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Key Responsibilities:

Productivity

• Evaluate site performance against standards and assess the validity of any standard adjustments and initiate change process
• Assess the inherent risk for an under recovery and identify and recommend appropriate mitigating action to minimise the impact for the site
• Identify applicable short interval controls, initiate and monitor corrective actions
• Evaluate improvement, escalate root cause analysis, facilitate the decision making and implementation process
• Ensure alignment of site standards to the group standards
• Evaluate and present standard review changes with relevant supporting motivations which includes financial impact and ensure implementation
• Evaluate implementation of business unit actions and assess possible site impact and escalate as required
• Define Financial R&R's for non-financial managers [production and service departments]
• Develop level 4 management financial competencies / capability in plant
• Interpret results of productivity measurements, propose optimal practices for the site and measure the implementation and results thereof.

Quality

• Ensure proper controls and processes and to manage the governance of the cost of quality on site
• Validate and approve of write offs [analysis of reasons]
• Review and manage impact of Non-conformance write offs and escalate to relevant stakeholders
• Escalate issues to the level 4 teams and other stakeholders [e.g. procurement, COE, Excise and customs]
• Review and sign off approval of cost of rework
• Assess and validate information, escalate and lodge complaint through the complaints process, track the progress of the process and the subsequent financial entries.

Manage Budgets

• Validate master data for the site and escalate to the SRB for changes
• Provide the budget guidelines and framework for each business unit
• Consolidate and present the site budget
• Monthly manage the sites budget
• Evaluate site capital requirements in line with the 5-year plan and current business requirements
• Approve the release of the funds in the months budgeted for
• Assess the impact of the escalation of uncontrollable and controllable costs within the site and identify opportunities and propose mitigating actions to level 4 to minimize the impact
• Consolidate and evaluate the forecasted financial performance for the site based on the current business climate
• Evaluate and approve the proposed RCCP
• Review and approve the overhead calculations
• Assist the site manager to compile the sites business plan [short and long term] present for approval and monitor the execution of the plan.

Management Accounting

• Manage actual cost of materials on site
• Assist site manager to develop KPI dashboard for approval, evaluate the relevance of the KPI's dashboard and track performance
• Review and approve site master data and any proposed changes
• Consolidate, analyse and present the sites monthly financial results, provide relevant reasons for deviations and take appropriate actions
• Compile relevant information in an understandable manner for specific target groups
• Approve reconciled provision accounts, ensure relevance of the provisions made and or reversals
• Sign off on NPD financial inputs
• Participate in NPD project team and provide relevant inputs

Financial Accounting

• Evaluate and ensure financial decisions comply with IFRS requirements
• Ensure that all financial statements comply to IFRS [if appropriate to the role]
• Sign off petty cash
• Escalate obsolete stock or fixed assets to level 4
• Communicate obsolete stock and fixed assets to relevant COE's for possible re-allocation or write offs
• Escalate and tracking of long outstanding accounts payable issues to the hive
• Review relevant site ICC's monthly, identify mitigating controls and corrective actions  and provide feedback to level 4 and obtain sign off. Where applicable escalate issues to COE
• Liaise with external auditors and relevant site stake holders
• Prepare information for input to Head office tax department for calculation
• Validate the correctness of tax journals in final trial balance [if appropriate to the role]
• Assess and validate information, escalate to COE's to lodge insurance claims through the claims process, track the progress of the process and the subsequent financial entries8.- Logistics and International logistics
• Ensure governance around routing costs i.e., inbound and inter plant.
• Evaluate the cost of export logistics costs models.
• Optimise financial allocation of logistics processes.

Excise & Customs Management

• Escalate unresolved issues to the COE and Head Office indirect tax
• Review proposed changes to Excise governance SOP's and escalate
• Approve monthly excise reconciliation and submit to COE
• Identify gaps and request excise training
• Evaluate nature of price variances and escalate any deviations [excluding exchange rates] of foreign vendor purchase orders
• Sign off bond register

Manage Corporate Governance & ICT

• Enforce financial, IT controls and Materials Control policies, procedures & SOP's in line with good corporate governance principles & practices
• Evaluate the adequateness of the IT governance structure, test the site survival kit and escalate to ICT department
• Ensure all the relevant legislations are complied with and escalated to level 4 and COE for possible risk of non-compliance
• Ensure all the relevant financial legislations are complied with and escalated to level 4 and COE for possible risk of non-compliance
• Manage business information systems [ICT, MRP and MES]
• Ensure all governance policies and procedures are updated and documents are available
• Participate in cross site audits and stock takes.

