Current Vacancies at The Heineken Company

KEY RESULT AREAS

• Effectively manage the daily administration functions
• Assist and support managers with purchase requisitions. good receipt process, purchase orders and all procurement related admin
• Ensure the correct issuing and management of petty cash
• responsible for the coordination of the ISO audits and changes to documentation
• Involvement in preparation of budgets and forecasts, including monthly coordination of Opex spends and variance analysis
• Assist at the site with regards to ICC’s and stock takes
• Ability to coordinate in the monthly variance report after obtaining and evaluating the reasons for the variances
• Ensure that distribution cents per litre is contained through continual investigation and improvement of asset utilization
• effectively coordinate the monthly internal audit function for the distribution centre
• Stock take preparation and data capturing
• Improving business processes to ensure achievement of business objectives

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Valid matric certificate
• A diploma or degree / advanced national certificates in administration or finance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• Minimum 6 months relevant experience in FMCG logistics / distribution environment
• Computer literacy in MS Office, SAP, SuccessFactors
• Experience meeting tight deadlines
• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral) and sound presentation skills
• The ability to work weekends, After hours, public holidays and / or shifts if necessary
• Should be willing to cover for other roles within the depot

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Key Performance Areas would include, but are not limited to:

• Prepare and control Routine Maintenance, Abnormal Maintenance and CAPEX budgets for Van Ryn
• Effectively manage site maintenance
• Update and maintain maintenance planning schedules
• Supervise contractors on site
• Ensure all contractor safety files are up to date and compliant prior to commencement of work.
• Responsible for all mechanical and electrical repairs to equipment and machinery
• Implement and maintain an effective preventative maintenance programme
• Implement effective housekeeping and safety policies and practices
• Perform stand-by duties when required
• Accept the role of ISO 14001 team member
• Be part of Food Safety team and TACCP team for FSSC 22000
• Actively participate in all relevant TPM activities
• Legally Appointed GMR2 for the site
• Responsible for all administrative tasks related to Maintenance
• Drive Sustainability targets (water and electricity) on site

The successful candidate must have the following qualifications/experience/skills/attributes:

• Qualified trade tested Artisan, preferably Electrical or Millwright
• At least 3 years’ relevant experience in a supervisory capacity within a FMCG manufacturing environment
• Sound project management experience
• PC Literacy (MS Office/SAP)
• Self-starter with the ability to work effectively under pressure
• Good planning and organising skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Willingness to work irregular hours, including stand-by and callouts when required

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Key Performance Areas would include, but are not limited to:

• Loading and off-loading of barrels
• Prepare for and assist with monthly stock take
• Maintain effective housekeeping and safety practices
• Performing any ad-hoc tasks in the department as needed
• Ensure highest possible productivity in the workplace
• Safeguarding all company assets
• Strict adherence to all health and safety policies, procedures and practices
• Actively participate in department TPM activities
• Ad hoc duties as and when required

The successful candidate must have the following qualifications/experience/skills/attributes:

• Grade 12
• A Valid Forklift license
• Knowledge of safe working procedures
• Willingness to work irregular hours and overtime when needed
• Willingness to perform ad hoc duties, including in other departments, when required
• Must be a team player
• Good interpersonal skills
• Punctuality and attendance reliability

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Key Performance Areas would include, but are not limited to:

• Maintaining machinery and equipment on the production line.
• Improving overall equipment efficiency on the production line.
• Health and Safety supervision of machinery, equipment and working environment.
• Adhere to work according to ISO 9001, Food safety (HACCP), FSSC, SANS 1841, ISO 14001, Organic, Wieta, ISO 45001, BSCI and IFS standards.
• Compliance to OHS Act.
• Record downtime events, duration and reasons.
• Ensure that all breakdowns are recorded and that feedback is provided on causes and corrective action 
• Ensure correct completion of job cards and daily shift report.
• Adherence to maintenance schedules.
• Stand-in duties.

The successful candidate must have the following experience/skills:

• Matric
• Mechanical/Electrical N2 qualification.
• Trade tested Electronic or Millwright
• Minimum of 5 years Electronic/millwright experience in a FMCG environment
• Good technical background 
• Knowledge of Machinery, minimizing losses and write-offs
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to display attention to detail.

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You will be required to do the following:

• Cleaning of floors, machines, conveyors, and areas in and around production lines
• Supply production machines with Dry Goods from Dry Goods area.
• Perform reworks on non-conforming products.
• Adhere to safe working procedures, practices, and safety regulations at all times.
• Actively involved in all Mini business activities

The successful candidate must have the following experience/skills:

• Grade 12 or equivalent qualification
• Experience as a general worker in a Production environment.
•  Must have Packaging Skills Programme.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Must be physically healthy and strong to perform strenuous duties from time to time.
• Ability to initiate action spontaneously without being urged on to do so.
• Must be willing to work shifts, including night shift, overtime and weekends if required.
• The ability to work within a team is essential.
• To reflect good corporate governance towards colleagues, supervisors, and company values.

