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The South African Breweries (SAB) is a subsidiary of AB InBev. Founded in 1895, SAB is South Africa’s top brewer and leading distributor of beer.
For more than 120 years SAB has been an integral thread in the social fabric of our country and continues to play a crucial role in the national economy. The company operates seven breweries and 40 depots in ...
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The key purpose of this role is to guarantee financial excellence through budget tracking/reporting and adherence at the brewery. Ensure the visibility of cost accounting key figures and/or P/L reporting at the brewery. Support brewery operations, Zone Financial Planning and PPM teams on the forecast by providing inputs for LE & 1 YP. Additionally, prioritize operational discipline, provide visibility and predictability for price and performance in advance of month-end closing.
Key roles and responsibilities:
- Preparation of journals, ensuring that journals are accurately and timeously processed.
- Administer and timeously clear all open items in SAP to ensure a healthy ageing status.
- Assist the team to meet weekly and monthly targets and all relevant SLA’s and KPI's.
- Present and implement corrective action and preventive action for recurring process related issues. Perform Root Cause analysis is for recurring or high severity issues resulting in issue reduction.
- Adhere to internal control protocols and provide information as required to internal and external audit.
- Share information as it relates to business requirements.
- Help the team and Team Lead in identifying process improvements, excellence and process efficiency opportunities.
Profile:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or related field.
- 0 -2 years prior related position experience required.
- Computer skills (MS Office, Financial systems).
- Expense Management Experience
- SAP experience.
- Strong process knowledge and understand general finance terms
- Strong interpersonal/business skills and time management skills.
- Excellent stakeholder management and ability to generate team cooperation
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Job Purpose:
BU South Africa owner of Supply Chain overheads and Impairment. (South Africa; Namibia; Lesotho & Swaziland).
Ownership includes both financial, KPI and projects leadership to control and manage the BU inventory of finished products, raw materials and empties effectively.
Key roles and responsibilities
- BU Ownership and active management of the supply chain losses, impairment and inventory
- Cross-functional action plans, mitigations in the SCOH & Impairment Package
- Strong relationship with Zone and global teams to ensure best practices are adopted in the BU
- High level Reporting and presentations to directors and VP’s of Inventory losses and Supply Chain over heads including Root-Cause Analysis
- Supply chain overheads budgeting formulation with monthly tracking and monitoring
- Impairment budgeting target formulation with monthly tracking and monitoring
- Monthly LE Accuracy tracking and management.
- Slow and Obsolete stock management, current & LE tracking and reporting, gap closure and write off mitigation plans in place
- Coach and implement best practices to mitigate demand changes and impact on inventory holding
- Coach and implement best practice to ensure adherence to inventory count procedures and co-ordinate monthly stock count activities
- Identification and implementation of Value-Add (VA) initiatives/opportunities.
- Own the Champions plans, track and monitor execution to the plans.
- Inventory Count process planning an execution across all areas in the business
- NPD, Innovation SKU and de-listed SKU process management (phase-in/out of raw materials and finished goods)
- BU owner of Daily controls ensuring standardized best practice is applied across the Zone & across ERP systems
- Maintain and ensure a high-standard of data accuracy within the Inventory reporting system(s)
- Deliver accurate inputs for Medium to Long-Term Inventory planning (Input into S&OP & S&OE)
- Owner of CSA adherence in the BU
- Manage, monitor and coach on inventory items across all excellence programs in the BU.
- Owner of Inventory Blocks, toolkits and GOPS in LCP
- BU owner for process implementation and monitoring of returnable assets (bottles & crates, Kegs, pallets and layer boards) with monthly feedback to Zone on performance.
- BU owner for Mass Balance inputs on returnable assets.
Profile
- Bachelors or Post-Graduate degree qualification in a relevant field: B.Sc. Degree in Engineering or Econometrics, Finance or Bachelor of Commerce in Supply Chain, Logistics, Economics, Accounting Science, MBA recommended.
- 5 Years experience in logistics and supply chain management and finance background
- Strong experience in management of finished goods and/or raw materials management and/or returnable packaging
- Strong end to end Supply Chain expertise.
- Able to effectively communicate and interact with cross functional stakeholders, Internal and external customers at all levels of the Company.
