Planning & Performance Manager

The purpose of the Planning & Performance Manager role is to continuously drive Uganda’s Jinja Supply costs to an optimal level by coordinating in a challenging fashion the Financial Planning and Performance

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Define and Lead the process for Supply Uganda

• Relevant University degree in finance or related field

• Solid knowledge of financial accounting and control activities

• Good knowledge of audit, tax and treasury activities

• Experience in Product Costing

• Expertise in Project Management, problem assessment and solving skills

• Good communication skills

• Excellent presentation skills, able to convey a clear message (storyline building), making complex matters easy for understanding

• Strong business acumen, having a wide understanding of other key AB InBev business areas (Safety, Quality, Brewery operations, Logistics, Procurement, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc…)

• Working in a process-oriented organization

• Working in a multi-cultural environment

• High level of service mindset

• Coordination skills

• High sense for accuracy

• Communicative, team oriented and open for change

• Ability to work in a well-organized, accurate and reliable manner

• Basic business sense

• Excellent analytical and reporting skills & problem solver

• Used to working with deadlines

• Highly results focused

• Leads by example, and lives the company’s values

• Presentation skills

• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively

• Communicate annual plan calendar, milestones and PIs
• Monitor annual plan calendar implementation on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis together with regional PPM/NoCC and other functions on a need basis
• Define departmental targets to deliver on 3YP and Zone targets
• Partner with country, BU and zone procurement 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
• Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (Anaplan, Syspro, SAP)
• Partner with Logistics and Commercial PPMs on identifying cost impact of their Initiatives on supply
• Assist the price and performance PPM with CTRM inputs (Commodity tracking & risk management) for transactional FX and commodity exposures within VIC
• Lead the ZBB budget process for the plant and ensure all guidelines, templates and timelines are adhered to
• Support on the completion of the CAPEX budget as required
• Prepare Full Year Forecast outlook (LE) for the Uganda supply 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 & Zone supply PPM team
• Ensure the monthly LE is embedded in the regional LE submissions and balances back to BU submission
• Work closely with BU to understand any plugs in the LE and ensure these are highlighted to relevant teams and plans are put in place to address
• Define and drive the champions process for Supply Packages focusing on Price and Performance initiatives in line with zone guidelines, templates and timelines
• Accurately reporting on Price & Performance on a daily, weekly and monthly basis
• Coordinate the actuals reporting process together with BU supply PPM team and NoCC
• Prepare management review presentations for Uganda respecting zone guidelines, templates and timelines
• Conduct financial evaluation of Business Projects (Business Case, annual Budget & 3YP). Follow up of related reporting and perform post appraisal assessments
• Support Plant Manager & HODS, PPM with operational reviews
• Validation of transfer prices where applicable
• Prepare monthly Deep Dive and T&M decks, respecting zone guidelines, templates and timelines
• Do control checks, review and adjust actuals if needed in alignment with control
• Stock take coordination at the site
• Enforcement of the Minimum Internal Controls (MICs) at the Site as per the policies

• Relevant University degree in finance or related field
• Solid knowledge of financial accounting and control activities
• Good knowledge of audit, tax and treasury activities
• Experience in Product Costing
• Expertise in Project Management, problem assessment and solving skills
• Good communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills, able to convey a clear message (storyline building), making complex matters easy for understanding
• Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, PowerPoint, etc)
• Good knowledge of consolidation & reporting tools
• Knowledge of ERP Systems
• Fluent English in speaking, reading and writing
• Strong business acumen, having a wide understanding of other key AB InBev business areas (Safety, Quality, Brewery operations, Logistics, Procurement, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc)
• Working in a process-oriented organization
• Working in a multi-cultural environment
• High level of service mindset
• Coordination skills
• High sense for accuracy
• Communicative, team oriented and open for change
• Ability to work in a well-organized, accurate and reliable manner
• Basic business sense
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills & problem solver
• Used to working with deadlines
• Highly results focused
• Leads by example, and lives the company’s values
• Presentation skills
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively

AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in-line with AB InBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality.

1. Internal applicants require Line manager approval
2. Kindly attach CV in PDF format
3. 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 (13 December 2021).

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