Supply Chain Finance Analyst - JHB at Bacardi

RESPONSIBILITIES

With our Consumer at the heart, your key focus will be to:

Performance measurement & Reporting:

• Leading financial reporting activities, including Monthly/Annual closure of books
• Periodic review of working capital, close monitoring of slow-moving stocks and ensure adequacy of Inventory provisions as per policy.
• Support the periodic reviews for the Africa Supply chain team, highlighting key variances vs budget and providing insights into operational spend and areas for cost optimisation
• Forecasting and highlighting risks & opportunities across manufacturing & supply chain
• Supporting the budgeting activities for Africa local Manufacturing and regional Supply chain operations, to work closely with Supply chain, Commercial & leadership teams

Supply chain projects:

• Support new product development, Manufacturing and strategic projects
• Assess Cost of Goods for new innovation projects & business cases
• Identify measures to optimize distribution costs
• Highlight inefficiencies in supply chain processes and work closely with supply chain team on cost saving / value engineering projects.
• Continuous identification of opportunities to improve processes, optimize costs
• Interact closely with all relevant stakeholders across functions to ensure commercial/Finance support for new projects, such as SAP readiness, master data setups and other activities as per project timelines

Compliance:

• Compliance of all applicable SOX and internal controls & financial policies with respect to Capex, Opex, procurement, physical verification of stocks across all warehouses and other supply chain process controls.
• Ensuring green status in all Statutory or Internal audits.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• The Skills & Experience needed to create your legacy
• A proven track record of financial reporting and performance management across manufacturing operations;
• Strong numerical and analytical skills, strong commercial acumen
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills – English
• Strong business partnering skills; ability to influence market stakeholders and build trust with key stakeholders
• Experience of working in cross functional environment
• Advanced Excel skills, including financial model building
• Experience working with SAP and BI desirable
• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience