Job Vacancies at SC Johnson

About the role

This role is based in our EMEA Shared Service Centre and is to be accountable for providing financial analysis, performing the Month End Close, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, intercompany accounting support, provide finance business partnering to the local country and liaising across multiple functions, and to actively support the Associate Manager in both routine tasks and process improvements

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring the appropriate controls are operational in order to maintain the quality and integrity of financial information, ensuring consistency of process across EMEA
• Performing month end tasks within 3 day close period
• Performing analysis of balance sheet accounts to identify accounting discrepancies and provide input on resolutions
• Ensure that all internal controls, financial policies and procedures established by GIA are being followed
• Develop and maintain internal/external audit and SOX documentation as it relates to the role. Further, act as liaison between internal/external auditors and business partners during reviews and audits
• Developing customer relationships with internal customers (purchasers and finance personnel)
• Identify process improvements with emphasis on streamlining and/or improving controls within accounting through using LEAN methodology
• Raising intercompany invoices, cash allocation and reconciliation for intercompany accounts

Experience you’ll bring:

• Graduate calibre ideally in business/finance or equivalent
• Experience of monthly closing, balance sheets, month end reporting, accruals and reconciliation, able to demonstrate a high level of numeracy.
• Strong knowledge and experience of SAP CO Module
• Experience of Business Warehouse, BPC or similar ERP system
• Advanced Excel skills
• Accounting department experience in a medium to large size company

Behaviors you’ll need:

• Ability to use initiative and be proactive in anticipating problems when they occur
• Attention to detail and accuracy, able to self-evaluate work and create culture of continuous improvement
• Able to work independently and with strong attention to detail
• Comfortable working with colleagues of various levels and disciplines within a cross-functional organization

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About the Team/Department

The Customer Supply Chain function is made up of 6 multilingual teams who support our commercial businesses across the EMEA region with making sure our products are delivered on time in full to our customers (retailers).  This role will sit in the Customer Fulfilment Collaboration Team - Northern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa Clusters and you will be working with a focus on South Africa.   

Responsibilities:

• To leverage communication and influencing skills in relation to order management, to maximize the customer case fill (and on time delivery if appropriate) in line with departmental and customer targets;
• To maximize collaborative ways of working with trade customers through analysis; to communicate recommendations to benefit the business and to build strong collaborative relationships with our partners in the local business to drive commercial and supply chain initiatives;
• To professionally manage stock allocations in line with local sales & supply chain teams’ expectations in low or out of stock situations;
• To ensure the effective management of new product listings and delists into customers through liaison with the local sales & logistics service providers;
• Ensure the accurate and smooth processing of customer orders and master data (Customer & Material Data) in SAP.

Experience you’ll bring:

• Fluent in English both written and verbal
• Supply Chain Experience or understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain (desirable)
• Previous experience in customer services and order management experience (desirable)

Behaviors you’ll need:

• Influencing, presenting, communication and problem- solving skills
• Ability to establish collaborative and trusting business relationships, through professional, proactive interactions
• Very good team player
• Mindset to seek continuous improvement

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About the role

Reporting to the Finance Accounting Manager as part of the EMEA Shared Service Centre.  You’ll be accountable for the leadership, management and performance of a team of Accounts Payable analysts. You’ll actively encourage and empower them to achieve high performance levels, as well as assisting the team in the resolution of internal business partners and external supplier queries.  You’ll actively support the Finance organization in the identification and implementation of process improvements.

RESPONSIBILITIES

People Management

• Provide clear leadership, direction and empowerment to a multicultural team through a combination of objective setting, one-to-one coaching and training, so they can perform to the expected standards
• Continuously build capability within the team through coaching and development
• Help to build an environment to stimulate creative thinking and innovation towards continuous improvement using LEAN methodology
• Foster a “great place to work” environment
• Active participation and accountability on recruitment and onboarding processes for new starters.

Functional Leadership

• Strong accounts payable technical knowledge to support the team

Quality and integrity of financial information provided by the SSC

• Ensuring compliance with SOAR, global policies and local regulations, and that the appropriate controls are operational in order to maintain the quality and integrity of financial information.

Business Relationship Management

• Responsible for direct contact with business partners.
• To develop and sustain these relationships, understanding countries evolving needs and situations, while ensuring process compliance and effectiveness.

Performance Leadership

• Ensure that team processes perform to agreements levels and reach objectives and key performance indicators on monthly base.
• Perform query management, identification, problem solve and resolution of issues
• Performing ad-hoc analysis as required
• Ensure completion of Month End tasks and reporting, such as account analysis and KPI/Metric reporting
• Supporting the company in any projects designed to improve the SSC Accounts Payable or Procure to Pay process.

Process excellence

• To deliver effectiveness and efficiency process improvements using Lean tools and methodology
• To ensure through active role modelling that OPEX (Operational and Process Excellence) methodology is embedded in the DNA of the team

Experience you’ll bring

• Accounting/book-keeping diploma or other relevant qualification or studying towards diploma relevant qualification.
• Strong previous experience of working within/with an accounts payable department for a multi-national organisation
• Previous experience of managing an accounts payable team would be an advantage and ideally in a multicultural company environment
• Customer Financials / Sales Finance experience in a multinational blue-chip organisation, preferably from the FMCG sector.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Excel + PowerPoint + ideally SAP R/3.
• Fluent in English

Behaviours you’ll need

• Strong experience of working with SAP
• Experience of working to tight deadlines
• The ability to use initiative and be proactive in anticipating problems which may occur
• A sense of urgency
• Adopt a LEAN/OPEX mindset in all areas of the team

