T2 VLC, People and Capex Specialist
The South African Breweries SAB · Gauteng
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Annual Planning
- Lead the budgeting process for BU South Africa T2 Transport Logistics for DCs and ADs
- Communicate annual plan calendar, milestones and P&L to Regional and Zone logistics teams
- Partner with Zone Procurement and NOCC teams to ensure that price escalation estimates are accurate and reflected correctly in the 1YP & 3YP planning processes
Procurement Initiatives
- Provide the facts and figures for all relevant budget calculations
- Ensure all Champions initiatives are properly embedded in the budget and aligned with owners
- Prepare management review presentations, respecting Zone guidelines, templates and timelines
- Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools TM1, SAP, BPC
- Completion of bottom-up budget process
- Align and support LCP requirements for Last Mile strategy
Monthly Routines reporting/analysis/review
- Run weekly and monthly cost and performance reporting for VLC
- Tracking and monitoring Logistics KPIs influencing performance
- Highlight risks and opportunities during the month and course-correct where possible
- Report month end actuals in line with Control guidelines
- Accurately report on Price, Volumes, Mix & Performance on a monthly basis
- Align mix calculation to Zone and Global requirements
- Deep dive all new variance drivers, find root-causes and work with Logistics team to implement gap-closing action plans
Monthly Full Year Forecast outlook LE
- Prepare Full Year Forecast outlook LE for the T2 logistics department, for financial and operational KPIs
- Identify opportunities to continuously improve results
- Identify risks, respective root causes and create gap-closing action plans
Champions
- Drive the Champions process for all T2 Logistics Packages, focusing on Price and Performance initiatives in line with Zone guidelines
- Identify owners for each project
- Ensure all projects are measured, reviewed and updated monthly
- Align Champions and R&O outlook
Capex Implementation
- Support annual capex submission with 1YP
- Track and report on regional capex allocation and spend
- Support project implementation
People Planning
- Annual blueprint review with BU Director
- Review ZBB spend against budget and blueprint to understand variances
Minimum Requirements
- Relevant tertiary qualification, CIMA, CASA or progress towards these certifications.
- 4+ years' experience in managing financial performance in FMCG or Beverage industry
- Experience in supporting top-level managers with decision-making
Technical competencies
- Solid knowledge of accounting and control activities
- Experience in Project Management, good communication skills
- Excellent presentation skills, able to convey a clear message storyline building, making complex matters easy to understand
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
- SAP reporting skills