

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant tertiary qualification, CIMA, CA(SA) or progress towards these certifications.
• 4+ years’ experience in managing financial performance in FMCG or Beverage industry
• Experience in supporting top-level managers with decision-making

Technical competencies

• Solid knowledge of accounting and control activities
• Experience in Project Management, good communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills, able to convey a clear message (storyline building), making complex matters easy to understand
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
• SAP reporting skills