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MAIN JOB PURPOSE:

• The Finance controlling process for the Customer Development (CD) function, is owned & continuously improved by the Finance Business partner.  
• Success in this innovative and exciting role will be determined by your ability to drive CD performance management processes (e.g. forecasting) and continuously optimise information and analytics.

JOB SUMMARY

• Support decisions around CD promotions and work with CD Operations around accruals
• Ensure right level of investments behind channels / categories / activities / customers 
• Partner with CD account teams to manage performance (e.g. changes in forecast) in a standardise way across all accounts & channels, support initiatives to close gaps, intervene where required, mitigate risks and deliver opportunities (attend business review meetings by exception)
• Communicate & manage account targets (growth & Trade Terms Spend (TTS)) 
• Help develop customer investment plans and drive these through to implementation
• Support with management of debtors
• Help to resolve key issues around claims and aged deductions
• Engage with the Order to Cash team in the Multi Country Operation to ensure transactional & balance sheet issues are resolved in an optimal way
• Assist and intervene in CD finance controlling processes including accrual reviews, aged deduction management, preparation and posting of judgemental TTS accruals
• Evaluate the feasibility and return on promotional plans
• Analyse and present results on a monthly basis to relevant Business Partner teams with insight
• Support CD operations in daily activities whenever finance expertise is required 
• As part of ROMI agenda – detailed pre- and post- evaluation activities, results of plan vs actual variances and establishment of learning jointly with account teams, application of learnings in future promotions
• Forecasting done by category by customer
• Drive TTS savings agenda
• Monitoring, analysis, control and forecasting of contractual spend

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• Competencies; Strong Business Partnering, Ability to influence across all levels, Strong Team Player, ability to handle and work under pressure and to tight deadlines, strong bias for action, ability to work with remote teams
• Skills:  Advanced Excel, Strong SAP & PowerPoint skills & knowledge, strong analytical & governance skills    
• 3 - 5 years Finance experience (FMCG industry preferred)
• BCom Degree – Financial / AccountingCA or CIMA would be highly advantageous

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.

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MAIN JOB PURPOSE:

The DC Replenishment specialist is responsible for their customer group’s short-term replenishment cycle in their assigned categories. The main focus is on improving On-Shelf Availability, dispatch rate and DOH reduction via detailed knowledge of the customers systems at store and depot level. This role, dependent on the account, may spend some or all of the time located at customer DC or head office, and will predominantly interact with customer systems rather than Unilever systems (e.g. APO). Subject to the level of access granted by the customer, the DC replenishment specialist duties may vary from – full creation of VMI orders, to initiating store replenishment, to providing spread-sheet analysis of SKU stock and availability levels.

JOB SUMMARY:

• They will provide insight on stocking levels at depot and store, plus changes to distribution or buy-in phasing to help with interpretation of buy-in patterns and decision making during short stock situations. Where customer activity plans are seen to be out of line with Unilever expectations, they will inform the NAM / CD team, and where actual buy-in is very different to plan – alert Category COM team directly.

• Deliver optimum On Shelf Availability through interactions with customer systems.

• Building close relationships with customer contacts to help maximise on-shelf availability.

• Administer CPFR process by running daily and weekly reports to identify exception, researching stock issues and recommending actions to customer supply chain.

• Day to day contact and relationship with customer supply chain controllers.

• Support NAM in short term planning meeting with customer buyer and supply chain.

• Handle major incongruities to customer ordering pattern, such as depot or store openings.

• Drive sales through insights.

• With the Customer Service Centre, seek to minimise impact on customer service of shortages.

• Report and analyse Key Performance Indicators, implementing continuous improvement activities around these. Support Category Demand Planners in category review of volume variances, through formal root cause major variances and agree preventive actions.

• Support rest of customer service team to maintain operational cover in times of absence or other priorities

• Maximizing sales through optimal on-shelf availability

• Improve Unilever service levels through fill rate optimization

• Maintaining optimal customer in-stock and inventory levels

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

• Degree/ National Diploma in Supply Chain/ Logistics/ Sales or Matric/ Grade 12 with 2-5 years FMCG customer/ sales experience and supply chain demand planning experience

• Please note the role is based in Johannesburg and the incumbent will travel often/ least twice a month from Johannesburg to Durban

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.