Job Opportunities at The Heineken Company

Purpose of the Position

The purpose is to give practical work experience to students who are in their final year of study and have a prerequisite to have practical work experience in order to obtain their qualification. The successful candidate will be expected to enter into a 12-month contract commencing 01 February 2024 and terminating on 31 January 2025.

Key Learning Areas include, but are not limited to the following:

• Plant maintenance
• Plant operation: Columns distillation, Pot distillation & RO
• Lab analysis
• Utilities & Facilities
• General administration assistance
• Process optimization
• Loss control
• Problem solving
• Projects execution

To qualify for selection and participation in this program, candidates must meet the following criteria:

• Final year of obtaining Chemical Engineering degree/diploma
• Candidates in need of in-service or practical workplace experience  
• Computer literacy – Microsoft Suit (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Sound communication and presentation skills
• Effective time management
• Ability to multi-task and perform under pressure
• Ability to work in a team
• South African citizen
• Must reside or be able to relocate to Worcester/Rawsonville

Prospective interns must submit the following:

• Motivational letter
• A curriculum vitae
• Certified academic record
• Certified copy of grade 12 certificate.
• Certified copy of identity document.
• A letter from the tertiary institution confirming that the student requires exposure to the workplace to obtain their qualification.
• A format for evaluation required by the tertiary institution (Logbook)

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Purpose of the Position

The purpose is to give practical work experience to students who are in their final year of study and have a prerequisite to have practical work experience in order to obtain their qualification. The successful candidate will be expected to enter into a 12-month contract commencing 01 February 2024 and terminating 31 January 2025.

Key Learning Areas include, but are not limited to the following:

• Quality Assurance (Intrinsic & extrinsic quality control; Quality Management Systems; etc.)
• Research
• Production

To qualify for selection and participation in this program, candidates must meet the following criteria:

• Final year of obtaining Analytical Chemistry / Food Technology or B Sc Biotechnology degree/diploma
• Candidates in need of in-service or practical workplace experience  
• Computer literacy – Microsoft Suit (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Sound communication and presentation skills
• Effective time management
• Ability to multi-task and perform under pressure.
• Ability to work in a team.
• South African citizen
• Must reside in or be able to relocate to Worcester.

Prospective interns must submit the following:

• Motivational letter
• A curriculum vitae
• Certified academic record
• Certified copy of grade 12 certificate.
• Certified copy of identity document.
• A letter from the tertiary institution confirming that the student requires exposure to the workplace to obtain their qualification.
• A format for evaluation required by the tertiary institution (Logbook)

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Purpose of the Position:

The effective management of all activities in the Operations relating to Customer Deliveries and the completion of all reasonable tasks to ensure the operational efficiency of Heineken Beverages. To assist and support Heineken Beverages’ endeavoured to become more responsive to our competitors, customers and consumers.

Key Performance Areas would include, but are not limited to:

• Ensure cost effective warehousing and distribution of company products
• Ensure the effective functioning of the following departments, namely: Optimal Transport Management, Customer Deliveries, and Outsource Services
• Engaging Transport suppliers to maintain optimal fleet uptime to deliver on customer service commitments
• Oversee the Warehouse to ensure stock availability and quality
• Minimise overtime and temporary employee usage
• Maintain a high level of customer service
• Manage performance of contractors according to the agreed SLA
• Assist in development of Business plans in line with relevant guidelines
• Effectively handle customer complaints and ensure corrective action taken
• Ensure strict adherence to Corporate Governance
• Evaluate and maintain loss control procedures on an on-going basis
• Ensure routine Quality Control inspections in Operations
• Understanding, implementation and adherence to Internal Control Measures such as: ICC’s, ISO requirements, Owner Driver Audits, and Operations Excellence
• Perform administration/reporting effectively
• Improving business processes to ensure achievements of Business Objectives

The successful candidate must have the following qualification, skills and experience:

• A relevant tertiary qualification
• 1 - 3 years of relevant experience in FMCG Logistics / Distribution Environment
• Proficient in MS Office,
• SAP, Strato, Qlikview experience beneficial
• The ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral) and sound presentation skills
• The ability to work after hours and / or shifts if necessary
• Knowledge of all relevant legislation
• Knowledge of customer service principles and practice
• Experience in a customer service environment is essential

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Key Responsibilities

• Ensure integrity in financial results used for strategic decision making
• Keep reconciliations up to date for all the reporting models (South Africa, International, South Africa and International combined, NBL, CVH, legacy Distell) both for management reporting and recon to BPC (used for statutory reporting) and suggest improvements
• SAP controls and checks
• Calculate and prepare group level monthly journals
• Build trust in the corporate finance function throughout the business through data and analysis integrity
• Ensure a smooth reporting process each month to internal and external stakeholders (both EUR and ZAR) through
• Monthly advance planning and communication of deadlines and requirements to stakeholders
• updating and maintaining the corporate calendar and communication of changes
• consistent delivery of all results on time (in full) and at the required quality
• the performing of reconciliations between different reporting platforms
• suggestions to improve and automate reporting workbooks and platforms
• Responsible for various reporting outputs at different levels for different stakeholders
• Business performance reviews (BPR)
• Heineken Beverages Board
• Heineken Beverages SA Board
• Internal Management Team (MT) reporting and analysis at various levels (South Africa and International consolidated or stand alone)
• Remgro reporting both secretarial and financial departments
• Support Remgro Cognos submissions as required
• Remgro CEO reports
• Assist with ad hoc inquiries and analytics by
• conducting of analytical reviews of performance, detail investigations and the identifying of areas for investigation
• identifying the change required from investigations to improve outcomes
• through regular involvement in ad hoc projects and investigations
• assisting with specifications for creating dashboards and testing of dashboards
• provisions and accruals required from management team or ad hoc
• Troubleshooting:  Quality check and assist with identification of potential issues proactively
• Statutory reporting: 
• Responsible to ensure that additional deadlines for interim and year-end reporting requirements are met
• Assist with ad hoc requests, including IFRS
• Ensuring integrity used between statutory reporting and other reporting
• Reconciliations between statutory reporting and other reporting
• Provide a high standard of customer service to all internal, external customers and work partners
• Build and maintain constructive working relationships with customers, suppliers and other relevant stakeholders
• Continuous development and optimisation of reporting and processes to provide meaningful financial information to assist in decision making
• Get involved in the system workings and assist with continuous enhancements and automation of reporting packs.

Job Requirements

• Qualified Chartered Accountant CA(SA)
• At least 2-3 years post article experience
• Knowledge of SAP, SAP BW, SAP BPC and Analysis for Office would be advantageous
• Extensive Microsoft Excel skills                                                             
• Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in fast paced environment
• Able to support multiple work streams within the month end close
• Work in cross-functional teams and in a multi-national company with Global requirements
• Take on broader roles in the finance organization
• Builds collaborative relationship and networks – People and relationship building centric. Develops internal/external relationships with an Organisation focus, to resolve both short-term issues and advance longer-term projects/work.
• Attention to detail is crucial
• Strong sense of urgency
• Deadline driven with a sense of urgency
• Strong numerical aptitude and analytical abilities are essential.
• Self-starter, the ability to work independently and under pressure.
• Personal effectiveness & excellence – Display an iterative learning mentality.  Actively seeks out opportunities to learn and develop, and promotes learning and development in others.
• Resilience - Remains determined despite frequent obstacles. Possess high levels of EQ
• Creative - The ability to use imagination and new ideas to produce solutions.
• Entrepreneurial – The ability to think ahead to spot or create opportunities and maximize them,
• Engagement skills - Communicates persuasively and confidently to influence and negotiate positive outcomes. Ability to use storytelling to effectively inspire stakeholders to implement the proposed actions/ solutions.