Manage of Physical/Fixed Assets

• Ensure completeness, validity and accuracy of the site’s asset register
• Sign off on all physical asset disposals and ensure no assets on asset register have an impairment risk
• Sign off on all capitalised assets and verify validity of assets under construction
• Manage the capital funding and approval of capital and abnormal maintenance requests
• Manage small Capex funding and approval
• Ensure the sites total asset register is verified and validated annually
• Ensure that all Capital requests motivated on ROI is tracked until payback achieved and evaluate against original ROI motivation and explain deviations
• Ensure management and safe guarding of assets during installation and insurance risks are addressed

Personnel Costs

• Ensure that the consolidated labour productivity tracker is valid and complete for the site with relevant variance explanations and actions
• Validate RCCP plans and advise on changes to meet labour productivity targets
• Investigate casual labour deviations for possible inefficiencies or changes to routings and implement corrective actions where required.

Planning Production

• Evaluate cost of production plan presented and approve unplanned / unbudgeted costs Investigate and motivate the deviations from approved plan
• Liaise with master data, NPD, product costing and excise departments to ensure correctness of information [cost of trials / new product development and commissioning]
• Evaluate cost and challenge motivations of demurrage costs and transport claims, action taken and the reoccurrence thereof.

Procurement

• Liaise with applicable business partner [COE procurement or Standards review board] and provide credible information to motivate changes to contracts and  outline agreements
• Evaluate ICC's and ensure effective mitigating controls in place for procurement noncompliance reoccurrences
• Sign off the completed scrap tender process and ensure compliance to the scrap tender procedure

Manage Stock

• Ensure governance of overall stock management is aligned to corporate policy, evaluate deviations and ensure corrective actions or mitigating controls are in place [bulk, dry goods, bottled and engineering spares/ consumables]
• Manage the stock take process and frequency and evaluate and approve stock take variances after validation of reasons and identification of remedial action
• Evaluate the stock conversion cycle, investigate root causes and stock write off risks
• Ensure block stock managed proactively and possible write offs are escalated to the SC Finance COE
• Liaise with applicable business partners [COE SHREQ and SC Finance] and provide credible information to motivate provisions for write off's and write off
• Ensure governance of sub-contracting stock and stock process
• Approve the reconciliations and liaise with external auditors to provide stock roll forward reconciliation
• Review and approve the stock write off's and escalate to SC Finance COE
• Review and approve stock write off and escalate to the SC Finance COE
• Ensure excess loss is correctly processed and necessary escalation process followed
• Review the validity of the long-term stock models
• Monitor ZQM 22 reports, evaluate the root cause analysis, solutions and the preventative actions taken / planned.

Manage Project/Change

• Provide financial information and support special projects
• Manage, facilitate and implement financial change interventions
• Tracking and validation financial benefits of Continuous improvement projects.

Manage Administration

• Enforce financial policies, procedures & SOP's
• Manage time and attendance for the department
• Ensure adherence to the document storage protocol
• Prepare and submit reports
• Enforce and manage effective use of information systems
• Review and sign off SLA's
• Conduct meetings.

 Manage Business Strategy

• Validate the financial impact and affordability of the site business plan and ensure alignment to the SC strategy
• Develop the balanced score card to ensure that the execution of site business plan can be monitored.

Manage Employee Relations

• Conduct / facilitate disciplinary hearings
• Manage discipline in own department
• Manage grievance process
• Monitor absenteeism, leave & sick leave

Manage Performance

• Manage financial team performance and business partnering role
• Recruit and select employees
• Update and manage EPMS performance 
• Manage own performance and IDP
• Develop and manage IDP’S for employees / direct reports
• Mentor and coach employees
• Counsel employees on poor performance
• Manage records on "My HR".

Collaboration

• Manage relationships with business partners
• Communicate business issues / results to level 4
• Engage in multi-level meetings
• Do and facilitate problem solving and review reasons for reoccurrence

Education & Experience:

• Relevant degree
• +-5 years relevant FMCG experience

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Key Responsibilities:

Provide direct support to the PCI Managers in the following:

Process & Control Management:

• To ensure business processes and controls are appropriately designed, constructed, implemented and maintained.
• Jointly drive with Local Management the design and documentation of business processes and controls, applying the global process design and management methodology and HEINEKEN Enterprise Process Model (HEPM).
• Ensure that controls are fully embedded in the design of processes, including Process Performance Indicator (PPI) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) defined by the Business.
• Ensure PPIs and KPIs are monitored on an ongoing basis to identify any risks or opportunities for improvements (processes & controls). Identify and report any process activities that deviate from the global standard by Local Management.

Control Monitoring:

• To monitor and test control effectiveness and drive the implementation of remediating actions. o Ensure that the effectiveness of controls is monitored and/or frequently tested.
• Be responsible for putting the appropriate actions in place (agreed with Management).
• Track and monitor the progress of remediating activities.

