The key purposeof this role is to continuously drive BU Nigeria Logistics costs to an optimal level through: Coordinate in a challenging fashion (“open and close the gap”) the Financial Planning and Performance activities, 3YP 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,  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 BU Nigeria Logistics organization
• Communicate annual plan calendar, milestones and PIs to Logistics organization
• 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, Zone or Global 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 BU South, respecting Zone  guidelines, templates and timelines
• Ensure final budget is properly uploaded in all relevant tools (Cognos, SCFD, ZBB, TM1, SAP)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 Nigeria 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 BU Nigeria 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 BU Nigeria 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 BU south 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 BU Nigeria Logistics to enable best-in-class operational performance management including definition of key information  requirements
• Support Logistics Director, PPM Logistics Africa Zone with operational reviews

Key attributes and competencies

• Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Good knowledge of consolidation & reporting tools (Cognos, TM1, BI)
• Knowledge of ERP Systems SAP R/3 Module FI/CO, SAP BW

Minimum requirements

• Relevant 3-year university degree in i.e., accounting, business, economics, engineering or similar
• MBA / CIMA / CA (SA)would be advantageous
• 3+ years of experience in finance in a manufacturing environment
• Experience Product Costing
• Knowledge of Financial Reporting
• Knowledge of general accounting and consolidation practices
• Project management, problem assessment and solving skills
• Working in an ERP environment
• Working in a process-oriented organization