Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, September 06 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job Purpose:
To continuously drive Zambia’s Logistics costs to an optimal level through:
Coordinate in a challenging fashion (“open and close the gap”) the Financial Planning and Performance activities
• Annual Budget
• Monthly Actuals reporting
• Monthly Actuals analysis and review
• Monthly Full Year Forecast outlook (LE) including R&O Management
• KPI Management
• Champions Management
• Escalations Management
• Capex Management
• Footprint
• Internal and External benchmarking
• Consolidating Actuals, LE, R&O and T&M packs for Zambia
Proactively provide relevant business analysis, insights and recommendations on time to guarantee fast and precise business decision taking

Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Annual Plan
• Define and Lead the process for Zambia Logistics operation
• Communicate annual plan calendar, milestones and PIs to Logistics operation
• 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 and Zone 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 Zambia and consolidating for BU South East, respecting Zone guidelines, templates and timelines
• Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (Cognos, SCFD, ZBB, TM1, SAP, 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 Zone 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
• Prepare month results T&M with BU Southern Logistics Director
• 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 Zambia 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 Zone Logistics PPM team
• 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 Zambia Logistics Packages focusing on Price and Performance initiatives in line with zone guidelines, templates and timelines
• Drive the process during preparation meetings and zone 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 Zone Logistics PPM team and Zambia 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 Zambia Logistics to enable best-in-class operational performance management including definition of key information requirements
• Support BU Southern Logistics Director, PPM Logistics Africa Zone with operational reviews

Profile:
Education
• Relevant 3 year university degree

Experience
• Minimum of 3 years experience in managing financial performance in FMCG or Beverage industry
• Experience on supporting senior managers on decision making

Technical competencies
• Solid knowledge of accounting and control activities
• Good knowledge of audit, tax and treasury activities
• Expertise in Project Management
• Good communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills, able to convey a clear message (storyline building), making complex matters easy for understanding
• Masters Excel and Powerpoint
• Strong business acumen, having a wide understanding of other key AB In-Bev business areas (Safety, Quality, Brewery operations, Logistics, Procurement, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc…)
• English – proficient in writing and speaking

Behavioural & Interpersonal Competencies:
• Challenger of the status quo
• Driven to implement change & transformation
• Be a true partner with business owners
• Working in a multi-cultural environment
• High level of service mindset
• Coordinating skills
• High sense for accuracy
• Communicative, team oriented and open for change
• Ability to work in a well-organized, accurate and reliable manner
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills & problem solver
• Used to working with deadlines
• Highly results focused
• Leads by example, and lives the company’s values
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively
Additional Information:
• Band VII

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
• ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in-line with ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require Line manager approval. Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.
The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/relevant information as criteria for short-listing. Interested candidates who meet the above specifications may apply no later than 12 September 2023.
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