Open Vacancies at British American Tobacco

WHAT YOU WILL BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR

• Management of external stakeholder relationships, including South African Reserve Bank, Banking Partners, Statistics SA and external auditors
• Review and hygiene of the balance sheet including management of the global open items KPI and bank clearing process.
• Preparation of the Annual Financial Statements and assisting with the group and statutory audit
• Processing of monthly financial accounting entries, including key accounting standard entries relating to IFRS 16, IFRS 2 and IAS 19
• Creation of fixed assets and maintenance of asset register for Corporate Functions
• Operator of monthly SoX controls in the Record to Reporting stream
• Management of the biannual royalty payment process
• Preparation of external reporting packs for statistics purposes
• Preparation of monthly cashflow forecast for intercompany related payments.
• Management of non-trade debtors, intercompany debtors and presentation to National Credit Committee
• Assisting with adhoc global projects and master data user maintenance

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND KNOWLEDGE

• Bachelor of Commerce in Financial Accounting/Reporting.
• Minimum 2 to 3 years’ experience in a corporate accounting environment
• Strong IT skills (required to be capable in working on Accounting software (preferably SAP Financial Modules, Advanced MS Excel),
• The complexity requires an individual with proven potential, and strong management and interpersonal skills.
• Effective leader of new initiatives
• Excellent communication and motivator of change.
• Proactive, persuasive and creative
• Able to demonstrate the need for, and ensure implementation of, appropriate systems, controls and processes.
• Interpersonal skills and communicational ones
• Able to handle large volumes of information and present it in an accurate and relevant format.
• Able to be agile and adaptable to a changing environment

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WHAT YOU WILL BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR

• Implement RTM agreed strategy aligned with KPI’s
• Provide Head of Commercial with sales performance and KPI’s review, identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Manage operational approvals and implementation of B2B program, through agreed performance targets and incentives
• To lead the effectiveness of operational capabilities to enable growth through call center and FF incentives.
• To ensure optimal fleet resource to enable FF duties to be fulfilled as per route planning.
• To contribute actionable insights into the deployment plans and reviews.
• Oversee trade system capabilities respond to evolving business requirements

KEY STAKEHOLDERS

• Category team (Combustibles, Vapor and Modern Oral)
• Insights & Foresights team
• Consumer Experience team
• Planning team
• Deployment team
• Commercial team & FF
• Finance team

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

• >3 year Marketing degree / diploma
• 8+ experience in leading CPG company in Trade role
• Working understanding of Brand and Trade campaigns
• In depth understanding of Route to Market and associated key performance indicators
• Demonstrated ability to analyse sales data and provide strong recommendations for
• improvement.
• Broad overall business awareness and understanding of inter-relationship between functions.
• Excellent communication, storytelling and facilitation skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong commercial understanding
• Solid track record of leading teams to deliver business results.