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Job Purpose:

• Ensure timely, complete and accurate business reporting and financial forecast to monitor risks and opportunities. Support SSA Cluster Financial Planning & Analysis to ensure strong capabilities and animate co-piloting best practices within the cluster.

Key Responsibilities:

Planning

• Assist with the animation of the CBU financial performance cycle and monitor monthly Risks and Opportunities
• Consolidate and ensure accuracy of CBUs financial forecast process
• Analyse variances to forecast, root causes and assist with the implementation of corrective action plans
• Animate Co-piloting best practices, relaying existing ones to the CBUs and proposing new ones from the CBUs of the region.
• Assists in the Co-ordination and update of the local Business Intelligence tools and drive continuous improvement within the Region
• Organise IS/IT finance tools governance to drive platforms harmonization and process efficiency.
• Drive cross- CBU process harmonization with convergence roadmap when significant level of effort required and engagement plan.
• KPIs Finance CBU’s and costs monitoring with benchmark within Region and follow up of main CBU’s action plans for improvement.
• Prepare summary of actual results and variance analysis for the month/quarter and present to the FP&A Manager
• Active participation in the budget/forecast process at regional level & submission to Zone Preparing and provide regular P&L pre-closing update vs Forecast
• Co-design and further development of existing FP&A processes and procedures Provide ad-hoc analysis and support as needed, including specific projects (Power BI, Essbase) Reporting
• Ensure completeness, accuracy and timely delivery of CBUs business reporting for month-end closing, quarter end reporting and Zone performance reviews Expanding existing and creating new analytical tools and financial and business models, Qualification and Experience required
•  Undergraduate or post-graduate degree (or equivalent), preferably in finance/accounting/data analytics.
•  Minimum 2-3 years of work experience with Financial and Performance management, data analysis, financial planning or other controlling focus
•  Advanced-level Microsoft Excel required, or intermediate-level skills with a strong desire to grow in this area. The role requires the ability to manage complex spreadsheets and formulas and operate very quickly in Excel.
•  Strong customer service orientation toward other stakeholders Experience and Skills Proficiency in financial modelling, forecasting and budgeting.
• PowerBI knowledge an advantage
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data Attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to communicate well
• Sound understanding of the P&L and associated input costs across the value chain especially in a manufacturing environment
• Ability to navigate in a fast-moving, complex environment
• Ability to adapt and keep pace with the demands of the finance business landscape.

Target Profile

• Making decisions: Forming sound, evidence-based judgements, making choices, assessing risks, and taking accountability for results.
• Resilience: Being flexible and adapting positively, to sustain performance when the situation changes, workload increases, tensions rise or priorities shift.
• Focused on Stakeholders: Consulting with, listening to, and understanding the needs of those who your work impacts, and using this knowledge to shape what we do and to manage others’ expectations.
• Committed to excellence: Setting high standards for oneself and others, guiding, motivating and developing them, to achieve high performance.
• Result orientated, driven and passionate
• Analytical/conceptual thinking incl. helicopter view + deployment /stratification of data Base strategic decisions on business priority
• Base strategic decisions on business priority
• Strong interpersonal skills

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MY MISSIONS

Context:

• Still not very present in Africa, Nutricia has the ambition to develop strongly on the continent in the coming years by leveraging the assets that have made it successful worldwide and by adapting its strategy to the African challenges.

Missions :

• You will be responsible of Nutricia brands (both infant milks & medical nutrition) in sub-Saharan Africa & will evolve on the following missions:
• Define, in collaboration with the Global Marketing team, the evolution of the positioning of Nutricia brands, their adaptation and implementation at the local level
• Manage the brand portfolio and innovation/renovation plan engaging with large cross-functional teams
• Set-up the MCE strategy best suited to the challenges of the category and the brands, in collaboration with the healthcare, medical affairs, digital and activation teams.
• Review the business performance and adjust the strategy and/or execution accordingly
• Supervise & support 2 brand managers (one based in France, one based in South Africa)

The essentials:

• You have at least 6 years of experience as brand manager in the health sector
• You demonstrate strong communication, presentation, and influence skills
• You act as a leader, are able to engage large cross-functional teams with enthusiasm and a spirit of transversality
• You have convictions, you know how to think outside the box, take up challenges and take measured risks to achieve results
• Organized by nature, you are efficient in action and project management
• Result-oriented, you demonstrate strong analytical and synthesis skills

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Key Performance

• Being accountable and responsible for overall safety, safety inspection, investigation, corrective & preventative action, and safety report.
• 2x Cell Manager direct reports
• Responsible for 13 production lines in the factory
• Being accountable and responsible for overall Food safety, GMPs inspection, Quality investigation, corrective & preventative action and NC report.
• Process control, analysis and development
• Minimize any problem occurred, taking care of man/machine/method
• Monitor transaction in SAP system
• Maintain and improve company/ISO/HACCP/GMP System
• Project Initiation and Implementation
• DaMaWay
• Accountable of process and products positive released
• Sign off batch record for CCP/OPRP for process and products positive released
• Being Accountable and Responsible for Energy, Environment, Health & Safety, Quality, Food Safety
• SN Essentials All employees are accountable and responsible for WISE2 (Being Healthy and Safe at work everywhere, every day), iCare (Excelling in quality everywhere, every day, to deliver out promises), Nature (preserving & renewing our planet’s resources), and compliance @ SN (ensuring ethical business practices).
• Committed to respect specific rules to comply with the WHO Code of Breast Milk Substitutes and any related regulations applying locally.
• To be supply point emergency director, responsible for action decision and outside collaboration to immediately response to the emergency situation (Fire, Flood, Chemical/ Gas/ Radiation leak)
• To produce the product to align with quality and food safety standard and decision to release product good product under standard, include to be Food defense, HACCP team member, Change control committee and Chairman of energy auditor team

Qualification

• 7 to 10 years Experience
• Engineering related Degree