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Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure integrity in financial systems and results used for strategic decision making
• Build trust in the corporate finance function throughout the business through data and analysis integrity
• Planning and management of cross functional system and finance development work and ensuring successful development, testing and delivery
• Continuous development and optimisation of reporting, systems and processes to provide meaningful financial information to assist in decision making in a timely manner
• Get involved in the system workings and ensure continuous enhancements and automation of reporting datasets and packs
• Automate reconciliations for all the reporting models (South Africa, International, South Africa and International combined, NBL, CVH, legacy Distell, Heineken Beverages Group) both for management reporting and recon to BPC (used for statutory reporting), CIL and suggest improvements
• CIL dataset development, improvement, analysis and support
• SAP controls, checks and enhancements
• Calculate and automate group level monthly journals
• Build and maintain constructive working relationships with customers, suppliers and other relevant stakeholders
• Provide a high standard of customer service to all internal, external customers and work partners

Assist with ad hoc inquiries and analytics

• the conducting of analytical reviews of performance, detail investigations and the identifying of areas for investigation
• driving and owning the change required from investigations to improve outcomes
• by engaging with and managing others to obtain information
• through ownership of ad hoc projects and investigations
• development and continuous improvements of dashboards and analytics
• through troubleshooting: Quality check and resolution of potential issues proactively

Ensure a smooth reporting process each month to internal and external stakeholders (both EUR and ZAR) through

• monthly advance planning and communication of deadlines and requirements to stakeholders
• updating and maintaining the corporate calendar and communication of changes
• consistent delivery of all results on time (in full) and at the required quality
• the performing and automation of reconciliations between different reporting platforms
• automate reporting workbooks and platforms
• working with a sense of urgency

Responsible for automating various reporting outputs at different levels for different stakeholders

• Business performance reviews (BPR)
• Heineken Beverages Board
• Heineken Beverages SA Board
• Internal Management Team (MT) reporting and analysis at various levels (South Africa and International consolidated and stand-alone)
• Remgro reporting both secretarial and financial departments
• Support Remgro Cognos submissions as required
• Remgro CEO reports

Statutory reporting: 

• Responsible to ensure that additional deadlines for interim and year-end reporting requirements are met
• Assist with ad hoc requests, including IFRS
• Ensuring integrity between statutory reporting and other reporting
• Automate reconciliations between statutory reporting and other reporting

Key skills:

• Automation
• Dashboarding
• Excel
• SAP, BW, A4O, BI
• Ad hoc systems support, development and integration
• Complexity and ambiguity

Education & Experience:

• Qualified Chartered Accountant CA(SA) or CIMA
• At least 2-3 years post article experience
• Knowledge of SAP, SAP BW, SAP BPC and Analysis for Office required
• Extensive Microsoft Excel skills including automation and dashboarding                                         
• Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in fast paced environment
• Able to support multiple work streams within the month end close
• Work in cross-functional teams and in a multi-national company with Global requirements
• Take on broader roles in the finance organization
• Builds collaborative relationship and networks – People and relationship building centric. Develops internal/external relationships with an Organisation focus, to resolve both short-term issues and advance longer-term projects/work.
• Attention to detail is crucial
• Deadline driven with a sense of urgency
• Strong numerical aptitude and analytical abilities are essential.
• Self-starter, the ability to work independently and under pressure.
• Personal effectiveness & excellence – Display an iterative learning mentality. Actively seeks out opportunities to learn and develop, and promotes learning and development in others.
• Resilience - Remains determined despite frequent obstacles. Possess high levels of EQ
• Creative - The ability to use imagination and new ideas to produce solutions.
• Entrepreneurial – The ability to think ahead to spot or create opportunities and maximize them
• Engagement skills - Communicates persuasively and confidently to influence and negotiate positive outcomes. Ability to use storytelling to effectively inspire stakeholders to implement the proposed actions/ solutions.

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Key Requirements:

• Provide a cost-effective salaries administration service compliant with corporate governance and in market statutory requirements. 
• Develop and present payroll inputs to the strategic plan for the business unit and manage implementation of approved initiatives. 
• Payroll is processed in compliance with in-market specific legislation & industry regulations specific to each country
• Ensure compliance with statutory reporting and corporate governance specific to each country
• All work met with prescribed standards for quality and quantity. 
• Follow-up and proactively resolve queries & escalate issues, where required. 
• Consistently applied / complied with practices and standards (SOPs). 
• Fulfil a coordination role between payroll and human resources, to ensure proper flow and maintenance of employee data.
• Build effective relationships with external and internal stakeholders. 
• Foster good relations with all stakeholders to be viewed as trusted business partner for support services. 
• Display communication, behavior and action which result in a high level of credibility and respect among key stakeholders. 
• Employee queries/cases are resolved within the required timeframes and escalated appropriately where required.
• Continuously review systems and processes to improve efficiency and cost savings. 
• Optimize and improve systems and work processes to drive productivity and reduce cost. 
• Accurately and timeously perform the preparation from SNOW and processing of the monthly payroll i.e. accurate capturing of information onto the SAP/PaySpace/MyHR systems, e.g. processing the employee appointments, terminations, transfers and promotions while ensuring data integrity between systems, such as job grades and reporting lines.
• Develop effective manager and peer working relations

Education and Experience:

• Minimum Matric Cdertificate, a relevant qualification in HR or associated with payroll will be highly beneficial.
• Minimum of 3 years' payroll experience 
• Minimum 2 years international payroll experience, together with working on multiple payrolls
• Proven proficiency in relevant payroll and HR software 
• Experience in working across multiple banking platforms
• Experience in working across multiple statutory platforms

Experience must include the following in the various International platforms: 

• Detailed knowledge of employee tax and regulations
• Proficiency in relevant payroll software 
• Strong skills in using and understanding the flow of transactions in an integrated and automated payroll accounting system.
• Must have excellent financial analytical skills with ability to interpret and present financial data. 
• Experienced in mid-year and annual tax reconciliations and submissions across various international platforms
• Proven track record in payroll audits
• Experience in working with finance and reporting
• Vendor and third party reconciliations and payments experience
• Experience with leave control and reporting
• Intermediate to Advanced MS Excel skills are required.  
• Experience with and willing to accommodate skills transfer