Responsibilities

What we’re looking for:

• We’re looking for a Supply Chain Finance Business Partner to join our team. the successful incumbent will assist Finance Business Partner to enable implementation of strategy. Integrate demand planning data with commercial decision-making to give effect to business production and sales balancing.

Accountabilities 

• Lead Forecasting & Consolidation of all 12 Bakeries for all planning cycles.
• Monitor & evaluate the Bakery financial performance trends, performance against KPI’s , providing accurate relevant and timely finance information to the business categories to enable it to meet its finance commitments.
• Profit forecasting based on commercial variables, pricing and what-if scenarios.
• Assist with AOP and Forecast process, specifically for 12 bakeries including 3rd party IDC
• Assist with Business Cases, Investment feasibility & Value Engineering Propositions & motivations
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders, i.e Warehouse, Distribution, Supply Planning & Sales Team, Finance, Production
• Identify cost drivers for business & mitigate risks
• Design, implement and monitor internal controls within the distribution environment
• Support the preparation of management reports (Actual vs Forecast vs Budget, Vol/Rate/Mix analysis, Various metrics i.e. CPK, Vehicle utilization, Route optimization, Distribution damages etc.) to be distributed to various stakeholders in daily/weekly/monthly intervals
• Lead the financial evaluation of significant/strategic investment choices to provide a long-term perspective of the
• Support with other Ad hoc requests as required by the FBP, GM or Transport Director
• Validation of productivity in PowerSteering and approval of Capex projects at required level. Executing on COE governance and support capability build for Capex and Productivity within Supply Chain
• Ensure robust financial evaluation and development of models are developed to review and validate projects for PowerSteering submissions
• Strong collaboration with Regional Logistics Managers to ensure visibility of cost drivers
• Partner with Supply Chain Senior Director and Finance Director Supply Chain to evaluate assumptions on input costs
• Build sustainable planning processes & tools to enhance efficiency & responsiveness of Bakeries Supply Chain financial forecasting
• Provide financial support for the iS&OP / EBP financial reconciliation process and integrate Operational forecast metrics into the wide planning agenda
• Support transport team to improve on the daily operation, interpret financial polices/accounting guidelines to operation teams for better understanding and compliance (Including Pepsico Financial Governance Requirements)
• Developing and reviewing Commercial Guardrails. Assist with costing requests to evaluate proposed sales promotions
• Strong Stakeholder Engagement to understand and influence for required outcomes linked in supporting the National Transport Footprint

Qualifications

• Post Graduate Degree in Finance or (CA/CIMA)
• Proven track record in a similar finance role
• Experience of working in Finance team supporting Distribution as business partner
• 5 years experience in the same or similar role
• Advanced MS Excel, Power Quiry & Power BI experience required