Job Purpose:
To continuously drive Zambia’s Logistics costs to an optimal level through:
Coordinate in a challenging fashion (“open and close the gap”) the Financial Planning and Performance activities
Annual Budget
Monthly Actuals reporting
Monthly Actuals analysis and review
Monthly Full Year Forecast outlook (LE) including R&O Management
KPI Management
Champions Management
Escalations Management
Capex Management
Footprint
Internal and External benchmarking
Consolidating Actuals, LE, R&O and T&M packs for Zambia
Proactively provide relevant business analysis, insights and recommendations on time to guarantee fast and precise business decision taking
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Annual Plan
Define and Lead the process for Zambia Logistics operation
Communicate annual plan calendar, milestones and PIs to Logistics operation
Monitor annual plan calendar implementation on a weekly basis together with PPM/BBP/NoCC and other functions on a need basis
Define departmental targets to deliver on 3YP and Zone targets
Partner with Zone Procurement organization and GPO on estimating properly all price escalations as well as on identifying and quantifying Procurement Initiatives
Provide the facts and figures for all relevant budget calculations
Ensure all initiatives are properly embedded in the budget, while avoiding double counting
Prepare management review presentations for Zambia and consolidating for BU South East, respecting Zone guidelines, templates and timelines
Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (Cognos, SCFD, ZBB, TM1, SAP, SYSPRO)
Partner with BBP/PPM Commercial organization on identifying cost impact on Commercial initiatives
Provide correct bottom-up VLC standards and actuals for MACO reporting
Monthly Actuals (reporting/analysis/review)
Responsible for actuals reporting in line with Control guidelines
Assist the Price and Performance PPM with CTRM inputs (Commodity tracking & risk management) for transactional FX and commodity exposures within VLC.
Accurately report on price & Performance on a monthly basis
Coordinate the actuals reporting process together with Zone Logistics PPM team, BBP and NoCC
Do control checks, review and adjust actuals if needed in alignment with control
Provide early view on actuals of the month
Provide actuals review and analysis during monthly deep dive meetings
Deep dive in all new variance drivers, find root cause and work with the operations on identifying adequate gap closing action plans
Prepare month results T&M with BU Southern Logistics Director
Partner with BBP/PPM Commercial organization on identifying cost impact on Commercial initiatives
Monthly Full Year Forecast outlook (LE)
Prepare Full Year Forecast outlook (LE) for the Zambia logistics department, for financial and operational KPIs
Identify opportunities to continuously improve results
Identify risks, respective route causes and identify gap closing action plans
Consolidate and report LE to the Zone Logistics PPM team
Prepare monthly Deep Dive and T&M decks, respecting Zone guidelines, templates and timelines
Ensure the monthly LE is embedded in the regional LE submissions and balances back to BU submission
Work closely with BBP to understand any plugs in the LE and ensure these are highlighted to relative teams and plans are put in place to address
Champions
Define and drive the champions process for all Zambia Logistics Packages focusing on Price and Performance initiatives in line with zone guidelines, templates and timelines
Drive the process during preparation meetings and zone meeting
Identify owners for each project
Ensure all projects are reviewed and updated monthly
Ensure proper team resources allocation
Align Champions and R&O outlook
ZBB
Coordinate the actuals ZBB reporting process together with Zone Logistics PPM team and Zambia ZBB team
Identify opportunities to continuously improve results
Identify risks, respective route causes and identify gap closing action plans
Ad-hoc
Perform strategic studies to streamline the business
Conduct financial evaluation of Business Projects (Business Case, annual Budget & 3YP). Follow up of related reporting and perform post appraisal assessments
Develop Management Reporting needs for Zambia Logistics to enable best-in-class operational performance management including definition of key information requirements
Support BU Southern Logistics Director, PPM Logistics Africa Zone with operational reviews
Profile:
Education
Relevant 3 year university degree
Experience
Minimum of 3 years experience in managing financial performance in FMCG or Beverage industry
Experience on supporting senior managers on decision making
Technical competencies
Solid knowledge of accounting and control activities
Good knowledge of audit, tax and treasury activities
Expertise in Project Management
Good communication skills
Excellent presentation skills, able to convey a clear message (storyline building), making complex matters easy for understanding
Masters Excel and Powerpoint
Strong business acumen, having a wide understanding of other key AB In-Bev business areas (Safety, Quality, Brewery operations, Logistics, Procurement, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc…)
English – proficient in writing and speaking
Behavioural & Interpersonal Competencies:
Challenger of the status quo
Driven to implement change & transformation
Be a true partner with business owners
Working in a multi-cultural environment
High level of service mindset
Coordinating skills
High sense for accuracy
Communicative, team oriented and open for change
Ability to work in a well-organized, accurate and reliable manner
Excellent analytical and reporting skills & problem solver
Used to working with deadlines
Highly results focused
Leads by example, and lives the company’s values
Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively
Additional Information:
Band VII
ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in-line with ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require Line manager approval. Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.
The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/relevant information as criteria for short-listing. Interested candidates who meet the above specifications may apply no later than 12 September 2023.
Submit your CV and Application on Company Website : Click Here
Closing Date : 20th September, 2023.
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