- Ability to effectively communicate at various levels of leadership including MANCOM
- Strong knowledge of finance management
- Strong people management and influence.
- Excellent presentation and written communication skills
- Ability to solve complex problems individually and quickly
- Strong work ethic: Setting and achieving goals
- Consistently following through
- Team-oriented: Making the most out of collaboration
- Strong record of high performance
Reporting structure:
- Direct reports (solid line): 2
- Dotted line reports: None
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The key purpose of this role is to safely operate and maintain defined Packaging equipment and related processes in order to achieve optimal effectiveness.
Key roles and responsibilities:
- Operating equipment and manage associated processes & performance in packaging
- Interpret and implement production plan for shift
- Operate manual and automatic machines on line as per standards
- Ensure process quality and productivity
- Perform administration work such as tracking and monitoring of processes and take action when required
- Manage PIMS & POMS and take corrective action on negative trends
- Use of OFR’s (As per triggers)
- Contribute towards AB reports as required
- Ensure and maintain a safe and healthy work environment
Profile:
- Minimum Grade 12
- Post matric or equivalent (e.g. N4) National Diploma or Equivalent
- Added advantage IOB Certificate
- Training: Min 9 months on the job training and having completed SKAP within 12 months
- Experience within a Packaging FMCG industry
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Key purpose:
The key purpose as the Financial Analyst is to perform activities related to journal processing, reconciliations, management of SAP open items and general accounting administration.
Key outputs and responsibilities:
Minimum Requirements:
- Matric and degree in finance or related field.
- 0 - 5 years prior related position experience required.
- Computer skills (MS Office, Financial systems).
- SAP experience.
- Strong process knowledge and understand general finance terms.
- Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively.
- Ability to build productive working relationships – internally and externally.
- Strong interpersonal/business skills and time management skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
- Excellent stakeholder management and ability to generate team cooperation. Analytical approach / good problem-solving skills.
- Capable of being entrusted with “confidential” information.
- Ability to be flexible with position duties and scope of work.
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The key purpose of this role is the operation of the brewing and associated process areas, the execution of quality control checks and analyses, including coaching of other team members and supporting the Brewing Technician Artisan in carrying out asset care activities.
Key outputs and responsibilities:
Shift Based Production Performance and Processes
- Interpret and implement production plan for shift
- Monitor and control production processes on shift using the correct tools as per the VPO standards (OWS, Team Rooms, 5S, etc.)
- Perform quality analysis and ensure process quality and productivity is achieved on your shift
- Manage waste and byproducts on shift
Shift Team Performance
- Ensure and maintain a safe and healthy work environment
- Communicate effectively in the workplace
- Use escalation procedures to ensure that time to react is reduced
- Execute on VPO implementation plans as per the VPO standards
- Ensure proper understanding of VPO standards
- Execute on goals and ensure shift goals are met
Perform Administration
- Ensure application of administration systems and procedures
- Contribute to self and team development
- Ensure all the administration is executed on time as per the VPO standards
Problem Solving
- Apply problem solving and decision-making techniques and principles
- Ensure problem solving is initiated as per triggers on the OWS
Development
- Drive your development plan
- Ensure training bucket compliance and CAP plan execution
Minimum Requirements:
- National Diploma or equivalent
- Completed IST traineeship
- Minimum 12 months on the job training @ SCAP process 6 months
- 5-years experience in a brewing environment or Previous experience in a process-controlled manufacturing environment, ideally in food FMCG products
- Understanding of the Brewing process Value Chain from Raw materials transfer to BBT, including E&F throughout to Packaging
- PC literacy (Microsoft/SAP)
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The key purpose of this role is to administer data capturing, analytics and distribution of performance reporting for Vereeniging Depot DCs Logistics Department.
