Job Vacancies at AB InBev

• Key purpose of this role is to oversee the processing of information to ensure that the Business Service Centre operational excellence and customer service objectives are achieved.
• The role ensures accurate reporting and appropriate governance of all elements contained on the balance sheet and Income Statement plus all processes housed in working capital.
• This position performs activities related to the maintenance of the financial transactions across various systems, including Oracle FCCS and SAP.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Manage end to end Account to Report process, financial month end and year end close activities for different entities
• Responsible for accounting for various transactions including, but not limited to, royalties; dividends; interest; intercompany chargeback requests.
• Review FCCS adjustment journals and ensure the information for the financial statement is accurate in the various systems used by the business.
• Review Trial balance for FCCS upload and Cognos reporting.
• Manage General Ledger Close, General Accounting, Intercompany Journals, Accruals, Invoicing
• Review month end revaluation for foreign balances.
• Review Balance Sheet Reconciliations for completeness and integrity.
• Provide customer support and respond to requests and accounting-related inquires and investigations.
• Establishing and enforcing proper accounting methods, policies and principles internally in line with global policies and externally with regards to financial reporting standards
• Drive the reduction and resolution of reconciling difference on FCCS and Cognos
• Ensure adherence to MICS and SOX, accounting methods, policies and principles internally, in line with global policies, statutory requirements and externally with regards to financial reporting standards and provide information as required for internal and external audit.
• Primary contact for queries from Global control and Zone control team. Liaise with internal and external auditors.
• Ensure compliance with IFRS and provide ongoing financial accounting technical & business support to the zone.
• Prepare and present month end reporting packs to stakeholders in line with their expectations
• Ensure weekly and monthly targets are met and all relevant SLA’s and KPI’s.
• Assist team in identifying key challenges, continuous process improvements, excellence and process automation and efficiency opportunities to improve the way we operate and work closely with technology to leverage system.
• Perform Ad hoc requests and projects

Profile:

• Degree in accounting or related field, post-graduate qualification (CA) will be an advantage.
• Minimum of 3 - 5 years in managing financial performance
• Competency in Computer skills (MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI), with particularly strong Excel skills
• Knowledge of Financial Systems, SAP, Syspro, FCCS (Financial Close and Consolidation System, COGNOS system)
• Comprehensive and up to date knowledge of IFRS
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively.
• Ability to build productive working relationships – internally and externally.
• Strong interpersonal/ business skills and time management skills and the ability to generate team cooperation
• This role requires good communication skills both orally and in writing and will require coordination with multiple teams and stakeholder management
• Inspires, leads, engages, coaches, develops and motivates a team of people/ managers to deliver excellent services to business.
• Ability to ensure that the team works efficiently, is customer centric and delivers on business expectations
• Analytical approach/Excellent problem-solving skills, planning and organizing.
• Uphold confidentiality, high levels of integrity and honesty on availability of information, records or processes associated with services provided
• Ability to be flexible with duties and scope of work. Ability to adopt to change
• Strong intercompany Business knowledge and commercial acumen. Expert technical/ accounting base
• Strong self-management qualities. Ability to work under pressure
• Understanding of the Agile Methodology and Ways of Working
• Demonstrate initiative and appropriate levels of assertiveness. Good negotiation skills

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• The key purpose of this role is to oversee the processing of information to ensure that the Business Service Centre operational excellence and customer service objectives are achieved.
• The role ensures accurate reporting and appropriate governance of all elements contained on the balance sheet, Income Statement and cash flow plus all processes housed in working capital.
• This position performs activities related to the maintenance of the financial transactions across various systems, including Oracle FCCS, Blackline and SAP.

Key roles and responsibilities:

Agile Ways of Working:

• As a squad member, this role is responsible for collaboration and embracing the change of agile ways of work, ensuring team a accountability and shared responsibility.
• It requires ownership of work on the sprint backlog, pushing the boundaries for excellent delivery and focus on root cause problem solving, using diverse and collective skills to support other members of the squad.

