Financial Manager (Wadeville Juice & Conbev) - Wadeville Beverages Plant at PepsiCo

What we’re looking for:

We are loooking for a Financial Manager for our Wadeville and Conbev plants. Responsible for the development of the Strategic plan, AOP, forecasting, and providing business analysis across Wadeville Beverages and Conbev Plants. Ongoing responsibilities include the development and implementation of best practice tools.

Accountabilities

• Develop and lead strategies for improvements in cost effectiveness, relating to direct cost conversion and labour efficiencies, manufacturing overheads (MOH) expenditure to improve company profitability through improved plant costs effectiveness across the 2 respective Plants.
• Lead AOP Build for MOH & Quarterly forecasting and review with the 2 respective Plant Managers before submitting and Interface management with Central Finance Team.
• Develop, manage, and improve KPI’s, expenditure control systems and performance reporting systems to improve material conversion efficiency and reduce overall plant expenditure across the respective plants.
• Prepare, monitor, and control direct cost budgets and standards in conjunction with Financial Planning to ensure expenditure and conversion efficiencies are in line with annual business plan.
• Prepare and present accurate plant performance indicators and information for the respective Plants periodically at all levels using appropriate avenues and medium (Stakeholders include Plant Management, Executive Management and Regional Operations as and when warranted)
• Supervise weekly, period, and quarterly closures to ensure that all deadlines are met, hold weekly and monthly meetings with budget holders, including action plan for cost control within specific areas.
• Responsible for site asset register control and associated audits – including liaising with Central Finance and Internal Audit – in conjunction with BU Finance Controller.
• Lead and support adhoc projects for the business.
• Plan, set and manage staff performance objectives through performance discussions to improve performance and excellence.

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Finance
• Completed CIMA / CA Articles
• 5 years’ experience within the Manufacturing Industry
• 3 years’ Managerial experience within the Manufacturing Industry
• Computer Literate
• Excel Expert