Key roles and responsibilities:
- Source quotations for logistics as and when required by DC management. Management of DC consumables ordering and tracking
- PTP follow up and snow ticket logging where issues occur
- GRIR Management -GRN all Logistics PO's for the DC
- Close out and attend to all Logistics supplier PTP queries
- Assist with vendor creation for Logistics Temp Labour Management
- Administer all temp requisition forms for the DC
- Capture time and attendance verification for temp usage
- Analyse temp labour usage by function and send out reporting weekly Owner Driver Administration
- Cpods adhoc debit and credit creation
- Owner Driver governance documentation administration
- Administrative assistance with new driver take on process at the DC
Profile:
- Relevant 3 year tertiary degree/diploma, preferably in Supply Chain and or Logistics
- 1 –2 years administrative experience would be advantageous
- Proficient in excel
- Excellent attention to detail
- Good organization and planning skills
- Self motivated
- Results driven
- Good verbal and written communication skills
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The key purpose of this role is to ensure optimal asset performance through loss elimination, risk management, life cycle management and identification, implementation and entrenchment of best practice, ensuring efficient management of the fixed cost maintenance plan for the asset.
Key outputs and responsibilities:
Condition Monitoring Techniques
- Develop and manage Plant footprint to ensure the correct condition monitoring techniques are applied to prevent functional failures
- Apply RCM practices to prevent functional failures (Vibration Spectrum Analyses, Oil Analyses, Thermography, Ultrasonic Analyses)
- Monitor to detect the onset of deterioration and provide a measure of the extent and rate of deterioration
- Incorporate condition monitoring techniques into SIC systems
Maximise Asset Reliability and Availability:
- Deliver JIT approach to maintain assets in Plants according to Condition Monitoring results
- Continually review and optimize predictive maintenance plans to ensure maximum output at minimum cost
- Identify trends in asset performance using RCM analysis and implement solutions to reduce breakdowns and improve machine efficiency by applying predictive maintenance solutions
- Analyse asset performance trends to generate and support preventative and predictive improvement plans
- Monitor reliability indicators based on the condition monitoring report, failure reports and notifications generated
- Monitor adherence to the preventative and predictive maintenance plans; adjust accordingly and take corrective action
- Monitor assets, condition monitoring indicators and take necessary corrective actions
- Prevention of functional failures and avoid the consequences of functional failures
Drive the Resolution of Failures through Structured Problem Solving:
- Evaluate effectiveness of Regional problem solving through the analysis of formal problem-solving documentation
- Facilitate higher level problem solving for assets by applying standard problem-solving tools informed by Loss & Waste and Condition Monitoring analyses
Risk and Life Cycle Management of Assets:
- Identify maintenance risks and address accordingly by applying the correct condition monitoring techniques
- Maintain the maintenance TCO and ensure appropriately prioritised plans to extend equipment life
- Optimise the asset maintenance life cycle cost through life cycle costing analysis
- Reduce life cycle costing by improving asset maintainability
Identify, Implement and Entrench Best Practice
- Implement condition monitoring best practice
- Where best practice is not available, identify and define good condition monitoring practices (benchmarking against similar assets where possible) and implement accordingly
- Identify and eliminate poor maintenance practices
- Ensure adherence to internal and external condition monitoring standards
- Drive efficiency by ensuring that learnings from downtime and condition monitoring findings are replicated across similar asset across the group
- Reduce mean time to repair and secondary breakdowns by ensuring adherence to good engineering and condition monitoring standards
Training and Development
- Train, coach, assess and sign-off MAS’s and PA’s on condition monitoring best practices and standards
- Development of technical standards and work instructions
Projects Delivery
- All new equipment must be included on condition monitoring footprint and the correct techniques must be applied on assets
- Incorporate all new equipment into the Condition Monitoring Footprint
- Apply correct techniques on assets
Profile:
- National Diploma (N6) in Engineering or Maintenance
- Ideally 3 years’ experience packaging production experience and/or VISA Level 2
- Experience in the utilities environment
- SAP PM knowledge
- Computer literate
- Superior decision-making capability
- Strong analytical capabilities and excellent problem-solving skills
- Ability to work in teams
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The key purpose of this job is to develop and deliver enhanced barley varieties, for the local and international brewing industry, which are aligned to brewing industry’s quality requirements.
