Latest Openings at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Job Description

The key purpose of this role is to assist Tax, Reporting and Compliance Team functions within the NoCC framework providing tax compliance and reporting services to the Africa Zone. We provide corporate income tax, VAT, excise and transfer pricing services to most of the countries and month-end reporting services to all 11 countries. We also share information for the AFR Zone with the Global team for monthly reporting, CBCR and with the US tax team to meet tax compliance or reporting requirements from a Global viewpoint. This role will incorporate exposure to all the tax types in SA and certain of the ROA countries. The role will interact with the tax managers in all countries, Zone tax team and the global tax team from time to time.

Key attributes and competencies:

• Taxation law​ (Advanced)
• Tax accounting (Advanced)
• Financial/general accounting (Intermediate)
• Excel skills (intermediate)
• Systems experience: One source, SAP, Syspro and e-filing (Intermediate)

Key outputs and responsibilities:

• Preparation of computations/determinations of Corporate Income Taxes, VAT, WHT, TP, and excise for entities in Africa Zone
• Preparation of monthly VAT and Excise returns for entities in Africa Zone
• Preparation of provisional and annual corporate Income tax returns for entities in Africa Zone
• Preparation of ad hoc withholding taxes returns and transfer pricing documentation for entities in Africa Zone
• Preparation of monthly tax reporting for global consolidation for entities in Africa Zone. This includes tax rate reconciliations, deferred tax schedules, cash tax payments
• Performance of analytics on data related to all tax types applicable to entities in Africa Zone
• Implementation of automation of activities across the different tax types.
• Implementation of standardization of reporting across different entities in Africa Zone
• Implementation of any improvements that would be beneficial to different tax stakeholders
• Any ad hoc requests that may arise from time to time

Requirements:

Education:

• Tax degree (compulsory)

Experience:

• 2+ years of tax experience (compulsory)
• Income tax return filing (advantageous)
• Financial/general accounting understanding (advantageous)

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​The key purpose of this role is the full responsibility for planning, reporting and control cycle of Supply budgets (VIC, FIC, ZBB, CAPEX, People, Internal Control) on a monthly, quarterly and year end base for the plant.

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Adhere to all deadlines, milestones and submission requirements to the Zone Supply PPM team ​
• Review all budget calculations for OPC’s/BOMs and own the end to end process ​
• Lead the ZBB budget process for the plant and ensure all guidelines, templates and timelines are adhered to ​
• Support on the completion of the CAPEX budget as required​
• Lead the headcount and paycost planning process for the plant​
• Ensure all champions initiatives are properly embedded in the budget while avoiding double counting​
• Prepare management review presentations for Zone, respecting guidelines, templates and timelines ​
• Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (COGNOS, SCFD, SAP, TM1)​
• Provide correct bottom up VIC standards and actuals for MACO reporting​​
• Responsible for the preparation of a full year forecast outlook (LE) for the plant ​
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve results​
• Identify risks, respective route causes and identify gap closing action plans ​
• Consolidate and report LE on a monthly basis to the Zone Supply PPM team​
• Review of new PCE’s/BOMs on a monthly basis as and when required​
• Review of the plant P&L and validation that the results reported are accurate and there is no material misstatement ​
• Review of headcount & paycost reporting on a monthly basis​
• Leads the completion and presentation of the monthly plant T&M deck with the Plant Manager​
• Monitors coherence between Budget, CAPEX and ZBB Performance of the Plant​
• Responsible for monthly and year end closing activities in supply (esp.. validation of accruals)​
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting of financial results in line with approved policies & procedures​
• Manage Relationship with Network of Capability Centre (NoCC) for outsourced activities​
• Tracks performance targets for the Brewery Operations to reach World Class Excellence Operational efficiency. (e.g. DBCM calculation, by product income tracking, packaging & malting loss etc)​
• Assess Operational efficiency Supply, identify initiatives and lead actions plan to optimize the Supply performance and to close the gaps towards 3YP, Budget, LE, Global Benchmarking.​
• Executes Management Reporting for the plant to enable best-in-class operational performance management ​
• Review of fixed asset management​
• Ensure effective tax compliance

Profile:

• Relevant 3 year university degree in i.e. in accounting, business, economics, engineering or similar
• MBA / CIMA / CA (SA)  would be advantageous
• 3+ years of experience in finance in a manufacturing environment
• Experience Product Costing 
• Knowledge of Financial Reporting
• Knowledge of general accounting and consolidation practices
• Project management, problem assessment and solving skills ​
• Working in an ERP environment​
• Working in a process-oriented organization
• Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, PowerPoint, etc)
• Good knowledge of consolidation & reporting tools (Cognos, TM1, BI)
• Knowledge of ERP Systems SAP R/3 Module FI/CO, SAP BW

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The key purpose of this role is to perform a variety of specialized technical tasks in the field of agronomy and related R&D project executions.

Key roles and responsibilities:

•  Planning, implementation & execution of the agreed field trial program
•  Generating high quality field trial information, data capturing and reporting, delivering in agreed timeframe
•  Working with new digital tools, software and solutions
•  Evaluate new technologies and support their implementation
•  Supporting safety & quality management tasks
•  Strengthening the implementation and culture of safety & quality
•  Proactive interaction with key stakeholders Farmers, Breeders, Agronomist, Research Specialist
•  Planning and coordination of workload of seasonal workers

Job Requirements:

•  Academic National Diploma in Agriculture or BSc Agriculture
•  Agronomic background or experience in field trailing
•  Scientific mindset and open to explore new and innovative areas
•  Ability to work independently and well organized
•  Strong teamwork and communication skills
•  Affinity for machinery and technical equipment
•  Able to interpret trialing data & apply statistical tools
•  Able to interpret trialing data & apply statistical tools Good English (written and spoken
•  CODE EC Drivers license

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An exciting opportunity for a proactive, unconventional, efficient and meticulous individual with strong financial and communication skills, who is a team player and enjoys working within a fast-paced environment.