Output and Accountabilities:

• Manage end to end Account to Report process including financial month end and year end; General Ledger Close, General Accounting, Journal and Balance Sheet Reconciliations, and preparation of other financial information for internal and external reporting or tax accounting purposes.
• Responsible for accounting for various transactions including, but not limited to, royalties; dividends; interest; intercompany chargeback requests.
• Review FCCS adjustment journals and ensure the information for the financial statement is accurate in the various systems used by the business.
• Responsible for the accurate instruction of banking transactions, ensuring that payment information is up to date.
• Perform maintenance of the bank account in the accounting system, including the allocation of banking transactions as required.
• Review Trial balance for FCCS upload and Cognos reporting with review and investigation of reconciling mismatches.
• Review month end revaluation for foreign balances.
• Review Balance Sheet Reconciliations for completeness and integrity.
• Provide customer support and respond to requests and accounting-related inquires and investigations.
• Establishing and enforcing proper accounting methods, policies and principles internally in line with global policies and externally with regards to financial reporting standards
• Drive the reduction and resolution of reconciling difference on FCCS and Cognos
• Ensure adherence to MICS and SOX, accounting methods, policies and principles internally, in line with global policies, statutory requirements and externally with regards to financial reporting standards and provide information as required for internal and external audit.
• Primary contact for queries from Global control and Zone control team. Liaise with internal and external auditors.
• Ensure compliance with IFRS and provide ongoing financial accounting technical & business support to the zone.
• Prepare and present month end reporting packs to stakeholders in line with their expectations
• Ensure weekly and monthly targets are met and all relevant SLA’s and KPI’s.
• Assist team in identifying key challenges, continuous process improvements, excellence and process automation and efficiency opportunities to improve the way we operate and work closely with technology to leverage system.
• Ensure weekly and monthly targets are met and all relevant SLA’s and KPI’s.
• Providing ongoing financial accounting technical & business support to the zone.
• Help the team and Team Lead in identifying continuously process improvements, excellence and process efficiency opportunities.
• Present to the Team Lead key challenges, insights and work work-around. Maximize efficiency and effectiveness of process area, as the Subject Matter Expert for the process.
• Maintenance of role training documentation. Assisting in knowledge transfer to new employees within the role. Assistant train users in completion completion of relevant processes.
• Perform Ad hoc requests and projects

Profile:

• Degree in accounting or related field, post-graduate qualification (CA) will be an advantage.
• Minimum of 3 - 5 years in managing financial performance
• Competency in Computer skills (MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI), with particularly strong Excel skills
• Knowledge of Financial Systems, SAP, Syspro, FCCS (Financial Close and Consolidation System, COGNOS system)
• Comprehensive and up to date knowledge of IFRS
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively.
• Building and influencing diverse teams
• Ability to build productive working relationships – internally and externally.
• Strong interpersonal/ business skills and time management skills and the ability to generate team cooperation
• This role requires good communication skills both orally and in writing and will require coordination with multiple teams and stakeholder management
• Inspires, leads, engages, coaches, develops and motivates a team of people/ managers to deliver excellent services to business.
• Ability to ensure that the team works efficiently, is customer centric and delivers on business expectations
• Analytical approach/Excellent problem-solving skills, planning and organizing.
• Uphold confidentiality, high levels of integrity and honesty on availability of information, records or processes associated with services provided
• Ability to be flexible with duties and scope of work. Ability to adopt to change
• Strong intercompany Business knowledge and commercial acumen. Expert technical/ accounting base
• Strong self-management qualities. Ability to work under pressure
• Understanding of the Agile Methodology and Ways of Working
• Demonstrate initiative and appropriate levels of assertiveness. Good negotiation skills

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Job purpose:

• The key purpose of this role to is to ensure consistent material supply to the BU South.