Key roles and responsibilities:
Support the pre-breeding program (speed breeding, disease resistance, marker assisted selection) and the malting barley breeding program in order to optimally develop and release new barley varieties that are acceptable to the brewing industry and superior to the existing commercial varieties, in terms of both agronomics and malting & brewing quality by:
- Remaining up to date with new developments in international breeding protocols;
- Understanding the stakeholders (producers, maltster and brewers) requirements
- Ensures timeous production, malting and brewing evaluation and feedback on new varieties
Support the selection of the germplasm bank to ensure that superior new lines are available for crossings through the following actions:
- Maintaining contact with breeding programs worldwide, in order to obtain as wide a range of germplasm as possible;
- Importing germplasm and evaluating it in the field;
- Maintaining contact with the industry, in order to stay up to date with changes in the agronomy, disease resistance, production practices, pest control and the malt and brewing industry;
- Evaluating research projects; analyze data, compile reports and communicate results
- Developing an evaluation strategy for introductions
- Direct pre-breeding program with a focus on quality
- Maintain germplasm
Support the only South African based barley re-combination crossing program from existing or new lines, by:
- Identify lines and introductions with the required characteristics for use as parents in the recombination program;
- Collecting the identified varieties and lines from the respective nurseries, locally and abroad;
- Planning the re-combinations according to the long term strategy;
- Emasculating and pollinating plants according to planning; and
- Planning the F1 combinations for and execute the doubled haploid program
- Planning the F1 combinations for and execute the disease breeding program
- Planning the F1 combinations for the MAS with a focus on HFM
Support the planting and selection of the material in all the filial generations from the re-combination crossings to ensure pure breeding progenies according to long term strategy for each specific cross by:
- Evaluating the material and selecting and marking single plants from generation 2 to 4 and single rows in generation 5;
- Selecting material from germplasm to line evaluation throughout the lifespan of the breeding program to release new varieties
Support the selection of the lines in the trial evaluation program to ensure that superior new varieties are available for experimental release through the following actions:
- Evaluating the material, validate, analyze data, select superior lines and compile reports from elite 1 to line evaluation trials,
- Communicating/discussing trial and commercial results with the barley industry
Support the planning and execution of a ‘phasing in’ strategy for all the new barley varieties and negotiate the removal of old varieties from the industry, (Stage Gate Process):
- Planning the seed production of all the experimental varieties (post breeding process;
- Promoting cultivation of new varieties
Provides technical support to the industry;
- Establishing and maintaining a sound knowledge of the barley industry;
- Planning, designing and managing research projects directed at solving identified problems in the industry;
- Planning, designing and managing research projects directed at the optimization of cultivation practices for the newly released varieties;
- Analyze data, preparing required reports, literature searches, scientific manuscripts, presentations and progress reports in order to communicate the results to barley producers and agricultural advisors of relevant organizations and/or farmer groups
Support preparation and implementation of the budget for the barley development program.
Knowledge and Experience required:
- Minimum a Masters degree in Genetics or Plant Breeding
- Minimum of 2 years hands on small grain breeding experience (given the nature of the breeding process)
- Experience with Hordeum vulgare pathogens will be an advantage
- Statistical Analysis programme (Agrobase, R, Genstat etc) knowledge will be an advantage
Roles, Skills and Attributes required:
Skills:
- In-depth knowledge of plant breeding.
- Analytical knowledge of breeding progeny.
- Communication, presentation and interpersonal.
- Computer Literacy
Attributes:
- Ability to interact, liaise and communicate with all stakeholders.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Negotiation skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Unstructured problem solving ability.
- Ability to make decisions independently.
- Ability dealing with a variety of key stakeholders.
