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Job title : PPM Lead (Finance Lead) – VOPS Caledon
Job Location : Western Cape,
Deadline : December 01, 2024
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Key outputs and responsibilities:
Annual Plan/Budget
- 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
Monthly Process (reporting/analysis/review/LE)
- 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 Plant 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
Ad Hoc
- Define recommendations to support Senior Management decisions.
- Manage projects as required; participate in ad hoc projects
- Challenge and monitor capacity utilization and footprint strategy where applicable
- Perform detailed analyses to determine cost opportunities at a plant level and participates actively in zone benchmarking activities.
- Perform strategic studies to streamline the business.
- Ensure the application of coherent definitions and reporting requirements.
- Mediate on behalf of Supply PPM on performance (P&L) issues/ conflicts across functions.
- SPOC for the Supply function towards Plant.
- Maintain an effective financial control environment at the plant, this includes but is not limited to ensuring that the following activities take place:
- Fixed asset verification
- Inventory control effectiveness
- Stock counts
- Excise return reviews
- Decant compliance
- Facilitate SARS audits
Key Competencies:
- Working in a multi-cultural environment
- High level of service mindset
- Coordination skills
- High sense for accuracy
- Communicative, team oriented and open for change
- Ability to work in a well organized, accurate and reliable manner
- Basic business sense
- Excellent analytical and reporting skills & problem solver
- Used to working with deadlines
- Highly results focused
- Leads by example, and lives the company’s values
- Presentation skills
- Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively
Minimum Requirements:
- Honors degree in Accounting
- 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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