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Supplier management (operational level)
• S&OE and S&OP implementation and management
• Provide ST & LT material requirements to key stakeholders
• Ensuring material supply against requirement
• Stock level management as per Inventory Policy at Brewery and Supplier
• Expediting of urgent deliveries
• Materials management for NPD, promotions and discontinuations
• Obsolescence tracking and management
• Risk identification and mitigation
• System and Master Data maintenance
• Identify and implement cost avoidance and cost reduction initiatives
• KPI tracking, reporting on Supply Chain Overheads
• Reports
• LCP process implementation and maintenance

Profile:

• Ability to negotiate and influence Suppliers
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong Problem solving ability
• Familiarity with Supply chain principles, from Purchasing through to manufacturing
• Ability to use SAP, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
• Excellent presentation, report drafting, and interpersonal skills
• Discipline and rigor around process and attention to detail
• Supply chain orientated degree, or degree in one of the numerical sciences preferred

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Job purpose:

• An exciting opportunity for a proactive, efficient and conscientious individual with strong financial and communication skills, who is a team player and enjoys working within a fast paced environment.
• Driving efficiencies in the team
• Identify opportunities for reporting automation
• Identify key controls to be implemented / adhered to in the ZBB team
• Drive a customer focused mind-set in the team

Key Roles And Responsibilities

Monthly/Annual responsibilities includes, but are not limited to:

• Budgeting for ZBB across the Zone
• Communicate annual plan calendar and milestones to finance teams
• Providing accurate ZBB requirements by package
• Provide the facts and figures for all relevant budget calculations
• Ensure all Champions initiatives are properly embedded in the budget
• Prepare management review presentations, respecting Zone guidelines, templates and timelines
• Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (SAP, Anaplan)
• Completion of bottom-up budget process

Monthly Actuals (reporting/analysis/review)

• Highlight risks and opportunities during the month and course-correct where possible
• Report month end actuals in line with Control guidelines
• Prepare monthly standard decks

Monthly Full Year Forecast outlook (LE)

• Identify opportunities to continuously improve results
• Identify risks, respective root causes and create gap-closing action plans

Champions

• Drive the Champions process for all ZBB Packages
• Identify owners for each project
• Ensure all projects are measured, reviewed and updated monthly
• Align Champions and R&O outlook

Ad-hoc

• Support finance teams across the Zone when required

Profile

• BCom, CIMA / CA (SA) or progress towards (preferred)
• High sense for accuracy and analysis
• Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, Powerpoint, etc), with particularly strong Excel skills
• Knowledge of ERP Systems – SAP
• Anaplan knowledge - advantage
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills & problem solver
• Used to working with deadlines
• Ability to work in a well organized, accurate and reliable manner
• Highly analytical
• 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

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Job Purpose:

• Manage a Permanent Shift to efficiently execute both T1 & T2 load plans to satisfy internal and external Customer service levels and where applicable as well as coordinating the packaging interface.

Key roles and responsibilities:

Safety

• Ensures a safe and healthy working environment for internal and external stakeholders
• Maintains a robust system of SIO and SHO generation and close out
• Monthly Safety reviews are conducted with the DCM to identify risk trends and mitigation plans
• Completes an annual risk review of internal and external processes, identiying relevant mitiagtion plans and implementing them.

Inventory and Warehouse Management

• Conduct random truck counts to monitor effectiveness of internal controls
• Ensure optimal warehouse configuration
• Conduct monthly stock counts in line with Inventory management procedures and processes
• Ensure compliance to all relevant legislation
• Day to day management of customers related delivery queries or complaints
• Root cause analysis of queries and complaints conducted to prevent recurrence
• Ensure drivers adhere to offloading standards at POC and maintain customer service levels Establish, doument and communicate SOP for delivery staff to follow

Load Plan Execution

• Ensure Driver and Crew image is maintained in-trade and correct PPE compliance
• Incorporate Safety guidelines on all Delivery SOPs
• Implement morning meetings before deliveries and control driver working hours to be within regulatory guidelines

Quality

• Ensures that logistics teams adhere to Quality guidelines specified by the Zone so that customers receive stock as per ABInbev Quality guidelines
• Adheres to Zone blocking mechanisms to ensure that blocked stock is at no time a risk to our stakeholders
• Manages DOC & Stock age for finished goods inventories in order to proactively identify opportunities or alleviate write off risks risks with functional peers in Planning, Manufacturing and Commercial