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The Key Purpose of this role is to oversee the processing of information to ensure that the Business Service Centre operational excellence and
customer service objectives are achieved. The role ensures accurate reporting and appropriate governance of all elements contained on the balance sheet, Income Statement and cash flow plus all processes housed in working capital. This position performs activities related to the maintenance of the financial transactions across various systems, including Oracle FCCS, Blackline and SAP.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Manage end to end Account to Report process including financial month end and year end; General Ledger Close, General Accounting, Journal and Balance Sheet Reconciliations, and preparation of other financial information for internal and external reporting or tax accounting purposes
- Responsible for accounting for various transactions including, but not limited to, royalties; dividends; interest; intercompany chargeback requests
- Review FCCS adjustment journals and ensure the information for the financial statement is accurate in the various systems used by the business
- Responsible for the accurate instruction of banking transactions, ensuring that payment information is up to date
- Perform maintenance of the bank account in the accounting system, including the allocation of banking transactions as required
- Review Trial balance for FCCS upload and Cognos reporting with review and investigation of reconciling mismatches
- Review month end revaluation for foreign balances
- Review Balance Sheet Reconciliations for completeness and integrity
- Provide customer support and respond to requests and accounting-related inquires and investigations
- Establishing and enforcing proper accounting methods, policies and principles internally in line with global policies and externally with regards to financial reporting standards
- Primary contact for queries from Global control and Zone control team. Liaise with internal and external auditors
- Ensure compliance with IFRS and provide ongoing financial accounting technical & business support to the zone
- Prepare and present month end reporting packs to stakeholders in line with their expectations
- Ensure weekly and monthly targets are met and all relevant SLA’s and KPI’s
- Assist team in identifying key challenges, continuous process improvements, excellence and process automation and efficiency opportunities to improve the way we operate and work closely with technology to leverage system
- Ensure weekly and monthly targets are met and all relevant SLA’s and KPI’s
- Providing ongoing financial accounting technical & business support to the zone
- Help the team and Team Lead in identifying continuously process improvements, excellence and process efficiency opportunities
- Present to the Team Lead key challenges, insights and work work-around. Maximize efficiency and effectiveness of process area, as the Subject Matter Expert for the process
- Maintenance of role training documentation. Assisting in knowledge transfer to new employees within the role. Assistant train users in completion completion of relevant processes
- Perform Ad hoc requests and projects
Key Competencies and Attributes:
- Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively.
- Building and influencing diverse teams
- Ability to build productive working relationships – internally and externally
- Strong interpersonal/ business skills and time management skills and the ability to generate team cooperation
- This role requires good communication skills both orally and in writing and will require coordination with multiple teams and stakeholder management
- Inspires, leads, engages, coaches, develops and motivates a team of people/ managers to deliver excellent services to business
- Ability to ensure that the team works efficiently, is customer centric and delivers on business expectations
- Analytical approach/Excellent problem-solving skills, planning and organizing
- Uphold confidentiality, high levels of integrity and honesty on availability of information, records or processes associated with services provided
- Ability to be flexible with duties and scope of work
- Strong intercompany Business knowledge and commercial acumen. Expert technical/ accounting base
- Strong self-management qualities
- Understanding of the Agile Methodology and Ways of Working
- Demonstrate initiative and appropriate levels of assertiveness
Minimum Requirements:
- Degree in accounting or related field, post-graduate qualification will be an advantage.
- Minimum of 3 - 5 years in managing financial performance
- Competency in Computer skills (MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI), with particularly strong Excel skills
- Knowledge of Financial Systems, SAP, Syspro, FCCS (Financial Close and Consolidation System, COGNOS system)
- Comprehensive and up to date knowledge of IFRS
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The key purpose of this role is to gather, interpret, and use complex data to develop actionable steps that will help improve operations and optimize business processes in the NoCC Logistics & Supply function
Key roles and responsibilities:
- Determine operational objectives by studying business functions, gathering information and evaluating output requirements and formats
- Construct workflow charts and diagrams, studying system capabilities and writing specifications
- Improve systems by studying current practices and designing modifications
- Recommend controls by identifying problems and writing improved procedures
- Analyze raw data and optimize Operational Planning, Control Tower, Transport Execution & MEOP operations
- Daily, weekly & monthly KPI reporting
- KPI analysis and deep dives to identify and drive improvements
- KPI & PI development to drive further visibility, efficiency and process improvement
- Implementation of key deliverables as defined in the LCP handbook
- Analyzing and validating planning process inputs across NoCC Logistics & Supply
- Analyzing and validating Master Data across NoCC Logistics & Supply systems
Profile:
- Relevant Bachelors degree in Planning, Supply Chain Management or Logistics
- Deep Knowledge of NoCC Logistics & Supply and Planning processes
- Understanding of ABInBev Logistics and Planning principles
- Improvement through root cause and trends analysis using Belt methodology
- Demonstrable problem solving skills with an ability to manage complexity and ambiguity
- Must be able to work under continuous pressure for extended periods
- Clear and strong communication skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Advanced Excel, PowerPoint & SAP skills
- Innovative thinker
- Critical decision making ability
- Customer centric
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