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Job Description

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The key purpose of this role is to continuously optimise ZAM Logistics costs by coordinating Financial Planning and Performance activities in a challenging and proactive manner. This includes the 3-Year Plan, Annual Budget, Monthly Actuals reporting and analysis, and Full-Year Forecast outlook (LE), including Risks & Opportunities (R&O) management. The role also involves KPI tracking, champion and escalation management, Capex management, and footprint analysis. Additionally, the role requires providing timely, relevant business insights and recommendations to support fast and effective decision-making, both internally and externally.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Annual Plan:

• Define and lead the process for ZAM Logistics organization
• Communicate annual plan calendar, milestones and PIs to Logistics organization
• Monitor annual plan calendar implementation on a weekly basis together with PPM/BBP/NoCC and other functions on a need basis
• Define departmental targets to deliver on 3YP, Zone or Global targets
• Partner with Zone Procurement organization and GPO on estimating properly all price escalations as well as on identifying and quantifying Procurement Initiatives
• Provide the facts and figures for all relevant budget calculations
• Ensure all initiatives are properly embedded in the budget, while avoiding double counting Prepare management review presentations for ZAM, respecting Zone guidelines, templates and timelines
• Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (Cognos, SCFD, ZBB, TM1, SYSPRO) Partner with BBP/PPM Commercial organization on identifying cost impact on Commercial initiatives
• Provide correct bottom-up VLC standards and actuals for MACO reporting

Monthly Actuals (reporting/analysis/review):

• Responsible for actuals reporting in line with Control guidelines
• Assist the Price and Performance PPM with CTRM inputs (Commodity tracking & risk management) for transactional FX and commodity exposures within VLC. Accurately report on price & Performance on a monthly basis Coordinate the actuals reporting process together with BU Logistics PPM team, BBP and NoCC
• Do control checks, review and adjust actuals if needed in alignment with control
• Provide early view on actuals of the month
• Provide actuals review and analysis during monthly deep dive meetings
• Deep dive in all new variance drivers, find root cause and work with the operations on identifying adequate gap closing action plans
• Partner with BBP/PPM Commercial organization on identifying cost impact on Commercial initiatives
• Monthly Full Year Forecast outlook (LE) Prepare Full Year Forecast outlook (LE) for the ZAM Logistics department, for financial and operational KPIs
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve results
• Identify risks, respective route causes and identify gap closing action plans
• Consolidate and report LE to the BU Logistics PPM
• Prepare monthly Deep Dive and T&M decks, respecting Zone guidelines, templates and timelines
• Ensure the monthly LE is embedded in the regional LE submissions and balances back to BU submission
• Work closely with BBP to understand any plugs in the LE and ensure these are highlighted to relative teams and plans are put in place to address

Champions:

• Define and drive the champions process for all ZAM Logistics Packages focusing on Price and Performance initiatives in line with zone guidelines, templates and timelines
• Drive the process during preparation meetings and BU meeting
• Identify owners for each project
• Ensure all projects are reviewed and updated monthly
• Ensure proper team resources allocation
• Align Champions and R&O outlook ZBB
• Coordinate the actuals ZBB reporting process together with BU Logistics PPM and ZAM ZBB team Identify opportunities to continuously improve results
• Identify risks, respective route causes and identify gap closing action plans Ad-hoc
• Perform strategic studies to streamline the business
• Conduct financial evaluation of Business Projects (Business Case, annual Budget & 3YP). Follow up of related reporting and perform post appraisal assessments
• Develop Management Reporting needs for ZAM Logistics to enable best-in-class operational performance management including definition of key information requirements
• Support In-Country Logs Lead, BU VLC PPM with operational reviews

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Good knowledge of consolidation & reporting tools (Cognos, TM1, BI)
• Knowledge of ERP Systems SAP, SYSPRO

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant 3-year university degree in i.e., accounting, business, economics, engineering or similar
• MBA / CIMA / CA (SA)would be advantageous
• 3+ years of experience in finance in a manufacturing environment
• Experience Product Costing
• Knowledge of Financial Reporting
• Knowledge of general accounting and consolidation practices
• Project management, problem assessment and solving skills
• Working in an ERP environment
• Working in a process-oriented organization

Additional Information:

Band: VII

AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with AB InBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short-listing.