Process Improvement:

• To embed a process improvement culture, drive process and control improvement and realise benefits.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement, benchmarking and innovation.
• Build process improvement capabilities through training and people development.
• Challenge existing processes to identify improvement opportunities using benchmarks and external best practices.
• Quantify financial benefits and costs associated with improvement ideas.
• Analyse impact of Job Description changes on processes and ways of working.
• Implement process improvements and inform Local Management about the progress on a regular basis. Ensure that the global process improvement methodology (Lean / Six Sigma) is applied.
• Evaluate the success of the improvement projects and the benefits realised.

Risk Management:

• To lead the process of Risk Identification, Assessment and Response and monitor existing and emerging risks.
• Drive the implementation of a comprehensive Risk Management (RM) framework.
• Identify relevant risks for the business. Analyses, measures and evaluates risks.
• Conduct Risk Assessment through running risk workshops with the Business, ensures relevant risk templates and documentation are used and drives the creation of risk responses. This also includes new and emerging risks.
• Develop specific action plans to mitigate, accept or transfer risk and monitors progress on an ongoing basis.

Fraud Management:

• To improve fraud prevention and detection and support fraud investigation when required.
• Raise fraud awareness through promoting the ‘Speak-up’ procedures.
• Drive fraud prevention and detection through identifying fraud risks and addressing them through strong process and control design and testing.
• Discuss and support incident assessment, following the Anti-Fraud procedure (P&CI may be requested on an exceptional basis to investigate specific fraud incidents that are related to business process controls).
• Support fraud investigation when requested by Local Management, Global Legal Affairs or Global Audit.

Compliance Management:

• To provide assurance that processes and controls are designed, implemented and operating in line with the relevant policies, procedures and HEINEKEN Rules.
• P&CI is informed about policy changes and assesses the impact on existing control frameworks. Provide advice, support and challenge during the implementation of policies (global & local).
• Register, track and log policies & procedures. This includes the review and challenge of the self assessment activities.
• If requested, provide advice, support and challenge to the design of policies (global & local).

Assurance Activities:

• To support Global and External Audit to efficiently plan and execute audits and to drive closure of audit findings.
• Plan, lead and execute audits to evaluate the risks and the established controls in all business processes in NewCo
• Work with Global Audit to ensure a consistent and efficient audit plan is adopted.
• Support and/or execution of audits in global audits (inside or outside of the OpCo) at the request of the Audit Committee, via Global Audit.
• Support the audit through providing information or specialist input where required (Local P&CI team members may perform controls testing or other audit activities on behalf of Global Audit when agreed with OpCo FD/FM).
• Define and execute remediation plans (in agreement with Management). Track and monitor the progress of remediating activities.
• Work closely with external auditors in respect to the Financial Controls Audit to enable reliance on the work of internal audit, thus driving reductions in the overall audit fees.

Education & Experience:

• Minimum of financial tertiary qualification CA (SA), Six Sigma
• Extensive experience within internal audit of international companies, including experience of operational audit, risk management.
• Proven ability of working in an international setting.
• Business experience in line manager role is an advantage.
• Experience and proven success in managing and developing teams.
• Proven success in influencing management and performing Management controls reviews,
•   providing strong effective business-oriented recommendations.
• Ability to travel locally and internationally (up to 50%)
• Development and leadership of projects based on risk evaluation and/or business consulting.
• Broad knowledge of internal control.
• Development of audit programs and budgets.
• Solid experience in process analysis.
• Creation of Policies and Procedures.
• Leadership capabilities and ability to communicate effectively, including excellent report writing skills.
• Ability to collect and analyze complex data, evaluate information and systems and reach logical conclusions.

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Key Responsibilities

Demand Forecasting

• Assist functions in the planning/ evaluation of launching NPDs, new SKUs, Investments into various regions by forecasting demand for said action given all available information sources.
• Be the central demand side point of contact for demand forecasting collation, alignment and conflict identification
• Manage and run all demand-side forecasting process, interventions and meetings
• Be the one source of truth across categories, and assist in prioritising categories or brands when necessary
• Use detailed data, analytics, trends and history to challenge forecasts to reflect most accurate figures

Investment demand impact

• Perform post investment/ launch demand impact reviews. Some examples as follows:
• Campaign effectiveness review
• Promo review.
• Assets – Fridges placed demand impact review
• Store/outlet elements/ makeup impact on demand – Gondolas, Wine lists
• Store Execution impact on demand - A²QVP² levers review.

Portfolio management

• Review the full Heineken Beverages portfolio:
• Providing insights on profitability and demand changes,
• Providing recommendations for SKU introductions and culling
• Provide tactical recommendations on adapting global brand strategies to the South African market demand
• Manage write-offs and stock expiry across the value chain

Job Requirements

Education

• A 3-year Degree, finance, logistics, Data science

Experience

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience (preferably 10) in an FMCG Data Management and analytical environment.
• Data Management and analytics
• Commercial Analytics
• Operations Management
• Project Management
• Revenue Management
• Frontline Sales Operations

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• Drive new customer take on in order to assist deliver revenue growth.