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JOB PURPOSE

• Act as the horizontal finance support to the FET Lead and CFO, providing consolidated commercial, capital and scenario-planning perspectives to enable faster, clearer leadership decision-making.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Centralised Scenario Planning

• Lead support for centralised scenario planning by consolidating customer, pricing, mix, trade investment, volume and margin inputs into clear, decision-ready commercial views.
• Assess trade investment, promotional spend and ROI performance for ad hoc, project-based and leadership review requirements.
• Support global and central ad hoc forecast, performance and project requests with concise financial summaries and scenario implications.
• Prepare project reviews and what-if analysis to support corporate scenario planning, investment choices and business trade-off decisions.
• Provide finance input into capital and investment reviews alongside the Supply Chain team, ensuring global and central context is clearly reflected.
• Conduct high-level post-investment reviews and track benefits realisation against approved business cases.

Business Partnering

• Prepare board, executive committee narratives that translate complex financial scenarios into clear choices, risks and recommendations.
• Deliver rapid-turnaround strategic, commercial and investment analysis to support emerging business questions and priority projects.
• Partner with CD Finance, Supply Chain Finance and Marketing Finance to create aligned, consolidated views for leadership decision-making.
• Engage Procurement and Supply Chain teams on capex and investment governance, ensuring finance inputs are connected to operational realities and global requirements.
• Coordinate with Strategy & Transformation on project priorities, scenario assumptions and business case implications.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in Finance, with strong exposure to business performance, scenario planning, investments and financial planning.
• BCom Accounting or equivalent qualification is required.
• CA(SA), CIMA or similar professional qualification is advantageous.
• Experience in FMCG or a similar fast-paced, high-volume industry is required.
• Strong ability to translate complex financial analysis into concise executive-ready summaries and recommendations.

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What We’re Looking For

Lead in Market Plan execution (Aligned to BU Strategy)

• Executes strategically aligned Commercial Plan in Market
• Decides Channel/Customer Prioritisation in Market and deploys Budget according.
• Leads Core Capabilities and objective customer engagement (Catman /Shopper)  
• Leads execution of aligned pricing strategy in the country/ cells

RESPONSIBILITIES

Category Growth Strategies

• Localise (Develop and deploy) CGS at channel and customer level,
• Work closely with Brand, CSP, DMs and Distributor teams to build Customer sell-in

Innovation

•  Define national innovation & launch plan to channels/customers.
•  D4C/D4R: executes locally AND integrates upstream into BU

Targets and Budgets

• Tracking USG targets and investment to deliver BG strat by channel and customer

Pricing and promotions, Mix

• Own Pricing & Promo strategy.

Execution

• Deploy aligned commercial plan in Market via Distributor Managers & to ensure strength of execution.   Define channel / Customer Execution: (SoS). 
• Define national innovation & launch plan to channels/customers.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum 2 years' experience in Marketing or Sales in FMCG industry
• BComm degree (preferably in Marketing, Business Administration, Financial majors)
• Strong excel skills.
• Demonstrated cross-functional team.
• Strong demonstrated insight & analytical skills
• Previous experience using market data systems