Job type: Full-time
Job Description :
Job Title Supply Finance Analyst
Job Function Group Finance
Location/Site Nairobi, Kenya
Line Manager’s Title Group Supply Finance Manager/Head of Finance
About us
EABL is East Africa’s leading branded alcohol beverage business, with a wide and outstanding collection of brands that range from beer and spirits to adult non-alcoholic drinks. The Group’s extensive network of breweries, distilleries, and distribution facilities span the six countries in East Africa, and especially concentrated in the three core markets of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.
EABL operates as a group of companies and is listed in the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), Dar-Es-Salaam Stock Exchange and Uganda Stock Exchange. EABL is owned 65% by Diageo Plc through Diageo Kenya Limited.
EABL operates within a multi-cultural, multi-national, multicurrency environment with elaborate processes across planning, procurement, manufacturing, and logistics. You will be part of an innovative and dynamic organization. We set ourselves the highest standards, and our practices have earned us international recognition.
Financial
- NSV $960mn
- PAT $85mn
Market Complexity
The role will cover all EABL Group operations in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and exports to adjacent African countries among others.
EABL’s scale and margin profile, makes it critical for the success of Diageo in Africa and has been classified as a market leader in the Diageo Growth Framework. All three core markets within EABL are at different maturities across categories and segments and as such, play different roles to support delivery of EABLs ambition.
Job Purpose/Overview
The role will support the Head of Supply Finance in managing the Supply Finance activities within our markets in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania as below:
- Contribute to the business by providing decision support through accurate planning, monitoring, reporting, and analysing of Supply Chain financial results and projections.
- Provide financial leadership to Supply Chain department by sharing information and providing insights to influence decision making.
Key Responsibilities
- Participate in all planning activities for supply chain, delivering budget, Long range plans, re-forecasts, and monthly rolling forecasts.
- Support in the monthly Supply Chain Business Reviews and to raise any issues on time and provide clarity and transparency.
- Participate in the monthly performance sessions by providing insights on cost, working capital and capex drivers.
- Track productivity delivery by the business units monthly as well as reporting on the consolidated view every month.
- Support in driving the standardization and simplification within Supply Chain financial processes across our business units.
- Ensure sharing of best practices across markets to improve cost and process management.
- Generate consolidated supply finance reports for inclusion in monthly and quarterly performance reporting to EABL leadership team, EABL board and Africa business performance and leadership teams.
- Understand production processes through regular visits to the factory sites and fostering positive engagements with the operations teams.
- Support in process improvement across the supply value chain.
- Maintain required cost center reports and carry out monthly cost center reviews with the cost center owners.
- Ensure collaboration across the supply community in East Africa markets.
- Assist in identifying and employing interventions that will enhance the financial capability of the finance and non-finance peers within the supply community.
- Play a key role in the implementation of the supply chain CARM controls across our markets.
- Work on special projects as assigned by the Group Supply Finance Manager.
Job Specifications/Qualifications
1. Education & Professional Qualification
- Business degree
- Chartered Accountant or similar qualification
2. Knowledge/Experience
- Minimum 3 years’ experience, preferably in an international FMCG company with at least 1 years’ experience, in cost accounting in a manufacturing environment
- SAP Knowledge
- Strong analytical and communication skills with all levels of the organization.
- Good interpersonal and proactive approach
- Ability to influence without formal authority.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to manage Ad-hoc financial analysis and modelling.
Key Supporting Competencies
- Learning Agility
- Ability to work autonomously and engage cross functionally
- Dealing with Ambiguity
- Strong attention to detail
- Proactive, cooperative and supportive team player who is results driven
- Excellent communication and reporting skills (verbal and in writing)
Key Functional Competencies & Technical Skills
- Business Planning skills
- Financial analysis and insights
- Accounting and financial controls
- Financial processes
Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people.
We’re looking for people with creativity, boldness, and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level.
Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
Nairobi HQ
Additional Locations :
How to Apply:
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