Intercompany Manager needed at The South African Breweries

• The Key Purpose of the Intercompany Manager is to provide strategic oversight, and take ownership of the Africa Zone Intercompany related activities and the full end-to-end accounting of the Intercompany transactions, across all twelve (12) markets.

Key Roles and Responsibilities: 

• Managing the health of all Intercompany balance sheet accounts in terms of ageing, validity of transactions within the account, debit transactions in credit accounts and vice versa
• Identify risks, respective route causes and identify gap-closing action plans for all Intercompany processes
• Engagement with all functions within the business to provide a detailed review of the Intercompany process
• Establishing and enforcing proper accounting methods, policies and principles internally in line with global policies and externally with regards to Financial Reporting Standards
• Ensuring adherence and proper documentation for MICS and SOX Controls and SLAs, to satisfy audit and statutory requirements
• Adhere to Internal Control protocols and co-ordinate the provision of information to external auditors for the annual audit 
• Support the business on strategic projects by ensuring correct accounting records are set up through systems
• Ensures the provision of accurate, on-time financial reporting to the business to support decision making
• Makes sure that the team works efficiently, is customer-centric and delivers on business expectations
• Ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability of information, records or processes associated with services provided
• Providing ongoing financial accounting technical and business support to the Zone for all underlying accounting process in the tower
• Guide the team in identifying process improvements, excellence and process automation and efficiency opportunities to improve the way we operate and work closely with technology to leverage system
• Adhere to weekly and monthly targets and all relevant SLAs and KPIs.
• Present month-end reporting to stakeholders in line with their expectations
• Understanding of Exchange Control Legislation and Company Requirements
• Preparation of presentation decks to ROA Directors, VPs and Global stakeholders.
• Understanding of Mark Up calculations and reporting.
• Understanding of BLS and Non-BLNS export country documentation processes and compliance

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Organizational skills
• Planning, focus and discipline
• Aligning strategic and operational needs
• Ability to generate team cooperation while building and leading diverse teams
• Strong interpersonal/business skills and time management skills
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
• Ability to work on own initiative and priorities workload effectively
• Ability to be flexible with position duties and scope of work
• Driving change and demonstrating resilience
• Implementing and achieving business results through other people
• Strong Intercompany and Source-to-Pay process knowledge 
• Analytical approach/good problem-solving skills
• Thinking conceptually and strategically, while maintaining a cost-conscious and practical approach to using time and resources.
• Demonstrated ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders across the business

Minimum Requirements:

• Post Graduate finance qualification
• Minimum of  3-5 years relative experience
• Business knowledge and commercial acumen
• Knowledge of imports and exports and Transfer Pricing preferred
• Computer skills (MS Office – Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) with particularly strong Excel skills
• Knowledge of SAP, Syspro, Financial Close and Consolidation System, COGNOS System, Power BI preferred
• Understanding of Agile, Agile WOW and Systems