VOPS & Procurement PPM Specialist - Sandton at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key Roles and Responsibilities

Annual Plan / Budget includes, but are not limited to:

• Adhere to all deadlines, milestones and submission requirements to the Zone Procurement team
• Complete all budget calculations w.r.t price (working with Category Managers
• Completion of budget SCFD submission by plant and submission to Global ( GCC)
• Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (COGNOS, SCFD, Syspro, TM1, BPC)

Weekly & Monthly Process includes, but are not limited to:

• Weekly submission of moving average price report
• Control owner of moving average price including documenting actions w.r.t this control
• Preparation of month end journals if necessary
• High level analysis and insights to price variance by material
• Monthly detailed commentary on price variances
• Completion of monthly detailed price variance reports across the Zone
• Completion of monthly Commodity tracking (CTRM) report

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant 3-year university degree in Accounting, Business, Economics,
• Engineering or similar
• High sense for accuracy
• Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, Powerpoint, etc), with particularly
• strong Excel skills
• Good knowledge of consolidation & reporting tools (Cognos,TM1 , BI
• Knowledge of ERP Systems SAP, Syspro
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills & problem solver
• Used to working with deadlines
• Ability to work in a well-organized, accurate and reliable manner
• Working in a multi-cultural environment
• High level of service mindset
• Coordination skills
• Communicative, team oriented and open for change
• Basic business sense
• Highly results focused
• Leads by example, and lives the company’s values
• Presentation skills
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively
• Fluent English in speaking, reading and writing