To ensure that the BU is planning and tracking its performance regularly, through monthly forecasting and monitoring of the business activity and of its financials, and ongoing assessment of risks, opportunities and gap to targets.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Business planning and forecasting
•    Coordination of CBU and DBS finance teams on monthly financial processes (rolling forecast and closing): 
o    establish and communicates the monthly planning in accordance with CBU IBP plan, and Africa MCO reporting deadlines
o    consolidate all inputs from the controlling team (Topline, Operations, Fixed costs, OIE, Cash) to produce P&L and Balance sheet.

Business information management and systems
•    Ensure relevant business information is organized and stored in a secure and robust environment, and made available at all time, for actual (both current year and history) and rolling forecast.

Financial Analysis
•    Preparation of CO bridge, ROP variance, FCF and WK bridge (forecast and actual), through consolidation of the controlling team analysis. Consolidation of risks and opportunities affecting Topline, bottom line and free cash flow. 
•    With these analysis, explain the main drivers of the BU performance, and alert on any gap to target.
•    Supervision of all analysis related to Sales Force and Head office overheads (yearly evolution, costs by nature, productivity initiatives, etc.)
•    Implemetation of a dashboard after each forecast update and closing, and all ad'hoc analysis related to P&L evolution.

Financial Reporting 
•    Ensure complete and accurate reporting of DAIRY actual and RF reporting pack.
•    Liaise with Africa MCO finance team on ad'hoc requests.

Continuous improvement
•    Drives continuous improvement with the CBU and DBS finance teams with regards to financial processes, in order to improve the quality of the information (e.g. identify relevant financial and operational KPIs, challenge forecasting methodology), the efficiency of the process (e.g. reducing timelines for closing or forecasting), and the relevance of the Business Intelligence tools to support those processes.

Leadership and Development  
•    Coach and develop team. Set ambitious goals, identify professional and personal development opportunities, monitor work performance, provide feedback and guidance.

ACADEMIC AND TRADE QUALIFICATIONS

•    Bachelor / Master of Commerce Accounting Degree
•    Honours and CIMA would be an added advantage 

WORK EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

•    At least 6 years relevant working experience as a Business Controller/Business Planning Manager for the Operations or similar division of a Fast-Moving Consumer Goods company
•    Logistics/ Supply chain experience would be an added advantage 
•    Should ideally have worked for a multinational company
•    Must have budget building and controlling experience

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