New Openings at Cipla

• The incumbent of this position would be responsible for the Finance function of Cipla South Africa (SA) and Financial Controllership spanning the full Africa business.
• The Africa business has been evolving continuously over the decade with new geographies being added. Recently, the North Africa business has been included wherein there are multiple countries/regions across various legal entities as well as numerous 3rd party partnerships / minority shareholdings.
• The added complexity requires the incumbent to manage these relationships and partnerships with the necessary maturity and EQ, while balancing the needs of the business.
• SA Commercial Business: Partner with diverse business functions across SA to deliver top and bottomline growth targets while driving impeccable governance and compliance frameworks to drive critical decision making and achieve organizational objectives.
• Financial Oversight – Co-own the P&L (FY25: Revenue ~$360m & MC ~ 26%) and financial performance of the South Africa Business. Management of Marketing and Data Fee process and payments (most significant business expense).
• Collaborate with the SA FP&A finance function - Provide decision analysis support, play a key role in finalizing budget and resources allocation, monitor and report actual performance
• against KPIs.
• Collaborate with the SA manufacturing finance function - by overseeing effective forecasting, planning, budgeting and managing of financial resources to deliver on key financial metrics.
• Strategic Finance Lead for Brandmed (Cipla Investment) partnering closely with Brandmed senior management team and external stakeholders such as potential partners and investors.
• Establishing and managing business performance targets, and sales, profits, costs, staffing levels and whilst governing controls and procedures.
• Market Intelligence: The incumbent has to assist in market and competitive analysis to ensure alignment with current market trends and profitability opportunities.
• Accounting, Controlling & Tax: The candidate (working closely with the Lead Africa Corporate
• Accounting, Tax and Internal Control Manager) is responsible to ensure adherence to accounting standards across the Africa business to consistently achieve desired level of financial performance.

Major activities involved here are:

• Drive all activities for maintaining a robust balance sheet and clean profit and loss accounts and consolidate across Africa entities.
• Develop and institutionalize a sound Cash Flow Model to deliver improvement in cash position.
• Manage working capital requirements and metrics along with monitoring and resolving noncompliance, taxation and audit issues.
• Define and govern implementation of policies, procedures and standards, as per the local and Cipla global requirements and also oversee compliance with Government pricing,
• Transfer pricing, Tax laws, Audits etc.
• Assume responsibility as (or appoint) a Public Officer for all South African entities.

Financial Shared Services:

• Manage relationship with Global Financial Shared Services (FSS) within (primarily) Order to Cash (OTC), Procure to Pay (P2P) and inventory functions.
• Define scope between Off-shore activities provided by the FSS and any local functions.
• Ensure processes are streamlined and working effectively. Track and share performance metrics and drive process improvement.
• Governance: The candidate has to implement all governance and compliance related activities in
• order to ensure – drive best in class governance. Major activities involved here are:
• Propose critical audits and ensure audits are carried out as per requirements and timely resolution of issues and act as key interface between finance and various functions.
• Standardize all finance practices assuring alignment with group finance practices, processes and systems and ensure effective and efficient delivery of financial processes, ensuring control risk is mitigated with sound controls.
• Promote ethical and responsible decision-making and safeguard integrity in financial / nonfinancial reporting whilst ensuring timely and balanced disclosures and recognising and manage risk.
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Job Purpose

• The Consumer Research Analyst is responsible for analysing, and interpreting consumer data to provide valuable insights and recommendations that enhance business decision-making processes.
• This role will collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify consumer behaviour, trends, and preferences, helping the organization align its strategies with customer needs and journeys.

Accountabilities

• Data Analysis
• Market Research and Strategy development
• Reporting
• Developing of a knowledge base
• Development and monitoring activities
• Cross Collaboration
• Digital knowledge

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Job Purpose

• Develop and implement Africa-wide reward strategies to attract, motivate and retain top talent.
• Drive organization wide initiatives around organization design, Compensation and Benefits and HR Budgeting.

Compensation and Benefits

• Lead the Compensation and to to promote fairness and optimally reward employees. 

Annual Performance and Compensation Cycle 

• Propose & Roll-out annual Performance Management exercise and Annual Compensation revision and to achieve increments in line with organisation performance, budget and global compensation philosophy while differentially rewarding talent across the region. 

HR Budgeting 

• Prepare and monitor the annual and monthly workforce budget, and the total budget for the HR function, to maintain expenditure controls in line with the organization’s overall people cost strategy 

 Organization Development 

• Lead and manage Organization Design, Job Banding and other OD initiatives to ensure its Organization Structure as well as HR Practices are effective in meeting the overall business objectives 

Expatriation and Repatriation process 

• Implement the Global mobility framework in SAGA by assisting secondments and expatriations to support creation of a global talent pool