DPO

• Ensures that Daily, Weekly and Monthly Meeting routies are adhered to in line with mandatory DPO guidelines (OWD's, SCL, MCL, Mandatoriy meetings)
• Conducts the Daily Logistics Meeting as per the specified TOR's listed in the DPO framework
• Ensures that Processes are standardised via SOP's and work standards are monitored and improved upon using Oerational Work Diagnoses (OWD’s)
• 5S routines and improvement exercises are conducted on a weekly and monthly basis to uphold DC Housekeeping standards
• Annual Business Descriptions are developed per functional area, taking into account SWOT Analysis and key business imperatives.
• Tracks KPI's on a daily, weekly and monthly basis in line with DPO Terms of Reference. Ensures that appropriate problem solving tools are applied for out of range KPI's in line with DPO methodology

Continuous Improvement

• Fosters a culture of continuous improvement by ensuring that routines and process are aligned to best in class standards through effective benchmarking
• Engages with HRBP and ensures that the Training Needs Analysis (TNA) document is maintained in line with ongoing operational requirements for staff development
• Ensures that TNA weekly and Monthly training schedules are adhered to
• Drives a problem solving culture through the use of DPO Problem solving tools (e.g 5 Why, Abnormality Reports, OWD's, GAPA, PDCA) from Shopfloor to senior management

IR

• Maintains a healthy IR climate by conducting documented monthly engagements with Union representatives
• Ensure that the Shopfloor are aligned in terms of goals and meeting routines to drive continuous improvement
• Ensures that Monthly One on Ones are conducted in line with the target review process.
• Maintains a healthy IR climate with Partners (Owner Drivers, Temp Labour, Outsourced Services) through documented SLA Meetings
• Time and attendance SAP administration effectively managed
• Communication channels are open to relevant stakeholders via Monthly All Employee meetings

Governance

• Ensures that internal compliance controls are adhered to in terms of Vendor payments, SOX and CSA controls.
• Ensures that management teams are trained on the Code of Business Conduct and strict adherence is in place. Effective use of the Compliance Channel is maintained

Service Level

• Ensures that T1 TCT is maintained to enable Stock and Empties movements from and to the brewery
• Engages with Sales to ensure RTI's are maintained to minimise packaging downtime.
• Ensures there is strict adherence to Inventoy Policy within Warehouse.
• Manages Service Level Agreeements (SLA) on a weekly basis with Fleet, Quality and T1 functions
• Escalates relevant MBFU policy transgressions and takes appropriate actions
• Manages weekly SLA with Sales with clearly documented information on Sizing, Sales Forecast and Potential Stock write offs. Performance measures to be shared weekly include Refusals performance, Sales Curve index, OODD, Drop size and OOS contstraints
• Ensure customer DSP’s are aligned to activity and changes communicated
• Ensures that internal SLA agreements between Customer Service and Logistics are maintained

Budgets

• Drives a strict adherence to flexed budgets with the Delivery, Warehouse and CXC Planning teams.
• Ensures that accountability is taken on cost control
• Ensures that sizing is conducted on a weekly and monthly basis in line with the Sales plan. Sizing risks are identified and relevant actions taken to mitigate
• Accounts for over/underspends on a weekly and monthly basis dependent on the GL Frequency.

Profile:

• 3 year Degree in Logistics or any other related field
• Minimum 4 years experience including Management, Logistics, Distribution/Warehousing and Finance
• Familiar with local market environments
• Knowledge of all relevant legislative requirements
• Knowledge of customer service principles
• Good interpersonal skills / builds good relationships
• Superior planning ability
• Ability to work under pressure
• Good verbal and communication skills
• Good self-management principles
• Ability to adapt to and implement change effectively
• Excellent coaching capability
• Strives for continuous improvement
• Demonstrates leadership skills
• Good decision making ability
• Excellent numerical ability
• Good analytical ability