The incumbent will be fully responsible for the monthly completion of standard reporting on WAPT (Weighted Average Payment Terms), review of the P&L and accountability for ensuring that results are not materially misstated for Procurement in the Zone Completion of reconciliations between systems (e.g. SAP vs BW; SAP vs HFM, SCFD).
Completion of monthly analysis files e.g. Weighted average payment terms (WAPT) reports, forecasted Latest Estimates (LE) and Commodity Tracking
Population of standard tracking & monitoring (T&M) presentation decks for each Business Unit as well as for the Zone reporting to Global,

Key roles and responsibilities:

Annual Plan / Budget includes, but are not limited to:

• Adhere to all deadlines, milestones and submission requirements to the Zone Procurement team
• Complete all budget calculations w.r.t price (working with Category Managers)
• Completion of budget SCFD submission by plant and submission to Global (GCC)
• Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (COGNOS, SCFD, Syspro, TM1, BPC)

Weekly & Monthly Process includes, but are not limited to:

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

Champions:

• Support the ZBB PPM Lead to drive the Champions process for all ZBB Packages.
• Measure, update and review all projects monthly.
• Support ZBB PPM Lead to align Champions and R&O outlook.

Profile

• Relevant 3 year university degree in accounting, business, economics,
• Engineering or similar.
• High sense for accuracy
• Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, Powerpoint, etc), with particularly strong
• Excel skills
• Good knowledge of consolidation & reporting tools (Cognos, TM1, BI)
• Knowledge of ERP Systems – SAP, Syspro
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills & problem solver
• Used to working with deadlines
• Ability to work in a well organized, accurate and reliable manner
• 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
• Fluent English in speaking, reading and writing

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The key purpose of this role is to plan/optimise weekly production and inventory across South Africa’s supply network in line with the demand plan. This role connects the supply chain from sales through to production, logistics and finance by generating feasible weekly packaging, brewing and inventory plans that meet desired service levels while avoiding unnecessary distribution and obsolescence costs.

Key roles and responsibilites

• Generate, optimise and control weekly production/inventory plans for the supply network across the 13-week horizon (3 months).
• Management of production planning system(s) & master data.
• Daily/weekly communication with various teams including Supply (Breweries), Material requirements planning (MRP), Circular Packaging, Demand Planning, Inventory Deployment, Major Equipment Outages Planning.
• Understand, analyse and review 13-week plan inputs (e.g., Brewery capacity, Demand plan, Gross Line Yield, Downtime, Material availability) in order to minimize costs while driving KPI achievement.
• Following up on the execution of the production/inventory plan.
• Reporting weekly on KPI/production performance highlighting areas of potential risk or opportunities in the 13-week plan.
• Identify and analyse deviations to production/inventory plans in order to drive performance improvement.
• Drive OTIF delivery (Service Level) & VILC savings.
• Preparation for Weekly S&OE meeting

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The Key Purpose of this role is the management of all Finished Goods (FG) inventory within the logistics supply chain ensuring product quality standards met &  in compliance to all inventory governance processes & controls. All physical movement of inventory is correctly reflected in SAP, inventory differences investigated, resolved & reported.

Key roles and responsibilities:

FG QUALITY MANAGEMENT

• FG Inventory quality fundamentals and standards are adhered to as per DPO  requirements
• FG Inventory accurately blocked in SAP with physical blocking mechanism in place as per DPO standards for quality related& obsolescence stock
• Ensure compliance to the freshness & rotation policy as per  DPO standards
• Inventory count are recorded accurately with quantities & BBD x SKU& bin cards clearly displayed as per DPO standards 
• Inventory concession policy applied & approved as per DPO product age standards
• FG Inventory accurately blocked in SAP with physical blocking mechanism in place as per DPO standards for quality related& obsolescence stock
• All FG salvages are repacked as per DPO standards
• All obsolescence stock are decanted as per standard policy & procedure

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

• Independent inventory counts conducted on all FG Inventory reconciled to SAP inventory . Inventory count differences identified, investigated, resolved & reported. Un-resolved inventory count differences escalated to BLM / DCLM & RLM with commentary & action plans
• All physical movements of FG Inventory are transacted in SAP accurately. T1 & T2 movements, Packaging receipts validated by line counters, write-offs are verified against signed-off documentation & gate sheets
• Breakages, Obsolescence & salvages stock are signed-off & processed in SAP accurately
• All daily controls, open shipments for T1 & T2 are reviewed & resolved. All claims are processed timeously with signed-off backup documentation & SAB reimbursed
• POC & T2 driver route settlement corrections reviewed, approved & signed-off
• SCO BUD vs ACT costs are monitored with gaps & action plans reports

GOVERNANCE AND RISK

• All Documentation signed-off by relevant persons, filed & securely stored as per Inventory Control Policy -Inventory stock packs, T1 & T2 shipment packs, gate register, etc
• Security cameras in key points on site & random verification conducted
• 3 Point independent checks are conducted on all T1 & T2 shipments for departure & arrival -Random checks conducted to ensure compliance

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• MS Office proficiency.
• Attention to detail
• High level of accuracy
• Ability to manage self
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Sound knowledge of the SAP R3 system
• Good verbal ability and communication skills
• High levels of Integrity and ethics

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Engineering, Commercial, Supply Chain, Logistics or Sciences
• 2-3 years’ experience in a Stock Control environment