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About the Role

In this role you will lead a team of Analysts who are responsible of managing the credit risk & collection for a portfolio of customer accounts within the Africa, Turkey & Egypt Regions. You will continuously develop recommendations to reduce the number of overdue invoices through preventative measures and improve KPI’s whilst mitigating risks to the business. To achieve this, you will build on your analytical skills and solid accountancy understanding, while fostering strong relationships with the Finance Directors, Commercial & FP&A Teams for the Region, as well as promoting cross-departmental collaboration within the SSC. You will lead, manage, motivate and empower a high-performing team of Analysts, while ensuring key performance targets are met and while driving increasing levels of efficiency. You will be a role model for the team in promoting the SSC Operational & Process Excellence culture and SSC vision. You will be responsible for sustaining Standard Operating Procedures as well as adhering & improving internal controls.

Responsibilities:

• Drive to constantly develop team members’ skills and capabilities through ongoing developmental coaching, feedback and knowledge sharing. Establishing individual development plans leveraging the Career Development Guide (CDG) for each team member.
• Continuously work to create innovative ways to inspire and motivate your team to drive high performance in all areas of their work.
• Provide direction & priorities to your team ensuring each team has clear objectives to work towards in line with function & SSC strategy and objectives.
• Manage Performance Management Process (PMP) and Merit processes for your team ensuring fair and consistent compensation practices. Efficiently and effectively manage employee relations matters in line with business policies including probation, performance and long-term sickness cases.
• Manage workload drivers for your team and understand pressure points. Ensure work is evenly distributed.
• Strive to bring the best talent into your team through robust recruitment practices.
• In conjunction with your manager, analyse monthly performance against KPI’s & objectives.
• Adopt a LEAN/OPEX mindset in all areas of the team.
• Ensure best-in-class Internal Controls are in operation within the team. Drive to continuously improve the Internal Control environment, with focus on compliance with SOAR control requirements. Support external and internal audits requests.

Experience you’ll bring:

• Customer Financials / Sales Finance experience in a multinational blue-chip organisation, preferably from the FMCG sector.
• People management experience required, ideally in a multi-cultural environment
• Customer service mentality. Experience of working with large corporate customers.
• Ability to demonstrate delivery of successful process improvements.
• Solid accountancy understanding.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Excel + PowerPoint + ideally SAP R/3.
• Fluent in English

Behaviours you’ll need:

• Confidence in working with and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Sense of urgency: Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines and operate efficiently under continuous change and a high degree of ambiguity.
• Self-motivated “can do” attitude with a strong sense of ownership.
• Excellent team player - collaborative work style.
• Strong commitment and high level of integrity.

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About the role

Reporting to the Finance Manager you will be performing payment functions and associated accounting entries for all entities as well as posting invoices and credit notes in the Purchase Ledger. You’ll also be required to actively support in both routine tasks and process improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding debit balances and the actions to take.
• Reconciling vendor statements in a timely manner.
• Processing intercompany and 3rd party invoices accurately from return workflow.
• Working to resolve parked and blocked invoices as well as debit balances and the actions to take.
• Performing Accounts Payable reconciliations on a monthly basis.
• Develop customer relationships with internal customers (purchasers- and accounting personnel) and provide a high quality service to all stakeholders.
• Identification and implementation of process improvements, with ability to competently share knowledge and learnings

Experience you’ll bring:

• Strong previous experience of working within an accounts payable department for a multi-national organisation (or experience in AR/Finance role)
• Good understanding of VAT taxation rules and regulations
• Strong IT/Computer literate skills and Intermediate-advanced MS Excel skills with a working knowledge of SAP
• Strong reconciliation skills

Behaviors you’ll need:

• Self-starter, able to come in and hit the ground running and make decisions for self and the team
• Strong experience of working to deadlines with excellent attention to detail and a sense of urgency
• Good communication skills and to be a strong team player
• Ability to manage multiple priorities independently and as a team

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About the role:

The purpose of this role is to partner with the Sales Director/Country Manager and Sales Teams within the cluster members to drive Net Sales growth and maximize Net Pricing by collaborating on Joint Business Plans and Customer Thought Leadership initiatives as well as driving Corporate Projects.

Responsibilities:

• Optimize Trade Spending and Customer Mix – Analyse trade spending plans with Sales team to maximize Net Pricing and reduce Gross to Net.
• Accurately forecast and deliver on growth objectives – support the Sales Team
• Improve A/R - Work with the SSC A/R team, Credit & Collections Analyst and the local Sales Teams to minimize Accounts Receivables and facilitate timely resolution of open deductions and outstanding invoices
• Partner with Sales team to develop strong business plans that deliver against SCJ objectives of growth, maximize Net Pricing and ensure conditionality
• Corporate Projects - Drive the Corporate initiatives including analysing ROI on trade spend, establish conditionality of customer terms and develop customer profitability analysis (i.e. profit pooling)
• Analyse and Optimize Promotional spend, working with Customer Marketing and the Sales Teams
• Drive simplification initiatives and best practices in coordination with rest of Cluster Finance team

Experience you’ll bring:

• Minimum of 5-7 years’ experience in FMCG/Retail sales and marketing environment/finance business partnership/support role – with at least 3 years specifically within FP&A or commercial accounting
• Proven track record of adding value and innovative approach
• ERP (SAP would be an advantage) database reporting systems

Behaviors you’ll need:

• Strong Analytical and Accounting skills
• Demonstrate ability to influence across organization
• Ability to implement and enforce internal controls