Financial Manager Commercial - Bloemfontein Verfied

Salary Negotiable Bloemfontein, Free State Bloemfontein, Free State more than 14 days ago 10-12-2018 7:50:30 AM
04-02-2019 7:50:30 AM
Financial Manager: Commercial – Bloemfontein
Suitable candidate must be a CA(SA) and have FMCG experience
Salary – R1.1M
The primary purpose of the FM: Commercial - Regional:
• Partner with regional Commercial leadership to drive the delivery of the Commercial Regions financial objectives
• Produce high quality, accurate, timely and compliant financial information.
• Provide financial leadership to Regions General Manager and the Regional Commercial senior management team, playing an active role in decision-making on the Commercial Leadership team
• Provide Commercial Region with strong, integrated analytical insights that enables the delivery of the regional financial performance and partner with senior managers to deliver this.
• Deliver a strong governance and control framework within the Commercial Region that meets stakeholder expectations.
Duties:
• Deliver with the 3-year plan, budget and forecasting process to ensure delivery of the objectives.
• Identify top line and margin enhancement opportunities within the region
• Translate overall analytical insights into detailed deliverables for the Commercial function. Partnering with each function senior leadership to execute these initiatives.
• Drive the required performance and corrective actions required through the operational teams and the regional finance function to ensure swift delivery of the required changes.
• Finance leadership to Commercial General Manager and their senior managers:
• Deliver a customer centric, business partnering finance function able to challenge constructively and work with the organisation to deliver the initiatives
• Building strong, collaborative and effective working relationships with General Manager and their senior leadership team to influence the decision-making process and then ensure implementation to deliver results.
• Strong business partnering support for the Commercial Local Distribution Partner strategic objectives
• Build strong relationships with Credit Department in achieving efficient working capital management
• Partner with Procurement department in driving vendor transformation within the region
• Work closely with Regional Sales Execution Manager in addressing sales KPIs, productive cooler deployment and optimisation in trade.
• Provide Commercial Region with strong, integrated analytical insights through:
• Making use of analytical methodology, trending and KPI’s as tools to generate insights.
• Develop a continuous improvement mind-set within the Commercial finance function, continuously driving to improve processes and reduce operational costs as well as the cost of finance.
Requirements:
• CA(SA) / CIMA / CTA
• MBA or additional relevant qualifications advantageous.
• A minimum of 5+ years post-qualification experience
• A minimum of 3+ years finance management experience
• 3+ years S&D experience (including Secondary Distribution & LDPs)
• Direct operational experience advantageous